Frances O'Roark Dowell
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Because living with "modern-hippy" parents on a goat farm means fourteen-year-old Janie Gorman cannot have a normal high school life, she tries joining Jam Band, making friends with Monster, and spending time with elderly former civil rights workers.
Author
Series
Secret language of girls trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Marylin and Kate have been friends since nursery school, but when Marylin becomes a middle school cheerleader and Kate begins to develop other interests, their relationship is put to the test.
4) Dovey Coe
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When accused of murder in her North Carolina mountain town in 1928, Dovey Coe, a stronged-willed twelve-year-old girl, comes to a new understanding of others, including her deaf brother.
6) Falling in
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Middle-schooler Isabelle Bean follows a mouse's squeak into a closet and falls into a parallel universe where the children believe she is the witch they have feared for years, finally come to devour them.
Author
Series
Phineas L. MacGuire volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire is forced to team up with the new boy in class on a science fair project, but the boy's quirky personality causes Phineas to wonder if they have any chance of winning.
Author
Series
Phineas L. MacGuire volume 4
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Phineas has a new chore of cooking dinner every night, but his kitchen experiments take a turn for the worse when the school bully takes a huge liking to Phineas's brownies"--
Author
Series
Phineas L. MacGuire volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Hoping to earn money to attend Space Camp, fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire gets a job as a dog walker, then enlists the aid of his friends Ben and Aretha to help with experiments using the dog's "slobber."
Author
Series
Sam the man volume 3
Publisher
Athenaeum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"When the family minivan needs replacing, Sam has the perfect plan to turn the new car into a monster minivan, complete with a dragon painted on it. But first, Sam has to convince his family why a monster minivan is the best choice--not to mention learn how to paint a dragon!"--