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Author
Series
Virginia mysteries volume 1
Publisher
MyBoys3 Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"When ten-year-old Derek and eight-year-old Sam move with their family to Virginia, they have no idea what adventures the summer will bring. As the brothers explore their creaky old house and the deep surrounding woods, they uncover a sixty-year-old mystery of a valuable coin collection stolen from the local museum. Join the boys as they spend their summer running from danger and searching the woods, secret caves, rushing waters, and hidden passageways...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dial Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
c2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While Jake continues searching for his father and is sent by the obsidian mirror to multiple times in the past, Sarah and Venn battle with Summer for control of a powerful coin.
Author
Series
Looniverse volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When ordinary third-grader Ed finds a coin with the words "strange" and "stranger" on both sides, weird things start happening around him--but when his friends start blaming him for all the weirdness Ed wonders if this coin is not too strange for comfort.
Author
Publisher
Page Street Kids
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Pennies, worthless? Non-cents! Hot off the minting press, Penny feels like a million bucks. But as other coins and bills are spent while she sits forgotten, she begins to doubt her value. She is too small to slot-surf with Quarter. Even penny candy sells for a dime! Refusing to be short-changed, she sets out to find her purpose at any cost. Readers will laugh at a wealth of money puns, learn a basic lesson on US currency, and discover that self-worth...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Griffin Penshine has always believed wishes can come true, and so when a strange woman curses her with a box of pennies, Griffin fears her evil desires will come true until she returns each penny to the person who first wished upon it
7) Bloodhound
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Having been promoted from "Puppy" to "Dog," Beka, now a full-fledged member of the Provost's Guard, and her former partner head to a neighboring port city to investigate a case of counterfeit coins.
8) Half magic
Author
Series
Tales of magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed
10) Well witched
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Three friends fall prey to the demands of the Well Witch when they trespass in her wishing well and steal some coins
11) The market bowl
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
©2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In this tale from Cameroon, Yoyo has to make amends when she offends Brother Coin, the Great Spirit of the Market, by asking too high a price for her bitterleaf stew. Includes a recipe for a version of bitterleaf stew.
12) Cash Kat
Author
Publisher
Arbordale Publishing
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While helping Gram Hatter clean up the park, Kat learns about the different coins she finds and hopes to uncover enough money to buy ice cream at the end of the day. Includes activities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Mason and Ty were once the very best of friends, like two nerdy sides of the same coin . . . until seventh grade, when Ava Petrakis came along. Now Mason can trace everything bad in his life to that terrible fight they had over the new girl. The one thing he'd give anything for is a do-over. But that can't happen in real life--can it? As a science kid, Mason knows do-overs are impossible, so he can't believe it when he wakes up from a freak accident...
14) Max's words
Author
Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 1
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling
Author
Series
Molly Moon volume 6
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Molly confronts the powers of a magical coin that plays hypnotic music capable of turning listeners into monster slaves
16) Elena efectivo
Author
Publisher
Arbordale Publishng
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
Español
Description
While helping her grandmother clean up the park, Elena learns about the different coins she finds and hopes to uncover enough money to buy ice cream at the end of the day. Includes activities.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 17
Publisher
A. Whitman
Pub. Date
[1973]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection.
18) Warm as wool
Author
Publisher
Bradbury Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Betsy Ward's family moves to Ohio from Connecticut in 1803, she brings along a sockful of coins to buy sheep so that she can gather wool, spin cloth, and make clothes to keep her children warm
20) Smells like dog
Author
Series
Smells like dog series volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Co
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
When farm boy Homer Pudding's explorer-uncle dies and leaves him a droopy dog with a mysterious coin hidden on its collar, it leads him to the city, where they meet Madame La Directeur, the conniving head of the Natural History Museum, who is trying to steal the coin and take Homer's place in a secret society of adventurers
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