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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"Growing up on his family's farm in New York, Almanzo Wilder wishes for just one thing -- his very own horse. But Father doesn't yet trust him with such a big responsibility. Almanzo needs to prove himself -- but how?"--P. [4] of cover.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Teenager Eliza and her friends are going to explore a cave near their upstate New York home, but first her friends insist on dragging her to Drowner's Swamp, a bog legendary for its dangerous sinkholes, and a place which her mother has frequently warned her about; Eliza does not want to go, and when the earth opens up and swallows her she finds herself in a system of caves--and what she finds living there is strange and dangerous beyond anything the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Ten-year-old Sprig no longer gets along with her twelve-year-old sister, Dakota, but the two pull together during their father's extended business trip to Afghanistan, sharing concerns about his safety, an elderly neighbor's health, fights with their best friends, and boys.
4) Skeleton Man
Author
Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
7) Gingersnap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
8) Signal
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
After moving with his emotionally distant father to the Finger Lakes region of upstate New York, twelve-year-old Owen faces a lonely summer until he meets an abused girl who may be a space alien.
Author
Series
Cupcake queen volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Penny's mother has moved to Hog's Hollow, has opened a bakery that sells only cupcakes, and she has brought Penny with her. Penny is woebegone: all her friends and her dad are in New York City; she has to help her mother in the bakery; and Hog's Hollow's resident mean girl is making her life a misery.
11) Wild girl
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
13) Heist society
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
14) The missing girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In Mallory, New York, as five sisters, aged eleven to seventeen, deal with assorted problems, conflicts, fears, and yearnings, a mysterious middle-aged man watches them, fascinated, deciding which one he likes the best.
15) A northern light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
16) Rated
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Societies thrive on order, and the Rating System is the ultimate symbol of organized social mobility. The higher your rating soars, the more valued you are. The lower it plummets, the harder you must work to improve yourself. For the students at the prestigious Maplethorpe Academy, every single thing they do is reflected in their ratings, updated continuously and available for all to see. But when an act of vandalism sullies the front doors of the...
18) Peeled
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In an upstate New York farming community, high school reporter Hildy Biddle investigates a series of strange occurrences at a house rumored to be haunted.
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Seeing things. You were just seeing things. For city girl Callie Velasquez, nothing sounds more terrifying than a night out in the wilderness. But, wanting to bond with her popular new friends, Lissa and Penelope, she agrees to join them on a camping trip. At least Callie's sweet new boyfriend, Jeremy, will be coming too. But nothing goes as planned. The group loses half their food supply. Then they lose their way. And with strange sounds all around...
20) No good deed
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Civic-minded teen Gregor Maravilla attends an activist's summer camp where he participates in a charity competition that triggers a rivalry with a famous young actress whose choices encourage campers to sabotage each other.