(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)
(0)Barbara O'Connor
1) Wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Appears on list
Description
Charlie Reese is sent to live with a family she barely knows, but with the help of a skinny stray dog who captures her heart and a neighbor boy named Howard, she learns what the real meaning of family may be.
2) Wonderland
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
When her mother uproots them again to another home and takes a job as housekeeper, ten-year-old Mavis is determined to find a best friend in Landry, Alabama, where the summer also holds the promise of friendship and change for a sad man, a stray dog, and a timid girl.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In Fayette, South Carolina, the highlight of Popeye's summer is learning vocabulary words with his grandmother until a motor home gets stuck nearby and Elvis, the oldest boy living inside, joins Popeye in finding the source of strange boats floating down the creek.
Author
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
Description
After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while avoiding nosy neighbor Viola.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Living in the family car in their small North Carolina town after their father leaves them virtually penniless, Georgina, desperate to improve their situation and unwilling to accept her overworked mother's calls for patience, persuades her younger brother to help her in an elaborate scheme to get money by stealing a dog and then claiming the reward that the owners are bound to offer.
