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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 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
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
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish Children
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pinch is a pack rat who does not want to give up the possessions that are cluttering his house, but when he finally is persuaded to sell them at a neighborhood tag sale, he discovers the beauty of recycling. Includes tips on "reducing, reusing, and recycling."
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...
8) 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.
9) Pride
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
The last remaining orange tree on a Southern California street brings together neighbors of all ages as they face their problems and anxieties, including the possibility that a mysterious stranger is a threat to their tree.
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
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After school orchestra practice, young Nic carries his double bass through rough neighborhoods to his grandfather's home, where he and Grandaddy Nic play jazz music with friends, delighting the neighbors.
Author
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:...
20) 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"--
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