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2) The giver
Author
Series
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.
3) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In 2001, Eoin Colfer published Artemis Fowl, a hilarious and rip-roaring science-fiction/fantasy adventure about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. But these aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous. Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them ... until they stop playing by the rules. The novel was an instant sensation and became the start...
4) Coraline
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Looking for excitement, Coraline ventures through a mysterious door into a world that is similar, yet disturbingly different from her own, where she must challenge a gruesome entity in order to save herself, her parents, and the souls of three others.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Oscar Starling never wanted to come to Chicago. But then Oscar finds himself not just in the heart of the big city but in the middle of a terrible fire! No one knows exactly how it began, but one thing is clear: Chicago is like a giant powder keg about to explode. An army of firemen is trying to help, but this fire is a ferocious beast that wants to devour everything in its path, including Oscar! Will Oscar survive one of the most famous and devastating...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Displaying their best work at school in preparation for Parents' Day, Nancy and her sidekick, Bree, are on the case when a prized possession goes missing, in a first chapter book starring the irrepressible Fancy Nancy.
Author
Series
I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In July, 1916, Chet Roscow is fascinated by news accounts of the great white shark said to be attacking people along the New Jersey shore not far from his home, but when he goes swimming in Matawan Creek he discovers the truth of the stories.
9) The capture
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Soren, a barn owl, arrives at St. Aggie's, a school for orphaned owls, he suspects trouble and with his new friend, a clever elf owl named Gylfie, embarks on a perilous journey to save all owls from the danger at St. Aggie's.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of Kristy and the other members of the Baby-sitters Club as they deal with crank calls, uncontrollable two-year-olds, wild pets, and parents who do not always tell the truth. A graphic novel based on the 1988 book by the same name.
Author
Series
I survived volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Melody Vega and her family visit Glacier National Park every summer, but this year Mel comes face-to-face with a terrifying grizzly bear"--OCLC.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
It was D-Day and the Allies were firing from their battleships trying to crush the Nazi defenses on the cliffs. The Allies wanted to clear the way before their soldiers poured onto the beaches. I Survived the Battle of D- Day, 1944 brings to life the Allied invasion of Europe during World War II.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a handful of predictions appear to come true, Nancy starts believing that she has the power to see into the future and starts a fortune-telling business at recess only to have one of her predictions disappointingly backfire.
14) The journey
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Wishing to fight off evil that exists among the owls of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger must endure harsh training from the elders to become Ga'Hoolian owls, and carry out their good deeds.
15) The burning
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A great battle is on the horizon, and Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies and study the grim art of war.
16) The rescue
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Soren has been reunited with this sister, Eglantine, but now he must deal with the mysterious disappearance of his mentor, Ezylryb, and in his attempt to save his teacher must fight a formidable foe.
17) The hatchling
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
222 p. : ill., maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nyroc, the son of Kludd and Nyra, is destined to take his dead father's place as leader of the Pure Ones and to wreak vengeance on Soren, but as the light of goodness dawns in his heart, Nyroc begins to doubt all that he as been taught.
18) The siege
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Enraged by his clash with Soren and driven by and all-consuming desire for power, Kludd and his group, the Pure Ones, launch an attack upon the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The noble owls who live there must fight fiercely to protect their resources and defend their honor."--P. 4 cover.
19) The shattering
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
176 p. : ill. (some col.), maps ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Soren's sister, Eglantine, disappears, Soren leads a search-and-rescue chaw through the deadly terrain of the Beaks and faces a raging forest fire, determined to overcome the evil Pure Ones and free his sister.