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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";...
2) Just Lucky
Author
Lexile measure
HL 500L
Language
English
Description
"Lucky loves her grandparents, and they are all the family she really has. True, her grandma forgets things... like turning off the stove, or Lucky's name. But her grandpa takes such good care of them that Lucky doesn't realize how bad things are. That is until he's gone. When her grandma accidentally sets the kitchen on fire, Lucky can't hide what's happening any longer, and she is sent into foster care. She quickly learns that some foster families...
3) High and dry
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dylan and his grandfather discover a young orca stranded on the rocks, they work together to keep the calf alive until the next tide comes in.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In August 1939 Genevieve makes an impulsive decision not to get on the train to take her to the boat back to New York and must spend the duration of World War II with her grandmother in a small village in Alsace, France, where she becomes involved with the French resistance"--
5) Ninth Ward
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"In New Orleans' Ninth Ward, twelve-year-old Lanesha, who can see spirits, and her adopted grandmother have no choice but to stay and weather the storm as Hurricane Katrina bears down upon them"--Title verso page.
6) Throwback
Author
Series
Throwback volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
When Corey learns that he has the ability to save lives while time traveling, he is determined to go back in time to save his grandmother who died on September 11, 2001.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
One Christmas, Lotta is visiting her grandmother in Norway. Soon, she finds herself drawn into a magical adventure, traveling by sled and herding reindeer from the snowy mountains to the summer pastures. But when a mother reindeer is lost, Lotta must find her before her calf starves.
Author
Series
House on Hoarder Hill volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Hedy and Spencer start receiving messages on dusty picture frames, a visit to their grandmother's eerie old house turns into something much more sinister. Hidden in the labyrinth of their grandfather's belongings are the clues to solving their family's biggest mystery: the disappearance of their Grandma Rose. But what is their grandfather not telling them? As their curiosity leads them into the forbidden rooms of the house, Hedy and Spencer...
9) Lucky strike
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nate Harlow would love to be lucky, just once! He'd like to win a prize, get picked first, call a corn toss right, even! But his best friend, Genesis Beam (aka Gen), believes in science and logic, and she doesn't think for one second that there's such a thing as luck, good or bad. She doesn't care what names the other kids call them. She cares about being right, about saving the turtles of Paradise Beach; and she cares about Nate. Then, on his birthday,...
10) Finch House
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Eleven-year-old Micah has no interest in moving out of her grandfather's house. She loves living with Poppop and their shared hobby of driving around rich neighborhoods to find treasures in others' trash. To avoid packing, Micah goes for a bike ride and ends up at Finch House, the decrepit Victorian that Poppop says is Off Limits. Except when she gets there, it's all fixed up and there's a boy named Theo in the front yard. Surely that means Finch...
11) Clean getaway
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
"For the life of him, William "Scoob" Lamar can't seem to stay out of trouble--and now the run-ins at school have led to lockdown at home. So when G'ma, Scoob's favorite person on Earth, asks him to go on an impromptu road trip, he's in the RV faster than he can say FREEDOM. With G'ma's old maps and a strange pamphlet called the 'Travelers' Green Book' at their side, the pair takes off on a journey down G'ma's memory lane. But adventure quickly turns...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Clara spends her summer visiting her grandma and cousin on Standing Rock reservation, where Clara and her family set up the ancestral tipi and grow closer together as they tell stories, sing songs, and learn about their Lakota roots.
13) As brave as you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Genie and his older brother spend their summer in the country with their grandparents, he learns a secret about his grandfather and what it means to be brave.
Author
Series
Definitely Dominguita volume 01
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
"All Dominguita wants to do is read. Especially the books in Spanish that Abuela gave to her just before she moved away. They were classics that Abuela and Dominguita read together, classics her abuela brought with her all the way from Cuba when she was a young girl. It helps Dominguita feel like Abuela's still there with her. One of her favorites, Don Quixote, tells of a brave knight errant who tries to do good deeds. Dominguita decides that she,...
Author
Series
Waffle hearts volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to Adventures with Waffles, best friends Trille and Lena find their seaside escapades disrupted by a new soccer coach, who puts Lena's goalkeeping dreams on hold, and a new girl on whom Trille has a crush.
Author
Series
Merci Suarez volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be Merci's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, twelve-year-old Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and her eccentric grandmother) and find a way home.
When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana figures that it is only a matter of time before Granny changes her mind and they come back home. After all,...
19) 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
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