Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
The first time Melanie Ross meets April Hall, she?s not sure they have anything in common. But she soon discovers that they both love anything to do with ancient Egypt. When they stumble upon a deserted storage yard, Melanie and April decide it?s the perfect spot for the Egypt Game. Before long there are six Egyptians, and they all meet to wear costumes, hold ceremonies, and work on their secret code. Everyone thinks it?s just a game until strange...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Cats. Jessica's never liked them. Especially not a skinny, ugly kitten that looks like a worm. Worm. Jessica wishes she'd never brought Worm home with her, because now he's making her do terrible things. She's sure she isn't imagining the evil voice coming from the cat, telling her to play mean tricks on people. But how can she explain what's happening? Witches. Jessica has read enough books to know that Worm must be a witch's cat. He's cast a spell...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.
4) Cat running
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Determined to be as strong and powerful as the first Harleigh, who built the rambling Weatherby Hall, twelve-year-old Harleigh Fourth and an equally diminutive new friend try to foil the plans of a distant relative who is seeking the long-lost Weatherby fortune.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Having been put ahead in an accelerated eighth grade program by her bizarre and creative family, precocious eleven-year-old Libby hates her "socialization" process, until she makes some highly original friends in a writing workshop.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Six imaginative schoolmates embark on a game in which they pretend to be Gypsies, but when one of the boys runs away and takes up with a group of homeless people, the game threatens to become all too real.
10) The trespassers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Having trespassed and explored the empty Hutchinson mansion, which seems haunted by the presence of a long-dead young girl, sixth-grader Neely and her little brother become regular visitors when emotionally disturbed Curtis Hutchinson moves inches.
11) Spyhole secrets
Author
Publisher
Delecorte
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
When she and her mother move to a new town after her father's death, Hallie begins to spy on a troubled family living in a nearby building and this involvement helps her begin to handle her feelings of grief.
12) Fool's gold
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Reluctant to admit that he suffers from claustrophobia and anxious not to alienate his friends, Rudy tries to find a way to distract them from pursuing their plan of exploring an abandoned gold mine.
15) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Dani hates living in the small desert town of Rattler Springs, Nevada, but her plans to run away get complicated when a pesty young boy and an imaginative new girl decide they want to go along.
16) The unseen
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
Feeling angry and out-of-place in her large family, twelve-year-old Xandra finds a magical key to a world of ghostly, sometimes frightening, phantoms that help her see herself and her siblings more clearly.
17) The changeling
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1970.
Language
English
Description
Had it not been for the firm belief of two young girls that one of them was a changeling, their lives would have been very different.
18) The bronze pen
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
With her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, twelve-year-old Audrey's dreams of becoming a writer seem very impractical until she is given a peculiar bronze pen that appears to have unusual powers.