Kelly Murphy
2) Masterpiece
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
In 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his father's cousin on a flight to Arabia where they must oversee the death and rebirth of the phoenix, thus beginning his training as a "beastologist."
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"When eleven-year-old Ginny Pierce's father gets deployed to Afghanistan just as her family is moving to a new post in Maryland, she tries to salvage a long and lonely summer by running her own geography camp"--Provided by publisher.
On the last day of fifth grade, super-smart eleven-year-old Ginny learns that her father, who is a military ER doctor, is being deployed to Afghanistan, devastating news because they are already moving to another post...
7) Face bug
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Collects poems about insects visiting a museum featuring close-up photographs of other bugs' faces.
8) Fiona's luck
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A clever woman named Fiona must pass the leprechaun king's tests when she tries to get back all the luck he has locked away from humans.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
James is going on vacation for a week. His best friend, Marvin the beetle, has to stay at home. Without James to keep him company, Marvin has to play with his annoying cousin, Elaine. Marvin and Elaine quickly find themselves getting into all sorts of trouble -- even getting trapped inside a pencil sharpener! Marvin misses James and starts to worry about their friendship. Will James still be Marvin's friend when he gets home or will James have found...
Author
Series
Wollstonecraft Detective Agency volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"Imagines an alternate 1826 London, where Ada Lovelace (the world's first computer programmer) and Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein) meet as girls and form a secret detective agency. Their first case involves a stolen heirloom, a false confession, and an array of fishy suspects"--
14) Happily for now
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"Fiona may have problems, but she's no damsel in distress. She'd rather be the one wielding the wand in the story: she wants to be the fairy godperson. So when her mom sends her off to stay with relatives in a place called Cold Hope for the summer, Fiona decides it's time to start training for the role. And wow, do these people need help! Aunt Becky's bakery is failing, Great-Uncle Timothy draws but never speaks, and Great-Aunt Alta is the gloomiest,...
Author
Series
Anton and Cecil volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Orange Prize winner Valerie Martin teams up with educator Lisa Martin for a rip-roaring, high-seas adventure about two very different cat brothers. Illustrations.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Marvin the beetle is going collecting with his family. All is good and well until Uncle Albert gets hurt. Marvin needs his human friend James's help to save Uncle Albert before it's too late"--
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Marvin the beetle finds adventure when his human friend James takes him to school.
Author
Series
Masterpiece adventures volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
James invites Marvin and his cousin Elaine on a trip to the country, and it proves to be a very exciting adventure for the forever friends.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The continuing adventures of beastologist-in-training, Nathaniel Fludd, as he accompanies his intrepid Aunt Phil on a dangerous mission across West Africa to find a deadly basilisk that is missing and begins to find clues relating to the mysterious disappearance of his parents.