Avi
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
2) Ragweed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
3) Poppy
Author
Series
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Poppy the deer mouse urges her family to move next to a field of corn big enough to feed them all forever, but Mr. Ocax, a terrifying owl, has other ideas.
4) The good dog
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Paperbacks for Children
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
From Avi, the 2003 Newbery Award-winning author of "Crispin: The Cross of Lead," comes the story of Thorston, an alchemist who works to concoct a potion that will enable him to live forever--and keep dying and rising from the dead as a result.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Feeling neglected on his birthday, Ereth, the cantankerous old porcupine, sets out looking for his favorite treat and instead finds himself acting as "mother" to three young fox kits.
9) Windcatcher
Author
Formats
Description
While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for something.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
World War II is on everyone's mind and in every headline, and Howie Crispers has a hunch that his school principal is a spy. With a little snooping around, Howie finds out something even more alarming. Principal Lomister may not be a spy, but he is plotting to get rid of Howie's favorite teacher. Howie's dad is fighting Nazis overseas, and his mom is working hard to support the war effort, so Miss Gossim is the only person Howie can depend on. With...
12) The Player King
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
From Newbery Award-winning author Avi comes the gripping and amazingly true tale of a boy plucked from the gutter to become the King of England. England, 1486. King Henry VII has recently snatched the English Crown and now sits on the throne, while young Prince Edward, who has a truer claim, has apparently disappeared. Meanwhile, a penniless kitchen boy named Lambert Simnel is slaving away at a tavern in Oxford-until a mysterious friar, Brother Simonds,...
14) Midnight magic
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In Italy in 1491, Mangus the magician and his apprentice are summoned to the castle of Duke Claudio to determine if his daughter is indeed being haunted by a ghost.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
As Crispin tries to fulfill Bear's dream of moving to Iceland, he must leave Troth behind at a convent that needs a healer but, after falling in with thieves posing as musicians, he makes a new friend, Owen, and together they continue the arduous journey.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Falsely accused of plotting to overthrow King Claudio, scholarly Mangus the magician, along with his street-smart servant boy, Fabrizio, face deadly consequences unless they can track down the real traitor by the stroke of midnight.
17) Bright shadow
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Having used four of the five wishes she is granted to make on behalf of the hapless citizens of her country, Morwenna flees the kingdom to decide what to do with the last wish.
18) City of magic
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Mangus the Magician and his thirteen-year-old servant, Fabrizio, are commanded to go to Venice, on pain of death, to find a book by Friar Luca Pacioli which reportedly contains a magical means of making money; but Venice is a strange and dangerous city, and someone else is also after the book--then Mangus is arrested, and taken to the prison, and Fabrizio and Bianca, an orphan he has met, must find a way to secure the book, save Magnus, and themselves....
20) Blue heron
Author
Series
Publisher
Avon Books
Pub. Date
[1993], c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
While spending the month of August on the Massachusetts shore with her father, stepmother, and their new baby, almost thirteen-year-old Maggie finds beauty in and draws strength from a great blue heron, even as the family around her unravels.