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1) Crash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
2) The Moffats
Author
Series
Moffats volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Relates the adventures and misadventures of the four Moffat children living with their widowed mother in a yellow house on New Dollar Street in the small town of Cranbury, Connecticut.
Author
Series
American girls collection
American Girl Samantha volume 3
American girl 1904 volume 03
American girl.Samantha volume 03
American Girl Samantha volume 3
American girl 1904 volume 03
American girl.Samantha volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
The two weeks before Christmas are filled with activity as Samantha finishes her homemade presents and makes preparations for visiting relatives.
4) Belle Teal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Belle Teal Harper is from a poor family in the country, and beginning fifth-grade is a challenge as her grandmother's memory is slipping away, her brother and father are fighting again, and she becomes involved with the two new children in her class.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Times are tough around the little brown house! The widowed Mrs. Pepper has to sew all day long just to earn enough to pay the rent and to feed the five growing Peppers. But she faces poverty and trouble with a stout heart, a smiling face, and the help of her jolly brood: blue-eyed Ben, the eldest and the man of the house at the age of 11; pretty Polly, so eager to cook for the family and make everyone happy and comfortable; and the three littlest...
Author
Series
American girls collection. Molly, 1944 volume 3
American girl.Molly volume 03
American girls collection. Molly 1944 volume 3
American girl 1944 volume 03
American girl.Molly volume 03
American girls collection. Molly 1944 volume 3
American girl 1944 volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Even though he is away serving in an English hospital during World War II, Molly's father finds a way to make the family Christmas very special.
7) Eggs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Mourning the loss of his mother, nine-year-old David forms an unlikely friendship with independent, quirky thirteen-year-old Primrose, as the two help each other deal with what is missing in their lives.
Author
Series
Blossom family volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Disasters befall the Blossom family as Pap falls into a dumpster and cannot get out, Junior tries desperately to make a success of his secret invention, and Vern dreads letting a new friend meet his unusual family.
Author
Series
Moffats volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the adventures and misadventures of ten-year-old Jane Moffat living with her widowed mother and three siblings in their new home in Cranbury, Connecticut, in the early twentieth century.
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He's bossy. He's cranky. And weirdly enough . . . he looks a lot like Ellie's grandfather, a scientist who's always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this pimply boy really be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally found the secret to eternal youth?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
"Ramona's at the awkward, in-between age--too little to stay home alone after school when her mother is at work, but too big to enjoy playing with pesty Willa Jean at her sister's house. These days, all Ramona really wants is to twitch her nose and be her mother's little rabbit like she once was. Can't she be her mother's little girl forever?"--Back cover.
12) Karen's birthday
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
"It's Karen's birthday! She can't wait for all those presents. Karen is even having two parties--one at Daddy's house and one at Mommy's. But what Karen really wants for her birthday is one party, with her whole family together. Will Karen's birthday wish come true?"-
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school. [YOUNG HOOSIER]
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In her fictionalized journal, eleven-year-old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Indianapolis just before Christmas 1932.
15) Mitch and Amy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
The adventures of a nine-year-old twin brother and sister who, despite constant bickering and fighting, support each other loyally in learning to read and spell, memorizing the multiplication tables, confronting the school bully, and making friends.
Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After the family moves to the country to a house recently inherited by his mother, Omri finds many secrets revealed to him when he accidentally discovers the link between the house and the magic cupboard. Sequel to "The Secret of the Indian."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just when his dreams of being part of a family and having a dog seem to be coming true, Tom wonders if trouble with neighbors on his new island home and the impending birth of a new baby will change everything. Set in Newfoundland in 1929.
18) The Steps
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Over Christmas vacation, Annabel goes from her home in Manhattan to visit her father, his new wife, and her half- and step-siblings in Sydney, Australia.
19) Remarkables
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Marin and her neighbor Charley hope that by preventing a disaster that occurred twenty years ago, they can save Charley's dad from a future of guilt and self-destructive behavior.
20) Words with wings
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about...
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