Meg Rosoff
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
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To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
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Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him--only richer and more organised with a different sense of humour. On the plus side, his two flatmates are determined to fix his life--or possibly to destroy it altogether. It's difficult to be certain as they only speak dog. Poor Jonathan. He doesn't remember life being this confusing back...
5) Just in case
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Fifteen-year-old David Case realizes that Fate has put a target on his back after he saves his baby brother from the edge of a balcony. He assumes a new identity and becomes Justin Case, who ponders teenage philosophic questions and falls in love with an older girl, Agnes Day.
Author
Series
Wild boars volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
It is very hard to be friends with wild boars because they are dirty and smelly, bad-tempered, and rude.
Author
Series
Wild boars volume 2
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Besides being naughty, greedy, stinky, and rude, wild boars Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris are also very hungry and luckily Doris finds the perfect recipe for them to make.
9) Black Beauty
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Black Beauty is a perennial children's favourite, one which has never been out of print since its publication in 1877. It is a moralistic tale of the life of the horse related in the form of an autobiography, describing the world through the eyes of the creature. In taking this anthropomorphic approach, the author Anna Sewell broke new literary ground and her effective storytelling ability makes it very easy for the reader to accept the premise that...
12) The Great Godden
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Pub. Date
20210413
Description
"First published by Bloomsbury (UK) 2020"--Title page verso.
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Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When the family descends into chaos after their mother decides to find inner peace, nine-year-old Betty bonds with a rescue dog named McTavish who adopts the family and takes on the mission to teach them all new tricks.
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Series
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Pa Peachey comes home in a happy-go-lucky mood--and singing!--the family is concerned. Pa has never not been grumpy after work! But when Ma and siblings Ava and Ollie learn that Pa has gotten a new job--which means moving to an appealing new house--they are all pretty quick to get on board. Even McTavish the dog is excited to make a canine pal in the new park nearby. Only the youngest sibling, Betty, remains out of sorts--nervous about changing...
15) It's a moose!
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
A baby that is different from all the others brings a family great joy until he grows too big for their home.
16) Beck
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Orphaned as a child and sent to live among religious caretakers in Canada, Beck endures harsh labor and searches for love while traveling back and forth across the American border during the height of the Great Depression.
17) How I Live Now
Pub. Date
c2014
Description
An American teenager is sent to the English countryside to stay with relatives, but soon they begin to struggle as war breaks out.
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