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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Walking gthrough the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger--a real-life, very large tiger--pacing back and forth in a cage. What's more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things--like memories, and heartache, and tigers--can't...
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering...
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
Author
Series
Norendy tales volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night and tells her they need to leave home immediately, and this time Granny intends for them never to return.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Saddle up for this first volume in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from DiCamillo's "New York Times"-bestselling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door -- a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the...
11) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
What if timid Baby Lincoln broke free of her bossy sister and set off on an unexpected journey?
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A constant worrier, Franklin Endicott earns a fresh cause for alarm when he accompanies Eugenia Lincoln to her favorite thrift shop and leaves with a mystery to solve.
Author
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While bumbling PI Percival Smidgely tries to find missing pig Mercy Watson, a trio of clever neighborhood sleuths follow a trail of hoof prints - and a delicious aroma - to recover their porcine wonder, in this uproariously funny, extra-special series finale.
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Mercy Watson to the Rescue
To Mr. & Mrs. Watson, Mercy is not just a pig–she's a porcine wonder. And to the portly and good-natured Mercy, the Watson's are an excellent source of buttered toast, no to mention that buttery-toast feeling she gets when she snuggles in to bed with them. This is not, however so good for the Watsons' bed. BOOM! CRACK! Welcome to the wry and endearing world of Mercy Watson.
Mercy Watson Goes for...
To Mr. & Mrs. Watson, Mercy is not just a pig–she's a porcine wonder. And to the portly and good-natured Mercy, the Watson's are an excellent source of buttered toast, no to mention that buttery-toast feeling she gets when she snuggles in to bed with them. This is not, however so good for the Watsons' bed. BOOM! CRACK! Welcome to the wry and endearing world of Mercy Watson.
Mercy Watson Goes for...
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