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1) The witches
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
This Roald Dahl classic tells the scary, funny and imaginative tale of a seven-year-old boy who has a run-in with some real-life witches! In fairy tales witches always wear silly black hats and black cloaks and they ride on broomsticks. But this is not a fairy tale. This is about REAL WITCHES. REAL WITCHES dress in ordinary clothes and look very much like ordinary women. They live in ordinary houses and they work in ordinary jobs. That is why they...
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
4) Summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A little story about all the strange and wonderful delights of the outdoors in summer.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
"Over the summer, after a horrendous school year of dealing with a mean bully on the playground or the one in his own bedroom, stealing all of his older brother's underwear in a prank that backfires, running from the infamous mean Mrs. Rickles, searching for the 'dead dog in the lake', fishing, cmaping and other adventures, Gabriel Peters will grow up just a bit."--jacket flap.
6) Summer
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Examines summer and what it is like for plants, animals and people.
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Series
Adventures of a young cowboy volume 1
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Meet our young cowboy friend as he work his summer ranch job, then follow his journey alone with his horse and pregnant burro across a couple hundred miles to get home before school starts. The journey is adventurous, and the folks he meets along the way are all good folks...well, almost.
9) Lawn boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
11) Summerland
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A warm June evening, a local tradition: the students of Nantucket High have gathered for a bonfire on the beach. But what begins as a graduation night celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car crash leaves the driver of the car, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother in a coma. The other passengers, Penny's boyfriend Jake and her friend Demeter, are physically unhurt - but the emotional damage is overwhelming, and questions linger about...
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Description
"Life and a dismal last name are the only two things Beyah Grim's parents ever gave her. After carving her path all on her own, Beyah is well on her way to bigger and better things, thanks to no one but herself. With only two short months separating her from the future she's built and the past she desperately wants to leave behind, an unexpected death leaves Beyah with no place to go during the interim. Forced to reach out to her last resort, Beyah...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"It used to be that Belly counted the days until summer, until she was back at Cousins Beach with Conrad and Jeremiah. But not this year. Not after Susannah got sick again and Conrad stopped caring. Everything that was right and good has fallen apart, leaving Belly wishing summer would never come. But when Jeremiah calls saying Conrad has disappeared, Belly knows what she must do to make things right again. And it can only happen back at the beach...
14) Come on, rain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat.
16) Honey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A young bear wakes from hibernation craving honey, but soon recalls the many things he can enjoy while waiting for his favorite food to be ready.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
A NEW BEGINNING: Hollywood actor Dayne Matthews and Katy Hart are married and living in Bloomington, Ind., where Dayne has found a solution to his on-camera love scenes--he wants Katy to star in his next film. Katy wins the part and is cast opposite her super-star husband. The story of a small town girlś dream come true is too much for the press to resist, and in an effort to appease them, the couple agrees to a 12-
episode reality show. It seems...
18) Once and for all
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Louna's years working at her mother's wedding planning business--as well as the tragic end of her first love--have shaped her cynical views on romance, but the arrival of serial-dater Ambrose may start to change Louna's mind and give her a second chance at love.
19) Surprise Island
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"The Aldens spend the summer on Grandfather's island! Joe, the island's friendly handyman, helps them with anything they need, but as the children continue to explore their summer home, they realize there is more to the island--and to their new friend--than meets the eye."--Publisher's description.
Author
Series
Adventures of a young cowboy volume 3
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
"Join Honey on his continuing adventures of becoming a cowboy. He finally graduates from high school ... 'I didn't graduate with honors, but it was an honor to graduate' ... and takes on more responsibility at his summer ranch job, continues his relationship with his girlfriend Sally, and has many surprises in store for him---some good and some not so good,"--back cover.