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Author
Series
Truly devious volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham an early 20th century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. A place, he said, where learning is a game. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with...
Author
Series
Truly devious volume 4
Language
English
Description
After solving the greatest unsolved mystery of the century, Stevie Bell goes undercover as a camp counselor to investigate the strange things going on at Camp Wonder Falls--the site of the infamous "Box in the Woods" murders.
Author
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Travis and his sister, Corey, can't resist a good trick. When they learn that their grandmother's quiet Vermont inn, where they're spending the summer, has a history of ghost sightings, they decide to do a little "haunting" of their own. Before long, their supernatural pranks have tourists flocking to Fox Hill Inn,and business booms. But Travis and Corey soon find out that theirs aren't the only ghosts at Fox Hill. Their thoughtless games have awakened...
4) Pollyanna
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In early twentieth-century Vermont, orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with her austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, and uses her philosophy of gladness to bring happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Stevie Bell seemed to be on the cusp of the decades-old kidnapping and murder of Albert Ellingham's family. But a classmate's murder-- which Stevie solved-- convinced her parents to pull her out of Ellingham Academy. Then politician Edward King arrives at her house to offer a deal: he will bring Stevie back to Ellingham if she will play nice with his son, David, a fellow classmate. King is in the midst of a campaign and can't afford his son stirring...
6) Chirp
Author
Language
English
Description
"Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
While true-crime afficionado Ellery and her twin brother are staying with their grandmother in a Vermont community known for murder, a new friend goes missing and Ellery may be next.
Echo Ridge is small-town America. Ellery's never been there, but she's heard all about it. Her aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen put the town on the map when she was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with...
8) Bell's Star
Author
Series
Horse diaries volume 2
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his family hires migrant Mexican workers to help save their Vermont farm from foreclosure, eleven-year-old Tyler befriends the oldest daughter, but when he discovers they may not be in the country legally, he realizes that real friendship knows no borders.
Author
Series
Publisher
Skybound Comet
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
248 pages : chiefly illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge a new path all her own. But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys north to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, zombie-free settlement. As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh...
Author
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Days before his thirteenth birthday, science-lover Finn learns that the women of his family are time travelers and he is expected to help locate his missing mother.
Twelve-year-old Finn is used to people in his family disappearing. His twin sister, Faith, drowned when they were three years old. A few months ago, his mom abandoned him and his dad with no explanation. Finn clings to the concrete facts in his physics booksand to his best friend, Gabito...
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
188 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
It's the summer before middle school and eleven-year-old Bug's best friend Moira has decided the two of them need to use the next few months to prepare. For Moira, this means figuring out the right clothes to wear, learning how to put on makeup, and deciding which boys are cuter in their yearbook photos than in real life. But none of this is all that appealing to Bug, who doesn't particularly want to spend more time trying to understand how to be...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
As a Young Scientist, twelve-year-old Addie studies pollution in the lake where her twin brother recently drowned, while secretly continuing his investigation of the creature he believed lives in the lake's depths.--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Hazel Kaplansky and new student Samuel Butler investigate rumors that a Russian spy has infiltrated their small Vermont town, amidst the fervor of Cold War era McCarthyism, but more is revealed than they could ever have imagined. --
16) Full cicada moon
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1969 twelve-year-old Mimi and her family move to an all-white town in Vermont, where Mimi's mixed-race background and interest in 'boyish' topics like astronomy make her feel like an outsider." --
17) Love, Aubrey
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 570L
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While living with her Gram in Vermont, eleven-year-old Aubrey writes letters as a way of dealing with losing her father and sister in a car accident, and then being abandoned by her grief-stricken mother.
Author
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Although ten-year-old Miguel is at first embarrassed by his colorful aunt, Tia Lola, when she comes to Vermont from the Dominican Republic to stay with his mother, his sister, and him after his parents' divorce, he learns to love her. Moving to Vermont after his parents split, Miguel has plenty to worry about. Tia Lola, his quirky, "carismatica, " and maybe magical aunt makes his life even more unpredictable when she arrives from the Dominican Republic...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
136 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Esta novela "cuenta la deliciosa historia de una familia dominicana, instalada en Vermont, que recibe la visita de una pariente muy especial. La irresistible, incontrolable e incluso mágica tía Lola transforma la vida de su familia. Sombreros, pañuelos, vestidos alegres, tacones, maracas, un tambor para las fiestas, café, hierbabuena, orégano, anís, hojas de guanábana, ajíes--su alegría invade la casa y--poco a poco--a todo el pueblo. Un...