Sarah Weeks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
4) Soof
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
All her life Aurora has heard stories about how wonderful and lucky Heidi is, and soon this paragon (now grown up and expecting a baby) will be visiting; but before she arrives part of their house is damaged in a fire, and worse, Aurora's beloved dog disappears--and while her parents have always believed in "soof" (Heidi's mom's word for love), Aurora, who has never really fit in with children her own age, will just have to find her own soof.
6) Honey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When she suspects that her father has a girlfriend, Melody and her best friend are determined to figure out who it is and why it is a secret.
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Best friends Sketty and Meatball do everything together. They play together. They bark together. If Sketty sniffs a flower, Meatball sniffs a flower too. If Meatball wags his tail, Sketty's tail is wagging too. Young readers will be delighted by two pals called Sketty and Meatball, who happen to look quite a bit like their names"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jamie Reardon has always heard that bad things come in threes. So after his cat, Mister, dies, his father leaves, and his aunt Sapphy has an accident that causes her memory to develop a skip, Jamie hopes his life will go back to being as normal as cornflakes. But unfortunately there's one more bad thing in store for Jamie-something he'd give anything to be able to forget-and this one leaves him feeling like a stranger to himself. Jamie tries in vain...
13) Ella, of course!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Ella is banned from bringing her umbrella to the dance recital, she comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.
14) Counting ovejas
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
What do you do when you can't sleep? Count sheep in Spanish and English, of course! But what happens when those rascally sheep get a little too close for comfort? Well, if you're anything like the sleepy little hero in this clever tale, you might just tire yourself out trying to get rid of them!
15) Pie
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning author of SO B. IT, a story about family, friendship, and...pie!
When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo . . . and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice.Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat....
Author
Language
English
Description
Everything's better with cheese in this hilarious combination of Sarah Weeks' Oggie Cooder and Oggie Cooder, Party Animal.
Oggie Cooder loves cheese so much that he carries a slice of cheese with him wherever he goes. It's not just for a snack -- Oggie is an excellent charver. (Charving is when you chew a piece of cheese to carve it in the shape of something.) The kids at school think Oggie's charving is a little strange. But when a big TV show...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Save Me a Seat joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels.
Joe and Ravi might be from very different places, but they're both stuck in the same place: SCHOOL. Joe's lived in the same town all his life, and was doing just fine until his best friends moved away and left him on his own. Ravi's family just moved to America from India, and he's finding it pretty hard to figure out where he fits in.
Joe and Ravi don't...
19) Splish, Splash!
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
Rub-a-dub-dub! Chub the fish loves to scrub in his tub. One day his friends come to call. They want to splish and splash too. Can a tub so small hold them all?
20) Drip, Drop
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Description
A Junior Library Guild Selection
Drip! Drop!
Plip! Plop!
"Oh, no!" cried Pip Squeak.
"I've got a leak!"
A nighttime rainstorm sends Pip Squeak scrambling to catch the drips pouring through his leaky roof. But the drops just won't stop, and soon it's wetter inside the house than out!
Sarah Weeks's spirited story and Jane Manning's dazzling pictures will delight beginning readers as they follow Pip Squeak's comic
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