Patricia Reilly Giff
4) Willow Run
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
During World War II, after moving with her parents to Willow Run, Michigan, when her father gets a job in the B-24 bomber-building factory, eleven-year-old Meggie learns about different kinds of bravery from all of the people around her.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Nory Ryan's family has lived on Maidin Bay on the west coast of Ireland for generations, raising a pig and a few chickens, planting potatoes, getting by. Every year Nory's father goes away on a fishing boat and returns with the rent money for the English lord who owns their cottage and fields, the English lord bent upon forcing the Irish from their land so he can tumble the cottages and clear the fields for grazing. Times are never easy on Maidin...
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Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As Valentine's Day approaches and her class becomes busy making cards, Emily is worried about her fight with Sherri, who tells her, "You'll be sorry."
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Each student in Ms. Rooney's room celebrates the December holidays by being a secret pal to a classmate.
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Richard determines to win the Thanksgiving Candy Corn contest by guessing the correct number of candies in the jar but before he realizes what he's done he eats three big pieces. What will the teacher do when she finds out?
9) Wild girl
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
Author
Series
Adventures of Minnie and Max volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Assisted by her cat Max, sixth grader Minnie starts up her new detective agency by investigating a kidnapping and a thief who will steal anything, even a hot stove.
Author
Pub. Date
c1987
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
To help her class win the school contest, Dawn Bosco will have to find the person who is trying to ruin their play, Little Red Riding Hood Ms. Rooney's second-grade class is determined to win the school contest by putting on a surprise play. Dawn Bosco will play Little Red Riding Hood, and Jason Bazyk will be the Big Bad Wolf. But someone is trying to ruin everything. First, Dawn hears a scary voice backstage. Then, the wolf suit goes missing....
13) Jubilee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Judith stopped talking long ago when Mom left her in the care of beloved Aunt Cora. Going back into a regular fifth-grade classroom won't be easy, but she has her Dog and new friend who will help her through"-provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Adventures of Minnie and Max volume 2
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Assisted by her cat Max and her friend Cash, Minnie tries to find Mary Moon, a valuable racing pigeon that has disappeared just before a big race.
20) Eleven
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Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Sam, who is a talented woodworker but can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past. With the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.