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Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Discovering that a local shelter is looking for temporary homes for their dogs over the Christmas holidays, Todd, a developmentally challenged young man, persuades his reluctant family to take in a special canine named Christmas, who teaches an entire community a lesson in the transforming power of love and goodwill.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Sophie's parents run a secret shop where dreams are bought and sold. When Sophie dreams, her dreams become real, so she is forbidden to have any. Sinister events are set in motion when she is accidentally seen by one of her parents' customers, and it's up to Sophie to save her family"--
3) Bhai for now
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"When Ashar and Shaheer meet, they quickly discover they're twins and will stop at nothing to get to know the parent they've been separated from, learning along the way that they may not like each other, but they definitely need each other."--
Author
Series
Zoe Washington volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Avid baker Zoe Washington receives a letter on her twelfth birthday from her biological father, who is in prison for a terrible crime"--
6) Almost super
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Two brothers in a family of superheroes are forced to reexamine everything they knew about being super when the powers they receive are total duds and their enemy is revealed to be just like they are"--
7) Wish
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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Formats
Description
"A story about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers that family doesn't always have to be related--they are simply people who love you for who you are"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Darkness had come to the town. Strange things were happening in the dead of night. Children would put a tooth under their pillow for the tooth fairy, but in the morning they would wake up to find a dead slug; a live spider; hundreds of earwigs creeping and crawling beneath their pillow. Evil was at work. But who or what was behind it?
10) The secret box
Author
Series
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"On her twelfth birthday, Jax Malone receives an odd, unopenable present from an estranged aunt. When Jax and her cousins Ethan and Tyler go on a quest to open the box, they uncover a mystery with magical consequences"--
11) Wrong way summer
Author
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Claire, already fed up with her father's fantastical stories, is outraged when he sells their house and moves her and her little brother into a converted van for an adventure.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.
"The celebrated P.J. Lynch captures the spirit of Dickens's beloved tale in a richly illustrated unabridged edition. The story of Ebenezer Scrooge opens on a Christmas Eve as cold as Scrooge's own heart. That night, he receives three ghostly visitors: the terrifying spirits of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come. Each takes him on...
13) Switch
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"Gypsy Beaumont's magical savvy switches to its opposite when she learns that her mean and decidedly non-magical grandma has Alzheimer's and is going to move in with her family"-- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Teddy Mars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Teddy Mars seeks to stand apart from his six siblings, none of whom could be called "normal, " by earning a listing in the Guinness Book of World Records.
Author
Series
Problim children volume 2
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
With their scheming neighbor Desdemona O'Pinion attempting to turn the Problim children against each other, the siblings come together to save the carnival and rescue their mother.
18) Born behind bars
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In Chennai, india, after spending his whole life in jail with his mother, who is serving time for a crime she did not commit, nine-year-old Kabir is suddenly released and has to figure out how to survive on his own in the outside world.
19) The dream weaver
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Twelve-year-old Latinx Zoey navigates the tricky waters of friendship and family while searching for a way to save her grandfather's bowling alley from closing"--
20) Squirm
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
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