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1) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Matilda comes to the defense of Miss Honey, when Miss Trunchbull starts to bully her favorite teacher.
Matilda, a brilliant, sensitive little girl, uses her talents and ingenuity to seek revenge on her crooked father, lazy mother, and the terrifying Miss Trunchbull, her wicked headmistress, and save her beloved teacher, Miss Honey
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse -- Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for...
Author
Series
My weird school volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.
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Series
My weird school daze volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a British student-teacher arrives, A. J. and his friends wonder if her all-black clothing and love of blood sausage mark her as a vampire, while Mr. Granite simply hopes her musician-boyfriend will stay away long enough for a math lesson.
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Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Junie B.'s penchant for spying on people and her curiosity about the private life of her teacher get her in trouble at kindergarten.
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Series
Ramona Quimby volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher. In this touching and funny story, the ebullient Ramona, feeling brave and grown-up, enters first grade. Quickly she finds that her new teacher, Mrs. Griggs, appears perplexed by pupils who like to be different. Since Ramona cannot help being different, clearly the two are incompatible. Nevertheless, Ramona can be counted on to keep things lively. Enraged when Susan copies...
Author
Series
My weird school daze volume 12
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ella Mentry School hires a health teacher who tries to force the students to eat healthy foods and exercise, whether they want to or not.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A skateboarding principal offers unusual incentives to his students to motivate them to learn more. Principal Klutz was hanging upside down from the school flagpole! He kissed a pig on the lips! He painted his bald head orange! And now he wants to bungee-jump off the roof of the school, dressed like Santa Claus! In fact, all the grown-ups at A.J.'s school seem to have something wrong with them. What's going on here? What are A.J. and the kids in his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over the accidental death of her brother, and other problems may mean that April can never learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss Vest.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 18
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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As the new computer lab teacher tries to bring Ella Mentry School into the twenty-first century with her peculiar inventions, second-grader A.J. struggles to survive without sugary snacks when Principal Klutz bans junk food.
14) Sky color
Author
Series
Creatrilogy volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"Marisol loves to paint. So when her teacher asks her to help make a mural for the school library, she can't wait to begin! But wait-- how can Marisol ever make a sky without blue paint? After gazing out the bus window and watching from her porch as day turns into night, she closes her eyes and starts to dream"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In 1969, the town of Red Clover, South Carolina, led by an enthusiastic new Latin teacher, supports thirteen-year-old Karlene as she wins her school spelling bee and strives to qualify for the National Bee, despite family problems and a growing desire for romance.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 6
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When boring Mr. Loring retires, A.J.'s class gets a new music teacher who raps, break-dances, and thinks he has what it takes to become a famous musician.
Author
Series
Marvin Redpost volume 4
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Marvin is pleased when his teacher asks him to take care of her dog while she's away, but he soon finds that there's more pressure involved than he likes.
18) Slacker
Author
Series
Slacker volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
Author
Series
Worst witch volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Havoc ensues as Mildred, hoping to find a cure for her klutziness, starts her third year at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, where she soon has a curling-iron catastrophe and gets on the bad side of a new teacher.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Each morning, student Ron Faster hurries to Harvey N. Trouble School, where he encounters such staff members as science teacher Ms. Roxanne Pebbles, music instructor Mrs. Doremi Fasollatido, and the resigning janitor Mr. Iquit.
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