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62) Eleven
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When Sam, who is a talented woodworker but can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past. With the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.
64) Gingersnap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
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
Series
Midnight twins trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Identical twins Meredith and Mallory Brynn have always shared one another's thoughts, but the connection between them fades when one begins to see the future and the other the past.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Caroline's father has just returned when they receive frightening news--British warships are sailing to attack Sackets Harbor. Every grown man, including Papa, has been called to defend the village. Mama and Caroline are left alone to guard Abbott's Shipyard as the battlefront draws ever closer. Caroline knows she must be brave to keep Papa's shipyard safe. But when the battle seems lost, Mama gives her a terrible order: burn the shipyard to the ground....
68) The beloved wild
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In 1807, Harriet Winter leaves her family's New Hampshire farm with her brother to settle in the Genesee Valley to avoid being pushed into marriage with her neighbor, Daniel Long.
69) Haven
Author
Series
Winterhaven volume 1
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Violet McKenna's life started falling apart when a premonition of her father's murder came true, but at a new school, Winterhaven, she finds friends with psychic gifts and an alluring boy whose destiny is entwined with hers in a critical--and deadly--way.
70) Rip Van Winkle
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A man who sleeps for twenty years in the Catskill Mountains awakes to a much-changed world.
71) Signal
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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
Ghost mysteries volume 4
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Prompted by the ghost of a young Seneca Indian girl, twelve-year-old Allie and her friend Dub are determined, despite the opposition of an unscrupulous property developer, that the historical pageant celebrating the founding of their town tells the truth about the fate of the Seneca people who lived there during the Revolutionary War.
73) One-handed catch
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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.
74) Touching snow
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
After her stepfather is arrested for child abuse, thirteen-year-old Karina's home life improves but while the severity of her older sister's injuries and the urging of her younger sister, their uncle, and a friend tempt her to testify against him, her mother and other well-meaning adults pursuade her to claim responsibility.
75) Dreamsleeves
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
During a momentous summer, thirteen-year-old Aislinn's dreams include that her father will stop drinking and give her more freedom, that her fifth sibling will be born safely, that she will not lose her best friend or her potential boyfriend, and that she can teach members of her community both to express their dreams and to help others' dreams come true.
Author
Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Caroline worries that British spies may be lurking in Sackets Harbor, but when strange things start happening at Abbott's Shipyard Caroline wonders if a spy, either someone she has known all her life or Papa's long-lost friend, is responsible.
Author
Series
Magic in Manhattan volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Rachel and her younger sister, both witches, spend the summer at Camp Wood Lake, where Rachel tries to have a normal camp experience while surreptitiously honing her newly discovered talents.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
After twelve-year-old John Boarhog’s mom dies, the last thing he wants is to be schlepped off to the Jersey Home for Boys, where kids are forced to make skinny jeans for hipsters and are fed nothing but kale. Instead, he makes himself a snug home in the ceiling of the New York Museum of Natural History, where he reads anything he get his hands on and explores the artifacts afterhours. But when a rare Egyptian ruby—the highlight of the museum’s...