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1) Moving day
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Mattie, a shy fifth-grader, wants to hide out at her new school by acting as apprentice to her Uncle Potluck, the custodian, but her plan falls apart when she summons the courage to speak about what matters most and finds a true friend.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. An old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. When a new family--with a particularly annoying girl his age named Oak--moves into the neighboring house, they cut the tree down. As Oak and Alder start school together, they can't imagine ever becoming friends. But they soon discover a series of mysterious, possibly magical, connections...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Hugo is not happy about being dragged halfway across the state of Colorado just because his dad had a midlife crisis and decided to become a ski instructor. It'd be different if Hugo wasn't so tiny: if girls didn't think he was adorable, like a puppy in a purse, and guys didn't call him "leprechaun"--or worse. The bullying was bad enough at his old school. Hugo hopes it won't be worse at his new one. At least he has his cousin Vijay to show him the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
"Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel"--Title verso page.
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Aref is excited to reunite with his father in Ann Arbor, Michigan where he will start a new school, and while Aref misses his grandfather, his Sidi, he knows that his home in Oman will always be waiting for him.
9) Going wild
Author
Series
Going wild volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Discovering a mysterious bracelet after moving to Arizona, Charlie Wilde finds that she has developed superhuman abilities and speed and teams up with new friends to discover what is happening to her and how to control her powers.
Author
Series
Mr. Popper's Penguins volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Long after Mr. Popper found his famous penguins a proper home, his distant relatives, Nina and Joel, move to a new house with their mother and find mysterious eggs in the basement.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Suzanne Toren narrates Cynthia Rylant's story with distinctive voices for each character...Gentle background noises add to the presentation...This high quality production would be a worthwhile acquisition" –School Library Journal
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,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends. Until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
16) Finding home
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Description
For Ashley, moving to Bloomington, Indiana, is especially hard but with time, prayer, a few surprises, and especially the love of her family, she finally feels at home.
Author
Series
Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Flora and Ruby move to Camden Falls with their grandmother, Min, after the death of their parents and meet Olivia and Nikki at the Needle & Thread, a Main Street sewing store run by their grandmother.
18) Roll with it
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Ellie, who has cerebral palsy, finds her life transformed when she moves with her mother to small-town Oklahoma to help care for her grandfather, who has Alzheimer's Disease"--Title verso page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
When timid Elizabeth's father takes her and her fearless friend, Zenobia, to his family home, Zenobia becomes obsessed with finding a ghost there, and then Elizabeth learns she had an aunt who disappeared from the house years ago.
Author
Series
Greetings from somewhere volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Second graders Ethan and Ella are sad about moving away from their hometown to travel the world with their mom, a journalist, and dad, who will home school them, but before they go they have a mystery to solve.
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