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2) 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.
3) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including Heidi's friendship with Peter, her life in Frankfurt with Clara, and fascinating details about life in the mountains
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Evan, an eleven-year-old boy in 1914 whose strict father has little time for him, is delighted when his long-lost grandfather returns, relates his many sea adventures, and hobbles around like Evan who has a club foot.
Author
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.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness";...
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.
Author
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.
Author
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...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 65
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Alden children set out to solve a jewelry store robbery, they find they must also deal with a mysterious thief who steals their favorite cereal.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Miss Mackle's third graders share December holiday traditions --Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, Three Kings Day, and Korean New Year-- with each other and with Harry's great grandfather, who has just moved to a nursing home.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 91
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Aldens investigate to see if a ghost has stolen valuable statues from their grandfather's Skeleton Point mansion.
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.
Author
Series
Iris and Walter volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
When Iris's grandfather comes to her school as a substitute teacher, she has a hard time sharing him with the other students.
16) Hour of the bees
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 27
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
430L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While on a camping trip with their grandfather, the Alden children try to find out about the loud music and missing food that threatens to scare away other campers.
Author
Series
Grandfather and Roo volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Letters from Grandfather, who has gone on an expedition with his little dog Roo, to find the last polar bears at the North Pole.
19) Lemons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Zelly Fried wants a dog more than anything, so at the urging of her grandfather, during the summer before sixth grade she takes care of a "practice dog" made out of an orange juice jug to show her parents that she is ready for the responsibility, even though she is sometimes not entirely sure about the idea.
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