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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this sequel to "Anne of Green Gables," teenage Anne Shirley becomes a schoolteacher in a small village on Prince Edward Island.
At sixteen Anne is grown up...almost. Her gray eyes shine like evening stars, but her red hair is still as peppery as her temper. In the years since she arrived at Green Gables as a freckle-faced orphan; she has earned the love of the people of Avonlea and a reputation for getting into scrapes. But when Anne begins her...
2) Still Alice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Fifty-year-old Alice Howland, a Harvard professor of cognitive psychology, is at the top of her game. Her kids are grown, her marriage secure, her career on fire, when after mere months of forgetfulness she finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of early onset Alzheimer's disease. With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self slips away. Without memory or hope, she is forced...
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The students of Diffendoofer School celebrate their unusual teachers and curriculum, including Miss Fribble who teaches laughing, Miss Bonkers who teaches frogs to dance, and Mr. Katz who builds robotic rats.
6) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because she is afraid to read an essay aloud in English class, young Patricia is invited to take Mr. Wayne's drama class where she paints sets, participates in fun exercises, and memorizes every part in the play the others are rehearsing.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Describes how a teacher named Miss Chew encouraged individuality, and accepted learning differences, and helped a young student with academic difficulties get extra time to take tests and permission to be in advanced art classes. Inspired by the author's memories of her art teacher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Following her father's death from a disease that swept through her Nebraska town in 1881, teenaged Sarah Jane must find work to support herself and records in her diary her experiences as a young school teacher.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Huck's vindictive math teacher wins the town poker tournament and takes the winner's watch away from Huck's father while he's in a coma, Huck vows to get even with him no matter what it takes.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bobby thinks his teacher, Ms. Kirby, is horrible, but when he sees her outside of school and they spend a day in the park together, he discovers she might not be so bad after all.
Author
Series
Great Shelby Holmes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Shelby Holmes and eleven-year-old John Watson team up again, this time to investigate the new science teacher at the Harlem Academy of the Arts.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
At age twenty-one, partially-blind, lonely but spirited Annie Sullivan travels from Massachusetts to Alabama to try and teach six-year-old Helen Keller, deaf and blind since age two, self-discipline and communication skills. Includes historical notes and timeline.
16) Arcadia
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
"Three interlocking worlds. Four people looking for answers. But who controls the future or the past? In 1960s Oxford, Professor Henry Lytten is attempting to write a fantasy novel that forgoes the magic of his predecessors, J. R. R. Tolkien and C. S. Lewis. He finds an unlikely confidante in his quick-witted, inquisitive young neighbor Rosie. One day, while chasing Lytten's cat, Rosie encounters a doorway in his cellar. She steps through and finds...
17) Yasmin in charge
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Yasmin, an outgoing Pakistani-American girl, faces challenges at home, at school, and out and about with creativity and quick thinking.
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Jason Bourne, international assassin of deadly repute, was an identity assumed by covert agent David Webb. Retired from the CIA and now a professor at Georgetown University, Webb's life is finally his own-until he becomes the target of an assassin and is framed for the murder of his two closest associates. Fighting for his life against unseen assailants, the Bourne identity asserts itself, leaving Jason Bourne in control. Barely a half step ahead...
Author
Series
Spellsong cycle volume 1
Publisher
Tom Doherty Associates
Language
English
Description
A feminist fantasy starring Anna Marshal, a bored singer in Iowa. Wishing for a more liberated life, she is whisked into a parallel universe where music is magic, and helps to defeat an invader with her music. But as she subsequently finds out, even in fantasy land there is gender politics.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Newbery Medalist and New York Times bestselling author Erin Entrada Kelly transports readers to 1986 and introduces them to the unforgettable Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas in this pitch-perfect middle grade novel about family, friendship, science, and exploration. This acclaimed Newbery Honor Book is a great choice for readers of Kate DiCamillo, Rita Williams-Garcia, and Rebecca Stead. Cash, Fitch, and Bird Nelson Thomas are three siblings in...