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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"One day a young couple wakes to find a boy asleep on their porch. Unable to speak, the boy cannot explain his history. What kind of people would leave their child with strangers? All John and Marta know is that they have been chosen to care for this boy. As their connection to him grows, they embrace his exuberant spirit and talents. The three of them blossom into an unlikely family, but how long can their happiness last?"-- From dust jacket flap....
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
5) Bob
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
590L
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Desert guide Issa finds the baby girl Mariama after a sandstorm, and raises her as his own daughter--until a young man and his protectors come seeking a guide for their dangerous journey through the Bitter Mountains.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Phillip and Brock are best friends, although everyone else thinks Brock is imaginary, so when Phillip gets tired out at the Big Fair while Brock is still having fun, they are separated and it will take a very special twosome to bring them back together again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
640L
Description
Seventeen-year-old Kendall, who suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder, lives with her parents on a potato farm in a tiny community in Montana, where two teenagers go missing within months of each other, with no explanation.
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When Ted and Kat's cousin Salim disappears from the London Eye ferris wheel, the two siblings must work together--Ted with his brain that is "wired differently" and impatient Kat--to try to solve the mystery of what happened to Salim.
Author
Series
Penguin (Salina Yoon) volume 7
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Description
Penguin does everything he can to help his new friend, an elephant named Penelope, find her family after she is left behind.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When his sister goes missing under mysterious circumstances, seventeen-year-old Kurt spends a night at the local police station overhearing statements from a variety of witnesses that reveal the deep prejudices and shocking secrets of his small beach community.
13) Wolf in the snow
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Description
A girl is lost in a snowstorm. A wolf pup is lost, too. How will they find their way home?
14) Lunch-box dream
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Told from multiple points of view, a white family on a 1959 road trip between Ohio and Florida, visiting Civil War battlefields along the way, crosses paths with a black family near Atlanta, where one of their children has gone missing.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Eleven-year-old Footer and her friends investigate when a nearby farm is burned, the farmer murdered, and his children disappear, but as they follow the clues, Footer starts having flashbacks and wonders if she is going crazy like her mother, who is back in a mental institution near their Mississippi home.
Author
Series
Jack series volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Jack's five-year-old neighbor goes missing shortly after he had seen him riding near the Pine Barrens, and when a man emerges from the woods, claiming to have been chased by something all night, Jack wonders if the fifteen-foot-tall pyramid, the circus outside of town, or other mysteries could be responsible for the strange occurrences.
19) Croaked!
Author
Series
Misadventures of Nobbin Swill volume 2
Publisher
Yellow Jacket
Description
"Nobbin is now Prince Charming€s assistant, though he€s not able to assist him in his prince training when things go awry saving Princess Angelica. After that mishap, Sir Roderick thinks the princess needs training too and advises the king to send her away to a queen who can properly educate her. The king has doubts, but the queen suddenly shows up with her son, Figbert. They both torment and insult everyone at the castle and in the village until...
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