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(0)Martha Freeman
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When nine-year-old Alex and his friend Yasmeen investigate the disappearance of cats in their neighborhood, they stumble onto a larger mystery involving a haunted house and a ghostly cat.
Author
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Dexter's well-ordered life is disrupted by his uneasy interactions with his spontaneous, even zany, fourth-grade teacher Mr. Ditzwinkle and by his mother's campaign for reelection to the town's school board.
Author
Series
Chickadee Court mystery volume 4
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
When the recipe for his grandmother's famous pumpkin pie is suddenly missing just before Thanksgiving Day, Alex and his friend Yasmeen try to solve the mystery of its disappearance.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
In 1949 Philadephia, Mary Mouse and an orphan named Caro embark on an adventure when they team up to expose criminals and make the Cherry Street Orphanage a safe haven for mice.
Author
Series
Chickadee Court mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Alex and his friend Yasmeen are on the case when ice sculptures go missing from the local First Night festivities.
Author
Series
First kids mystery volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Tessa and ten-year-old Cameron, daughters of the first female president--and owners of a very rambunctious dog--play detective when a baton belonging to the director of the Marine Band goes missing at the White House.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Kate has her entire world turned upside-down when she has to move from California to snowy Pennsylvania, where she tries to adjust to a new climate, a new school, and new friends.
12) Zap!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-olds Luis and Maura investigate the cause of a long-term, city-wide power outage in Hampton, New Jersey. Includes facts about electric power and instructions for assembling an emergency kit.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When a local businessman and baseball coach disappears just before he is to portray Uncle Sam at the start of a Memorial Day race, ten-year-old Alex and his best friend Yasmeen investigate, despite their pact to stay away from mysteries.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
"City girl Effie Starr Zook is not excited about spending the summer on her aunt and uncle's farm in Nowheresville, Pennsylvania, until she stumbles across a mystery that leads her smack into an old family feud"--
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
"A collection of biographies of twenty groundbreaking women scientists who were curious kids and grew up to make incredible discoveries."--
Author
Series
Astrotwins volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Young Mark Kelly and his brother and friends decide to build a rocket over the summer when their constant bickering starts to annoy their grandfather in this middle-grade novel based on the NASA astronauts' real childhoods"--
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
This hardcover book is slender but full of good stuff. It includes rare first serial articles by many writers of distinction, including William Broyles, Jay McInerny, David Roberts, Tim Cahill, Rout Blount Jr., Barry Lopez, Tom Robbins, Max Apple, Alex Shoumatoff, Edward Hoagland, James Salter, and Bobbie Ann Mason. Their travels (with the adventure travel company Sobek Expeditions, co-founded by editor Richard Bangs) took them far and wide, from...
