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2) Pollyanna
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Luke Garner unwittingly sets off a rebellion which sweeps the country and ousts the Population Police from power, he quickly realizes that the new regime is corrupt and he may hold the only key to true freedom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon; the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him 'the bitter neighbour from hell'. But must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around with a smile plastered to his face all the time? Behind the cranky exterior there is a story and a sadness. So when one November morning a chatty...
7) Ginger Pye
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
9) On my honor
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
When his best friend drowns while they are both swimming in a treacherous river that they had promised never to go near, Joel is devastated and terrified at having to tell both sets of parents the terrible consequences of their disobedience.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
All summer, Jess pushed himself to be the fastest boy in the fifth grade, and when the year's first school-yard race was run, he was going to win. But his victory was stolen by a newcomer, by a girl, one who didn't even know enough to stay on the girls' side of the playground. Then, unexpectedly, Jess finds himself sticking up for Leslie, for the girl who breaks rules and wins races. The friendship between the two grows as Jess guides the city girl...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
A grouchy ladybug, looking for a fight, challenges everyone she meets regardless of their size or strength. It's the Grouchy Ladybug's 20th birthday. To celebrate, we are introducing a new, larger format edition with brighter, more colorful pages created from Eric Carle's original artwork using the latest reproduction technology. The Grouchy Ladybug is bigger and brighter, as irascible but irresistable as ever and will surely delight new generations...
14) Flipped
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
15) Blubber
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
16) Among the enemy
Author
Series
Shadow children volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In a society that allows families to have only two children, third child Matthias joins the Population Police to infiltrate their system.
17) Angel time
Author
Series
Songs of the seraphim volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Contract killer Toby O'Dare accepts a seraph's offer to leave his violent existence in order to save lives, and finds himself transported to thirteenth-century England and challenged to defend falsely accused Jewish citizens.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mr Willy Wonka is the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world. And do you know who Charlie is? Charlie Bucket is the hero. The other children in this book are nasty little beasts, called: Augustus Gloop - a great big greedy nincompoop; Veruca Salt - a spoiled brat; Violet Beauregarde - a repulsive little gum-chewer; Mike Teavee - a boy who only watches television. Clutching their Golden Tickets, they arrive at Wonka's chocolate factory. But...
19) Only one you
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
Adri promises to remember his parents' words of wisdom about how to live his life, such as "Find your own way. You don't have to follow the crowd" and "Make wishes on the stars in the nighttime sky."