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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?
2) Stand tall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 520L
Language
English
Description
Tree, a six-foot-three-inch twelve-year-old, copes with his parents' recent divorce and his failure as an athlete by helping his grandfather, a Vietnam vet and recent amputee, and Sophie, a new girl at school.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"Even though his awful great-aunt Gertrudis doesn't approve, Micah believes in the stories his dying Grandpa Ephraim tells him of the magical Circus Mirandus: the invisible tiger guarding the gates, the beautiful flying birdwoman, and the magician more powerful than any other--the Man Who Bends Light. Finally, Grandpa Ephraim offers proof. The Circus is real. And the Lightbender owes Ephraim a miracle. With his friend Jenny Mendoza in tow, Micah sets...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As her family gathers for the wedding of her sister Anna, fourth-grader Cassie Witting sees the many changes brought about by everyday life and finds comfort in the love of those around her, especially her grandfather.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A 2019 Batchelder Honor Book Yu'er and her grandpa live in a small neighborhood in Beijing—and it's full of big personalities. There's a story around every corner, and each day has a hint of magic. In one tale, Yu'er wants to swim in the Special Olympics, a sports competition for people with disabilities. But she and her grandpa don't have a pool! Their trick to help Yu'er practice wows the whole neighborhood. In another story, a friend takes Yu'er...
6) Heartbeat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
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American girls collection. Josefina, 1824 volume 5
American girls collection.Josefina volume 5
American girl.Josefina volume 05
American girl 1824 volume 05
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American girls collection.Josefina volume 5
American girl.Josefina volume 05
American girl 1824 volume 05
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
In 1825 when Josefina trusts a trader in Santa Fe with an important deal, she makes a surprising discovery about this young American who leaves town without paying her.
9) Stone Fox
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Little Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Alcatraz Smedry and his companions seek Al's father and grandfather in the Great Library of Alexandria, where they face undead, soul-stealing wraiths called the Curators of Alexandria, and one of the Scrivener's Bones, a part-human, part-machine mercenary.
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Series
Blossom family volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the aftermath of a big flood in Alderson County, the Blossom family continues coping in their rare family style.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
14) The Wanderer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sophie and her cousin Cody record their transatlantic crossing aboard the Wanderer, a forty-five foot sailboat, which, along with uncles and another cousin, is en route to visit their grandfather in England.
15) Mañanaland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
16) Manatee Summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"Fionn Boyle, terrified of the sea, must spend the summer with his older sister, Tara, and their grandfather on Arranmore, an island that has been known to make people disappear, and seems to be restless again"--Title verso page.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
19) Indian shoes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
Author
Series
American girls collection. Josefina, 1824 volume 1
American girl.Josefina volume 01
American girl 1824 volume 01
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 1
American girl.Josefina volume 01
American girl 1824 volume 01
American girls collection. Josefina 1824 volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Josefina, the youngest of four sisters living in New Mexico in 1824, tries to help run the household after her mother dies.
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