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41) Skies like these
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While visiting her eccentric aunt who lives in Wyoming, twelve-year-old Jade befriends a boy who believes he is a descendant of Butch Cassidy.
Author
Series
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2008] ©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Aviatrix Emmaline Cayley, test pilot Rubberbones and the rest of their wacky household decide to rendezvous on the Scottish island of Urgghh where they hope to find refuge. But the island is anything but safe--mad scientists inhabit the island and a villain known as the Collector, who devotes his time to kidnapping inventors, lives next-door.
45) Pine Island home
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...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A nurse during World War II, Jenny Fields (Glenn Close) conceives with a dying pilot and bears a boy named T.S. Garp (Robin Williams) whom she raises alone. When Garp grows up, he has some success writing fiction, but not nearly so much as his mother has with feminist-themed nonfiction. Rich and famous, she starts a center for troubled women, and while Garp marries and has children, he remains a constant, if somewhat critical, observer of the strange...
Author
Series
Mr. Gum volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Brave-hearted young Polly attempts to stop mean old Mr. Gum from poisoning Jake, a huge dog adopted by the town of Lamonic Bibber that keeps destroying Mr. Gum's garden, and thus provoking the angry fairy who lives there. Includes a glossary of such English terms as gob and trouserface.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2001, c2000
Language
English
Description
The lives of thirty-seven-year-old Francis Orme and his parents and the other residents of the Observatory Mansions are changed when the vulnerable, sympathetic, and resourceful Anna Tap moves into an apartment there.
Edward Carey's debut is a novel of immense originality - a strangely haunting landscape occupied by compelling and unforgettable characters.
Once the Orme family's magnificent ancestral estate, Observatory Mansions is now a crumbling...
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
Series
Olivia Kidney volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Olivia Kidney and her father move into a Manhattan brownstone that has a lagoon in the living room, hosts visiting strangers in the middle of the night, and is mysteriously close to the spirit world.
Author
Series
Adrian Monk novels volume 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adrian Monk is feeling strangely satisfied these days-and he'd like his agoraphobic brother to feel the same way. So he takes Ambrose, against his will, on the open road in a motorhome. Little crimes pop up along the way and Monk can't resist getting involved. Nor can he help sensing a pattern that reveals the hand of a serial killer at work on this highway to hell.
54) Love, Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Brimming with charm and whimsy, this exquisite novel set in the Tower of London has the transportive qualities and delightful magic of the contemporary classics Chocolat and Amélie.
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live there). It’s no easy job living and...
Balthazar Jones has lived in the Tower of London with his loving wife, Hebe, and his 120-year-old pet tortoise for the past eight years. That’s right, he is a Beefeater (they really do live there). It’s no easy job living and...
Author
Series
Secrets of the dragon tomb volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While dreaming of being a spy like those in his favorite magazine, twelve-year-old Edward has been stuck holding his eccentric family together but when his parents are kidnapped, he leads his sisters and cousin in an effort to rescue them across the danger-filled landscape of nineteenth-century Mars.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Award-winning author Amy Sarig King takes on censorship and intolerance in a novel she was born to write. When Mac first opens his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil’s Arithmetic and finds some words blacked out, he thinks it must be a mistake. But then when he and his friends discover what the missing words are, he's outraged. Someone in his school is trying to prevent kids from reading the full story. But who? Even though his unreliable...
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Bizzy and Dill decide to celebrate Opposite Day by spending their time doing the opposite of what they usually do, including starting with dinner instead of breakfast, wearing their pajama pants on their heads instead of their legs, and singing a book and reading a song.
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