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1) Dogtown
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Chance, a real dog, has been in the Dogtown shelter since her owners unwittingly left her with irresponsible dog-sitter who skipped town.
Metal Head is a robot dog who dreams of being back in a real home.
And Mouse is a mouse who has the run of Dogtown, pilfering kibble and performing clever feats to protect the dogs he loves.
When Chance and Metal Head embark on an adventure to find their forvever homes, they find danger, cheese sandwiches, a...
2) Just Gus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After guardian dog Gus is injured defending his flock of sheep, he is sent to recuperate and heal with a young boy, Diego, whom Gus finds he can help by learning how to work as an emotional support animal.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Trapped in a trunk, five puppets--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree that they are part of a larger story, bound to one another by chance and bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room in the home of two little girls, the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Luke and his dog, Haru, are the best of friends. Totally inseparable. But when their nasty landlord falsely accuses Haru of biting her, Haru is kidnapped!
As Luke and his friends go on a serious mission to find and bring Haru home again, they discover mysterious experiments happening at the old laboratory at Painted Lake, owned by an evil multi-billionaire named Mr. Thomas Sinclair. And Luke and his friends soon fear that Sinclair's...
6) Slugfest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Forced to take Physical Education Equivalency, aka "Slugfest," in summer school so he can maintain his star spot on the JV football team, Yash recruits his fellow PE rejects to train with him and pass this course, an endeavor that turns into a summer he'll never forget"--
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
"Wesley's hopeful plans for Indigenous Peoples' Day (and asking her crush to the dance) go all wrong--until she finds herself surrounded by the love of her Indigenous family and community at the intertribal powwow"--
Author
Series
Swallowtail Legacy volume 2
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
Swallowtail Island is hosting the Swallowtales Writer’s Conference. Lark's ecstatic to be chosen as a “page” for her favorite author, Ann E. Keyhart.
But they say you should never meet your idols. When Keyhart arrives with her personal assistant in tow, she is nothing but a terror. And within a few hours, the assistant is dead! But the explanation isn't sitting well. Not when lots of people had reasons to want to be rid of Keyhart, and especially...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Ziggy has anxiety. Partly this is because of the way his mind works and how overwhelmed he can get when other people (especially his classmate Alice) are in the room. And partly it's because his mother disappeared when he was very young, making her one of many Native women who've gone mysteriously missing. Ziggy and his sister, Moon, want answers, but nobody around can give them.
Once Ziggy gets it in his head that clues to his mother's disappearance...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Herc Beal knows who he's named after--a mythical hero--but he's no superhero. He's the smallest kid in his class. So when his homeroom teacher at his new middle school gives him the assignment of duplicating the mythical Hercules's amazing feats in real life, he's skeptical. After all, there are no Nemean Lions on Cape Cod--and not a single Hydra in sight.
Missing his parents terribly and wishing his older brother wasn't working all the time, Herc...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Owen Godfrey is spending his summer in Paris studying science fiction writer Jules Verne, the brilliant mind behind Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. When Owen and his new friends find what appears to be a dusty copy of Verne’s collected works in an old bookshop, they’re intrigued by the hidden codes written inside. As one clue leads to another, the trio gets swept up in an epic treasure hunt spanning the...
12) Puppy love
Author
Language
English
Description
After saving a drowning puppy while dealing with a huge crush on his classmate Sierra, thirteen-year-old Jordan Mendoza nurses the abandoned puppy back to health and wonders who threw her into the canal and if there are more puppies needing rescue.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Zeke Stahls is not the best kid in the world. Some days, he struggles just to be good. He'd rather be pulling pranks than doing extra credit, and he's too busy performing experiments on his little brother, Nate, or tormenting his older sister, Jackie, to volunteer for charity. Which is why Zeke and his entire family are shocked when he is selected as a contestant in an online competition to find the World's Greatest Kid.
Zeke has no idea how he was...
15) Greenwild
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Daisy Thistledown is on the run. Her mother has been keeping big, glittering secrets, and now she has vanished. Eleven-year-old Daisy knows it's up to her to find Ma--but she's being hunted by someone determined to stop her from discovering the truth.
The chase will lead her through a hidden doorway into another world: a place that's bursting with magic and enchantment.
This is the Greenwild. Full of astonishing natural wonders, this land of green...
16) The Skull
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This is an old story. it is about a girl named Otilla who runs away. It is also about a house in the woods, and a skull who lives there, and a secret the skull has, and the night that Otilla finds out what that secret is.
Award-winning picture book creator Jon Klassen brings his git for storytelling to this spooky adaptation of a traditional Tyrolean folktale.
Author
Series
Stinetinglers volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
A collection of ten scary stories with brief introductions by the author.