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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
An "action-packed, danger-filled, Indiana Jones-like tale"—first in the Tom Trelawney series from the author of the Dragonsitter books (School Library Journal).
"Only boring people get bored . . . Interesting people can always find something to be interested in."
That's what Tom Trelawney's father says, anyway. Tom shouldn't have been interested in playing with matches but he was . . .
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When sullen teenager Dylan Barstow is caught joyriding in a stolen car he is sent to his ex-Marine uncle for the summer, but soon they are on the way to Papua New Guinea in search of a World War II fighter plane and Dylan discovers that defiance is not a survival skill when you are lost in a jungle.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In seventeenth-century Scotland, sixteen-year-old Maggie Blair is sentenced to be hanged as a witch but escapes to the home of her uncle, placing him and his family in great danger as she risks her life to save them all from the King's men.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tom, who comes from a long line of criminals, travels with his roguish uncle to India to find a family treasure--an antique jewel-encrusted tiger stolen from the sultan's throne hundreds of years ago.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old twins Katie and David Bowen evade foreign militants and make their way from Washington, D.C. to their uncle's Vermont home, hoping he can help rescue their parents, who were kidnapped because of their secret invention, Rover.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After thirteen-year-old Tucker Feye's parents disappear, he suspects that the strange disks of shimmering air that he keeps seeing are somehow involved, and when he steps inside of one he is whisked on a time-twisting journey trailed by a shadowy sect of priests and haunted by ghostlike figures.
Author
Series
Adventures in extreme reading volume 04
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uncle Dan is back, and with him is the beautiful Tempest St. Cloud with a promise of unlimited funding--but Carter's cousin Isabelle is suspicious, and when a demonstration excursion into Great expectations results in zombies and murderers Carter does not know what to think.
Author
Series
Adventures in extreme reading volume 05
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Uncle Dan Hunter is taking his virtual reality program public, and thirteen-year old Carter and his cousin Isabelle are helping him demonstrate the suits at a children's bookstore--but when a blackout fuses Wind in the willows with Peter Pan, Carter has battle pirates and weasels to rescue the two children trapped in the suits.
Author
Series
Adventures in extreme reading volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carter Lewis's Uncle Dan has invented a suit that creates a virtual reality world so that the person experiences and interacts with a book as if he were actually there--but when Carter and his cousin Isabelle put on the suits they discover that a hacker is playing games with them.
Author
Series
Klaatu diskos volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In a far distant future, Tucker Feye and the inscrutable Lia find themselves atop a crumbling pyramid in an abandoned city. In present-day Hopewell, Tucker's uncle Kosh faces armed resistance and painful memories as he attempts to help a terrorized woman named Emma, who is being held captive by a violent man. And on a train platform in 1997, a seventeen-year-old Kosh is given an instruction that will change his life, and the lives of others, forever....
Author
Series
Unicorn riders volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Head Rider Willow is sent on a mission to Arlen to bring a healing elixir to Lord Gildenfair, her uncle, whom she hates because she believes he ruined her family--but the Unicorn Riders arrive to find Arlen is under attack, and Willow must confront her past and find a way to save the city.
Author
Series
Adventures in extreme reading volume 06
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Until now Uncle Dan has only used classic books in his program, so being commissioned to turn a new manuscript into a virtual reality world sounds exciting--but while they are testing the program, Isabelle realizes that the book is plagiarized from The purloined letter, and it is up to Carter to teach the author a lesson.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Marisa Conchito wants to make an old-fashioned vampire movie for her online audience, and she has decided that her older brother Lorenzo will make a good vampire. He is certainly scarier than the kids who have auditioned. Lorenzo's friend Jeff has volunteered his uncle Felix's house as a set. Felix was an actor in horror movies, and his house is definitely creepy. In fact, he is pretty creepy himself, especially since Jeff thought he was dead. There...
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 59
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Rancid rat hairs! I'd been spending so much money lately, I had none left in the bank! Even worse, when my grandfather found out, he sent me off to Moldy Manor. There, miserly Uncle Stingysnout would teach me to be better at saving. How terrible! Could I learn to be less wasteful without going crazy?" --
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"As part of his thirteenth birthday, Jimmy Benge is spending a week ice fishing with his friend, Ryan, in northern Minnesota at his family's lakeside home. One day they get permission to go out further on the lake to try for Northern pike, and Jimmy catches a beauty--but a sudden snow squall turns the situation dangerous. As the boys pack up to make their way back, Uncle Kenny's ATV flips over and he is injured. It is up to the boys to get everybody...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Determined to find his nineteen-year-old uncle and best friend, Jesse, who left for Colorado to find enough gold to pay the mortgage and save the family's Iowa farm, twelve-year-old Early Whittcomb joins up with a barber, his wife, and his daughter on a wagon train heading for the gold fields near Pike's Peak in 1858.
20) The reptile room
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
Dear Reader, if you have picked up this book with the hope of finding a simple and cheery tale, I'm afraid you have picked up the wrong book altogether. The story may seem cheery at first, when the Baudelaire children spend time in the company of some interesting reptiles and a giddy uncle, but don't be fooled. If you know anything at all about the unlucky Baudelaire children, you already know that even pleasant events lead down the same road to misery....
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