Susan Cooper
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
In the Welsh hills Will Stanton, youngest of the immortal Old Ones, joins forces with Merriman, Bran, and the mortal Drew children in a quest through space and time against the powers of evil known as the Dark.
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
On his eleventh birthday, Will Stanton discovers that he is the last of the Old Ones, destined to seek the six magical Signs that will enable the Old Ones to triumph over the evil forces of the Dark.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Three children on a holiday in Cornwall find an ancient manuscript which sends them on a dangerous quest for a grail that would reveal the true story of King Arthur and that entraps them in the eternal battle between the forces of the Light and the forces of the Dark.
5) Greenwitch
Author
Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Jane's invitation to witness the making of the Greenwitch begins a series of sinister events in which she and her two brothers help the Old Ones recover the grail stolen by the Dark.
6) Ghost Hawk
Author
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
Description
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
7) Student body
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Graham Pugh should be having a ball as a student at the University of Texas in Austin. Unfortunately for him, he loathes his roommate, Bishop "Call Me Bish" Alexander, to the point where he quite literally dreams of killing him. Even more unfortunately for Graham, when he wakes up one morning for a lecture, he finds that Bishop actually is dead on the floor. With Graham the prime suspect, E.J., Willis and the girls race up to Austin. Unsurprisingly,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
E.J. has a surprise twentieth wedding anniversary present for Willis--a weekend away in the Texas hills. She's found the perfect Bed and Breakfast- the Bishop' Inn in the quaint town of Peaceful. Unfortunately, they've barely arrived before the inn's troubled elderly owner, Carrie Marie Hutchins, confides in them about a harrowing event from her childhood involving her dead father...and his spirit, which won't go away...E.J. has little time to digest...
13) The shortest day
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A celebration of the winter solstice and the Yuletide season. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, early people would gather to prepare for the long night ahead. They built fires and lit candles. They played music, bringing their own light to the darkness, while wondering if the sun would ever rise again"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
The boy polishes the Magicians wands and catches the rabbits that the Magician pulls out of his hats. But the boy's favorite job is operation the puppets for the Magicians' famous puppet play, "Saint George and the Dragon, "--Until one terrible day when, in the middle of a performance, the boy can't find the Saint George puppet. The magician is furious. He points a long magical finger at the boy, and -- poof! -- the boy is suddenly in the strange...
16) The boggart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
After visiting the castle in Scotland which her family has inherited and returning home to Canada, twelve-year-old Emily finds that she has accidentally brought back with her a boggart, an invisible and mischievous spirit with a fondness for practical jokes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 640L
Language
English
Description
A young Welsh boy is rewarded for his beautiful harp playing with a silver cow, the gift of the magic people living in the lake. The cow makes his family rich but when his father becomes greedy the magic people take their revenge.
18) Uncovering student ideas in physical science: 32 new matter and energy formative assessment probes
Author
Series
Uncovering student ideas in physical science volume Volume 3
Publisher
NSTA Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
19) King of shadows
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
While in London as part of an all-boy acting company preparing to perform in a replica of the famous Globe Theatre, Nat Field suddenly finds himself transported back to 1599 and performing in the original theater under the tutelage of Shakespeare himself.
20) Frog
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A young boy learns how to swim by watching a small frog that makes its way into the family swimming pool.