Kathryn Lasky
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A diary account of thirteen-year-old Kathleen Bowen's life in Washington, D.C. in 1917, as she juggles concerns about the national battle for women's suffrage, the war in Europe, and her own school work and family. Includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In this prequel, Ezylryb the Screech owl recounts the story of his life in the Northern Kingdoms--his rise through the ranks of the Killian Army, his brother's betrayal, and his friendship with Octavia the snake, to finally become a Guardian of Ga'Hoole.
23) Lunch bunnies
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Clyde, the rabbit, is ready to start school, but after talking with his brother, he is worried about what will happen at lunchtime.
24) Hope in my heart
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
After her family immigrates to America from Italy in 1903, ten-year-old Sofia is quarantined at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, where she makes a good friend but endures nightmarish conditions. Includes historical notes.
25) Porkenstein
Author
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Lonely after his two brothers are eaten by the Big Bad Wolf, Dr. Smart Pig invents a wolf-proof friend to keep him company on Halloween.
Author
Series
Camp Princess volume 2
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When Princess Gundersnap learns that her mother, the Empress, has taken her favorite pony to war, she turns to the enchanted tapestry for magical help in saving him and finds that the answer lies with a creature she believes does not exist.
Author
Series
Bears of the ice volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
It is a time of trouble in the Northern Kingdoms because a group of power-hungry polar bears called Roguers has been snatching cubs from their mothers and killing those who resist; but Svenna is not about to relinquish her two cubs to that fate, so she agrees to go with the Roguers and serve Mystress of the Hands if her cubs, who have special powers, are allowed to stay with her cousin--but nobody is truly safe when a way of life is collapsing around...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Zippy, a Jewish immigrant from Russia, keeps a diary account of the first eighteen months of her family's life on the Lower East Side of New York City in 1903-1904.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Julia knows that her physical deformity will keep her from a normal life, but counts on the continuing friendship of her life-long slave, Mitka, until they learn that both of their futures in first-century Pompeii are about to change for the worse.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The two sets of Starbuck twins, in New Mexico with their father, meet a six-hundred-year-old Native American ghost and use their telepathic powers to capture the looters of ancient Anasazi artifacts.
34) Lone wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Abandoned by his pack, a baby wolf with a mysterious mark on his deformed paw survives and embarks on a journey that will change the world of the wolves of the Beyond.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic Paperbacks
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The strange, maniacal blue owl known as the Striga has been rousted from the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Nyra, leader of the vicious Pure Ones, is either dead or laying low in some distant land,leaving the tree finally at peace. As if fed by an invisible spring, learning and the lively arts flourish at the great tree and spread throughout the owl kingdoms.
36) Exile
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 14
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When the Band is exiled, old friends, loyal family and allies devise a plan to free young king Coryn and the tree from the hold of Striga, a former dragon owl from the Middle Kingdom beyond the Unnamed Sea.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The latest soaring installment of Kathryn Lasky's NYT bestselling Ga'Hoole series. Grank raises the hatchling deep in a forest far from owls that would kill the royal chick named Hoole to end the kingly line. His mother comes to visit, in disguise, and departs again. Not even the chick must know his mother's identity. It would give him away as Hrath's heir. Sent by an evil warlord, a hagsfiend attempts to lure young Hoole away when he first learns...
38) Frost wolf
Author
Series
Wolves of the Beyond volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When a terrible danger threatens the wolves of the Beyond, outsider Faolan must take a leadership role and inspire the pack to stand together.
Author
Series
Bears of the ice volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In a race against time, young polar bear cubs travel the icy north searching for a way to rescue their land from an evil cult and save the world from a cataclysm."--Publisher's description.