M. T Anderson
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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Description
In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history -- almost three years of bombardment and starvation that culminated in the harsh winter of 1943-1944. More than a million citizens perished. Survivors recall corpses littering the frozen streets, their relatives having neither the means nor the strength to bury them. Residents burned books, furniture,...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
When jobs typically done by humans are replaced with alien technology from the vuvv, Adam's parents have no money for food, clean water, or medicine. Adam and his girlfriend Chloe are forced to get creative. Since the vuvv love anything of "classic" Earth culture they begin recording 1950s-style dates which the vuvv watch in a pay-per-minute format. As the money rolls in, how far will Adam be willing to go to give the vuvv what they want?
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
National Book Award Winner!
This deeply provocative novel reimagines the past as an eerie place that has startling resonance for readers today.
It sounds like a fairy tale. He is a boy dressed in silks and white wigs and given the finest of classical educations. Raised by a group of rational philosophers known only by numbers, the boy and his mother — a princess in exile from a faraway land — are the only persons
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Various diaries, letters, and other manuscripts chronicle the experiences of Octavian, a young African American, from birth to age sixteen, as he is brought up as part of a science experiment in the years leading up to and during the Revolutionary War.
Author
Series
Horizon volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
The journey through the rift becomes even rockier as the survivors are forced to take to the water, crossing a vast deepwater basin on improvised boats. To make it, Molly and the others must work together, but a rift of a different kind is forming among the survivors. If they aren't careful, it could eat them alive.
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
Description
After escaping a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, persuaded by Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join his counterrevolutionary Royal Ethiopian Regiment, Octavian and his friends soon find themselves engaged in naval raids on the Virginia coastline as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
"Uptight elfin historian Brangwain Spurge is on a mission: survive being catapulted across the mountains into goblin territory, deliver a priceless peace offering to their mysterious dark lord, and spy on the goblin kingdom -- from which no elf has returned alive in more than a hundred years. Brangwain's host, the goblin archivist Werfel, is delighted to show Brangwain around. They should be the best of friends, but a series of extraordinary double...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Quarantined with his family as a global plague ravages the world, Clay retreats to the woods where he meets a special little dog who leads him on surreal adventures where choosing the wrong path could cause them both to lose their way forever.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
When two boys stay with an eccentric relative at his mansion in rural Vermont, they discover an old-fashioned board game that draws them into a mysterious adventure.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Looking forward to a vacation, Katie, Lily, and Jasper attach their flying Gyroscopic Sky Suite to the Moose Tongue Lodge and Resort, where they mingle with other child heroes found in books, and where they become embroiled in a mystery involving lederhosen-clothed quintuplets and a screaming ventriloquist.
14) Whales on stilts
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Racing against the clock, shy middle-school student Lily and her best friends, Katie and Jasper, must foil the plot of her father's conniving boss to conquer the world using an army of whales.
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Boy Technonaut Jasper Dash and his friends Lily Gefelty and Katie Mulligan travel into the mist-shrouded heart of the forbidden mountainous realm of Delaware to try and unravel a terrible mystery.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 650L
Language
English
Description
A boy enjoys living quietly by himself at The End of the World until Mr. Constantine Shimmer, "Professional Visionary, " builds an inn and an amusement park, demanding that tourists come and have "Fun Without End!"
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Seven award-winning young adult authors illuminate the lives of Britain's King Henry VIII and his six wives from different viewpoints.
King Henry VIII was a charismatic and extravagant ruler obsessed with both his power as king and with siring a male heir. Six women became his queens, several fated for divorce, or beheading. In this book, seven authors tell of their attempts to survive their unpredictable king and his power-hungry court. As they...
19) Thirsty
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
From the moment he knows that he is destined to be a vampire, Chris thirsts for the blood of people around him while also struggling to remain human.
20) Burger Wuss
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
Description
Hoping to lose his loser image, Anthony plans revenge on a bully which results in a war between two competing fast food restaurants, Burger Queen and O'Dermott's.