Polly Horvath
1) The trolls
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eccentric Aunt Sally comes from Canada to babysit the Anderson children while their parents are on a trip to Paris and every night the bedtime story adds another piece to a very suspect family history.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The reader is invited to help solve the Pepin family's unusual problems, which include having a cow who creates lemonade rather than milk and having to cope with a competitive neighbor.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Primrose living in a small fishing village in British Columbia recounts her experiences and all that she learns about human nature and the unpredictability of life in the months after her parents are lost at sea.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Madeline's hippy parents have been kidnapped from Hornby Island, Canada, by foxes and Madeline, upon discovering that she can understand animal languages, hires two rabbit detectives to find them.
5) Very rich
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Rupert Brown comes from an ordinary family. They live in a small house in the poorest section of Steelville, Ohio, and have little money or food. So when Rupert inadvertently finds himself spending Christmas at Turgid Rivers' house--the richest boy in town--he is blown away to discover a whole other world, including all the food he can eat and wonderful prizes that he wins when the family plays games, prizes he hope to take home to his...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When the McCready sisters' parents are washed away in a tsunami, their Great Aunt Martha volunteers to have them live with her on her farm in British Columbia. But while they are traveling there, Martha dies unexpectedly, forcing Fiona, the eldest, to come up with a scheme to keep social services from separating the girls - a scheme that will only work if no one knows they are living on their own. Fiona approaches their grouchy and indifferent neighbor...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
The McCready sisters have just settled into their new home on Pine Island when they get word that an unwelcome houseguest is coming to visit for months.
By the Newbery Honor author, Polly Horvath, comes a sequel to her popular Pine Island Home about orphaned sisters who find a way to make a new family. Fiona, Marlin, Natasha, and Charlie McCready have been adopted by their unlikely guardian, Al, and finally settled into their new home on Pine Island...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Ratchet spends a summer in Maine with her eccentric great-aunts Tilly and Penpen, hearing strange stories from the past and encountering a variety of unusual and colorful characters.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz and Wade books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Madeleine and her hippie parents travel to England to run a candy shop. Meanwhile Mr. and Mrs. Bunny also travel to England, where Mrs. Bunny tries to weasel her way into the ranks of royalty"--