Andrew Clements
1) Frindle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a key to the Oakes School in his possession, Benjamin, his friend Jill, and a new friend continue to seek ways to protect the school and their town, but Lyman, the janitor and a spy, has new tricks up his sleeve.
3) Fear itself
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
5) No talking
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert want to save their school from destruction! Just when it seems they've finally gotten the upper hand over that awful Janitor Lyman, they're caught off guard by his next move: Lyman has called in reinforcements, and now Benjamin, Jill, and Robert find themselves dodging not one evil janitor, but two. That's right: Lyman's got himself a partner. And it quickly becomes clear that Wally, the new guy, is even...
8) Extra credit
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
Author
Series
Jake Drake series volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jake remembers the terrible days in third grade when everbody thought he was the teachers' pet.
10) The jacket
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An incident at school forces sixth grader Phil Morelli, a white boy, to become aware of racial discrimination and segregation, and to seriously consider if he himself is prejudiced.
11) Lunch money
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
Author
Series
Jake Drake series volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Miss Bruce is the new student teacher in Jake's second-grade class, and she never smiles. Never. But when Jake cracks up during class during a spelling bee, he sees the tiniest hint of a smile at the corner of her mouth. Suddenly, Jake has a new mission in life; to be so funny that even Miss Bruce will laugh!"
14) Trouble-maker
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.
Author
Series
Jake Drake series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jake is determined to win the third grade science fair not only for the grand prize, but to beat the annoying class know-it-alls, as well.
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Life is usually easy for popular fifth grader Hart Evans, but when his music teacher puts him in charge of the holiday concert, Hart must use all of his leadership skills to unite the other students.
17) The school story
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.
18) About average
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnston, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
19) The Landry News
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family.