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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
Author
Series
Best babysitters ever volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mayhem ensues in their sleepy California beach town when three best friends, motivated by unlimited snacks, no parents, and earning money for an epic seventh-grade party, find an old copy of "The Babysitters Club" and decide to start their own babysitting business.
Author
Series
Best babysitters ever volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just when Malia, Dot, and Bree corner the Playa Del Mar babysitting market, their lives get even busier and Malia comes up with a plan to outsource their babysitting jobs.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jamie Kelly writes in her diary about how her "flawless" friend, Angeline, discovers the real reason why Jamie and her best friend, Isabella, agree to join extracurricular clubs at the school.
Author
Series
Best babysitters ever volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Malia, Dot, and Bree are psyched to land their highest paying job yet--until they get to the house and realize they're babysitting Zelda Hooper, Bree and Malia's archnemesis since preschool. Babysitting: not just for babies, apparently. And it's too much money to walk away from...so at least there are no diapers? But all of the babysitting in the world couldn't prepare the girls for their unusual new charge, and even though Zelda should be the one...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 19
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Claudia's not worried when she hears her newest baby-sitting charge, Betsy Sobak, is a great practical joker. After all, how much harm can one little girl do? Plenty. Claudia breaks her leg as a result of one of Betsy's mean jokes... and now she's talking about quitting the club. Baby-sitting, she says, is just too dangerous. Kristy thinks Betsy needs to be taught a lesson. She also thinks the Baby-sitters are just the ones to do it. Watch out, Betsy...
Author
Series
Thunder road novels (Katie McGarry) volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Smart. Responsible. That's seventeen-year-old Breanna's role in her large family, and heaven forbid she put a toe out of line -- until one night of shockingly un-Breanna-like behavior puts her into a vicious cyberbully's line of fire and brings fellow senior Thomas "Razor" Turner into her life. Razor lives for the Reign of Terror motorcycle club, and good girls like Breanna just don't belong. But when he learns she's being blackmailed over a compromising...
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It used to be that Mary Anne's dad was really strict, but not anymore. Mary Anne's been growing up ... but that's not the only big news for the Baby-sitters Club. There's a new boy in school named Logan Bruno, and he likes Mary Anne! He has a dreamy Southern accent, he's awfully cute--and he wants to join the Baby-sitters Club. The Baby-sitters aren't sure Logan will make a good club member. And Mary Anne thinks she's too shy for Logan. Life in the...
10) All about Ellie
Author
Series
Critter club volume 2
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she wins the lead role in a school play, second-grader Ellie neglects her friends in the Critter Club and their new animal shelter.
11) Fangsgiving
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The monsters of the Fright Club have gathered for a Thanksgiving feast at Vlad's home, but his family arrives unexpectedly and puts their own spin on every dish.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 22
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jessi copes with pet sitting for the Mancusi family and serious dissension among the members of the Baby-sitters Club.
Author
Series
Critter club volume 5
Publisher
Little Simon
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amy so looks forward to meeting her future stepsister, Chloe, that she is not prepared when Chloe first ignores her than is downright mean.
Author
Series
Unicorn Rescue Society volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After encountering a Jersey Devil while on a field trip to the Pine Barrens, Elliot and his new friend Uchenna help their weird teacher Professor Fauna rescue the mythological creature from a pair of greedy billionaire brothers.
18) The Reptile Club
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Rory starts the Reptile Club at school, and is astonished to see that it's not his schoolmates who attend the first meeting.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010, c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Kristy decides to form a baby-sitters club with her friends, Claudia, Mary Anne, and Stacy, but they run into unexpected problems which threaten to break up the club.
Author
Series
Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 5
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Four girls continue their mother-daughter book club, reading Charles Dickens's "A Christmas Carol," but from unexpected blizzards to a sledding disaster, nothing goes as planned.
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