Matt Phelan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Let me tell you a secret about the Knights of the Round Table: they don’t have much to do. The realm is at peace and dragons are few and far between. So Merlin decides to send the knights out on a real adventure to a world filled with the most terrible lizards of all: DINOSAURS!
4) Snow White
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Formats
Description
In 1928 New York City, a young girl named Samantha White is sent away by her cold stepmother, only to return after the stock market has crashed to find her father gone and her ruthless stepmother after her inheritance.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In 1783 France, ten-year-old Emilie works as Benjamin Franklin's caretaker, but after he finds himself in the middle of a sinister plot, he helps France's undercover guardians--a sheep, a roster, and a duck-- save the world.
9) Pignic
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A pig experiences adversity but in the end enjoys a perfect summer day"--
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
In 1908, vaudeville performers visit young Henry Harrison's small town in Michigan and Henry meets a slapstick actor his own age named Buster Keaton. Henry dreams of becoming an actor like Buster, but all Buster wants is to be a normal boy and enjoy the summer.
11) Turtle walk
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"A family of turtles goes for a long, long walk that has an unexpected and very fun ending"--
12) Druthers
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Challenged to use her imagination on a boring, rainy day, little Penelope shares time with her daddy while envisioning herself at the zoo, as a cowgirl, flying to the moon, and sailing to an island filled with dinosaurs.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
In Kansas in the year 1937, eleven-year-old Jack Clark faces his share of ordinary challenges: local bullies, his father's failed expectations, a little sister with an eye for trouble. But he also has to deal with the effects of the Dust Bowl, including rising tensions in his small town and the spread of a shadowy illness
14) Around the world
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Challenged with circling the world at the end of the nineteenth century, three very different adventurers--avid bicyclist Thomas Stevens, fearless reporter Nellie Bly, and retired sea captain Joshua Slocum--embark on epic journeys.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
18) Lucky Breaks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
19) A kite for Moon
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young boy, seeing that Moon is lonely, sends up a kite to cheer her then, after growing up and learning many things, he becomes the first human to visit her. Dedicated to Neil Armstrong and written in recognition of the fiftieth anniversary of the first U.S. moon landing.