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1) Build!
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
"Bulldozers, dump trucks, and cranes are just a few of the vehicles working together in these pages to build something incredible. The payloader makes the hole for the foundation ("dig"), the semi-loader brings in the huge blocks ("haul"), and the crane lifts them up ("hoist"). But is this a real construction site, or a boy's backyard? And after the structure is done, what happens next? Yes, the inevitable: he makes it all tumble down and is ready...
2) Rain school
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Formats
Description
The children arrive on the first day of school and build a mud structure to be their classroom for the next nine months until the rainy season comes and washes it all away.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"People say nothing interesting happens in the village of Port Elizabeth but, on a visit there, the Boxcar Children find a big mystery at the schoolhouse. Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading by themselves with a Boxcar Children classic."--Amazon.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
"Ware can’t wait to spend summer 'off in his own world'—dreaming of knights in the Middle Ages and generally being left alone. But then his parents sign him up for dreaded Rec camp, where he must endure Meaningful Social Interaction and whatever activities so-called 'normal' kids do. On his first day Ware meets Jolene, a tough, secretive girl planting a garden in the rubble of an abandoned church next to the camp. Soon he starts skipping Rec,...
5) Vacancy
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"When Jasmine moves to Gold River after her mother's death, she finds herself powerfully drawn to the Carlisle, an abandoned hotel on the edge of town. It appears in her nightmares and calls to her during the day. It's a local tradition in Gold River for kids to try to stay a night in the Carlisle without being scared away. When Jasmine hears about this, she convinces her friends to join her. How hard can it be to stay up all night in an abandoned...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 10
Pub. Date
copyright 1965.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Grandpa Alden and the Alden children encounter danger, excitement, adventure, and mystery in a quiet island fishing village.
Author
Description
When a brother and sister get lost in the park, they stumble upon a curious sight; a church in the middle of the forest. As they walk closer, the doors won't open, but as hymns are heard they approach the windows and something amazing happens...the stained glass windows come to life!
9) Look up!
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.6 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
When a girl in a wheelchair calls to people far below to look up and see her, one finds a way to brighten her day
10) The secret box
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
A young schoolboy from the early twentieth century hides a candy box with secret instructions in the floorboards of his boarding school for future generations of schoolchildren to find and follow to a mysterious hidden place. Story without words.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Scooby and Shaggy can't believe it when they hear their favorite restaurant, Louie's Pizza Parlor, is about to close down. It turns out a creepy karate creature has been scaring away all of Louie's customers. Now, for once in their lives, Scooby and Shaggy are determined to get to the bottom of a mystery. After all, nothing better get between the two chums and their pizza!
12) Stop! Bot!
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
When a little boy stops to show a building doorman his new "bot," it floats up out of his hands and the kind doorman runs up to each floor of the building to try and catch it, with help from the building's residents.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 144
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
The old abandoned school in Silver City is being fixed up as an art center and the Boxcar Children volunteer to help clean up the place. But the other volunteers are scared by the spooky goings-on in the school doors lock by themselves, and chalkboard messages appear out of nowhere! Will the Aldens find out the secret of the haunted school?
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
When the city of Zollicoffer, Tennessee, where her family lives, announces plans to seize their one hundred seventy-five year old house through eminent domain, twelve-year-old Louise Mayhew needs to come up with a way to save it--and her ancestor's Civil War diary linking the house to the Underground Railroad, as well as a hidden treasure, seem to offer her family the best chance of saving their home.
16) Barn at Night
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Description
When you grow up on a farm, adventures happen all day long—even at night! On a cold winter evening, a father and daughter go out to the barn and are welcomed with a warm scene. Who is awake, who is asleep, and who is just making their first appearance in the barn? Michelle Houts' lyrical poetry paired with Jen Betton's glowing watercolors create a warm and wonderful bedtime story—best shared together.
18) Possessed
Author
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Sixteen-year-old Rayne escapes London, her mother, and boyfriend for a job in the country at Morton's Keep, where she is drawn to a mysterious clique and its leader, St. John, but puzzles over whether the growing evil she senses is from the manor house or her new friends.
20) Consumed
Author
Pub. Date
[2011], c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
A new manager brings many changes to Morton's Keep, capitalizing on its gothic atmosphere and history, but Rayne sees ominous signs indicating that the one thing that has not changed is the evil presence she had thought was destroyed.