Andrew
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
6) Big Al
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.
7) No talking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a no talking contest.
8) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three young middle-school-age children, Abby, Amira, and Sadeed, exchange letters back and forth between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan and begin to bridge a gap across cultural and religious divides.
9) Troublemaker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.
10) The Landry News
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
12) Frindle
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
105 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 x 28.
Language
English
Description
When things go wrong during a day at the beach, like a ball that drifts away or a gooey ice cream mess, a father could do a lot of things but always picks the loving one.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 21 x 28 cm
Language
English
Description
Grandparents are the reassuring heroes in this story about a boy and girl who go on an overnight visit at their grandmother and grandfather's farm--