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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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When the massive metal tank filled with sticky brown molasses that rises up over her crowded North End neighborhood explodes, young Carmen must fight for her life, as a tsunami of molasses rushes through the streets.
Author
Series
The Penderwicks volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
The protagonist, Mary Emma Moody, widowed mother of six, has taken her family east in 1912 to begin a new life. Her son, Ralph, then thirteen, recalls how the Moodys survive that first bleak winter in a Massachusetts town. Money and prospects are lacking, but not so faith and resourcefulness. "Mother" in Little Britches and Man of the Family, Mary Emma emerges fully as a character in this book, and Ralph, no longer called "Little Britches," comes...
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Anastasia acquires poise and self-confidence, a new friend, and advice on becoming a bookstore owner when she commutes to Boston to take a modeling course.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal nor'easter in years, wreaking havoc on land and creating a wind-whipped peril of the freezing Atlantic. In the early hours of Monday, February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, the Fort Mercer and the Pendleton, broke in two. The Coast Guard raced its cutters to the Fort Mercer to rescue the men huddled in the halves, and when the Pendleton proved to be in danger of capsizing,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Crow has lived her entire life on a tiny, isolated piece of the starkly beautiful Elizabeth Islands in Massachusetts. Abandoned and set adrift in a small boat when she was just hours old, Crow's only companions are Osh, the man who rescued and raised her, and Miss Maggie, their fierce and affectionate neighbor across the sandbar. Crow has always been curious about the world around her, but it isn't until the night a mysterious fire...
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The 1653-1654 diary of a fourteen-year-old Pocasset Indian girl, destined to become a leader of her tribe, describes how her life changes with the seasons, after a ritual fast she undertakes, and with her tribe's interaction with the English "Coat-men" of the nearby Plymouth Colony.
16) Massachusetts
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Massachusetts. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"
Author
Series
Ghostly graphic adventures volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Joey and friend Gil are caught in a storm while night-fishing off the coast of Massachusetts, they find shelter in a lighthouse inhabited by a very unfriendly ghost.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Hattie grew up in Brooklyn, so her family's move to a small town in Massachusetts required a lot of adjustments, but by the time sixth-grade starts she has several new friends--but when she somehow invokes the harvest festival jinx, suddenly none of her new friends even recognize her, and she must find a way to break the spell.
20) The Mayflower
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Myths about the Mayflower and the Pilgrim's arrival in modern-day America debunked"--
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