Meg Rosoff
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Physical Desc
239 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Mila travels with her father to upstate New York to visit friends and family, who may lead them to clues to the whereabouts of her father's best friend, who has gone missing.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st American ed.
Lexile measure
780L
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When the beautiful Lucy prays to fall in love, God, an irresponsible youth named Bob, chooses to answer her prayer personally, to the dismay of this assistant, Mr. B who must try to clean up the resulting catastrophes.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
104 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Ma Peachey resigned from being a mother to take up yoga instead, the rest of the family took up being in crisis: no one cooked dinner, no one picked up the dirty laundry, and the children were always late for school. Ma might be off finding inner peace, but Pa Peachey, Ava, and Ollie are falling apart! Only almost-nine-year-old Betty is wise enough to know that the family needs to be rescued. Enter McTavish--a rescue dog on a mission to rescue...
5) Black Beauty
Author
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Black Beauty, a handsome, shiny black horse with a star on his forehead, nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. This classic story features 101 vocabulary words that everyone going into 4th grade should know. Includes definitions, word puzzles and games. -- Adapted from Page [4] cover.
Author
Lexile measure
1620L
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
To get away from her pregnant stepmother in New York City, fifteen-year-old Daisy goes to England to stay with her aunt and cousins, with whom she instantly bonds, but soon war breaks out and rips apart the family while devastating the land. "Every war has turning points and every person too." Fifteen-year-old Daisy is sent from Manhattan to England to visit her aunt and cousins she's never met: three boys near her age, and their little sister. Her...
7) Just in case
Author
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Convinced that fate is out to get him, fifteen-year-old David Case assumes a new identity in the hope of avoiding what he believes is certain doom.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
82 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It's summer, and the Peachey family is in crisis--again. Where will they go for their vacation? Betty Peachey thinks that camping is the best option, and Ma Peachey know just the place. But Pa Peachey is convinced that nature is filled with terrible dangers, Ollie only wants to go if there's a dance club, and Ava would rather stay home and read German philosophy. Will rescue dog McTavish figure out how to turn the Peacheys into happy campers--and...
11) Wild boars cook
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Besides being naughty, greedy, stinky, and rude, wild boars Boris, Morris, Horace, and Doris are also very hungry and luckily Doris finds the perfect recipe for them to make.
12) The great Godden
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Lexile measure
850L
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
At the house on the beach, everything is always the same. Summer unspools in days of sticky heat and lazy beach walks, the family only reconvening for lantern-lit suppers in the garden with the sea a constant roar in the background. Predictable, familiar--and easy. But everything changes with the arrival of the Godden brothers: Kit, magnetic and lazily seductive, and Hugo, intense and unknowable. By the end of summer, nothing will be the same. --...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
275 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jonathan Trefoil's boss is unhinged, his relationship baffling, and his apartment just the wrong side of legal. His girlfriend wants to marry someone just like him--only richer and with a different sense of humor. He doesn't remember life being this confusing, back before everyone expected him to act like a grown-up. When his brother asks him to look after his dogs, Jonathan's worldview begins to shift. Could a border collie and a cocker spaniel...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Pa Peachey has gotten it in his head that he is going to be the baker in the family, and the Peacheys and their dog, McTavish, are more than a little surprised. Stunned, in fact. Ever since Ma Peachey declared herself free of the cooking responsibilities, Betty, Ava, and Ollie have taken turns making inventive and delicious meals. But Pa thinks he can do better, even though his cakes are as flat as manhole covers and his cookies turn to charcoal....