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Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
Author
Series
Ramona Quimby volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beezus Quimby tries very hard to be patient with her little sister, but four-year-old Ramona has the habit of doing the most unpredictable, annoying, embarrassing things in the world.
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Orphans Sabrina and Daphne Grimm are sent to live with an eccentric grandmother that they have always believed to be dead.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 3
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the three younger Penderwick sisters go to Maine with Aunt Claire and are separated from oldest sister Rosalind for the first time in their lives, an uncertain Skye is left in charge as the OAP--oldest available Penderwick.
Author
Series
Cece Rios volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Privately questioning her remote community's superstitions about dangerous powerful spirits in their Devil's Alley home, Cecelia Rios experiments with the forbidden art of brujería to rescue her kidnapped sister.
Author
Series
Cece Rios volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cece Rios thought saving her sister would be the end of her adventures in the world of criaturas. But part of Juana's soul is still trapped in Devil's Alley. As Cece tries to find a way to get it back using her new curandera abilities, Juana takes her fate in her own hands and sets off alone, intent on restoring her soul and getting revenge on El Sombrerón. But then they discover that El Cucuy, king of the criaturas, is hunting for Cece, craving...
7) The exiles
Author
Series
Exiles (Hilary McKay) volume 1
Publisher
M.K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The four Conroy sisters spend a wild summer at the seaside with Big Grandma, who tries to break them of their reading habit by substituting fresh air and hard work for books and gets unexpected results.
Author
Series
Summerhill secrets volume 5
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[1996]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After praying to God to fill the hole in her life left by the death of her twin sister, thirteen-year-old Merry finds an abandoned baby outside her house.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
While traveling in 1883 with her Italian American family (including a meddlesome little sister) and other immigrant pioneers to a utopian community in Idaho, fourteen-year-old Teresa keeps a diary of her experiences along the way.
11) Little women
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Little Women is an outstanding achievement of nineteenth-century American literature, and the first children's novel written in the United States to have become an enduring classic. The March girls are shown throughout as real people and not mere moral examples as we follow them from childhood through Little Women and Little Women Part Two (known in Europe as Good Wives). The portrayal of the strains and delights of family life is unsurpassed in literature...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Life is hard for Willa, Grace and Freya, and their three younger sisters. Six motherless girls working a farm, living in fear of their cruel father and the superstition that obsesses him - the Curse of Six Daughters. With the arrival of the mysterious Full Moon Fayre, there's a chance for the eldest girls to steal a moment's fun, but the day the fayre moves on, Grace vanishes. Willa goes after her, following a trail that leads into the dangerous Lost...
Author
Series
Sisters Grimm volume 2
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Although filled with anger over her parents' disappearance, eleven-year-old Sabrina Grimm-- along with her grandmother, sister, and several fairy-tale characters-- tries to discover who has killed her teacher.
15) 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
The Penderwicks volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
The four Penderwick sisters are faced with the unimaginable prospect of their widowed father dating, and they hatch a plot to stop him.
17) Best family ever
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Dr. Baxter tells the family that they will be moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Bloomington, Indiana, the five Baxter children, ages six to thirteen, are sure that their lives and home will never be the same. But they find that being together with the ones you love is the most important part of home"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
1997.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Josefina and her sisters distrust learning to read and write, as well as other changes their Tía Dolores is bringing to the household, because they fear they will lose their memories of their mother.
Author
Publisher
Usborne
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Sam's sister Danni, a singing star, has signed up the whole family for a reality show and Sam isn't sure if she wants to appear in it, but reluctantly agrees when the director convinces her to try it for five days.
20) Long lost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling lonely and out of place after her family moves to a new town, eleven-year-old Fiona Crane ventures to the local library, where she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance. Soon Fiona begins to notice strange similarities that blur the lines between the novel and her new town. With a little help from a few odd Lost Lake locals, Fiona uncovers the book's strange history. Lost Lake is a town...
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