Betsy Byars
1) The pinballs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.
Author
Series
Blossom family book volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
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.
7) Tornado
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Description
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
11) Dead letter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Herculeah Jones and her best friend Meat set out to crack the case of the mysterious note which she finds in the lining of a second-hand coat.
12) The dark stairs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
The intrepid Herculeah Jones helps her mother, a private investigator, solve a puzzling and frightening case.
13) Trouble River
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for himself and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.
14) The moon and I
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
While describing her humorous adventures with a blacksnake, Betsy Byars recounts childhood anecdotes and explains how she writes a book.
15) The glory girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
Anna Glory, the one non-singing member of a gospel-singing family, feels left out, like her misfit Uncle Newt, until the day the family bus is involved in a terrible accident.
17) McMummy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Looking after an eccentric scientist's greenhouse doesn't seem any stranger than the other odd jobs taken by Mozie and his partner Battie--until Mozie discovers a large, mummy-shaped pod on one of the plants.
20) The Cybil war
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Simon learns some hard lessons about good and bad friendships when his good friend Tony's stories involve him in some very troublesome and complicated situations.