Kathryn Reiss
1) Time windows
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Miranda moves with her family to a small Massachusetts town and a new house in which a mysterious dollhouse allows her to see into the past, where she discovers her new home exerts an evil influence on the women of each generation of inhabitants-- including Miranda's mother.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Certain that she is being drawn by more than coincidences into the lives of people living nearly 100 years ago, Violet, who feels like the odd sister in a set of triplets, searches for clues to help her avert an imminent tragedy.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
After Rebecca meets a new family in her New York City apartment building and helps watch their fussy baby while they are moving in, she becomes convinced that they have been victimized by the kidnappers that have been operating in their neighborhood.
Author
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In 1970s San Francisco, Julie and her best friend Ivy learn about Chinese immigration in the early twentieth century when they investigate a mysterious doll theft.
Author
Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a way for her elementary school to help fund the seabird rescue following an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, Julie investigates the theft of rare guitar. Includes a "Looking Back" essay about benefit concerts in the 1970s.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Co
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Just before her mother is to remarry and her stepfamily is set to move in, twelve-year-old Zibby gradually realizes that her antique dollhouse is haunted by ghosts, one of whom is out for revenge.
Author
Series
Publisher
Pleasant Company Publications
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
11) Paint by magic
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
After his mom suddenly starts acting old-fashioned, eleven-year-old Conner is transported back to 1926, where he must discover and break the mysterious hold an obsessed artist has on his mom that is trapping her between times.