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AR Level: 3.8 -- 71 pages For extra credit the students in Mr. Magro's class write about the biggest emergencies they ever had, from runaway go-carts to eating all the fund-raiser candy! |
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AR Level: 4.4 -- 100 pages A boy who works for a magician is transported to the Land of Story to search for a missing puppet, and there he meets his favorite fairy tale characters. |
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AR Level: 4 -- 116 pages While vacationing in the country, eleven-year-old Toby, a cancer patient, meets an elderly poet and her cow and learns some important lessons about living and dying. |
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AR Level: 5.3 -- 112 pages Quila and her father, living alone in a remote Maine lighthouse in the 1850's, find that their lives change when a baby washes ashore and they decide to keep her as part of their family. But who is the stranger who comes to claim her? |
 School at Crooked Creek by Laurie Lawlor AR Level: 4 -- 83 pages Living on the 19th-century Indiana frontier with his parents and older sister, six-year-old Beansie dreads his first day of school, especially the long hike and the bullying neighbor. But Beansie proves he can be tougher than anyone believes. |
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AR Level: 5.7 -- 194 pages When she becomes an orphan in British East Africa in 1919, thirteen-year-old Rachel must pretend she is someone else to travel to England, where her only dream is to return to Africa and rebuild her parents' mission hospital. |
 The Earth Dragon Awakes by Laurence Yep AR Level: 3.7 -- 117 pages Eight-year-old Henry and nine-year-old Chin love to read about heroes until they both witness real courage while trying to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake. |
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AR Level: 4.7 -- 96 pages -- CHILDREN’S CROWN AWARD Based on a true story. Professor Ueno's loyal Akita, Hachiko, waits for him at the train station every afternoon. When his owner has a fatal heart attack at work, Hachiko faithfully continues to await his return every day for the rest of his life. |
 Being Teddy Roosevelt by Claudia Mills AR Level: 4.1 -- 89 pages When he is assigned Teddy Roosevelt as his biography project in school, fourth-grader Riley finds himself inspired by the president’s determination, so Riley resolves to find a way to get what he most wants--a saxophone and music lessons. |
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AR Level: 5.4 -- 341 pages NEWBERY HONOR BOOK Eleven-year-old Elijah Freeman, the first free-born child in Buxton, Canada, which is a haven for slaves fleeing the American South in 1859, uses his wits and skills to try to bring to justice the lying preacher who has stolen money that was to be used to buy a family's freedom. |
 The invention of Hugo Cabret: a novel in words and pictures by Brian Selznick AR Level: 5.1 -- 533 pages CALDECOTT MEDAL WINNER When twelve-year-old Hugo, an orphan living and repairing clocks within the walls of a Paris train station in 1931, meets a mysterious toyseller and his goddaughter, he finds it hard to keep his secret hidden. |
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AR Level 4 -- 170 pages Evicted from their apartment, Georgina and her family live in a car. Desperate to return to normal life, Georgina makes a plan: she’ll steal a dog, return it, and then collect the reward money. But the plan backfires as Georgina knows she’s not doing the right thing.
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AR Level 4.7 -- 267 pages NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER Desperaux is not like other mice in the castle. He loves to read and he loves human Princess Pea. And now he must prove his love by rescuing his beloved from an evil rat and a jealous palace servant girl. |
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AR Level 3.4 -- 58 pages NEWBERY MEDAL WINNER Sarah comes to live with Anna and Caleb in the frontier on a trial basis to see if she will want to marry their widowed father. Sarah misses the sea near her home in Maine, and the children must do their best to have her stay as their new mother. |
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AR Level 5.4 -- 105 pages Nick decides to bother his teacher, who loves words and the dictionary, by inventing new words and using them all day long. Thus a pen becomes a ‘frindle’. But the war of words gets out of hand, with Nick getting national publicity, the kids involved and the principal getting annoyed. |
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AR Level 5.1 -- 158 pages Ralph the Mouse lives with his family in a Vermont country inn. When Keith, a little boy who is staying at the inn, becomes his friend and teaches how to ride a toy motorcycle, Ralph uses it to go from one wild adventure to the next. |
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AR Level 4 -- 83 pages Willy’s grandfather will lose his farm if he doesn’t pay his back taxes. Willy decides that if he wins the important dog sled race he can help his grandfather, but first he must beat the big mountain man, Stone Fox. |
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AR Level 4.9 -- 179 pages William gets a gift: a castle complete with a silver knight. To his surprise, Sir Simon comes to life and urges William to accompany him on a quest against the evil magician Alastor. As William shrinks and enters the castle, he knows he’s in for the adventure of his life.
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