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Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
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Blossom family volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
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Description
With a young brother in the hospital, a grandfather in jail, and their mother traveling with a rodeo, Maggie and Vern try to settle family problems.
3) Gingersnap
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
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Enola Holmes mysteries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In late nineteenth-century London, fourteen-year-old Enola Holmes, much younger sister of detective Sherlock Holmes, turns to Florence Nightingale for help when her investigation into the disappearance of a Crimean War widow grows cold.
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Sophie Hartley books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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A girl in a large family is looking forward to her first "double digit" birthday, but soon discovers that growing up brings some unwanted changes.
7) Crunch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
The oldest Marriss brother, fourteen-year-old Dewey, attempts to be the "embodiment of responsibility" as he juggles the management of the family's bicycle repair business while sharing the household and farm duties with his siblings after a sudden energy crisis strands their parents far from home.
8) Slob
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
11) Trading places
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
When fifth-grade twins, Amy and Todd, tackle a school project, they also have to cope with issues of friendship at school and problems at home, including their father's unemployment.
12) Permanent Rose
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Casson family volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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While trying to reconnect with her friend Tom, who has returned to the United States without leaving a forwarding address, eight-year-old Rose inadvertently discovers the identity of her adopted sister Saffy's father.
13) Indigo's star
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Casson family volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Spurred on by his youngest sister, Rose, twelve-year-old Indigo sticks up for himself and an American boy who has replaced him as the primary target of the school bullies.
14) In the woods
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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Description
When Cameron discovers a baby abandoned in the woods, he tries to discover whether his sister is the mother.
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Pain and the Great One volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.
16) The red pyramid
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
650L
Description
Brilliant Egyptologist Dr. Julius Kane accidentally unleashes the Egyptian god Set, who banishes the doctor to oblivion and forces his two children to embark on a dangerous journey, bringing them closer to the truth about their family and its links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
19) Maggie's monkeys
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Maggie reports that pink monkeys have moved into the refrigerator, her mother and father play along and accommodate the invisible visitors, much to the frustration of Maggie's older, reality-obsessed brother.
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