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2) Missing May
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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After the death of the beloved aunt who has raised her, twelve-year-old Summer and her uncle Ob leave their West Virginia trailer in search of the strength to go on living. Twelve-year-old Summer, her classmate Cletus, and her grieving Uncle Ob set off across West Virginia in search of a "Small Medium at Large" in fond hopes of reaching Aunt May beyond the grave. Their journey is heartening, funny, and altogether unforgettable.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
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"In the little town of Blackbird Tree live two orphan girls: one Naomi Deane, brimming with curiosity, and her best friend, Lizzie Scatterding, who could talk the ears off a cornfield. Naomi has a knack for being around when trouble happens. For she knows all the peculiar people in town--like Crazy Cora and Witch Wiggins and Mr. Farley. But then, one day, a boy drops out of a tree. The strangely charming Finn boy. Then the Dingle Dangle man appears,...
7) The cookcamp
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness. When?: World War II Where?: A cookcamp in the Canadian woods Why?: He's not really sure. One summer, a 5-year-old boy goes to live with his grandmother in a cookcamp. The camp is home to 9 men who are building a road through the woods. The boy misses his mother, but at the same time the camp becomes home--a special...
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The Penderwicks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
9) A frog thing
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Frank wasn't satisfied doing ordinary frog things. He wanted to fly, but he was a frog and frogs can't fly. Follow Frank as he jumps and runs and leaps and dives until he finally finds his place in the pond.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Henry would like to find a friend at school, but for a boy on the autism spectrum, making friends can be difficult, as his efforts are sometimes misinterpreted, or things just go wrong--but Henry keeps trying, and in the end he finds a friend he can play with.
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Junie B. Jones volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.
13) Frindle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Classics - Middle Grade Books
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Read Alikes
Humor - Middle Grade Books
Rebecca Caudill Winners
Diary of a Wimpy Kid Read Alikes
Humor - Middle Grade Books
Rebecca Caudill Winners
Description
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control. Nicholas Allen has plenty of ideas. Who can forget the time he turned his third-grade classroom into a tropical island, or the times he fooled his teacher by chirping like a blackbird? But now Nick's in fifth grade, and it looks like his days as a troublemaker...
14) Big Al
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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After working together to obtain honey, the African honey badger always shares it with his partner, the honeyguide bird, until one day when the honey badger becomes greedy and his feathered friend decides to teach him a lesson. When greedy Badger decides to keep the honeycomb all to himself, instead of sharing it with Honeyguide bird, he is chased through the pond, over an anthill, and through a landscape of many exotic animals where something waits...
17) Tuck Everlasting
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
18) Good Rosie!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Rosie is a good dog and a faithful companion to her owner, George. She likes taking walks with George and looking at the clouds together, but the closest she comes to another dog is when she encounters her reflection in her empty dog bowl, and sometimes that makes Rosie feel lonely. One day George takes Rosie to the dog park, but the park is full of dogs that Rosie doesn't know, which makes her feel lonelier than ever. When big, loud Maurice and small,...
19) Sunny
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Series
Track volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team—a team that could take them to the state championships. Sunny is just that—sunny. But his life hasn’t always been sun beamy-bright. You see, Sunny is a murderer. Or at least he thinks of himself that way. His mother died giving birth to him, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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"Nobody Owens, known as Bod, is a normal boy. He would be completely normal if he didn't live in a graveyard, being raised by ghosts, with a guardian who belongs to neither the world of the living nor the dead. There are adventures in the graveyard for a boy--an ancient Indigo Man, a gateway to the abandoned city of ghouls, the strange and terrible Sleer. But if Bod leaves the graveyard, he will be in danger from the man Jack--who has already killed...