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2) The giver
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 5
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1985.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Her family's new organized schedule for easy housekeeping makes thirteen-year-old Anastasia confident that she can run the household while her mother is out of town, until she hits unexpected complications.
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1988.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Sam, Anastasia Krupnik's younger brother, from his first day as a newborn through his mischievous times as a toddler.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 3
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1982.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Anastasia has a series of disastrous experiences when, expecting to get a job as a lady's companion, she is hired instead to be a maid. Sequel to "Anastasia again."
Author
Series
Sam Krupnik volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1992.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, two outcasts in an Iron Age village befriend each other, as disabled, orphaned Varick helps Estrild achieve her dream of becoming the first female warrior. Inspired by the Windeby bog body.
Author
Series
Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1979.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Anastasia's 10th year has some good things like falling in love and really getting to know her grandmother and some bad things like finding out about an impending baby brother.
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1983.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When their mother starts to date the mystery man on the fifth floor who has been instructed by his agent to "eliminate the children" by the first of May, eleven-year-old Caroline and her older brother figure they're targeted to be the victims of a savage crime.
13) Your move, J.P.!
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1990.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Lovestruck J.P. finds himself doing all sorts of weird things to impress his new interest but his life becomes very complicated when a simple lie gets out of control.
14) Bless this mouse
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Mouse Mistress Hildegarde musters all her ingenuity to keep a large colony of church mice safe from the exterminator and to see that they make it through the dangerous Blessing of the Animals.
15) Switcharound
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1985.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline, age eleven, and J.P., age thirteen, are given unpleasant responsibilities for which they are determined to get revenge.
16) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
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