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Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 7
Pub. Date
1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course.
3) Gossamer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"In 1918, as the Great War rages in Europe, the Spanish influenza tears a brutal path across the United States, leaving devastation in its wake. Ordinary life is turned upside down as schools are closed, and all spheres of public life are shut down. Suddenly, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her older brother, Daniel, find themselves orphans of the flu, and are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake....
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
6) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
7) Zooman Sam
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Four-year-old Sam's appearance as a zookeeper at his nursery school's Future Job Day leads him to a number of exciting activities and discoveries, including reading.
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 2
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 5
Pub. Date
1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Her family's new organized schedule for easy housekeeping makes thirteen-year-old Anastasia confident that she can run the household while her mother is out of town, until she hits unexpected complications.
10) All about Sam
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 1
Pub. Date
1988.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When her second-grade classmates are envious of the three students who are going away on winter vacation, the creative and ingenious Gooney Bird Greene thinks of a geography activity to cheer them all up.
13) Anastasia again!
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 2
Pub. Date
1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
17) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 2
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird Greene, an entertaining second grader who introduces challenging vocabulary words and tells "absolutely true" stories, finds a surprise room mother to bring cupcakes for the Thanksgiving pageant.
19) Bless this mouse
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Mouse Mistress Hildegarde musters all her ingenuity to keep a large colony of church mice safe from the exterminator and to see that they make it through the dangerous Blessing of the Animals
20) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit
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