Lisa Graff
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Georgie's dwarfism causes problems, but he could always rely on his parents, his best friend, and classmate Jeanie the Meanie's teasing, until a surprising announcement, a new boy in school, and a class project shake things up.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
Mr. Walker, the human-shaped figure who lives in the traffic signal box and tells pedestrians when it is safe to cross the street, decides to leave his post and experience all that he has been missing, in this sweet and satisfying tale about finding one's place in the world.
Mr. Walker works hard. Every day, he stands in the window of his boxy little house on the corner of Broadway and Main, letting people know when it's safe to cross the street....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy after her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
After her newly-divorced parents become unreasonable, fifth-grader Winnie, with notes from her friends, writes of turning her treehouse into an embassy, where she is joined by nine others with complaints.
10) Lost in the sun
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"As Trent Zimmerman struggles to move past a traumatic event that took place several months earlier, he befriends class outcast Fallon Little, who helps him understand that he can move on"--
11) Far away
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Twelve-year-old CJ believes her mom is dead and that she can only communicate with her through her aunt, who is a medium, but when CJ finds out that her mother is actually alive, she goes on a journey to find her.
12) Rewind
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
As far as twelve-year-old McKinley O'Dair is concerned, the best thing about living in Gap Bend, Pennsylvania, is the Time Hop--the giant party the town throws every June to celebrate a single year in history. That one day is enough to make the few things that aren't so fantastic about McKinley's life--like her crabby homeroom teacher or her super-scheduled father--worth suffering through. And when McKinley learns that this year's theme is 1993, she...
16) Double dog dare
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When Kansas Bloom moves to California and joins the Media Club at school, he soon finds himself trying to outdo one of the other fourth-grade students in a "dare war" while vying for the job of on-air video homeroom announcer.