Jessica Almasy
Author
Series
Book scavenger volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mr. Quisling is definitely up to something mysterious, and Emily and James are on high alert. First, there's the coded note he drops at a book event. Then, they uncover a trail of encrypted messages in Mark Twain-penned books hidden through Book Scavenger. What's most suspicious is that each hidden book triggers an arson fire. As the sleuthing friends dig deeper, they discover Mr. Quisling has been hunting a legendary historical puzzle: the Unbreakable...
Author
Series
Gilda Joyce mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the summer before ninth grade, intrepid Gilda Joyce invites herself to the San Francisco mansion of distant cousin Lester Splinter and his thirteen-year-old daughter, where she uses her purported psychic abilities and detective skills to solve the mystery of the mansion's boarded-up tower.
3) Bubbles
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
While trying to cheer up her depressed mother, twelve-year-old Sophie gets roped into doing a triathlon, as part of a school project on risk-taking, and discovers she can see people's thoughts in bubbles above their heads.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Darling Dimple, a young orphan, discovers a closet full of magical dresses, each of which gives her the appearance of another person in the castle and that, along with her own magical abilities, helps her protect Princess Mariposa from betrayal as the castle swarms with suitors.
Author
Series
Book scavenger volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Legendary literary game-maker Garrison Griswold is back in action, this time with "Unlock the Rock." For his latest game, Griswold has partnered with the famous--and famously reclusive--mystery writer Errol Roy to plan an epic escape room challenge on Alcatraz Island. Emily and James are eager to participate, but the wave of fame they are riding from their recent book-hunting adventures makes them a target. Threatening notes, missing items, and an...
Author
Series
Slacker volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Cameron Boxer, king of the slackers, has found something worth his time. By playing video games online in front of an audience he can find both fame AND fortune -- especially with Elvis (a beaver who seems to love video games as much as Cam) at his side. The only problem? Things keep getting in Cam's way. Like school. And the club he accidentally started. And the misguided people in his life who don't think beavers should be playing video games....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Because their dreams of daring adventures go against the cautious teachings of their nations, Firefly and Cricket set out on their own, find a home with kindly Vole, and together help a grieving "miniature giant" named Peter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In her first ever teaching job, Miss Loupe uses improvisational acting exercises with her sixth-grade students at an Air Force base school, and when she experiences a family tragedy, her previously skeptical class members use what they have learned to help her, her brother, and other wounded soldiers.
10) Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with an young paraplegic.
11) A swirl of ocean
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
A decade after her caregiver finds her alone on the beach, twelve-year-old Summer begins wondering where she came from, until a frightening experience in the ocean triggers dreams of a strangely familiar girl in another reality.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Tackling the same twisted subject as Stacy Schiff's much-lauded book The Witches: Salem, 1692, this Sibert Honor book for young readers features unique scratchboard illustrations, chilling primary source material, and powerful narrative to tell the true tale.
In the little colonial town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two girls began to twitch, mumble, and contort their bodies into strange shapes. The doctor tried every remedy, but...
In the little colonial town of Salem Village, Massachusetts, two girls began to twitch, mumble, and contort their bodies into strange shapes. The doctor tried every remedy, but...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Hyacinth mixes hot and cold water in a sink in London with disastrous results, she learns that the city was built on magical rivers that are now London's sewers--and somehow her family is connected to the magic"--
14) West of the moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In nineteenth-century Norway, fourteen-year-old Astri, whose aunt has sold her to a mean goatherder, dreams of joining her father in America.
15) Nuts to you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The squirrels Jed, TsTs, and Chai are the very best of friends. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. New communities are discovered, new friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat variety) and mysteries are revealed.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.
17) Slacker
Author
Series
Slacker volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eighth-grader Cameron Boxer creates the Positive Action Group at school he intends it as a diversion to fool his parents, teachers, and sister into letting him continue to concentrate on his video-gaming--but before he knows it other kids are taking it seriously, and soon he finds himself president of the P.A.G., and involved in community service, so the boy who never cared about anything is now the center of everything, whether he likes it or...
Author
Series
Unsolved mysteries from history volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young girl relates the known facts of the English colonists who settled on Roanoke Island and later disappeared, and challenges the reader to solve the mystery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A story told in verse from multiple perspectives of the graduating fifth grade class of Emerson Elementary. The kids join together to try to save their school from being torn down to make way for a supermarket"--
20) Book Scavenger
Author
Series
Book scavenger volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.