Janet Taylor Lisle
2) Black duck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Years afterwards, Ruben Hart tells the story of how, in 1929 Newport, Rhode Island, his family and his best friend's family were caught up in the violent competition among groups trying to control the local rum-smuggling trade.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy. Soon after Robert arrives at his grandfather's home in Rhode Island in 1942, just after the U.S. enters World War II, he learns of a German painter living in the woods who raises the community's suspicions, and of the mystery his RAF pilot...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Jessie spends the summer with her family on Quicksand Pond, a New England vacation spot, where she develops a star-crossed friendship with independent Terri, and meets a reclusive old lady whose connection to a murder that took place decades ago still informs her present and affects Terri in ways that Jessie gradually comes to understand the more time they spend together.
Author
Pub. Date
19uu
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Two grieving sisters resolve to break a spell cast by evil fairies After the death of their mother, Olivia and Nellie are shipped off to their great-aunt's house for the summer. Nine-year-old Olivia is not excited about the trip-she has to keep one eye on kind but eccentric Aunt Minty and the other on her younger sister, Nellie, who's been behaving oddly. But the summer takes an interesting turn when Olivia discovers an old fairy tale: the story of...
6) Highway cats
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A hard-bitten group of mangy highway cats is changed forever after the mysterious arrival of three kittens.
Author
Series
Investigators of the unknown volume 1
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When nine year old Angela and her friends begin investigating the letters she has received from her fairy godmother, it helps take Angela's mind off her strained relationship with her father.
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Thirteen-year-old Joelle has always wondered about her life before being adopted by the woman she calls Aunt Louise and her husband Vernon, and she makes some surprising discoveries while researching a 17th century Indian tribe.