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Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
An instant #1 USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and New York Times bestseller!
In Wrecking Ball, Book 14 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series—from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney—an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house. But they soon find that home improvement isn't all it's cracked up to be.
Once the walls come down,
Author
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
From the Northwest Territories of Canada as far southeast as Virginia in the United States, tree bark became indispensable to the everyday life of Native peoples. Simple to cut, light to carry, easy to work with, it was used for food, containers, clothing, and canoes. But nothing showed their skill, inventiveness, and ingenuity of the woodland Indians as dramatically as the ways bark was used to make shelters.
4) Still life
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"An old magic resurfaces in twelve-year-old Olive's house, and in order to save herself, those she loves, and all of Elsewhere, she must uncover the complex history of this eerie, painted world, its magical origins, and its creator"--
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Quirky, tool-wielding Alice Cannoli-Potchnik begins to repair the dilapidated mansion next door--only to discover the old house is home to ghosts, and they need mending, too"--
Ten-year-old Alice is moving for the eleventh time. She's lived in so many houses, each more broken than the last, that home to Alice is nothing more than a place you fix and then a place you leave. After all, who needs a permanent home when you're a whiz at fixing things?...
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
After plummeting through a hole in her backyard and finding herself once again in the room of mysterious jars, eleven-year-old Olive unwittingly releases two of Elsewhere's biggest, most cunning, most dangerous forces.
7) Brightwood
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When her mother disappears and a menacing stranger tries to claim her home, Brightwood Hall, for himself, Daisy must use her wits, courage, and help from her imaginary friends to survive.
9) Spellbound
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 2
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Eleven-year-old Olive finds herself drawn to the grimoire of the witches who built her house and tries to use its spells to uncover the house's magic and control the cats themselves, but the book is more wicked than it seems.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"The unsuspecting trio at Spence Mansion starts a greeting card company--and winds up on the adventure of a lifetime!"--
11) House of secrets
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Cordelia, Brendan, and Eleanor Walker, aged fifteen to eight, must rely on a mysterious book to face the Wind Witch and her father, the Storm King, who have kidnapped Dr. and Mrs. Walker and brought them to a strange world of magic.
12) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 2
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old David and his family search for their kidnapped mother in the many different time period portals of their home, but when a stranger appears and tries to force them to sell the house, their desperation reaches new heights.
16) The strangers
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"When something crucial goes missing, eleven-year-old Olive and her friends must decide how to get it back--put their faith in a strange and dangerous magic, their odd new neighbors, or someone more uncertain and terrifying than both"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"All 12-year-old Marinka wants is a friend. A real friend. Not like her house with chicken legs. Sure, the house can play games like tag and hide-and-seek, but Marinka longs for a human companion. Someone she can talk to and share secrets with. But that's tough when your grandmother is a Yaga, a guardian who guides the dead into the afterlife. It's even harder when you live in a house that wanders all over the world . . . carrying you with it. Even...
Author
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"Fifth-grader Trina, who has never lived anywhere long enough to call home, is excited about moving into Goldenrod, an abandoned mansion, with her dad. But soon Goldenrod brings its secrets to her attention, including a forgotten doll, leaving Trina wondering what the old house wants from her"--
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