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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his colleagues set out on an expedition to find a strange sea monster and are captured by the infamous and charismatic Captain Nemo and taken abroad the Nautilus submarine as his prisoners. As they travel the world's oceans, they become embroiled in adventures and events beyond their wildest dreams. Visionary in its outlook, Vern's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a legendary science fiction masterpiece.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
1987.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
56 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Gregory's house does not have room for a garden, but he creates a surprising and very different garden in an unusual place.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
420L
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Finding an intergalactic special agent in his cereal box, Richard joins the extraterrestrial in a fight to save Earth from the Dranes, one of whom is masquerading as a student in Richard's class.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Physical Desc
60 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the year 1195, eleven-year-old Roger and his eight-year-old sister Alice travel through the French countryside in search of their ailing mother's estranged brother, a wealthy baron.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
62 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When their bag of microwave popcorn explodes and a space alien emerges, Richard and Henry join him on a top secret interstellar mission to save the desserts of the universe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
64 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
A small incident during recess threatens to turn nine-year-old Marvin into the outcast of his third-grade class. Marvin is shunned by his classmates, best friends, and teacher after he is unfairly fingered as a nose-picker by the class bully.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Physical Desc
78 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Aric the alien returns to Earth to help Richard Bickerstaff save the world from an invasion of Dwilbs, pollution-loving aliens who want to turn the planet into a toxic theme park.
10) A horn for Louis
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Physical Desc
86 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
11) Little women
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
106 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
A simplified retelling of the joys and sorrows of the four March sisters as they grow into young women in mid-nineteenth-century New England.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Marc, an imaginative Russian boy, discovers his talent for drawing and, with the encouragement of a friend and an art teacher, decides to become an artist. Based loosely on the childhood of Marc Chagall.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
101 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
The story of dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown and his discovery of the first Tyrannosaurus rex for the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
15) The goblin baby
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
First American edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After nine-year-old Tam's baby sister is stolen away by faeries and replaced by a goblin baby, he must journey to the land of the faeries to retrieve her and bring her back home.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
78 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Carl, a man in need of adventure, and Russell, a boy in need of a friend, both find what they are looking for when they embark on a wild journey that includes flying houses, exotic jungles, beasts, and surprising villains.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
104 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1715 Italy, eight-year-old Anna Maria Lombardini arrives at a Venice orphanage with little but the special violin her father made for her, but when her teacher, Antonio Vivaldi, favors her over a fellow student, the beloved instrument winds up in a canal. Includes glossary and historical note.
18) Hamster magic
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Willows move into a new house, Celia, the youngest of four children, traps an enchanted hamster, who reluctantly agrees to grant the children one wish in exchange for his freedom.
19) Rapunzel's tale
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
79 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Based on the Disney film Tangled, this is the story of Rapunzel who has been hidden away in a tall tower for 18 years. But then Flynn Rider climbs through her window and the two have many adventures. What will happen to Rapunzel's hair with magical powers?
20) The Astro outlaw
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
105 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
While visiting Houston, Texas, Mike and Kate tour the Johnson Space Center with an astronaut in the morning and at the Houston Astros' ball game that evening, the cousins search for the person who steals the astronaut's moonrock when he arrives at the stadium to sign autographs.
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