Ramon de Ocampo
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. An old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. When a new family--with a particularly annoying girl his age named Oak--moves into the neighboring house, they cut the tree down. As Oak and Alder start school together, they can't imagine ever becoming friends. But they soon discover a series of mysterious, possibly magical, connections...
42) Tangerine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
43) The Last Straw
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
The highly anticipated third book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series takes the art of being wimpy to a whole new level.
Let's face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg's father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and other "manly†? endeavors. Of course, Greg is able to easily...44) Dog Days
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
It's summer vacation, the weather's great, and all the kids are having fun outside. So where's Greg Heffley? Inside his house, playing video games with the shades drawn.
Greg, a self-confessed "indoor person," is living out his ultimate summer fantasy: no responsibilities and no rules. But Greg's mom has a different vision for an ideal summer . . . one packed with outdoor activities and "family togetherness."
Whose vision will win out? Or will
...Author
Publisher
Llewellyn Worldwide, LTD
Pub. Date
2021
Formats
Description
Explore Nearly 500 Samples of Folk Magic, Stories, Artifacts, Rituals, and Beliefs
One of the most comprehensive collections of witchcraft and folk magic ever written, New World Witchery shows you how to integrate folk traditions into your life and deepen your understanding of magic. Folklore expert Cory Thomas Hutcheson guides you to the crossroads of folk magic, where you'll learn about different practices and try them
...46) Lost in the sun
Author
Publisher
Listening Library
Pub. Date
2015
Description
Everyone says that middle school is awful, but Trent knows nothing could be worse than the year he had in fifth grade, when he accidentally hit Jared Richards in the chest with a hockey puck out on Cedar Lake. (Who knew that Jared had a heart defect? And that one little hockey puck could be deadly?) Trent's pretty positive his entire town hates him now, and he can't blame them. So for Trent, middle school feels like a fresh start. He may even join...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Alisak, Prany, and Noi--three orphans united by devastating loss--must do what is necessary to survive the perilous landscape of 1960s Laos. When they take shelter in a bombed out field hospital, they meet Vang, a doctor dedicated to helping the wounded at all costs. Soon the teens are serving as motorcycle couriers, delicately navigating their bikes across the fields filled with unexploded bombs, beneath the indiscriminate barrage from the sky....
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish, Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Ben Braver is sent to a secret school where kids with super abilities learn to control their powers, even though he does not have any super abilities and no one has ever thought he could be special.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Focus
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
" A thrilling account of the most daring American POW rescue mission of World War II.Following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America entered World War II, and a new theater of battle opened up in the Pacific. But US troops, along with thousands of Filipino soldiers who fought alongside them, were overtaken in the Philippines by a fiercely determined Japanese navy, and many Americans and Filipino fighters were killed or captured.These American and Filipino...
51) The switch
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
"On the day of Henry Ludd's thirteenth birthday, the power goes out. No phones, no news, people descending in lawlessness-- and in the chaos, Henry's father has gone missing. Determined to find him, Henry ventures out with a trading crew to the place where his dad was last seen. But when the truck is hijacked and Henry is left behind, he is forced to travel alone. With only himself to rely on, can Henry survive this dangerous new world?" -- Dust jacket...
52) Tall tales
Author
Series
Once upon another time volume 2
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Seeking revenge from his loss in the Cursed City, the Golden King starts spreading shadow magic over the kingdoms, and according the fairy queens sacred book, only Lena can defeat him and his dark spells, but first she must prove she is worthy but completing three challenges.
53) Punching bag
Author
Publisher
Norton Young Readers, an Imprint of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"The companion to Rex Ogle's award-winning Free Lunch is a searing account of adolescence in a household torn by domestic violence. Punching Bag is the compelling true story of a high school career defined by poverty and punctuated by outbreaks of domestic abuse. Rex Ogle, who brilliantly mapped his experience of hunger in Free Lunch, here describes his struggle to survive; reflects on his complex, often paradoxical relationship with his passionate,...
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Copper Inskeep holds Windydown Vale's deepest and darkest secret: he is the ghoul that haunts the Vale, donning a gruesome costume to scare travelers and townsfolk away from the dangers of the surrounding swamps. When a terrified girl claims she and her father were attacked by a creature--one that could not have been Copper--it threatens not just Copper's secret, but the fate of all Windydown"--
55) The extreme
Author
Series
Animorphs volume 25
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Marco and the other Animorphs have managed to find out where the Yeerks are planning to build their next ground-based Kandrona. That's a good thing. But the location is supposed to be somewhere near the North Pole. That's a bad thing. The Animorphs know that the Yeerks are a "cold-blooded" species, but this is a little nuts! Who wants to be near the North Pole without Arctic morphs - and wearing spandex?
Even so, the kids know that if the Yeerks...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume Book 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
The Heffley family road trip starts off full of promise, then quickly takes several wrong turns--with everything from a fender bender to crazed seagulls--but even the worst road trip can turn into an adventure, and this is one the Heffleys will not soon forget.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
58) Firestorm
Author
Series
Caretaker trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 11
Description
His mother is not his mother. His father is not his father. But, if Jack hadn't broken the high school rushing record that night, he never would have known and nothing would have changed. He'd just be going out for pizza, playing football, trying yet again to score with his girlfriend, P.J. But, he did break the record. He appeared on the news. And, now they've found him.
Jack plunges into a space-time, bending game of survival with no way out. The...
59) The Endangereds
Author
Series
Endangereds volume 1
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Nukilik, a polar bear, joins Wangari, a pangolin with a genius for engineering, Murdock, an extremely sarcastic narwhal, and Arief, an orangutan with a big dream, to safeguard other endangered animals.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 6
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
"Greg struggles to stay on Santa's 'nice' list while snowed in with the rest of the Heffley family in the days leading up to Christmas"--