Adele Griffin
Author
Series
Blackberry Farm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When New York City native Becket Branch moves to the country with her family to help run her grandmother's farm and store, she finds that new friends, hostile chickens, sour lemonade and mischief are only the beginnings of her new life.--
Author
Language
English
Description
"At I'll Have Seconds, a high-end fairytale vintage dress shop in Manhattan, Nora Hammond loves nothing better than pairing a rare find with the perfect client. At home, Nora grapples with the bleaker reality of enormous debt, a tiny apartment, and ever-dwindling hope that she and her husband Jacob will have a family of their own. When socialite Evelyn Elliot charges into Nora's life, the women spark an immediate connection, and Nora is jettisoned...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Jennie Lovell's fiance, Will, is killed during the Civil War, she forms an alliance with a spirit photographer and uses her ability to talk to the dead to investigate the secrets Will was hiding and how he really died.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Jean, a rich girl, and Fritz, an outsider, compete for the affection of handsome newcomer Gil during the summer of 1976 at an exclusive Fire Island enclave, and discover their competition has higher stakes than either can imagine.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Eight months after a debilitating car accident leaves her with brain trauma and a back injury, amnesiac teen Ember tries to piece together the six weeks of her life leading up to the accident--and determine why none of her friends or family are willing to talk about it.
Author
Series
Blackberry Farm volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"When Becket and her twin brother, Nicholas, adopt new pets from the local shelter, Becket's dream dog turns out to be a super-shy scaredy-pooch, and Nicholas's cat is more outgoing and attention-seeking than he was expecting"--
9) Witch twins
Author
Series
Witch twins volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Troubled about being separated at school and preoccupied with sabotaging their father's marriage, ten-year-old witches, Claire and Luna, have little time to think of something good, smart and tricky to do that will finally make them one-star witches.
10) Tighter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Based on Henry James's "The Turn of the Screw," tells the story of Jamie Atkinson's summer spent as a nanny in a small Rhode Island beach town, where she begins to fear that the estate may be haunted, especially after she learns of two deaths that occurred there the previous summer.
11) Tell me no lies
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1980s Philadelphia, Lizzy, a studious high school senior, befriends a new girl in her class and is introduced to a life of clubs, street life and art scene, and a new life filled with doubts and deceptions.
12) Overnight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gray hopes that going to a slumber party with the "Lucky Seven" at her private school will take her mind off her mother's cancer, but when she is taken from the party by a deranged woman, both she and the other girls discover things about themselves and each other.
Author
Series
The Oodlethunks volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
With school out Oona and her brother Bonk are busy helping their father gather food, but Oona's pet Stegosaurus is something of a cave wrecker when left at home all day, so the children start Camp Woggle where all the local pets can amuse themselves during the day--but Mauro's pet T-Rex is a problem because he has a tendency want to eat the other campers.
15) Sons of liberty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When thirteen-year-old Rock helps his friend Liza run away from home, he wonders whether escaping from his own troubled family would be an act of patriotism or of treason.
Author
Series
Witch twins volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the ten-year-old witch twins head for summer camp, Claire is excited and Luna is reluctant, but things do not turn out quite the way either of them expects.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two teenaged sisters, separated by death but still connected, work through their feelings of loss over the closeness they shared as children that was later destroyed by one's mental illness, and finally make peace with each other.
Author
Series
Witch twins volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Will jealousy tear the witch twins apart? Aspiring witch Claire Bundkin has been Melody Malady's most devoted fan ever since the singing sensation was selling Sudsy Perfect Shampoo on TV. Since then, Melody's gotten her own show, her own recordings, and now her own movie - which is being shot on location in Claire's hometown, Philadelphia! When Claire gets a chance to meet Melody, she just about does a flip. And when Melody offers her a part in the...
Author
Series
Vampire Island volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Lexie Livingstone, a vampire-human hybrid living in New York City and trying to gain mortality, faces typical ninth grade dramas like boys and school politics, as well as not-so-typical obstacles like obnoxious pixie houseguests.
Author
Series
Witch twins volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the witch twins, Claire and Luna, accompany their grandparents to Scotland, they enlist the aid of an army of ghosts to help save the castle of their grandmother's old friend.