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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Three children must defeat a mysterious doctor who builds an irresistible and dangerous playground in their neighborhood and then uses his power to heal children who get injured--stealing some of their life essence in the process"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Her grandfather's dying words lead thirteen-year-old Theodora Tenpenny to a valuable, hidden painting she fears may be stolen, but it is her search for answers in her Greenwich Village neighborhood that brings a real treasure.
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fernie What, an adventurous young horror fan, moves into the house across the street from the dark mansion of a mysterious boy whose residence is haunted by evil shadows.
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Gustav convinces Fernie's safety-conscious father to enter the Gloom Mansion with Fernie and Perlie to help rescue Gustav's father from the Dark Country, there is a prison break from the Hall of Shadow Criminals, endangering them all.
Author
Series
Gustav Gloom volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As Fernie and Gustav battle the Shadow Eater, who seeks The Nightmare Vault for his master, the evil Lord Obsidian, Fernie learns about Gustav's mysterious past and just what happened to his missing parents.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
In this bestselling and “charming debut” (People) from one of Sweden’s most successful authors, a grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door.
Meet Ove. He’s a curmudgeon—the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him “the bitter...
7) Seedfolks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed.
Author
Series
Boy series volume 1
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Gossip columnist and single New York City girl Mel lives lives in the most exciting place in the world, yet she's bored with her love life. But things get interesting fast when the old lady next door is nearly murdered. Mel starts paying closer attention to her neighbors--what exactly is going on with the cute boy next door? Has Mel found the love of her life--or a killer?
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fox Street means everything to Mo Wren, who is nearly eleven, and so she is very upset when a land developer offers to buy her father's house, especially since she has not yet found the fox she is sure lives in the nearby ravine.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When his family's restaurant and Cuban American neighborhood in Miami are threatened by a greedy land developer, thirteen-year-old Arturo, joined by Carmen, a cute poetry enthusiast, fight back, discovering the power of poetry and protest through untold family stories and the work of José Martí.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
The White Elephant looms large over the quaint suburban town of Willard Park: a gaudy, newly constructed behemoth of a home, it soars over the neighborhood, dwarfing the houses that surround it. When owner Nick Cox cuts down Allison and Ted Millers' precious red maple-in an effort to make his unsightly property more appealing to buyers-their once serene town becomes a battleground. While tensions between Ted and Nick escalate, other dysfunctions abound:...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Bucolic Newport Cove, where spontaneous block parties occur on balmy nights and all of the streets are named for flowers, is proud of its distinction of being named one the top twenty safest neighborhoods in the US. It's also one of the most secret-filled. Kellie Scott has just returned to work after a decade of being a stay-at-home mom. She's adjusting to high heels, scrambling to cook dinner for her family after a day at the office--and soaking...
14) Unfadeable
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"A young graffiti artist learns to fight smart against the gentrification threatening her neighborhood"--
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
After the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri is forced to find common ground with Darius, while struggling with her four wild sisters, a handsome boy vying for her attention, and college applications.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Melville Heights is one of the nicest neighborhoods in Bristol, England. It's the sort of place where doctors and lawyers and old-money academics live. It's not the sort of place where people get stabbed in the back thirty times with a kitchen knife in their own homes. Someone must have seen something. Newlywed Joey Mullen, for example, recently returned from four years working in Ibiza. She and her husband Alfie are eager to find a place of their...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
There are places where you want to go and places where you want to leave. There are also places where you want to stay.
Nine-year-old Daniel must move across the county with his mom after his parents’ divorce. He’s leaving behind his whole life―everything―and he’s taking a suitcase of anger with him. But Daniel is in for a surprise when he settles into While-a-Way Lane and meets his new neighbors―the Lemonade Girl, the hopscotching mailman,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"With her husband Sam off on a trip to Europe, Miss Julia reckons it's about time to roll up her sleeves and be of some use to her community. It's then that she hears that the nosy do-gooder Madge Taylor and the new pastor Rucker are embarking on a mission to buy up the vacant house next door to Hazel Marie and establish a group home for wayward teenagers. No stranger to taking in the down-and-out herself, Miss Julia is shocked to learn Madge and...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Ali lives in Bed-Stuy, a Brooklyn neighborhood known for guns and drugs, but he and his sister, Jazz, and their neighbors, Needles and Noodles, stay out of trouble until they go to the wrong party, where one gets badly hurt and another leaves with a target on his back.
20) The whispers
Author
Language
English
Description
"The Loverlys sit by the hospital bed of their young son who is in a coma after falling from his bedroom window in the middle of the night; his mother, Whitney, will not speak to anyone. Back home, their friends and neighbors are left in shock, each confronting their own role in the events that led up to what happened that terrible night: the warm, altruistic Parks who are the Loverlys' best friends; the young, ambitious Goldsmiths who are struggling...
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