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1) Frenzy
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Xander travels through the portals in the King's strange house to visit Uncle Jesse as a boy, he learns that David has died and determines to do whatever it takes, and visit as many worlds as necessary, to change the future.
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old David and his family search for their kidnapped mother in the many different time period portals of their home, but when a stranger appears and tries to force them to sell the house, their desperation reaches new heights.
3) Timescape
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
David, Xander, Dad, and Keal discover that Taksidian wants their house for himself in order to use the time portals to build an empire, and unless they can find his weakness in time, the future of the world itself may be in danger.
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"When something crucial goes missing, eleven-year-old Olive and her friends must decide how to get it back--put their faith in a strange and dangerous magic, their odd new neighbors, or someone more uncertain and terrifying than both"--
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Xander and his family move into an old, abandoned house in the middle of a dense forest outside of a small California town, they discover that not only are some of the rooms portals into other places, but that malevolent forces are at work.
6) Brightwood
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her mother disappears and a menacing stranger tries to claim her home, Brightwood Hall, for himself, Daisy must use her wits, courage, and help from her imaginary friends to survive.
7) Gatekeepers
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
With their mother still missing after going through a Civil War time portal in their spooky house, and their father in jail under a false accusation, Xander, David, and their younger sister continue to try to bring their mother back, now with the help of an old relative who has turned up unexpectedly.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young boy listens to his great-grandmother's tales of Green Knowe as it used to be and, gradually, as past and present blend, he shares the strange adventures of the former inhabitants.
9) Spellbound
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
10) The second spy
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.
11) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
12) Whirlwind
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
To save the world from destruction, rescue their kidnapped mother, and battle the evil Taksidian, the King siblings try to control the mysterious portals in their house that send them to different time periods.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
An English girl, a Polish refugee, and a displaced boy from the Orient explore an island-strewn river flowing past the ancient manor house of Green Knowe.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"When twelve-year-old Garnet finally gets to meet her magical extended family she discovers they're all trapped in the ruins of their crumbling manor and Garnet must break a curse that has decimated three generations of Carrefours"--
17) Tennyson
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their mother abandons them during the Great Depression, eleven-year-old Tennyson Fontaine and her little sister Hattie are sent to live with their eccentric Aunt Henrietta in a decaying plantation house outside of New Orleans.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A strange friendship develops between a young Chinese refugee who is spending the summer at Green Knowe and a gorilla who has escaped from the London Zoo.
19) The icy hand
Author
Series
Something wickedly weird volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Spending the winter at Candlestick Hall, the home he inherited from his great-uncle Bartholomew, young Stanley encounters a headless ghost, a talking fish, and a female companion who joins Stanley in a battle against "deadly" pirates bent on stealing a magical family heirloom.
Author
Series
Green Knowe chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The inhabitants of Green Knowe become involved with black magic when a modern-day witch attempts to find books of witchcraft supposedly hidden in the old house by a mad seventeenth-century alchemist.
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