Frank Carlson Library

When Coraline steps through a door to find another house strangely similar to her own (only better), things seem marvelous. But there's another mother there, and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and courage if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

2) Taking the shot

Author

Skog, Jason

Series

Photography for teens volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

Designed with the upper-elementary through middle-school reader in mind, this volume in the Photography for Teens series will be useful for readers who want to put some thought into their shots. Taking the Shot has short chapters on digital cameras, camera settings, and equipment and accessories. It is slightly more technical and has everything a beginner would need to know about megapixels, apertures, light meters, memory cards, and lenses.

3) Setting up the shot

Author

Skog, Jason

Series

Photography for teens volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

4) I was dreaming to come to America: memories from the Ellis Island Oral History Project

Publisher

Viking

Pub. Date

1995

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Description

In their own words, coupled with hand-painted collage illustrations, immigrants recall their arrival in the United States. Includes brief biographies and facts about the Ellis Island Oral History Project.

5) The naked mole-rat letters

Author

Amato, Mary

Publisher

Holiday House

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

When her father begins a long-distance romance with a Washington, D.C. zookeeper, twelve-year-old Frankie sends fabricated email letters to the zookeeper in an attempt to end the relationship.

6) The Alchemyst

Author

Scott, Michael

Series

Secrets of the immortal Nicholas Flamel volume 1

Pub. Date

2007

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14

Language

English

Formats

Description

Nicholas Flamel appeared in J.K. Rowling’s Harry Potter—but did you know he really lived? And his secrets aren't safe! Discover the truth in book one of the New York Times bestselling series the Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel.

The truth: Nicholas Flamel's tomb is empty.

The legend: Nicholas Flamel lives.
Nicholas Flamel is the greatest Alchemyst...

7) Summer at Forsaken Lake

Author

Beil, Michael D

Series

The Red Blazer Girls

Pub. Date

2012

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10

Language

English

Formats

Description

With their father en route to Africa for Doctors Without Borders, city-kids Nicholas and younger twin sisters Haley and Hetty are off to spend the summer with their Great-Uncle Nick at his house on Forsaken Lake. Despite some initial doubts, Nicholas is right at home in the country: he learns to sail, learns about his father as a boy, and makes fast friends with a local-girl, the tomboy Charlie.
The summer takes a turn toward the mysterious, though,...

8) Rising above: how 11 athletes overcame challenges in their youth to become stars

Author

Zuckerman, Gregory

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

Formats

Description

"Athlete after athlete in this book found discipline, hope, and inspiration on the playing field, rising above their circumstances. Filled with first-hand accounts from stars who exemplify the idea of enduring at all costs, Rising Above will serve as a must-read source of inspiration for kids and sports fans of all ages"--

9) Apple and Rain

Author

Crossan, Sarah

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing

Pub. Date

2015

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

Formats

Description

When Apple's mother returns after eleven years of absence, Apple feels almost whole again. In order to heal completely, her mother will have to answer one burning question: Why did she abandon her? But just like the stormy Christmas Eve when she left, her mother's homecoming is bittersweet. It's only when Apple meets her younger sister, Rain-someone more lost than she is- that she begins to see things for how they really are, allowing Apple to discover...

10) The Unbearable Book Club for Unsinkable Girls

Author

Schumacher, Julie

Publisher

Random House Children's Books

Pub. Date

2012

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

Formats

Description

Perennial classic
Cheaper by the Dozen

I'm Adrienne Haus, survivor of a mother-daughter book club. Most of us didn't want to join. My mother signed me up because I was stuck at home all summer, with my knee in a brace. CeeCee's parents forced her to join after cancelling her Paris trip because she bashed up their car. The members of "The Unbearable Book Club," CeeCee, Jill, Wallis, and I, were all going into eleventh grade A.P. English. But we weren't friends. We were literary prisoners,...

11) Cheaper by the dozen

Author

Gilbreth, Frank B

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Large Print

Description

"The classic story of an oversized family and the parents who held them together"--Page 4 of cover.

12) Bridesmaid Blitz

Author

Webb, Sarah

Series

Ask Amy Green

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

Formats

Description

Amy's mom's wedding is fast approaching — and where better to find the perfect bridesmaid dresses than on a spontaneous trip to Paris?
It seems that nobody has time for thirteen-year-old Amy these days! Her boyfriend, Seth, is preoccupied with his mom's health. Amy's dad barely knows she exists after her half-sister is born prematurely (thanks so much, Amy, for getting your stepmother to the hospital on time!). And Mom is

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13) Love and Other Drama-Ramas!

Author

Webb, Sarah

Series

Ask Amy Green

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2012

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Formats

Description

Love drama is on the rise as Amy's mom prepares for her wedding, Aunt Clover dates a hot musician, and Amy takes on the mystery of her friend's cheating beau.

There's love drama going on all around Amy Green. Her mom is getting ready for her bachelorette party and wedding, Aunt Clover is dating a hot singer in a band, and Amy's best friend, Mills, has fallen head-over-heels for the new guy in school, Bailey. When Bailey cheats on Mills,

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14) Moonrise

Author

Hunter, Erin

Series

Warriors (Erin Hunter). New Prophecy volume 2
Warriors. New Prophecy volume 2
Warriors the new prophecy volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

Moons have passed since six cats set out on a journey to save their Clans. Meanwhile, back in the forest, Firestar and Leafpaw watch ThunderClan's world crumbling around them. Will the questing cats make it back in time, or will they be too late?" As they journey home to warn their clans of the coming destruction, the six cats, guided by StarClan's prophecy, meet an unfamilar tribe of cats with their own set of beliefs--and their own mysterious prophecy....

15) Free lunch

Author

Ogle, Rex

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

Formats

Description

This is the author's story of starting middle school on the free lunch program. During the first semester in sixth grade, Rex and his baby brother often went hungry, wore secondhand clothes, and were short of school supplies, and Rex was on his school's free lunch program. Grounded in the immediacy of physical hunger and the humiliation of having to announce it every day in the school lunch line, this is a story of a more profound hunger - that of...

16) Swipe

Author

Angler, Evan

Series

Swipe series volume 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10

Language

English

Formats

Description

"Apocalyptic dystopian fiction at its best. Angler's sharp wit and dexterity with political themes are matched only by the thrilling suspense on every page." —Lis Wiehl, New York Times bestselling author and FOX News correspondent

Everyone gets the Mark. It gives all the benefits of citizenship. Yet if getting the Mark is such a good thing, then why does it feel so wrong?

Set in a future North

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17) Evil Thing

Author

Valentino, Serena

Series

Villains

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9

Language

English

Formats

Description

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

The darkly captivating seventh novel in the popular Villains series follows the rise and fall of the deranged and glamorous fan favorite, Cruella De Vil. If it doesn't scare you, no evil thing will...

18) Nightjohn

Author

Paulsen, Gary

Series

Nightjohn
Sarny

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

Twelve-year-old Sarny's brutal life as a slave becomes even more dangerous when a newly arrived slave offers to teach her how to read.

19) Oracle

Author

Van Tol, Alex

Series

Orca Currents

Publisher

Orca Book Publishers

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Description

Owen has a crush on Kamryn. Kamryn has a crush on Owen's brother Kyle.

Owen knows extreme action is necessary to make sure Kamryn does not end up dating his brother, a jerk who manipulates every situation to get what he wants. So what does Owen do? He manipulates the situation. With the help of his friend Hannah, Owen sets up a blog called The Oracle that gives out relationship advice to local teens. Everything seems to

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20) The foreshadowing

Author

Sedgwick, Marcus

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description