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Series
Vanderbeekers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer. While Isa is off at sleepaway orchestra camp, Jessie, Oliver, Hyacinth, and Laney are stuck at home in the brownstone with nothing to do but get on one another’s nerves. But when catastrophe...
23) Heist society
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-and-a-half-year-old Valentina Salazar grew up as a monster protector until her father's loss, but when a video of a mythical egg appears, Valentina convinces her older brother and sister to help her find and save it--all while avoiding the monster hunters who want to destroy it.
25) Rip Van Winkle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Catskill Mountains, farmer Rip Van Winkle meets a strange dwarf and a group of men playing ninepins. He drinks from their keg and falls into a deep sleep. When he awakens, everything is changed.
26) Signal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl who may be a space alien.
Author
Series
Ryan Quinn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his father disappears and his mother is abducted, Ryan learns that his missing parents are secret agents and that he must undertake a perilous mission to rescue them.
Ryan Quinn, the son of a United Nations worker, has traveled around the world but is finally settled at a great school in New York. But when his father disappears and his mother is abducted, Ryan discovers his parents actually work with an underground organization that has performed...
28) Gingersnap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
Author
Language
English
Description
A dark, twisty thriller about a centuries-old, ivy-covered boarding school haunted by its history of witchcraft and two girls dangerously close to digging up the past. The history of Dalloway School lives in the bones it was built on. Five violent deaths in the first ten years of its existence. Sometimes you can still smell the blood on the air. It wasn't until Felicity enrolled that she fell in love with the dark. And now she's back to finish her...
30) Farmer boy: 2
Author
Series
Little house volume 2
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
1971, �1933, �1961
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
At the end of the nineteenth century, nine-year-old Almanzo lives with his family on a big farm in New York State where he raises his own two calves, helps cut ice and shear sheep, and longs for the day he can have his own colt.
31) Wild girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
Series
Little house chapter books. Laura volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As he grows up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder dreams of having a colt of his own.
33) New York ninjas
Author
Series
American chillers volume 4
Publisher
AudioCraft Pub
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Mike, Brad, and Sarah are trick-or-treating in Albany, New York when Mike's discover an ancient mask that leads to a dangerous mission of horror.
Author
Series
Midnight twins trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Identical twins Meredith and Mallory Brynn have always shared one another's thoughts, even as they dream, but their connection diminishes as they approach their thirteenth birthday, and one begins to see the future, the other the past, leading them to discover that a high school student they know is doing horrible things that place the twins, and others, in grave danger.
35) Check, please!
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Frannie goes to dinner at a brand new French restaurant and tries her hand at being a food critic, even as she starts a campaign to warn other diners that there are insects on the menu.
36) The haunted
Author
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
To evade her manipulative ex-boyfriend, sixteen-year-old Hendricks' family moves to small-town New York, where she joins the popular crowd, but only her outcast neighbor, Eddie, can help chase vindictive ghosts from her new house.
Author
Series
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
38) One-handed catch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told in multiple viewpoints, a tangle of knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a talent. Eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal talent for cake baking. But little does she know that fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny leads her to a mysterious address that houses a lost luggage emporium, an old recipe, a family of children searching for their own talents,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Teenage Simone's diaries for 1917 and 1918 reveal her experiences as a carefree member of New York society, then as a "Hello girl," a volunteer switchboard operator for the Army Signal Corps in France.
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