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Author
Series
Dog's purpose (Juvenile) volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Trained as a search-and-rescue dog since puppyhood, Ellie can track and find people who are physically lost, but it is her owners, widower Jakob and lonely Maya, who challenge her to find a way to save people who are lost in other ways.
2) Stargirl
Author
Series
Stargirl volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Leo se siente tan fascinado como intimidado por Stargirl, la nueva de la escuela, una chica especial e inmune a las duras críticas del resto y que además no hace más que llamar la atención, algo que jamás haría él. In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
3) Crossed
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
20130312
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In search of a future that may not exist and faced with the decision of who to share it with, Cassia journeys to the Outer Provinces in pursuit of Ky--taken by the Society to his certain death--only to find that he has escaped, leaving a series of clues in his wake. Cassia's quest leads her to question much of what she holds dear, even as she finds glimmers of a different life across the border
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"The Aldens spend the summer on Grandfather's island! Joe, the island's friendly handyman, helps them with anything they need, but as the children continue to explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island--and to their new friend--than meets the eye."--Publisher's description.
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy named Banjo Cannon always eats a sausage for dinner, until the night that his sausage--and the rest of his meal--runs away. What happens if someone's dinner decides that, well, it doesn't want to be eaten? For a hungry little boy named Banjo and a savory sausage named Melvin, it's a plight that can only result in a breathless escape - and what a chase it is! Off speeds the sturdy sausage - leading fork, knife, and plate, chair and table,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
During a scarlet fever epidemic one winter in Michigan, a Jewish family helps make Christmas special for their sick neighbors by making their own Hanukkah miracle. Includes a CD of the author reading the story with music by Hankus Netsky.
Author
Series
Dog's purpose (Juvenile) volume 8
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Even though Bella has to hide from the neighbors and learn boring games like No Barks and Go Home, she loves her boy Lucas. Then one day Bella is picked up by Animal Control and Lucas is forced to send her to a foster home far away. Bella waits and waits for Lucas to come and get her, but days go by and he does not come. Finally Bella realizes what she needs to do--she needs to Go Home to Lucas--and even four hundred miles of dangerous Colorado wilderness...
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Elliot Eisner isn't exactly excited about starting at a brand-new school in a brand-new town; he'd much rather stay at home and read a book. But things take an unexpected turn when he finds out his weird new teacher, Professor Fauna, has planned a field trip for Elliot's very first day. Along with a new friend - brave, outspoken Uchenna Devereaux - Elliot gets caught up in a secret group of adventurers, The Unicorn Rescue Society, whose goal is to...
10) Stones in water
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After being taken by German soldiers from a local movie theater along with other Italian boys including his Jewish friend, Roberto is forced to work in Germany, escapes into the Ukrainian winter, before desperately trying to make his way back home to Venice.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Monty the Malodorous is a daring pirate. He is brave. He is bold. He is feared by all who sail the six or seven seas. But Monty has a secret: he can't swim. He never goes into the ocean --- and he never takes a bath. ?Real pirates don't bathe. Yar-har-har!? he says. But things change when he meets a mermaid named Meg. Monty's heart went ka-thunk. He tumbled head over boot heels in love.? And, one day, when Meg's life is put into peril, Monty realizes...
Author
Series
Upside-down magic volume 4
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Dory and her friends from Ms. Starr's Upside-Down Magic class set off on an overnight school field trip to Dragon Haven to see, and learn how to care for, dragons--unfortunately there are other students with regular magic there as well, so it is not long before the trouble starts.
14) Wishtree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"―people write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with her crow friend Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this "wishtree" watches over the neighborhood. You might say Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is welcoming, and Red's experiences as a wishtree are more important than ever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Evan is shy, lonely, and bullied for it. He has a chance encounter with Connor Murphy--just before Connor commits suicide. Evan's life suddenly gets turned around, and suddenly he isn't invisible anymore to the girl of his dreams--Connor's sister, Zoe, who believes Evan was Connor's only friend. As Evan goes from being a nobody to everyone's hero and a social media superstar, Evan is filled with confidence ... until things start unraveling.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Alfie McQuinn, the notorious jewel thief, is killed on a job, his last words to his son, March, are to "find jewels," and this instruction leads the boy to Jules, the twin sister he never knew he had--and the perfect partner to carry on the family business.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When the pup shows up at the farm, small and fuzzy with a floppy wet tongue and a bushy tail that's always wagging, no one knows where he's from. Motherless and hungry, he needs to be fed or he'll starve to death. Most boys would welcome such a dog into their lives; feed it and train it and raise itto be a good farm pet. But Ricky's different. Ever since he was attacked as a baby by a mad dog, he's been afraid of them.
18) Be more chill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Badly in need of self-confidence and a change of image, high school nerd Jeremy Heere swallows a pill-sized super computer that is supposed to help him get whatever he wants.
Author
Series
Diary of an 8-bit warrior volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Challenged to select his field of study at Minecraftia school, Runt, twelve-year-old villager with ambitions to become a warrior, discovers that only the year's top five students will be able to receive warrior training.