Frances O'Roark Dowell
1) Falling in
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twelve-year-olds Kate and Marylin, friends since preschool, draw further apart as Marylin becomes involved in student government and cheerleading, while Kate wants to play guitar and write songs, and both develop unlikely friendships with other girls and boys.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Can one mistake destroy the chance of a lifetime? A girl discovers there are many ways of being true in this magnificent ode to handwritten letters and the shining power of friendship from the author of "Dovey Coe," set in the Appalachian mountains of 1920s North Carolina. One true friend. Someone shining. That's all twelve-year-old Arie Mae wants. But shining true friends are hard to come by deep in the mountains of western North Carolina, so she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire is forced to team up with the new boy in class on a science fair project, but the boy's quirky personality causes Phineas to wonder if they have any chance of winning.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005, c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Marylin and Kate have been friends since nursery school, but when Marylin becomes a middle school cheerleader and Kate begins to develop other interests, their relationship is put to the test.
7) Chicken boy
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Since the death of his mother, Tobin's family life and school life have been in disarray, but after he starts raising chickens with his seventh-grade classmate, Henry, everything starts to fall into place.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When seven-year-old Sam Graham, eager for some spending money, volunteers to look after a neighbor's chickens, the experience inspires him to get his own chicken--a special bird named Helga.
9) Dovey Coe
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a strong-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
11) The class
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Sixth grade is a MOST confusing time. Best friends aren't friends anymore. Worst enemies suddenly want to be partners in crime. And classmates you thought you knew have all sorts of surprising stuff going on. The kids in Mrs. Herrera's class are dealing with all these things and more--specifically, three more: 1. There's a new girl who just seems to be spying on them all and scribbling things in a notebook. Maybe she IS a spy? 2. Someone is stealing...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
p2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Is it possible to start afresh when you're thoroughly weighted down? A novel from the author of The Secret Language of Girls.
Seventeen pounds. That's the difference between Abigail Walker and Kristen Gorzca. Between chubby and slim, between teased and taunting. Abby is fine with her body and sick of seventeen pounds making her miserable, so she speaks out against Kristen and her groupies-and becomes officially unpopular. Embracing her new status,...