Gennifer Choldenko
Author
Series
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
Author
Series
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
226 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moose has his hands full during the summer of 1936 watching his autistic sister, Natalie, and the warden's daughter, Piper, and trying to get on a baseball team by proving he knows Al Capone.
Author
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Formats
Description
With their house in foreclosure, sisters India and Mouse and brother Finn are sent to stay with an uncle in Colorado until their mother can join them, but when the plane lands, the children are welcomed by cheering crowds to a strange place where each of them has a perfect house and a clock that is ticking down the time.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.
Author
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
San Francisco, 1900. The Gilded Age. A fantastic time to be alive for lots of people... but not thirteen-year-old Lizzie Kennedy, stuck at Miss Barstow's snobby school for girls. Lizzie's secret passion is science, an unsuitable subject for finishing-school girls. Lizzie lives to go on house calls with her physician father. On those visits to his patients, she discovers a hidden dark side of the city -- a side that's full of secrets, rats, and rumors...
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her "real" parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by bending the truth and telling lies.
8) Dogtown
Author
Series
Dogtown volume 1
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
630L
Physical Desc
344 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In Dogtown, a shelter for unwanted canine and robot dogs, an extraordinary bond develops between Chance, a longing three-legged dog, Metalhead, an empathetic robot, and Mouse, their friendly ally, as they strive to find forever homes.
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Lexile measure
530L
Physical Desc
216 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Kirsten and Walk, seventh-graders at an elite private school, alternate telling how race, wealth, weight, and other issues shape their relationships as they and other misfits stand up to a mean but influential classmate, even as they are uncovering a long-kept secret about themselves.
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
AD 560L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A boy keeps a toy dinosaur in his pocket to help him be brave like his dad--but when the dinosaur goes missing, Dad knows just what to do"--
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st Hyperion Paperbacks ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
The horse seriously doubts that the cow will ever be able to jump over the Moon but offers respect and admiration when the determined bovine accomplishes that feat.
14) Orphan eleven
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1939, after cruel treatment at her orphanage renders her mute, Lucy runs away and joins the circus, working with the elephants and unaware that the orphanage matrons are hunting for her.
15) A giant crush
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
28 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Too shy to approach the girl he likes, Jackson hides little gifts for her to discover before Valentine's Day.