Richard Peck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In 1937, during the Depression, fifteen-year-old Mary Alice, initially apprehensive about leaving Chicago to spend a year with her fearsome, larger-than-life grandmother in rural Illinois, gradually begins to better understand and admire her grandmother's unusual qualities.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2010
Description
Kerry is chosen by the coolest clique in school and so she thinks life has finally begun. But then it seems all over when her three friends are killed in a shocking car accident. Or are they? Only weeks after the accident, Kerry receives a text from one of the girls: We're all 3 here at my aunt's in the city. Take the 3:50 train. B there.
Exhilarating, terrifying suspense is crossed with a thought-provoking examination of peer pressure in
...7) The best man
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
"Archer has four important role models in his life--his dad, his grandfather, his uncle Paul, and his favorite teacher, Mr. McLeod. When Uncle Paul and Mr. McLeod get married, Archer's sixth-grade year becomes one he'll never forget."--
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
While dealing with changes at home, sixth-grader Josh and his friend Aaron use the computer at their New York prep school to travel through time, learning some secrets from the school's past and improving Josh's home situation.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Relates the surprising gifts bestowed on twelve-year-old Bob Barnhart and his family, who have recently moved to a small Illinois town in 1958, by their larger-than-life neighbor, Mrs. Dowdel.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dream of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew is disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean, old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
13) Amanda/Miranda
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1911 in England, eighteen-year-old Mary Cooke is hired as personal maid to the willful and arrogant Amanda Whitwell and is astonished to find that her new employer is her near-double, a coincidence that has lasting consequences for Mary, especially when she accompanies Amanda on the Titanic's fateful voyage.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fifteen-year-old Todd sees his perfect suburban world start to unravel when his little sister has her mind poisoned by a member of a fundamentalist sect and he begins to notice signs of censorship in his community.