Andrew Clements
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
With a key to the Oakes School in his possession Benjamin, his friend Jill, and a new friend continue to seek ways to protect the school and their town but Lyman, the janitor and a spy, has new tricks up his sleeve.
3) Fear itself
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.
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.
5) Frindle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
105 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
8) No talking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
9) Lunch money
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
222 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
10) Troublemaker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.
11) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
258 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
School protectors Ben, Jill, and Robert leap at a final chance to save their school from being torn down to make room for a seaside amusement park, a demolition that is supported by dastardly janitors Lyman and Wally.
14) Lost and found
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
161 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
15) The Losers Club
Author
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
16) Extra credit
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
183 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
17) The Landry News
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2010], p2009
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (ca. 2 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
18) No talking
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2007
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
146 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
168 p.: ill.; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family.
20) The school story
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
196 p.: ill.; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.