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21) Starman Jones
Author
Language
English
Description
It's easy to stow away on an intergalactic spaceship, if you're a smart lad like Max Jones. But it's quite another thing when the spaceship touches down on an unknown planet after passage through a time warp perhaps in an unknown century.
22) Gingerbread
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.
23) Two Naomis
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"Other than their first names, Naomi Marie and Naomi Edith are sure they have nothing in common, and they wouldn't mind keeping it that way. Naomi Marie starts clubs at the library and adores being a big sister. Naomi Edith loves quiet Saturdays and hanging with her best friend in her backyard. And while Naomi Marie's father lives a few blocks away, Naomi Edith wonders how she's supposed to get through each day a whole country apart from her mother....
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Polly must protect her reputation at school and the safety of her fellow students when her mad scientist stepbrother, Damon, brings his strange experiments to the school science fair.
26) Haunted waters
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Timberline family makes a weekend getaway for a visit to a gold exhibit but it leads to a search for a stolen gold nugget and danger for the entire family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harcourt Brace
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old Jewish girl goes to live with her father and stepmother in a small town and soon finds herself the center of a civil rights battle when she objects to the high school band marching in the formation of a cross.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
When his mother and her new husband take off on a long honeymoon and his new stepbrother throws his belongings out the window, sixteen-year-old Martin J. Miller takes off in his Jeep and settles in Red Rock, Idaho, where he finds a job, enrolls in school, and suffers from loneliness.
29) Sofia the first
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
Meet Sofia, a little girl who lives a rather ordinary life. But everything changes when her mother, Miranda, marries the king. Overnight, Sofia becomes a princess, moves into the castle, gains a step-brother, a step-sister ... and the ability to talk to her new animal friends thanks to a magical amulet! Now, life is anything but ordinary for Sofia the First!
Author
Series
Meet the Kreeps volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
As her father prepares to marry their new neighbor, Veronica Kreep, Polly tries to convince him that there is something sinister and strange about Veronica and her family.
31) Zipped
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
At the end of their sophomore year in high school, the lives of four teenagers are woven together as they start a tough new job, face family problems, deal with changing friendships, and find love.
32) Survivors
Author
Series
Stranded volume 3
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Trapped for eleven days on a deserted island, Jane, Buzz, Carter and Vanessa must venture deeper into the jungles of the island, where they discover a secret and find danger at every turn.
33) Snag him
Author
Series
Love stories). His hers theirs volume 2
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
34) Mousenet
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Sent to live with her chef father and his wife in Oregon after having stayed with her inventor uncle and scientist mother in Cincinnati, ten-year-old misfit Megan is lonely until she starts working with some computer-savvy mice to try to save Mouse Nation--and the planet.
Author
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Having agreed to get math tutoring and to practice writing over the summer to avoid flunking fifth grade, Tank learns some important lessons about both family and fighting while writing a boy's guide to understanding girls.
37) Love is a gift
Author
Series
Heartland volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
On a visit to their father's ranch in Australia, Lou has no difficulty accepting her father's new wife, Helena, while Amy seeks refuge in the stables and in working with Spirit, the reluctant grey gelding trained by Helena.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
Sent to stay with their uncle in a ship-like home called Drift House, twelve-year-old Susan and her two younger stepbrothers embark on an unexpected adventure involving duplicitous mermaids, pirates, and an attempt to stop time forever.
39) Party dreams
Author
Series
Magic puppy volume 5
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Paige's worries about her mother's hospitalization and the new brother who is on the way, not having a birthday party, and needing to stay at her step-grandmother's spooky country house, fade when a magical puppy named Storm arrives.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A novel written in verse follows Penny Morrow in her transition from middle school to high school as her father remarries, she acquires a new stepbrother, and she experiences her first dance, first kiss, and other hazards of growing up.