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41) Of a feather
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
A baby great horned owl, Second, so called because his sister, First, is already out of the nest, is reluctant to hunt for himself, but when his mother is injured he is forced out into the forest; Maureen is a human girl pulled out of her grandmother's violent home and placed with an aunt--but her Aunt Beatrice is involved in falconry and runs a mews where injured raptors can heal, and it is here Maureen and Second (now called Rufus) meet and learn...
Author
Series
Emily the Strange graphic novellas volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Traveling in her homemade Time-Out Machine, Emily journeys to the eighteenth century to uncover the truth behind a Strange family rumor.
43) The golden hour
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rowan and his eleven-year-old sister, Nina, still bereft by the death of their mother the year before, experience an unusual adventure through time when they come to stay with their two eccentric great-aunts in a small town on the Maine coast.
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 5
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Three ordinary kids, Jared, Simon, and Mallory Grace, have entered another world -- without leaving this one!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Juanita and Miguel's great aunt, T�Ưa Lola, comes from the Dominican Republic to help take care of them after their parents divorce, and soon she is so involved in their small Vermont community that when her visa expires, the whole town turns out to support her.
47) Miss Rumphius
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
As a child, Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
48) Dreadful acts
Author
Series
Eddie Dickens trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Eddie Dickens survives encounters with an escape artist in a runaway hearse's coffin, a hot air balloon bearing the escape artist's lovely assistant, a gas explosion, and a jewel thief on the run.
49) Long Lankin
Author
Series
Long Lankin volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Description
When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In 1919, independent-minded fifteen-year-old Rosalind lives in India with her English parents, and when they fear she has fallen in with some rebellious types who believe in Indian self-government, she is sent "home" to London, where she has never been before and where her older brother died, to stay with her two aunts.
51) Jo's Story
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Gr 3-5--As hard as it must be to write a sequel or prequel to one's own book, it must be doubly difficult to write a new story using someone else's creations, especially such well-known characters as the March girls. Pfeffer offers a slight story that takes place before Alcott's book; it's set when the girls are younger (Jo is 10), before the war and Pa's absence from home. The family members seem familiar, but the language of the story is simplified....
Author
Series
Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1592, twelve-year-old Isabel dreams of adventure and finds it, not only on her journey from her London home to her aunt's manor house in Northamptonshire, but also through the healing arts her aunt teaches her.
56) Primrose day
Author
Pub. Date
1942.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
During World War II, seven-year-old Merry Primrose Ramsay is sent from England to live with relatives in the United States, where, despite missing her parents and feeling homesick, she has many adventures while going to school and learning to fish and knit.
58) Willy and May
Author
Pub. Date
[1995]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A girl who always looks forward to her visits with her Great-aunt May and May's canary Willy is terribly disappointed when she thinks she will not be able to see them one Christmas.