Kate DiCamillo
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
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
Description
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
Resolved to leave her home for good, young runaway Beverly is determined not to depend on anyone else, but as she settles in her new home and job, she forms connections with the people around her that alter her perspectives about life and herself.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Persuaded by the word "treating" to dress up as a princess for Halloween, Mercy the pig's trick-or-treat outing has some very unexpected results.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
To Mr. and Mrs. Watson, Mercy is not just a pig -- she's a porcine wonder. And to the portly and good-natured Mercy, the Watsons are an excellent source of buttered toast, not to mention that buttery-toasty feeling she gets when she snuggles into bed with them. This is not, however, so good for the Watsons' bed....
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
430L
Language
English
Description
Francine Poulet is the greatest animal control officer in Gizzford County. Francine is never scared -- until she's faced with a screaming raccoon who may or may not be a ghost. But whether Francine is scared or not, there's a raccoon on the loose, and the folks on Deckawoo Drive need her.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse -- until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule of caring for Maybelline, disaster ensues. Can Leroy wrestle fate to the ground, rescue the horse of his heart, and lasso loneliness for good?
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Baby Lincoln's older sister, Eugenia, is very fond of telling Baby what to do. Baby usually responds by saying, "Yes, Sister," until one day, she's had enough and decides to take a Necessary Journey. Can she find the courage to strike out on her own, without Eugenia telling her what to take and where to go, in order to discover who she really is?
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Language
English
Description
Eugenia Lincoln is a practical person, with no time for geegaws, whoop-de-whoops, or frivolity. When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives at her house, she is determined to have nothing to do with it. Will Eugenia find a way to sell, destroy, or give away the mysterious instrument -- or will she discover that a little frivolity can be surprisingly joyful?
12) The tiger rising
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
"Walking gthrough the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger--a real-life, very large tiger--pacing back and forth in a cage. What's more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things--like memories, and heartache, and tigers--can't...
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.
Leroy Ninker is a small man with a big dream: he wants to be a cowboy, but for now he's just a thief. In fact, Leroy is robbing the Watsons' kitchen right this minute! As he drags the toaster across the counter -- screeeeeech -- and drops it into his bag -- clannngggg -- little does he know that a certain large pig who loves toast with a great...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
"Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the...
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
380L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Mercy Watson follows the delightful scent and delicious taste of the pansies her thoughtful neighbors plant to beautify their yard, animal control officer Francine Poulet is called out to handle the case, which brings unexpected results.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Once, in a house on Egypt Street, there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.