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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
Formats
Description
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
Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Flora and Ruby have mixed feelings about the arrival of the Christmas season in Camden Falls, their first without their parents, but they stay busy with family and friends.
Author
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.
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Since a tragedy she cannot remember, thirteen-year-old Louise has changed her name, given up gymnastics, moved in with her grandparents, and locked her feelings inside but through her friends Reni and Hen and notes from a secret admirer she begins to find herself again.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
12) Braced
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Rachel learns that her scoliosis has worsened and she will need to wear a back brace to keep her spine straight, she is devastated; afraid that she will not be able to play soccer, and terrified that she will not be able to hide her condition from her friends and classmates--but her mother is determined to spare her the spinal fusion surgery that she herself had as a teenager.
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...
14) Becoming Felix
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Worried about the difficulties on his family's Massachusetts dairy farm, twelve-year-old JJ is willing to give up on his dreams of becoming a great clarinet player and on his friendship with a new Jewish classmate who shares his love of music.
15) The Sacrifice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Two sisters, aged ten and twelve, are accused of witchcraft in Andover, Massachusetts, in 1692 and await trial in a miserable prison while their mother desperately searches for some way to obtain their freedom.
16) Thrill ride
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe travel to Massachusetts where they investigate a death and other mysterious events occurring at an amusement park.
17) Nightbird
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
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