| | Author: Sundee Frazier | Lexile 360
Brendan Buckley is fascinated by science, but he finds that life isn’t always easily explained. After he meets his grandfather for the first time at a rock club meeting, Brendan bonds with him through their shared interest in rock collecting, and they continue to meet secretly… until Brendan’s mother finds out. |
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| | Author: Lynne Jonell | Lexile 780
Emmy Addison was happy until her parents inherited a lot of money. Now they keep taking off for faraway places and leaving her with a mean nanny, Miss Barmy. After Emmy is bitten by the classroom rat, she finds that she can understand every word he says. Then Emmy learns that Miss Barmy has been mixing animal essences together to control the Addisons' lives, and she embarks upon a perilous path to undo the evil nanny's sinister plans. |
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| | Author: Janet Taylor Lisle | Lexile 810
Three kittens abandoned on the
median strip of an interstate highway miraculously survive. They meet a loose group of feral cats and help them to band together to save their small patch of homeland woods from being destroyed. |
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| | Author: Valerie Hobbs | Lexile 640
Toby's cancer has returned, but he defiantly decides not to share this information with his parents. His decision is reinforced after he meets and befriends a fiercely independent, elderly neighbor, Pearl, a once-famous poet who hasn't published for years. Drawn together by their mutual affection for Pearl's beloved cow, Blossom, these two characters develop a mutually supportive. |
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| | Author: Margaret Peterson Haddix | Lexile 750
Jonah has always known that he was adopted. When he and his friend Chip, who's also adopted, begin receiving mysterious letters they are plunged into a mystery that involves the FBI, a vast smuggling operation, an airplane that appeared out of nowhere -- and people who seem to appear and disappear at will. |
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| | Author: Cornelia Funke | Lexile 900
Princess Igraine dreams of becoming a famous knight just like her great grandfather, but the truth is, life at the family castle is rather boring… until the nephew of the baroness-next-door shows up with a dastardly plan to capture the castle and claim as his own the wonderful singing spell books that belong to Igraine's magician parents. |
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| | Author: Candace Fleming | Lexile 580
The principal of Aesop Elementary School wish comes true when Mr. Jupiter arrives to take over a class with a reputation. With his vast experience and beautiful brown eyes, he charms everyone, including the librarian. |
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| | Author: Linda Urban | Lexile 730
Eleven-year-old Zoe dreams of giving piano recitals at Carnegie Hall. However, she settles for the sounds of the Perfectone organ her father buys. When her organ teacher notices the child's talent for music and recommends her for the "Perfectone Perform-O-Rama“, Zoe forges ahead and faces the uncertainty of entering the competition as an underdog. |
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| | Author: Jacqueline Davies | Lexile 630
Evan and his younger sister, Jessie, get along well until a letter arrives announcing that he and his bright, skipping-third-grade sister will be in the same class. Then, they begin the Lemonade War to see who can raise the most money by the end of the summer. |
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| | Author: J.B. Cheaney | Lexile 900
Ronnie Sparks has to take care of her brother, who suffers from severe ADHD, after her mother’s knee surgery. Mom arranges for her father to take the kids on a road trip. Pop reluctantly agrees, and they all set out for Kansas, helping Pop search for wind-power-generating sites. |
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| | Author: Graham Salisbury | Lexile 530
Senior patrol leader of his Hilo, Hawaii, scout troop, eighth-grader Dylan looks forward to camping on the coast in the shadow of a volcano. But when he hears that Louie, a tough, troubled kid, will be joining the scouts on the trip, Dylan remembers when their paths crossed once before, and his anticipation turns to dread. |
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| | Author: Grace Lin | Lexile 690
As one of only three Taiwanese-American children at school (the other two are her sisters), Grace struggles to integrate her two cultures. To help her cope, her parents share their own experiences that parallel the events in her life. |
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| | Author: Eric Berlin | Lexile 670
Winston Breen says “the only thing better than discovering a puzzle is stumping someone else with it.” But when his sister uncovers mysterious strips of wood with words and letters on them, even Winston himself is stumped. Soon the whole family—and some friends—are caught up in the mystery and off on a scavenger hunt that just may lead to a ring worth thousands of dollars! |
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| | Author: Marlane Kennedy | Lexile 790
Mildred misses her mother; she died when the 11-year-old was only six. But one thing Mildred remembers about her mother is how she loved Circleville, Ohio's pumpkin festival. So Mildred takes up growing pumpkins, big ones—make that huge ones—all in hopes of winning the pumpkin show weigh-off. |
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| | Author: David Lubar | Lexile 540
Logan knows he shouldn't have been playing in the library reference stacks and is sorry he crashed into Professor Wordsworth. But after the Professor says he should be punished, Logan starts speaking in really awful puns and can't stop. He quickly realizes that he is under a curse, and the only way to break it is to collect seven oxymorons, anagrams, and palindromes in three days. |
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