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1) Mañanaland
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Max, who loves the legend Buelo tells him about a mythical gatekeeper who can guide brave travelers on a journey into tomorrow, sets out on a dangerous quest to discover if he is true of heart and what the future holds, armed with a treasured compass, a mysterious stone rubbing, and Buelo's legend as his only guides.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Jenny arrives at her grandfather's house but is not recognized as one of the family because of a servant's intrigue, the young orphan endures a difficult fate.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While her friends are spending their summers having pool parties and sleepovers, twelve-year-old Carolina and#x2014; Carol and#x2014; is spending hers in the middle of the New Mexico desert, helping her parents move the grandfather she’s never met into a home for people with dementia. At first, Carol avoids prickly Grandpa Serge. But as the summer wears on and the heat bears down, Carol finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by the crazy stories...
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
Author
Series
Alcatraz Smedry adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Alcatraz Smedry and his companions seek Al's father and grandfather in the Great Library of Alexandria, where they face undead, soul-stealing wraiths called the Curators of Alexandria, and one of the Scrivener's Bones, a part-human, part-machine mercenary.
6) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Gecko Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Grandpa ends up miserable in the hospital, Gottfried Junior makes a plan to help him get to the island where he lived with Grandma one last time.
Author
Series
Penelope Crumb volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Penelope Crumb's large nose leads to a family discovery.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alcatraz Smedry doesn't seem destined for anything but disaster. But on his thirteenth birthday, he receives a bag of sand, and his life takes a bizarre turn. This is no ordinary bag of sand ... and it is quickly stolen by the cult of evil Librarians who are taking over the world by spreading misinformation and suppressing truth. The sand will give the evil Librarians the edge they need to achieve world domination. Alcatraz must stop them ... by infiltrating...
11) Sun & Spoon
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
After the death of his grandmother, ten-year-old Spoon tries to find the perfect artifact to preserve his memories of her.
Author
Series
Eoin Colfer's Legend of -- volume 3
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Every Saturday, while helping polish the lens of the lighthouse his grandfather tends, nine-year-old Will tells a tale he hopes will top Grandad's, but Grandad always wins until Dad reminds Will of a long-forgotten escapade with his brother.
13) Indian shoes
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Together with Grampa, Ray Halfmoon, a Seminole-Cherokee boy, finds creative and amusing solutions to life's challenges.
Author
Series
Storm keeper's island volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fionn Boyle, terrified of the sea, must spend the summer with his older sister, Tara, and their grandfather on Arranmore, an island that has been known to make people disappear, and seems to be restless again.
15) The Shadow Arts
Author
Series
Monstrous devices volume 2
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Just when it seems life is almost getting back to normal, Alex's grandfather crashes back into the picture with grave news: their friend Harry has fallen into the clutches of a familiar foe, and the old man needs Alex's help to rescue him. This time, the duo's desperate dash across Europe leads from Paris deep into Germany's foreboding Black Forest, as they chase down the mystery Harry had been investigating when he disappeared. A series of art thefts...
16) The big sting
Author
Publisher
Tundra
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Usually avoiding adventure of any kind, eleven-year-old Leo is unfortunately drawn into a mystery, along with his danger-loving sister, when his late Grandma's beehives go missing and his ornery Grandpa needs help catching the sticky-fingered thieves.
"A visit to Leo's grandfather's farm turns upside down when his grandmother's bee hives are stolen. A light-hearted and funny middle-grade novel for fans of Rebecca Stead and Lynda Mullaly Hunt. Eleven-year-old...
Author
Series
Hank Zipzer volume 9
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
With the help of his grandfather, underachieving fifth-grader Hank Zipzer finally discovers that he is good at ping-pong, but he is afraid to tell his classmates for fear of being ridiculed.
18) The land of Roar
Author
Series
Land of Roar volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"When Arthur and Rose were little, they were the heroes of Roar, a magical world they invented where the wildest creations of their imaginations roamed. Now that they’re eleven, Roar is just a distant memory. But it hasn’t forgotten them. When their grandfather is spirited away into Roar by the villain who still haunts their nightmares, Arthur and Rose must go back to the world they’d almost left behind. And when they get there, they discover...
19) Heartbeat
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Surrounded by her large family, Loma is happy living in the juderia of Alcala de Henares, Spain, and wants nothing more than to someday have a family of her own. Still, when her intimidating grandfather, her Belo, decides to bring her along on his travels, she's excited to join him. Belo has the ear of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella, and Loma relishes her adventures with him, adventures that are beyond the scope of most girls of the time. She soon...
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