Andrew Clements
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
It was an ordinary Monday morning in Walla Walla-until Lulu walked up to her English teacher's desk. "Mrs. Bell, I feel like a nit-wit. My homework is all higgledy-piggledy. Last night it was in tip-top shape, but not it's a big mish-mash." With those few words, things become not so ordinary after all, for it seems that Lulu has opened up a super-duper, helter-skelter WORD WARP. Luckily for Lulu and the rest of the English-speaking world, the school...
2) Frindle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
When he decides to turn his fifth-grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
3) No talking
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
4) Troublemaker
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.
5) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
11) Big Al
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.
13) Lunch money
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
14) The report card
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.
15) In harm's way
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert continue their efforts to save their school, they find themselves dodging two evil janitors, Lyman and Wally, but their team has also grown and now has a secret fund of millions of dollars.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"The Keepers of the School--known to their friends as Ben, Jill, and Robert--have one last chance to save their school before it's torn down to make room for a seaside amusement park. But their nemeses, janitors Lyman and Wally, are just as determined to keep the kids out of the way and the demolition on schedule"--
18) The map trap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Sixth-grader Alton Barnes loves maps, and when his portfolio of secret maps is stolen, he begins getting notes with orders that he must obey to get the maps back but, with the help of a popular classmate, he just might succeed before his teacher, principal, or someone else learns he has been studying and mapping things about them.
19) Things hoped for
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery when her grandfather suddenly goes missing.
Author
Series
Jake Drake series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Jake Drake sets out to save his reputation when a run of good luck at school draws the unwanted praise of his teachers, giving the other kids the idea that he is teacher's pet.