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Series
All four stars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Gladys Gatsby has been cooking gourmet dishes since the age of seven. Now she's eleven, and after a creme brulee accident (just a small fire), Gladys is cut off from the kitchen (and her allowance). She's devastated but soon finds just the right opportunity to pay her parents back when she's mistakenly contacted to write a restaurant review for one of the largest newspapers in the world. But in order to meet her deadline and keep her dream job, Gladys...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
As she grows through the first years of her life in the Catskill Mountains of New York, a peregrine falcon called Frightful interacts with various humans, including the boy who raised her, a falconer who rescues her, and several unscrupulous poachers, as well as with many animals that are part of the area's ecological balance.
6) Farmer boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
While Laura Ingalls grows up in a little house on the western prairie, Almanzo Wilder is living on a big farm in New York State. Almanzo and his brother and sisters help with the summer planting and fall harvest. In winter there is wood to be chopped and great slabs of ice to be cut from the river and stored. Almanzo wishes for just one thing-his very own horse-but he must prove that he is ready for such a big responsibility.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1756, during the French and Indian War in upper New York state, ten-year-old Edward is determined to protect his home and family with the ancient, and much too heavy, Spanish gun that his father had given him before leaving home to fight the enemy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Soon after his mother's death, Matt takes a job at a funeral home in his tough Brooklyn neighborhood and, while attending and assisting with funerals, begins to accept her death and his responsibilities as a man.
9) Missing you
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Rob comes to New York to have Jessica help him find his missing sister because of her psychic ability, which she feels she has lost.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 11.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Contents: Rip Van Winkle; The Legend of Sleepy Hollow; Dolph Heyliger; The Legend of the Storm-Ship; Kidd the Pirate; The Devil and Tom Walker; Philip of Pokanoket; The Early Experiences of Ralph Ringwood; The Phantam Island; The Adalantado of the Seven Cities
11) Second sleep
Author
Language
English
Description
When Max and his sister Rose go to visit their grandmother's lakeside vacation home, they soon discover that their nightly sleeps bring them to a timelocked place with kids from all different eras, united by their love of the lake--and Max begins to wonder if they can help him to find his missing mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ever since her mother died six years earlier, twelve-year-old Dilly and her father spend every summer in upstate New York at Mummie's farm, even though Dilly resents how her dead mother continues to intrude on her life.
14) Skeleton man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
15) No vacancy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"Buying and moving into the run-down Jewel Motor Inn in upstate New York wasn't eleven-year-old Miriam Brockman's dream, but at least it's an adventure. Miriam befriends Kate, whose grandmother owns the diner next door, and finds comfort in the company of Maria, the motel's housekeeper, and her Uncle Mordy, who comes to help out for the summer"--
Author
Series
Littlest Bigfoot volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After discovering that she is not human, twelve-year-old Alice Mayfair is on a mission to find out who and what she is, but she must do it alone because her best friend Millie Maximus, an undersized Bigfoot who lives in the forest near Alice's school in upstate New York, is focused on fulfilling her dream to sing for a nationally televised talent competition"--WorldCat.
17) Egypt's fire
Author
Series
Curious league of detectives and thieves volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After twelve-year-old John Boarhog's mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he gets his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby--the highlight of the museum's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom, where they read the plays of William shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives in.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
Description
"The Last of the Mohicans is set in 1757, during the French and Indian War (the Seven Years' War), when France and Great Britain battled for control of North America. During this war, both the French and the British used Native American allies, but the French were particularly dependent, as they were outnumbered in the Northeast frontier areas by the more numerous British colonists. The novel is primarily set in the upper New York wilderness, detailing...
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