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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Angus and Sadie, two siblings that are of mostly border collie heritage, are adopted by a young couple and start living on a Maine farm, where they begin to learn sheep herding and come to appreciate how they are different from each another.
2) Touch blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When the state of Maine threatens to shut down their island's one-room schoolhouse because of dwindling enrollment, eleven-year-old Tess, a strong believer in luck, and her family take in a trumpet-playing foster child, to increase the school's population.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Summer vacation in their small Maine town does not look too promising until twelve-year-old Gina and four of her friends make a pact to become millionaires before school starts in September. I'm just lying out there in the backyard one night, staring up at the sky. Then suddenly a dollar bill lands on my face. I pick it up. It looks real. I have no idea where it came from. Then another one falls. And another. I look up and see bills fluttering down...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Detective-turned dog trainer Jack Field, anticipating his wedding to Maine medical examiner Dr. Jamie Cutter, fears the nuptials might have to wait when the discovery of young woman's body in a nearby lake lead him and Jamie into the complicated investigation of a serial killer.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
When her blind dog slips his collar, twelve-year old Lily meets Salma Santiago, a young Hispanic girl whose migrant family are in Maine for the blueberry-picking season, and, based partly on their mutual love of dogs, the two forge a friendship while painting bee boxes for Lily's grandfather--but as the Blueberry Queen pageant approaches Lily and Salma are confronted with some of the hard truths of prejudice and migrant life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them together, because of the rabbit.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1190L
Language
English
Description
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm Eleven-year-old Rebecca is leaving Sunnybrook Farm to live with her spinster aunts and become the educated daughter her family needs. Her aunts resent her father, who left behind nothing for his wife and seven children but a forty-eight-dollar mortgage. When Rebecca climbs out of the stagecoach with her pink parasol, wide-eyed and nervous about her new life, she is quickly met with the strict rules of Aunt Miranda, who has...
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When a giant glowing fungus encroaches upon thirteen-year-old Eric's small town, he, his little brother Brian, and a runaway girl try to stop it--and figure out what happened to the Puritan town that had mysteriously disappeared from the same spot.
11) Romeo blue
Author
Series
Felicity Bathburn volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
During World War II, Felicity Bathburn is living in Bottlebay, Maine, with her eccentric relatives and their foster child Derek, whom she has grown to love, but when a man claiming to be Derek's true father arrives and starts asking all sorts of strange questions Felicity becomes suspicious of his motives.
12) Bright Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sixteen-year-old Thankful Curtis must leave Bright Island, Maine, for the first time in 1937,she has trouble adjusting to life on the mainland, new people, and "proper schooling," and yearns for her days of farming with her father and sailing.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Description
Hitty, a doll carved from mountain ash in the nineteenth century writes the story of her eventful life from the security of an antique-shop window. Her career, begun in a quiet Maine village, is crowded with adventures, and she gives lively doll's-eye glimpses of the widely differing places and people that she encounters during her hundred years, and of the manners and modes of her times.
14) The rescue
Author
Series
Dog whisperer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Emily has dreams of drowning. Night after night, she's being sucked under--until the third night. She realizes it's not just a dream. It's really happening to someone--or something. On the rocky shore outside her house, Emily finds a large dog. He's barely alive, but she's determined to save him. She can feel his pain--and his determination to live. The dog is brought to the vet. And with Emily's help, he starts to improve. But is the bond...
15) Navigating Early
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
At the end of World War II, Jack Baker, a landlocked Kansas boy, is suddenly uprooted after his mother's death and placed in a boys' boarding school in Maine. There, Jack encounters Early Auden, the strangest of boys, who reads the number pi as a story and collects clippings about the sightings of a great black bear in the nearby mountains.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Julian almost died when he was born and he believes that he has a special connection to the universe because of that, and he wants to make his two moms and his sister (who turned into a black hole of discontentment when she turned fourteen) happy because he is convinced that soon he will die and travel to the dog star--but now they have moved to Maine and he resolves to also use his "uni-sense" ability to help Mr. X, their neighbor,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Trevor Frederick Ackerman refuses to spend another summer with his extended family of divorced parents, step-parents, and step-brothers and step-sisters, so he is sent up to Maine to stay with two eccentric great aunts and there gets involved with some interesting people and an unexpected mystery.
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
India, an unusual nine-and-a-half-year-old living in small-town Maine, has a series of adventures which bring her closer to her artist-mother, strengthen her friendship with a neighbor boy, and help her to accept the man for whom her father moved away.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josie Sandoval and Eli Barker are the youngest of the wedding guests trapped on an island off the coast of Maine when a storm blows in--but this island is haunted by spirits seeking revenge, and the only clue that Josie and Eli have is a scrap of an old Nazi uniform and a voice crying out for help in German.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Quinnie's teacher has disappeared. Quinnie suspects a kidnapping but her mom, even though she's the sheriff of their small Maine town, disagrees. So Quinnie teams with her glamorous new neighbor to investigate the mystery"--
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