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2) Pencilvania
Author
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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Description
In this illustrated, modern take on The Phantom Tollbooth meets Harold and the Purple Crayon, author Stephanie Watson beautifully explores grief and creativity through an unforgettable fantasy world.
Ever since she first learned to hold a crayon, Zora Webb has been unstoppable. Zora draws hamsters wearing pajamas and balloons and Lake Superior and pancakes and hundreds of horses. Her drawings fill sketchbooks and cover the
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Language
English
Description
After Cecelia Dahl's little brother, Celadon, dies tragically, his soul goes where all souls go: the Land of Yesterday. And Cecelia is left behind in a fractured world without him. Her beloved house's spirit is crumbling beyond repair, her father is imprisoned by sorrow, and worst of all, her grief-stricken mother abandons the land of the living to follow Celadon into Yesterday. It's up to Cecelia to put her family back together, even if that means...
Author
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Two years after the death of his mother, Ewan's father was swept away by a magical cloud. Now Ewan lives with his little sister, Flora, his Grumple and his mischievous cat, Kipper. But something about his father's disappearance has never felt right to Ewan. He is certain his father wouldn't leave willingly. When he meets Mr. So-and-So, the owner of the mysterious Notion Shop, he is inspired to take destiny into his own hands. With his grandfather's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent by their father to live in the country with their grandparents after the sudden death of their mother, Molly's older sister Hannah expresses her grief in a raging rebellion while imaginative Molly finds herself increasingly distracted by visions, that seemingly only she can see, of a strange hunt in the nearby forest.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Stanley Darrow isn't sure what to expect when the mysterious Mr. Gedrick appears on his doorstep. He is certain, however, that his family could use Mr. Gedrick's help: their lives and their house have been a mess since Stanley's dad died. The strange new nanny quickly helps them transform their cluttered home into a sparkling and spotless version of its former self, but it's going to take more than a clean house to help the Darrow family learn to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When he and his mother move into an old farmhouse in the English countryside, asthmatic, twelve-year-old Jack discovers that he can communicate with the ghosts inhabiting the house and inadvertently establishes a relationship with a tormented, malevolent spirit that threatens to destroy both his mother and himself.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tara Doucet is grieving for her grandmother, and her family is falling apart around her, but it seems like her grandmother has preplanned an elaborate itinerary for her to follow which will lead her and her sister Riley from Louisiana to a South Pacific island and into danger--and everywhere she turns butterflies follow.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
12) Poppy and Ereth
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
After Poppy's husband dies from pneumonia and she is accidentally carried away by a bat, Ereth, a porcupine, starts planning her funeral service, but Spruce--Poppy's grandson--does not believe Poppy to be dead, and goes off to search for her.
Author
Series
Orphans of the tide volume 1
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious boy washes in with the tide trapped inside the belly of a whale, Ellie must prove that he isn't ruled by the Enemy even if it means revealing her own dangerous secret"--WorldCat.
14) Dreamland
Author
Series
Riley Bloom book volume 03
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eager to contact her sister Ever, ghost Riley goes in search of the place where dreams are made, where she finds a renegade ghost boy who has been flouting the rules of Dreamland for decades.
Author
Language
English
Description
"A boy hears the voice of his sister calling him one day, a sister he's never met because she died before he was born. She's just a faded photograph on the wall. When little boy asks his mother what death is like, she tells him, "It's like dreaming, only bigger." But it's too hard to tell him more, even about the sister he never knew. Yet the boy, like most children, still has questions. And one night, in a wonderful dream, his sister comes to visit...
16) Shimmer
Author
Series
Riley Bloom book volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1120L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Riley comes across a young ghost named Rebecca, Riley soon learns Rebecca's not at all what she sees. The daughter of a former plantation owner, she is furious about being murdered during a slave revolt in 1733. Mired in her own anger, Rebecca is keeping the ghosts who died along with her trapped in their worst memories. Can Riley help Rebecca without losing herself to her own nightmarish memories?
17) Secrets
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
With her beloved horse gone, Ellie forms a bond with a new arrival
Spirit, the skinny gray horse whom Ellie loved so well, has passed away. But the special mental bond they shared has not weakened, and she can still communicate with him clearly. Spirit helped her discover that she could communicate with horses and heal them with her hands, and now she must use that power to help other horses.
While at a horse show, she...
Spirit, the skinny gray horse whom Ellie loved so well, has passed away. But the special mental bond they shared has not weakened, and she can still communicate with him clearly. Spirit helped her discover that she could communicate with horses and heal them with her hands, and now she must use that power to help other horses.
While at a horse show, she...
18) Loving Spirit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young girl begins a new life in the English countryside and discovers a remarkable horse
After her parents are killed in a car accident, Ellie leaves the rolling hills of New Zealand behind to live in England with her uncle, who is as cold and gray as the country she now must call home. A hard-eyed horse breeder, he hates weakness in all animals, whether they have four legs or two. Although Ellie loves horses, she can’t stand being...
After her parents are killed in a car accident, Ellie leaves the rolling hills of New Zealand behind to live in England with her uncle, who is as cold and gray as the country she now must call home. A hard-eyed horse breeder, he hates weakness in all animals, whether they have four legs or two. Although Ellie loves horses, she can’t stand being...
19) Whisper
Author
Series
Riley Bloom book volume 04
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
Formats
Description
This time, Riley might really have bitten off more than she's ready for. After practically begging the Council for a more challenging Soul Catch, she is assigned an actual Roman gladiator - Theocoles, the Pillar of Doom. To get through to him, she is transformed into the beautiful and mature teen she's always wanted to be. With a dream this enchanting, will she ever want to leave?
20) Days of the dead
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Glorieta Magdalena Davis Espinosa is happy that Papi married Alice. She's happy that he can smile again after years of mourning Mam©Ł. But the urn containing Mam©Ł's ashes disappeared into a drawer the day Alice moved in. If everything about Glorieta's life is going to change, then she wants one thing to go her way: She wants to hear stories about her mam©Ł when the family gathers on the last night of los D©Ưas de los Muertos. And that can...
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