Zilpha Keatley Snyder
1) The Unseen
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Feeling angry and out-of-place in her large family, twelve-year-old Xandra finds a magical key to a world of ghostly, sometimes frightening, phantoms that help her see herself and her siblings more clearly.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Hallie and her mother move to a new town after her father's sudden death, Hallie begins to spy on a troubled family living in a nearby building and her involvement helps her begin to handle her feelings of anger and grief.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abby O'Malley is a girl who likes things to make sense. School makes sense, and her best friend Paige makes sense (most of the time), but Abby's flighty mother never makes sense. Abby's mom seems to think that she and Abby are descended from a line of witches, and that they have special powers--psychic powers that don't make sense at all. The problem is, Abby knows that she can do certain things that other people can't. Sometimes, when she...
Author
Series
Publisher
Dell Yearling
Pub. Date
[2001], c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1909, after spending several months back at the Lovell House Home for Orphaned and Abandoned Boys, eleven-year-old Gib returns to live on the Thornton ranch, where his natural way with horses helps to make him feel at home.
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1999], c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Despite the harsh treatment he has endured at the Lovell House orphanage, ten-year-old Gib Whittaker manages to maintain his hopeful outlook when he is "farmed out" to help with the horses of a wealthy banker in 1908.
9) The runaways
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Dani hates living in the small desert town of Rattler Springs, Nevada, but her plans to run away get complicated when a pesty young boy and an imaginative new girl decide they want to go along.
10) The Egypt game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies.
11) Cat running
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.
Author
Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Edgar nominee Zilpha Keatley Snyder is a three-time Newbery Honor winner, and her book The Unseen was named as both a School Library Journal Best Book and Parents' Choice Silver Honor Winner. In William S. and the Great Escape, Snyder pens a middle-grade adventure sure to be ranked with her very best.
13) The bronze pen
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
With her father's failing health and the family's shaky finances, twelve-year-old Audrey's dreams of becoming a writer seem very impractical until she is given a peculiar bronze pen that appears to have unusual powers.