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Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
2) Savvy
Author
Series
Savvy (Ingrid Law) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
3) Ruby Holler
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books/Harper Collins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old fraternal twins Dallas and Florida have grown up in a terrible orphanage but their lives change forever when an eccentric but sweet older couple invites them each on an adventure, beginning in an almost magical place called Ruby Holler.
4) Runaway twin
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sunny, accompanied by a stray dog, takes advantage of a windfall to travel from her Nebraska foster home to Enumclaw, Washington, to find the twin sister from whom she was separated at age three.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Originally written as a political satire and now read as an adventure story, the travels of Gulliver include adventures in a land where people were only inches tall, in a land of giants, on an island that floated in the air, and in a country ruled by horses.
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Apophis, the chaos snake, threatens to plunge the world into eternal darkness, siblings Carter and Sade Kane plan to use an ancient spell to destroy the snake, but first must rely on the murderous ghost of a powerful magician.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carter Kane and his sister must prevent the chaos snake Apophis from breaking free in a few days' time or the world will come to an end. To have any chance of battling these Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Samantha and Nellie set sail for Europe aboard an ocean liner in 1906. Also traveling on the ship is a world-famous archaeologist with the legendary sapphire he discovered. Before the archaeologist can deliver his treasure to a London museum, the priceless jewel disappears. Samantha realizes that every one of the ship's first-class passengers is a suspect -- and one of them must be the thief! Can Samantha and Nellie uncover the real culprit and find...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A large-format illustrated edition of the first volume in the Percy Jackson series, wherein he's "about to be kicked out of boarding school--again. And that's the least of his troubles. Lately, mythological monsters and the gods of Mount Olympus seem to be walking straight out of the pages of Percy's Greek mythology textbook and into his life. And worse, he's angered a few of them. Zeus's master lightning bolt has been stolen, and Percy is the prime...
Author
Series
Birchbark house volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1852, forced by the United States government to leave their beloved Island of the Golden Breasted Woodpecker, fourteen-year-old Omokayas and her Ojibwe family travel in search of a new home.
11) Liesl & Po
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A mix-up involving the greatest magic in the world has tremendous consequences for Liesl, an orphan who has been locked in an attic, Will, an alchemist's runaway apprentice, and Po, a ghost, as they are pursued by friend and foe while making an important journey.
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 13
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While Coryn and his companions journey to a wintery realm where mysterious owls live, the king becomes the target of an assassination plot and it is up to Primrose and Eglantine to save him.
Author
Series
Copernicus legacy volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As Wade, Darrell, Lily, and Becca continue their search for an ancient relic, Wade's mother is kidnapped by Galina Krause, leader of the present-day Teutonic Knights.
Author
Series
Last of the Jedi volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ferus Olin is trying to save the surviving Jedi, but his old rival Anakin Skywalker stands in his way.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Victor Flores journeys north in a desperate attempt to cross the Arizona border and find work in the United States to support his family in central Mexico.
16) Gully's travels
Author
Publisher
Michael Di Capua Books/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When his beloved owner falls in love with a woman who is allergic to long-haired dogs, Gulliver is given away to his doorman and the pooch's wonderful life of leisure comes to a dramatic end after he moves in with his new owner's family in their cramped home in Queens.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2011, c2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When twelve-year-old Josephine falls through a worm-hole in her garden shed into another time and place, she realizes the troubles she has at home are minor compared to what she has to tackle now in the world where she has landed.
18) Secret weapon
Author
Series
Last of the Jedi volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The empire is preparing a secret weapon, and rebel leader Ferus Olin appears to be helping.
Author
Series
Last of the Jedi volume 9
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Ferus Olin's in full blown double agent mode and that's got him and his friends worried. Friendship and loyalty are certainly tested when it comes down to the question of "who do you serve?" or "How much hurt can one inflict while doing something necessary?"
20) The tenth city
Author
Series
Land of Elyon volume 3
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alexa reveals the origin of the Land of Elyon while defending it against the evil Abaddon and his sinister forces, with not only the last Jocasta at stake but also the nature of the land itself.
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