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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
3) Fablehaven
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A poignant and unforgettable novel from Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of the monumental New York Times bestsellers
The Deep End of the Ocean and The Most Wanted,
A Theory of Relativity is a powerful tale that explores the emotional dynamics and dramas of two families fighting for custody of a young child. The very first author selected by the Oprah Book Club, Mitchard is a matchless, wise, and warm chronicler of families and their human foibles-and...
6) Journey
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Left by their mother with their grandparents, two children feel as if their past has been erased until Grandfather finds a way to restore it to them.
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 20
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Jodie is staying with her grandparents on their farm and sees the scarecrows "come alive!"
12) Skeletons
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Lee Donne has an eidetic memory that maintains a visual representation of everything she's ever seen. Unfortunately, this gift hasn't helped her in college, where she spent four years drifting from major to major. With no degree or job prospects, Lee is relieved to be house-sitting her grandfather's isolated Oregon home. But her stay soon becomes a nightmare when she is tormented by strange and menacing noises at night. Determined to track down the...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for her, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.
Author
Language
English
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Description
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Childrens Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nancy is furious when she cannot go to her friend Bree's butterfly-themed birthday party, but her family's outing might just be extraordinary enough to make her feel better. Includes facts about butterflies.
16) Ark in the park
Author
Publisher
Holt
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her parents take her to visit a very special pet store in the park across from her apartment, both Sophie and Mr. and Mrs. Noah, the pet store owners, have their secret wishes fulfilled.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Emma Burcelli has given up on romance. Not just because she's suffered over a decade of dating disasters. Not because her parents' marriage ended on New Year's Eve. No, Emma concludes that love is officially dead when her grandfather Poppi passes away, leaving the last true romantic's other half, Nona Burcelli, devastated. Emma helps by working in the family's bookstore, which Nona insists must be completely decked out in sweetheart decor as Poppi...
Author
Series
Fablehaven volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
"At the end of the school year, Kendra and her brother Seth find themselves racing back to Fablehaven, a refuge for mythical and magical creatures. Grandpa Sorenson invites three specialists -- a potion master, a collector of magical relics, and a trapper of mystical creatures -- to help protect the property from the Society of the Evening Star, an ancient organization determined to steal a hidden artifact of great power. Time is running out. If the...
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