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Author
Series
Doughnut fix volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Superfudge meets The Lemonade War in this funny, heartwarming series debut about change, adventure, family, and of course, doughnuts. Tristan isn't Gifted or Talented like his sister Jeanine, and he's always been okay with that because he can make a perfect chocolate chip cookie and he lives in the greatest city in the world. But his life takes a turn for the worse when his parents decide to move to middle-of-nowhere Petersvillea town with one street...
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a town slowly being destroyed by rising tides, one girl must fight to find a way to keep her community’s spirit from drowning. For thirteen-year-old Jillian Robichaux, three things are sacred: bayou sunsets, her grandmother Nonnie’s stories, and the coastal Louisiana town of Boutin that she calls home. When the worst flood in a century hits, Jillian and the rest of her community band together as they always do―but this time the damage may...
4) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Nora Tucker is looking forward to summer vacation in Wolf Creek--two months of swimming, popsicles, and brushing up on her journalism skills for the school paper. But when two inmates break out of the town's maximum security prison, everything changes. Doors are locked, helicopters fly over the woods, and police patrol the school grounds. Worst of all, everyone is on edge, and fear brings out the worst in some people Nora has known her whole life....
5) Curtain up
Author
Series
Publisher
Sleeping Bear Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Anya fails to make the soccer team, she decides to pursue her true passion, musical theater, and, with the help of her sister and new friend Austin, pulls together a summer theater troupe.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Desperado Detectives--aka Mo Lo Beau and her best friend Dale, along with newly-appointed intern, Harm Crenshaw--must take on a new case when Dale's daddy goes on the lam just before his trial is about to start"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Twelve-year-old Truly Lovejoy's family moves to a small town to take over a bookstore. Soon, she has to solve two mysteries involving a missing book and an undelivered letter"--
Author
Publisher
Viking Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"Funny and poignant, The Epic Fail of Arturo Zamora is the vibrant story of a family, a striking portrait of a town, and one boy's quest to save both, perfect for fans of Rita Williams-Garcia."--Amazon.
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The summer before starting middle school, when eleven-year-old Goldenrod Moram sets out to make a very accurate map of the forest behind her home, she discovers a band of troublemakers, a mysterious old lady, and the ghost of her explorer idol.
Author
Series
Tupelo Landing volume 1
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Washed ashore as a baby in tiny Tupelo Landing, North Carolina, Mo LoBeau, now eleven, and her best friend Dale turn detective when the amnesiac Colonel, owner of a caf ǎnd co-parent of Mo with his cook, Miss Lana, seems implicated in a murder.
12) Carry me home
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lulu, burdened with caring for her sister, Serena, since their father disappeared, must learn to trust her new friends and community when secrets and lies catch up with her.
Author
Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the café, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
Author
Series
Tupelo Landing volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A rumor that Blackbeard's buried treasure is somewhere near Tupelo Landing causes pirate fever to sweep through town just as clues about Mo's Upstream Mother surface and the Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friends Dale and Harm--take on the most important case of Mo's life"--
16) Cat found
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In a town where cats are tormented, eleven-year-old Billy finds Conga, injured and unappealing, and hides her in his bedroom to recover, then begins a crusade to stop the cat killers and find a safe haven for strays.
Author
Series
Doughnut fix volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When his business prospects in Petersville are challenged by major supply issues that are forcing his neighbors to move away, Tris enters a cutthroat kids' cooking competition to finance the community's makeover as a tourist destination.
18) Ruby's imagine
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Hurricane Katrina from the point of view of Ruby, an unusually intuitive girl who lives with her grandmother in New Orleans but has powerful memories of an earlier life in the swamps.
Author
Series
Tupelo Landing volume 2
Publisher
Kathy Dawson Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"When Miss Lana accidentally buys a haunted inn at the Tupelo Landing town auction, Desperado Detectives--aka Mo LoBeau and her best friend Dale--opens up a paranormal division to solve the ghost's identity before the town's big 250th anniversary bash."
20) Nightbird
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
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