Margaret Mahy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Seven Chinese brothers elude execution by virtue of their extraordinary individual qualities. With humor and wit, internationally acclaimed author Margaret Mahy captures the courageous adventures of seven brothers who use their supernatural gifts to overpower a cruel emperor. This ALA Notable Book features beautifully executed illustrations full of historical.
4) 24 hours
Author
Pub. Date
[2000]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
During his first twenty-four hours after finishing high school, seventeen-year-old Ellis unexpectedly becomes part of an inner-city world far different from his comfortable life, which helps him deal with his best friend's recent suicide.
8) Dashing dog!
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A dashing dog, brushed-up-and-downery, dare-devil-daring and dog-about-townery dog, is twirled around, ruffled and scuffled and wobbled and whirled around.
Author
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Greedy to have the cove where he swims all to himself, Norvin, who looks a bit like a shark, pretends to be one, scaring off the other swimmers and leaving him in happy aquatic solitude--until he is discovered by an amorous female shark.
12) The green bath
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sammy's mother tells him to forget about adventures and get cleaned up for his grandmother's visit, but the new bathtub Sammy's father brought home seems determined to have an adventure of its own.
16) A Fortunate name
Author
Series
Cousins quartet volume 2
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
As the only Bancroft in a family of Fortunes, Lolly has always felt left out of her Fortune cousins' exclusive gang but when her parents separate Lolly discovers a new inner strength and aspects of kinship that go beyond names.
17) The garden party
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Description
A mischievous wind creates havoc among the magnificent hats at a garden party for fashionable pigs.
19) Underrunners
Author
Pub. Date
1992
Description
Tris and Winola find the underrunners, a vast network of tunnels, the ideal place to escape their unhappy lives and act out their fantasies, but the tunnels become a dangerous place when invaded by an unseen stranger.