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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Living in the shadow of the Fruitless Mountain, Minli and her parents spend their days working in the rice fields, barely growing enough to feed themselves. Every night, Minli's father tells her stories about the Jade Dragon that keeps the mountain bare, the greedy and mean Magistrate Tiger, and the Old Man of the Moon who holds everyone's destiny. Determined to change her family's fortune, Minli sets out to find the Old Man of the Moon, urged on...
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 59
Publisher
Maverick Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Hank finds himself in competition with a new dog, Happy, who seems perfect until it is discovered that he will eat anything.
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The town's ten-year-old walking encyclopedia again solves ten neighborhood mysteries. The final solutions to the cases are at the back of the book, giving readers a chance to compare their sleuthing skill to that of Encyclopedia Brown.
Author
Series
Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When he finds poison in the Black's stable, Alec suspects someone is trying to kill his beloved stallion. But just as he's puzzling over the clues, something even more disturbing happens. An Arab chieftain shows up and reclaims the Black.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 57
Publisher
Scholastic Paperbacks
Pub. Date
20140624
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
I was finishing up work one evening when I opened a letter from Uncle Stingysnout. He needed to see me immediately! I headed straight to Penny Pincher Castle for what I thought would be a nice visit...but my uncle put me straight to work. Moldy mozzarella, what a terrible vacation!
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton (Graphic novels) volume 14
Publisher
Papercutz
Pub. Date
20140624
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's 1969, and the eyes of the whole world are focused on the moon, where the Apollo 11 mission is about to make one giant leap for mousekind. But the time-traveling Pirate Cats are on the scene and they want to sabotage this historic moment with their most audacious and harebrained plan ever. To stop them, Geronimo and his cousin Trap will have to get to the moon first. Fasten your seat belts: a rat-tastic space race is underway!
Author
Series
Animal Rescue Team (Sue Stauffacher) volume 2
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Keisha and her family's animal rescue center face more challenges involving a baby crow in a mailbox and a skunk found in the nearby community garden.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton's true passion is writing tales of adventure. Here in New Mouse City, the capital of Mouse island, his books are bestsellers, his stories are full of fun-tastier than Swiss cheese and tangier than extra sharp cheddar. They are whisker licking-good stories and that's a promise. When his old Professor von Volt called to ask for help he agreed even though it meant trekking halfway around the world to Mouse Everest! The trip was long...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Marco already knows he has a few problems: the constant battle with the Yeerks; finding out his mother was infested.... and is now Visser One. The leader of the Yeerk invasion of Earth. But things are about to get even weirder. Marco's father is thinking about getting married again. Meanwhile, the Animorphs and Ax have other things to worry about. It seems the Yeerks are trying harder than ever to get people into The Sharing. Now the kids have to...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
c1991
Language
English
Description
John crawled silently to Scrawny's box. Then he lifted his head. "Duck, duck, duck." Scrawny peeped and waddled toward him. John crouched lower and crawled to another side. He popped his head up again. "Scrawny!" The duck trotted gleefully over to him. Ms Saunders explained "Newborn ducks become attached to the first moving thing they see-usually the mother. That's why they follow their mother in a line. Andrew pointed at John and laughed. "Scrawny...
14) The haunted mask
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Carly Beth thinks she's found the best Halloween mask ever. With yellow-green skin and long animal fangs, the mask terrifies the entire neighborhood. Before long, it has a surprising effect on Carly Beth, too. She tries to take it off . . . but it won't budge!Halloween is almost over, but fright night is just beginning.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own.
19) The Abduction
Author
Series
Theodore Boone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When his best friend disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night, thirteen-year-old Theo uses his legal knowledge and investigative skills to chase down the truth and save April.
Author
Publisher
Dell Pub
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
The Five Little Peppers book series was, created by Margaret Sidney. It covers the lives of the five children of Mamsie and the late Mister Pepper, who are born into poverty in a rural "little brown house."
In this book, Joel and Davie Pepper are away at boarding school, trying to learn manners and self-reliance, while their sister Polly must cope with gossips and snobs at her school. But when, a terrible train accident leaves the brakeman's wife...