Claudia Mills
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nixie and Grace have been best and only friends since preschool, but now Nixie must attend an after-school cooking camp while Grace spends her afternoons with classmate Elyse.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to decide on a science fair project, third-grader Wilson struggles with with fractions and, much to his embarrassment, his parents sign him up to work with a math tutor.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.
Author
Series
Mason Dixon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Mason's parents keep trying to get him a pet, but until he and his best friend Brody adopt a three-legged dog, he's not interested.
Author
Series
Mason Dixon volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mason Dixon is his usual pessimistic self as he starts fourth grade, dreading joining the school choir and unenthused about his sports-obsessed teacher who plans for the students to be "making a full-court press on writing."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sixth grader Betsy is the one who informs her best friend, Lizard, that thousands of the world's languages are currently threatened by extinction; Betsy's mother is a linguistics professor working frantically to study dying languages before they are lost forever. But it is Lizard who, gripped by the magnitude of this loss, challenges Betsy, "What if, instead of WRITING about dying languages, like your mom, you and I SAVED one instead?" As the girls...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Afraid he will always be an outsider like ex-planet Pluto, nine-year-old Oliver finally shows his extremely overprotective parents that he is capable of doing great things without their help while his class is studying the solar system.
Author
Series
Mason Dixon volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fourth-grader Mason struggles to enjoy playing basketball after his best friend persuades him to join a team, and learns that the dog-hating lady next door is not so bad after all.
Author
Series
Nora notebooks volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Science-obsessed fourth grader Nora wants to be like her scientist family and publish a professional research paper on her favorite subject: her ant farm!"--
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 4
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Boogie Bass feels his best friend, Nolan, is better than he at everything, even caring for Boogie's little brothers, but an after-school camp reveals Boogie's talent at communicating using American Sign Language. Includes facts about ASL"--Title verso page.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Simon Ellis and the rest of the third grade Franklin School Friends participate in a spelling bee where Simon's competitive spirit takes over until he realizes that sometimes the best way to win is to take a chance and let other people shine.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Julius has his hands full over the summer when his mother attempts to improve his grades and teach him responsibility by signing him up for a French class and getting him a job babysitting.
16) Lizzie at last
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lizzie, who has always been considered a nerd by the other kids, begins the seventh grade determined to change her image so that she can blend in better with the popular crowd.
17) Losers, Inc
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although he knows that his efforts to impress a beautiful student teacher and outdo his perfect older brother jeopardize his status in the losers' club that he and his best friend have started, twelve-year-old Ethan realizes that he no longer wants to be a loser.
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 3
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
"Third-grader Lucy Lopez attends coding camp at her after-school program and becomes a coding star"--Title verso page.
19) Trading places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fifth-grade twins, Amy and Todd, tackle a school project, they also have to cope with issues of friendship at school and problems at home, including their father's unemployment.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Maggie comes to dread biology class because her favorite teacher is insisting that she dissect a worm, an assignment that makes her feel very squeamish and awakens her to the question of animal rights.