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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"From the moment she first learned to read, literary genius Darcy Wells has spent most of her time living in the worlds of her books. There, she can avoid the crushing reality of her mother's hoarding and pretend her life is simply ordinary. But when a new property manager becomes more active in the upkeep of their apartment complex, the only home Darcy has ever known outside of her books suddenly hangs in the balance. While Darcy is struggling to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
350L
Language
English
Description
When Ms. Gleason announces that a surprise author will be visiting the class, but will not reveal the author's name, the class hires detectives Jigsaw and Mila to discover the author's identity and solve the case.
3) More bears!
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 630L
Language
English
Description
When an author starts writing, children yell that they want more bears in the story.
Author
Series
Bunnicula series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
An overly-alarmed Chester the cat predicts a gruesome fate for the pets in the Monroe household when a writer of juvenile horror fiction and his bird companion stay overnight.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 17
Publisher
HarperTrophy
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Famous children's author Suki Kabuki and her pet raptor, Rappy, wreak havoc during a visit to Ella Mentry School.
6) Write on!
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Katie forgets to read the new book of her favorite author, Nellie Farrow, who comes to class for a discussion, but when Katie turns into Nellie, the presentation seems doomed! Includes a recipe for S'More Bananas.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf, an imprint of Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Lincoln Jones is always working on the latest story he's got going in his notebook. Those stories are his refuge. A place where the hero always prevails and the bad guy goes to jail. Real life is messy and complicated, so Lincoln sticks to fiction and keeps to himself. Which works fine until a nosy girl at his new school starts prying into his private business. She wants to know what he's writing, where he disappears to after school, and why he never...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 106
Publisher
Albert Whitman
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
When their favorite author fails to arrive as scheduled to speak at the local library, the Alden children investigate how he could board a train and never be seen again.
9) Dark fire
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 5
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author David Rain returns to help Lucy and the Pennykettle dragons try to find and destroy a drop of dark fire before it is discovered and used to birth a darkling, while in the Arctic, enshrouded in mist, hide dragons that have at last returned to Earth.
Author
Series
Tuesday McGillycuddy adventures volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Real and imaginary worlds are colliding so Tuesday and Baxterr, at the request of the Librarian, venture to find the Gardener--the one person who can stop this catastrophe--but will they be able to save the land of story?
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish/Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"Pricilla "Cilla" Lee-Jenkins has already written a "Bestseller" and a "Classic"--Now it's time for her to write an Epic Story. Epics are all about brave heroes overcoming Struggles to save the world, and this year, Cilla is facing her toughest struggles yet: Cilla is in fifth grade and, unlike her classmates, not at all ready to start middle school. Her beloved grandfather YeYe has had a stroke and forgotten his English, and it's up to Cilla to help...
Author
Series
Here's Hank volume 12
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When a well-known author visits their school, Hank and his two best friends get the chance to be her guide for the day and introduce her at an assembly, but the situation forces Hank to find creative ways to hide his struggles with reading.
Author
Series
Tuesday McGillycuddy adventures volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
"When Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog Baxterr discover that Tuesday's mother--the famous author Serendipity Smith--has gone missing, they set out on a magical adventure. In their quest to find Serendipity, they discover the mysterious and unpredictable place that stories come from"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Square Fish
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Priscilla "Cilla" Lee-Jenkins has just finished her (future) bestselling memoir, and now she's ready to write a Classic. This one promises to have everything: Romance, Adventure, and plenty of Drama---like Cilla's struggles to "be more Chinese," be the perfect flower girl at Aunt Eva's wedding, and learn how to share her best friend.--
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
580L
Language
English
Description
"Andy and Terry live in a 117-story treehouse. (It used to be a 104-story treehouse, but it just keeps growing!) It now has a pajama-party room, a water-ski park filled with flesh-eating piranhas, an Underpants Museum, a giant-fighting-robot arena, and the Door of Doom (don't open it or you'll be COMPLETELY and UTTERLY DOOMED!). For as long as Andy and Terry have been writing books together, Andy has always been the narrator and Terry has always been...
Author
Series
Tuesday McGillycuddy adventures volume 3
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
A year after she and Serendipity experience a terrible loss, Tuesday is captured by Lodden, a mysterious boy who takes her to a forbidding and unfamiliar place in the world of story.
Author
Series
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Who wouldn't want to live in a treehouse? Especially a 13-story treehouse that has a bowling alley, a see-through swimming pool, a tank full of sharks, a library full of comics, a secret underground laboratory, a games room, self-making beds, vines you can swing on, a vegetable vaporiser and a marshmallow machine that follows you around and automatically shoots your favourite flavoured marshmallows into your mouth whenever it discerns you're hungry....
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old, mystery-loving Birdie's new job at a historic Seattle hotel leads her and her co-worker, Daniel, to a real mystery about a reclusive writer who resides there.
20) The kid
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge Move
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
In 1880s Colorado, young Henry is trying to keep his brothers together now that their parents are dead by writing stories about The Kid, and after he stops, his editor, Herbert, arrives at the same time as Snake Eye Sam, who is determined to take down The Kid.
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