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1) Messenger
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
2) Cannery Row
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the adventures and misadventures of cannery workers living in the run-down waterfront section of Monterey, California.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hosseini, the #1 "New York Times"-bestselling author of "The Kite Runner" and "A Thousand Splendid Suns," has written a new novel about how people love, how they take care of one another, and how choices resonate through generations. From Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos--the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
5) Breakout
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now age eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac, Colonel, owner of a cafe and co-parent of Mo with his cook Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
11) Citizenship
Author
Publisher
Abdo Kids Junior
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Being a good citizen is an important concept for young people to grasp early on. Readers can learn through realistic everyday situations how they can be a good citizen in their communities. Complete with colorful images that support the simple text."--
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Mighty Mike is the mightiest heavy equipment operator of them all! When the town has to stop plans to build a library, he knows he has to help get it built. Will a few calls to his construction friends get mighty Mike the help he needs to bring a new library to the town?
13) What elephant?
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Is there really an elephant sunbathing in the garden?
16) Cold snap
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A cold snap has everyone in the town of Toby Mills feeling down, until the mayor's wife thinks of a way to warm things up again.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Shortly after Mike the heavy equipment operator agrees to repair Mrs. Harper's leaky pipe, he gets an offer to work on a major construction project, and he is torn between keeping his promise and working on the big job.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magic Wagon
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ranger Woods wants Mighty Mike to build a nature trail up Mount Impossible, but Mike doesn't think he can do it until he remembers what his grandfather taught him about trying.
20) Hucklebug
Author
Publisher
Price Stern Sloan
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Young Hucklebug runs away from his village rather than help gather food, but soon regrets his decision.