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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Mattie, a shy fifth-grader, wants to hide out at her new school by acting as apprentice to her Uncle Potluck, the custodian, but her plan falls apart when she summons the courage to speak about what matters most and finds a true friend.
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
Author
Series
The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
After the family moves to the country to a house recently inherited by his mother, Omri finds many secrets revealed to him when he accidentally discovers the link between the house and the magic cupboard. Sequel to "The Secret of the Indian."
5) Alone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 700L
Language
English
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Description
Seda's mom inherited an old, crumbling mansion, and it was fun to explore the beautiful grounds for a summer. When her mom decided to renovate and live there, Seda isn't happy. And the coming of winter they'll be cut off from the outside world. When a group of teens get stranded near the mansion during a blizzard, Seda has no choice but to offer them shelter, even though she knows danger lurks in the dilapidated mansion-- and in herself.
6) Poppy
Author
Series
American dog volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the #1 New York Times best-selling author of Max comes a heartwarming, middle grade story about a misunderstood rescue dog, Poppy, who finds kinship with an outcast girl on the coast of Northern California.
Poppy is a dog with a problem. She has too much energy, and her elderly owner can keep her only if she can be trained. When twelve-year-old Hannah moves to the coast of Northern California, she thinks she can help turn this rambunctious puppy...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
10) Unearthly
Author
Series
Unearthly trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Clara Gardner's purpose as an angel-blood begins to manifest itself, forcing her family to pull up stakes and move to Jackson, Wyoming, where she learns that danger and heartbreak come with her powers.
11) Rotters
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Joey's life takes a very strange turn when his mother's tragic death forces him to move from Chicago to rural Iowa with the father he has never known, and who is the town pariah.
12) Percy's museum
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sweet story about embracing change, the excitement of discovery and the wonder of nature and new friends.
A young boy moves from the city to a new home in the country. He misses his friends, but at least it's summertime - flowers are blooming, baby birds are hatching, and caterpillars are transforming into butterflies. Enraptured by the natural world, Percy climbs trees, tastes wild strawberries and tries to catch fish in the river with his bare...
13) The new kid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When almost-nine-year-old Carson Blum and his father move to Northern California, he is worried about adjusting to his new, large, public school and finding friends.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Theo leaves everything behind to live with his Uncle Chester, a Vietnam War veteran and loner, in Destiny, Florida, but he is drawn to play the piano in Miss Sister's dance school and soon makes friends with the feisty Anabel, a baseball fanatic who invites Theo to help solve a mystery.
15) Out of place
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Cove Bernstein yearns for her best friend, Nina, who moved to New York City, but with unlikely new friends, discovers that life on Martha's Vineyard can be pretty good.--
Author
Series
Turtle of Oman volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Aref, a third-grader who lives in Muscat, Oman, refuses to pack his suitcase and prepare to move to Michigan, his mother asks for help from his grandfather, his Siddi, who takes Aref around the country, storing up memories he can carry with him to a new home.
17) Neville
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
18) Diario de Amelia
Author
Publisher
EDAF
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
Español
19) What she missed
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Ebony is devastated when her family moves from Houston to her grandmother's house in the country, but in her new small Texas town, she pushes her boundaries until she realizes she may have gone too far.
20) The Water Castle
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moving into an inherited mansion in Maine with their mother and stroke-afflicted father, three siblings uncover a mystery involving hidden passageways, family rivalries, and healing waters.
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