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Series
Language
English
Description
Four orphaned siblings, determined to stay together as a family, decide to inhabit an abandoned boxcar and turn it into their new home in the woods. When one of the siblings falls ill, the others go out to seek a doctor to save their sister. Meanwhile, their wealthy grandfather has offered a sizable reward to anyone who has information about his grandchildren, hoping that they can all be reunited once more. As the children continue to evade being...
5) Ender's game
Author
Series
Ender volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't make the cut--young Ender is the Wiggin...
Author
Series
The Tuttle Twins volume 2
Publisher
Libertas Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Do your kids know how the free market works? Ethan and Emily Tuttle have grown up taking for granted the many things they use: clothes, cars, homes, backpacks--even something as simple as a pencil. In this fun adventure to an amazing factory, the twins learn why even the common pencil is a miracle--one that nobody actually knows how to make--and how the process by which it is made is the key to prosperity in our modern age. Based on the classic essay...
Author
Series
Judy Moody volume 10
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Roar! It's not bad enough that Mom and Dad are heading to California, leaving Judy and Stink with Aunt Awful (er, Opal), but now two of Judy's friends are going Splitsville, too. Just when it looks like her summer is going to be BOR-ing, Judy comes up with the most thrill-a-delic plan ever.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 28 x 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This book is about me Clarice Bean. It's a very funny book and all the pages have pictures, mostly of me. There are some annoying bits when my little brother barges in on pages 8 and 9 so you want to skip those"--p. 3 of cover.
11) Dancing queen
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
103 p. : some col. ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Kylie Jean Carter gets a part in the local ballet recital of Swan Lake, but when the boy dancing the part of the prince breaks his ankle the show will have to be cancelled--unless she can persuade her brother to try out.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
Molly lives with her mother and baby brother in an underground room on the Moon, and there is very little room for toys; Molly is good at making things for herself, but her brother is too young, so she has to learn to share.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
237 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
After moving in with their eccentric uncle, Nick and Tesla encounter strange occurrences in their new neighborhood and build gadgets using simple household objects to help them solve the mysteries.
Author
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
221 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
After a series of robberies strike Half Moon Bay, sibling sleuths Nick and Tesla build robots out of household objects in order to catch the culprits.
Author
Series
Nick and Tesla volume 4
Publisher
Quirk Books
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
270 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
In order to figure out why robotic versions of history's greatest scientists and inventors keep going haywire, siblings Nick and Tesla create a gadget glove.
17) Save the date
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Charlie Grant's four older siblings reunite for a wedding, she is determined they will have a perfect weekend before the family home is sold, but last-minute disasters abound.
Author
Series
Publisher
Groundwood Books/House of Anansi Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When she was small Stella saw the world through her imagination, from hearing trees talk about holding up the sky, to seeing words as ants running off a page, to racing rubber ducks in her bathtub.
19) Friend or foe?
Author
Series
Adventures of Violet and Dash volume Book 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
114 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Violet and Dash may be part of the Incredibles, but they also have school, homework, and chores, just like any other kid. Violet wishes things could be normal, but Dash wants life to be Super all the time. When some mysterious events happen at school, the siblings begin to wonder - are other Super kids out there? And are these kids heroes... or villains?"--Back cover.