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1) Check & mate
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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After chess led to the destruction of her family four years earlier, Mallory Greenleaf's focus is a dead-end job that keeps the lights on for her mother and sisters. When she plays in a charity tournament and wipes the board with current world champion Nolan Sawyer, the victory opens the door to sorely needed cash prizes. Mallory struggles to keep her family separated from the game, but she soon realizes that the games aren't only on the board. The...
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down until an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves his best friend Rowley the odd man out.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Boxcar Children's friend Mike is wrongly accused of starting a fire. Can they discover who is really behind Mike's mystery?
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While on bicycle trip to their aunt's farm, the four Aldens help solve a mystery.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1987 in Venice, California, ten-year-old Bug and her new friend Frankie learn important lessons about life, family, being your true self, and how to navigate in a world that is not always just or fair.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Six children help solve the mystery of a missing spyglass that has kept two brothers feuding for years.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
When an asteroid has an 84.7% chance of colliding with the Earth in four days, eleven-year-old Kemi, who loves scientific facts and probability, assembles a time capsule to capture her family's truth as she tries to come to terms with saying goodbye.
10) Mystery ranch
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Grandfather and Aunt Jane haven't spoken for years, but the children help them to once again talk to each other.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The Alden family rents a houseboat to drift down the river, and encounters a mystery in the little towns along the river, involving a fast black car.
12) Batting order
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Matt Baker is the best all-rounder on his baseball team, but can he help Big Ben Roberson improve his hitting and stand up to his father?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dory, the youngest in her family, is a girl with a very active imagination, and she spends the summer playing with her imaginary friend, pretending to be a dog, battling monsters, and generally driving her family nuts.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young Canadian visitor helps the Alden family solve a mystery involving a lost coin collection.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.
Author
Series
Vanderbeekers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
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Language
English
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Description
When eleven-year-old foster kid Mo finds a handmade cookbook filled with someone else's family recipes, she collects the stories behind them and builds a website to share them, secretly hoping a long-lost relative will find her and give her a family recipe all her own.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The Alden children, isolated in a storm at a small bus station, are led into a mystery centering on a polluted river.
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