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Author
Series
Great critter capers volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
After a long pestering campaign, nine-year-old Anna and her younger brother Tom finally get a pair of hamsters, but when the pets are found mysteriously dead, the siblings and neighbor Suzanne launch an investigation throughout their neighborhood.
22) North of nowhere
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Rushing to the sleepy seaside village of Porthaven to help her grandmother when her granddad mysteriously vanishes, Mia discovers a diary on an empty fishing boat and begins exchanging notes with a local girl who makes excuses for not meeting Mia in person, adding to an already mystifying situation.
23) Permanent Rose
Author
Series
Casson family volume 3
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
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.
24) Caddy ever after
Author
Series
Casson family volume 4
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
The four eccentric Casson siblings each contribute written accounts of the events--which include a Valentine's Day dance, the appearance of a sinister balloon, and the breakdown of a car--that lead to Caddy's wedding day.
26) Exiles at home
Author
Series
Exiles (Hilary McKay) volume 2
Pub. Date
1994.
Description
The four Conroy sisters' efforts to raise money in order to sponsor a ten-year-old boy in Africa get them into one difficult situation after another.
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Jack the labrador retriever tells the tale of his adventures at home and with his old friend Rebel, the police dog, and how the two of them broke up a burglary ring that had been robbing houses while police were occupied with political protests. Includes explanatory footnotes written by the cats, and a glossary explaining Jack's terminology.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year-old Katie Sutton, a self-proclaimed expert on grown-up behavior, begins writing a user's manual to help other teens train and operate their parents, but when her own mother starts dating Yellow Tie Man, Katie needs all of her expertise to get rid of him.
Author
Series
Theodosia Throckmorton books volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When mummies go missing all over London, eleven-year-old Theodosia puts aside her fight against the Serpents of Chaos to save her father, who is suspected in the thefts, all the while avoiding a string of new governesses.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In 1960s Norfolk, England, seventeen-year-old Clem Ackroyd lives with his mother and grandmother in a tiny cottage, but his life is transformed when he falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy farmer in this tale that flashes back through the stories of three generations.