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2) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Sophia endeavors to prevent her increasingly forgetful eighty-eight-year-old neighbor and best friend Sophie from entering assisted living, and in the process, uncovers unexpected stories of war, loss, and hope.
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 5
Publisher
Sandpiper, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When her second-grade classmates are envious of the three students who are going away on winter vacation, the creative and ingenious Gooney Bird Greene thinks of a geography activity to cheer them all up.
8) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
9) Crow call
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Liz accompanies the stranger who is her father, just returned from the war, when he goes hunting for crows in Pennsylvania farmland.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1979.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.
11) Gossamer
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Company
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.
12) The silent boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird's Great Uncle Walter lends her second grade class a skeleton while they study human anatomy, and at the end of the month the students use Gooney Bird's charm bracelet to present all they have learned.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1986.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up as her thirteenth year involves her in conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowered uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1982.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired instead to be a maid. Sequel to "Anastasia again."
17) All about Sam
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1988.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 5
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1985.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Her family's new organized schedule for easy housekeeping makes thirteen-year-old Anastasia confident that she can run the household while her mother is out of town, until she hits unexpected complications.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 8
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1991.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.
20) Anastasia again!
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1981.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.
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