Avi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"Thirteen-year-old Charlotte Doyle is excited to return home from her school in England to her family in Rhode Island in the summer of 1832. But when the two families she was supposed to travel with mysteriously cancel their trips, Charlotte finds herself the lone passenger on a long sea voyage with a cruel captain and a mutinous crew. Worse yet, soon after stepping aboard the ship, she becomes enmeshed in a conflict between them! What begins as an...
22) The good dog
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
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McKinley, a malamute, is torn between the domestic world of his human family and the wild world of Lupin, a wolf that is trying to recruit dogs to replenish the dwindling wolf pack.
23) Poppy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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A hoot owl, Ocax, rules Dimwood Forest and promises to protect the mice as long as they ask his permission to move about. Poppy is a deer mouse under the owl's protection, but when her fiance is killed by Ocax she defies the owl and begins a journey to a new place. Poppy wants to find a place where her family can live away from Ocax, but she has to do it without Ocax catching her.
24) Poppy and Rye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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When their home next to a brook is destroyed by beavers, a large family of golden mice is aided by Poppy the deer mouse and her grumpy porcupine friend, who in the process forges a relationship with the son he had abandoned.
25) Ragweed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
27) Poppy's return
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
31) The barn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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In an effort to fulfill their dying father's last request, nine-year-old Ben and his brother and sister construct a barn on their land in the Oregon Territory.
33) Ereth's birthday
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Ereth, the prickly old porcupine, is having a dreadful birthday. Not even his beloved friend, the deer mouse Poppy, remembers the occasion. Jellied walrus warts! If he wants a birthday present he'll have to get it for himself. Traveling deep into Dimwood Forest in pursuit of salt, Ereth comes upon a dying mother fox, who begs him to take care of her three children. Agreeing, Ereth becomes foster father to three boisterous young fox kits. With Marty,...
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Appears on list
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
35) Windcatcher
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
While learning to sail during a visit to his grandmother's at the Connecticut shore, eleven-year-old Tony becomes excited about the rumors of sunken treasure in the area and starts following a couple who seem to be making a mysterious search for something.
38) Midnight Magic
Author
Series
Medieval mysteries (Avi) volume 1
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
On a stormy night in the Kingdom of Pergamontio, an insistent knocking brings Fabrizio, teh servant boy, tothe door. Outside stands a soldier summoning Fabrizio's master, Mangus the Magician, to the king's castle. Because Mangus has been under house arrest for confessing to being a magician, he cannot imagine why the king si calling for him.
39) City of orphans
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 8
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In 1893 New York, thirteen-year-old Maks, a newsboy, teams up with Willa, a homeless girl, to clear his older sister, Emma, from charges that she stole from the brand new Waldorf Hotel, where she works. Includes historical notes.