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41) Torn
Author
Series
The missing volume 4
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue missing child John Hudson, son of the explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the Discovery is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again, and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Author's note includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.
42) Gathering blue
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
43) Rust in the root
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"It is 1937, and Laura Ann Langston lives in an America divided - between those who work the mystical arts and those who do not. Ever since the Great Rust, a catastrophic event that blighted the arcane force called the Dynamism and threw America into disarray, the country has been rebuilding for a better future. And everyone knows the future is industry and technology - otherwise known as Mechomancy - not the traditional mystical arts. Laura disagrees....
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"As the war with the dragons intensifies, all eyes are turning to Titan Valley for help. A dragon sanctuary unlike any of the others, this one is home to enslaved dragons ruled by the powerful Giant Queen, one of the five monarchs of the magical world. In addition, it houses the arena for the Titan Games, a series of gladiator-style battles presided over by none other than Humbuggle, the demon who stole Seth's memories"--Dustjacket flap.
Author
Series
Publisher
North Dakota State University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Apple Starkington turned her back on her Native American heritage the moment she was called a racial slur for someone of white and Indian descent, not that she really even knew how to be an Indian in the first place. Too bad the white world doesn't accept her either. And so begins her quirky habits to gain acceptance. Apple's name, chosen by her Indian mother on her deathbed, has a double meaning: treasured apple of my eye, but also the negative connotation...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sara and Nadine have been like two halves of the same person, but when Nadine skips a grade and begins high school first, Sara must discover who she is without Nadine.
47) Jubilee
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Judith stopped talking long ago when Mom left her in the care of beloved Aunt Cora. Going back into a regular fifth-grade classroom won't be easy, but she has her Dog and new friend who will help her through"--
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Kek, an African refugee, is confronted by many strange things at the Minneapolis home of his aunt and cousin, as well as in his fifth grade classroom, and longs for his missing mother, but finds comfort in the company of a cow and her owner.
49) Just my luck
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Since entering fourth grade, Benny Barrows worries that he will never be good at anything, that he is responsible for an accident that sent his father to the hospital, and that his attempts at winning a school contest will never be noticed.
50) Brian's winter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had hebeen forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Illustrated series) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on these lists
Description
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogswart School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
52) The river
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. Sequel to "Hatchet."
53) Hello universe
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lives of four misfits are intertwined when a bully's prank lands shy Virgil at the bottom of a well and Valencia, Kaori, and Gen band together in an epic quest to find and rescue him.
54) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take onthe Cinderella story.
55) First test
Author
Series
Protector of the small volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Keladry of Mindalen, daughter of nobles, serves as a page but must prove herself to the males around her if she is ever to fulfill her dream of becoming a knight.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the School Board to reinstate Dwight.
57) Copyboy
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Editions
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Newspaper copyboy Victor Vollmer sets out from Memphis to spread the ashes of Mr. Spiro, his friend and mentor, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and with the help of new friend Philomene he may meet the challenge.
58) Ungifted
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Katherine Bateson believes in a logical explanation for everything. But even she can't make sense of the strange goings-on at Rookskill Castle, the drafty old Scottish castle-turned-school where she and her siblings have been sent to escape the London Blitz. What's making those mechanical shrieks at night? Why do the castle's walls seem to have a mind of their own? And who are the silent children who seem to haunt Rookskill's grounds?...
60) M is for magic
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven stories that involve strange and fantastical events.
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