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1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Roald Dahl's beloved novel hits the big screen in July 2016 in a major motion picture adaptation directed by Steven Spielberg from Amblin Entertainment and Walt Disney Pictures.
When Sophie is snatched from her orphanage bed by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), she fears she will be eaten. But instead the two join forces to vanquish the nine other far less gentle giants who threaten to consume earth’s children. This beautiful hardcover
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Series
Publisher
Christy Ottaviano Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Just after twelve-year-old Emily and her family move to San Francisco, she teams up with new friend James to follow clues in an odd book they find, hoping to figure out its secrets before the men who attacked Emily's hero, publisher Garrison Griswold, solve the mystery or come after the friends.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Anastasia, nearly eleven, is snatched from her elementary school and sent to live at a former insane asylum with two great aunts she had never met after being told that her parents died in a tragic vacuum cleaner accident.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sixth grade is coming to an end, and so is life as Macy McMillan knows it. Already a "For Sale" sign mars the front lawn of her beloved house. Soon her mother will upend their perfect little family, adding a stepfather and six-year-old twin stepsisters. Macy's mother sends her next door to help eighty six-year-old Iris Gillan, who is also getting ready to move - in her case into an assisted living facility. Iris can't pack a single box on her own...
9) Dust storm!
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Separated from their group and in the desert alone, former best friends Jen and Martin have to use all their knowledge and grit to survive.
10) The frame-up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A summer of unexpected circumstances cause the rules for the residents of the Beaverbrook Art Gallery to go out the window.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
A girl made of stone, forever twelve years old, has outlasted the father who carved her and gave her life, but now the magical marks that animate her are fading and she must leave her mountain home and find help in the valley below if she wants her story--and those of her family--to continue.--Provided by Publisher.
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Language
English
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Description
Silva and her family visit her grandfather and find his health is failing. To evade her worries Silva seeks escape in books at her local library. There a magpie guides her to a secret, magical room that contains books she can read, but also live in. Silva finds herself in the worlds of storybook characters... who all turn out to be real people. People she knows. Soon she discovers that the magpie has lured her to these books under false pretenses....