Listening Library
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an African American family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963. A hilarious, touching, and tragic novel about civil rights and the impact of violence on one African American family. Narrated by Kenny, 9, the story tells about his middle-class black family, the Watsons of Flint, Michigan, and their trip to Birmingham,...
Author
Series
Winner's trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
An aristocratic girl who is a member of a warmongering and enslaving empire purchases a slave, an act that sets in motion a rebellion that might overthrow her world as well as her heart.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
4) Superfudge
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother Fudge.
5) Fallen
Author
Series
Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Seventeen-year-old Luce, who is suspected of killing her boyfriend, is sent to a Savannah, Georgia, reform school where she meets two intriguing boys and learns the truth about the strange shadows that have always haunted her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The story of a teenage girl who's literally allergic to the outside world. When a new family moves in next door, she begins a complicated romance that challenges everything she's ever known. The narrative unfolds via vignettes, diary entries, texts, charts, lists, illustrations, and more"--
Author
Series
Magisterium volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
FRIENDS AND FOES. DANGER AND MAGIC. DEATH AND LIFE.
Most kids would do anything to pass the Iron Trial. Not Callum Hunt. He wants to fail. All his life, Call has been warned by his father to stay away from magic. If he succeeds at the Iron Trial and is admitted into the Magisterium, he is sure it can only mean bad things for him.
So he tries his best to do his worst - and fails at failing. Now the Magisterium awaits him. It's a place that's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"This is top-notch storytelling, full of wit, a colorful cast of rogues, and delectable slang." —Publishers Weekly, starred review of How to Catch a Bogle
Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a wily old crook named Sarah Pickles—until she betrayed him. Now Jem wants revenge, but first he needs a new job. Luckily Alfred the bogler, the man who kills the child-eating monsters that hide in the shadows of Victorian...
Jem Barbary spent most of his early life picking pockets for a wily old crook named Sarah Pickles—until she betrayed him. Now Jem wants revenge, but first he needs a new job. Luckily Alfred the bogler, the man who kills the child-eating monsters that hide in the shadows of Victorian...
Author
Series
Old Kingdom volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
"The story of how Clariel became a Free Magic Sorcerer, set 600 years before the birth of Sabriel"--
Author
Series
Boston Jane adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
12) The subtle knife
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Lyra and twelve-year-old Will Parry draw closer to Will's father as well as to the Subtle Knife, an ancient, magical tool that cuts windows between worlds.
13) Eclipse
Author
Series
Twilight saga volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
As the love triangle heats up in the third book, Bella must choose between her friendship with Jacob and her romance with Edward — and her decision could change the fate of vampires and werewolves forever.
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for...
As Seattle is ravaged by a string of mysterious killings and a malicious vampire continues her quest for revenge, Bella once again finds herself surrounded by danger. In the midst of it all, she is forced to choose between her love for...
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 32
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jack and Annie are whisked back in time by the magic tree house to meet Benjamin Franklin in Old Philadelphia"--
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie and his magically gifted friends and relatives work together to rescue Billy Raven, a young orphan, from a mysterious and dangerous couple who have adopted him.
17) Resolution
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
20) Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.