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Author
Series
Norvelt books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
Author
Series
Norvelt books volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 5
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Everything goes topsy-turvy for Joey as he becomes the man of the house, looking after his new baby brother, taking care of his troubled mother, and seeking out his missing father"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Bursting with practical tips and tricks, such as creating actual story-finding maps of your neighborhood, this book will help you build confidence and establish good writing habits as you learn to use a journal to snoop out plots full of action and emotion about yourself, your family, your friends, your neighbors, and your pets. As Jack shows you hot to shape your rough ideas, organize plots, and polish drafts to shiny perfection, he also shares...
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
To the constant disappointment of his mother and his teachers, Joey has trouble paying attention or controlling his mood swings when his prescription meds wear off and he starts getting worked up and acting wired.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joey, who is still taking medication to keep him from getting too wired, goes to spend the summer with the hard-drinking father he has never known and tries to help the baseball team he coaches win the championship.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 3
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joey tries to keep his life from degenerating into total chaos when his mother sends him to be home-schooled with a hostile blind girl, his divorced parents cannot stop fighting, and his grandmother is dying of emphysema.
Author
Series
Joey Pigza books volume 4
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Joey's father returns, calling himself Charles Heinz and apologizing for his past bad behavior, and he swears that once Joey and his mother change their names and help him fix up the old diner he has bought, their lives will change for the better.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Poor Rotten Ralph. His health just isn't what it used to be. Thanks to his rotten ways, he's down to the very last of his nine lives!
“One more slip and he'll be gone forever," warns the vet.
Sarah, Ralph's doting owner, is fiercely determined to keep her cat safe. But how much coddling can Ralph take before he has to do something totally and utterly rotten?
In this ninth tale about the most delightfully disobedient cat in town, being
...10) Hole In My Life
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1971, Jack Gantos was an aspiring writer desperate for adventure, college cash, and a way out of a dead-end job. For ten thousand dollars, he recklessly agreed to help sail a sixty-foot yacht loaded with hashish from the Virgin Islands to New York City, where he and his partners sold the drug until federal agents finally caught up to them in a bust at the Chelsea Hotel. For his part in the conspiracy, the twenty-year-old Gantos was...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
It's here: Volume One of the official Guys Read Library. Jon Scieszka's Guys Read initiative was founded on a simple premise: that young guys enjoy reading most when they have reading they can enjoy. And out of this comes a series that aims to give them just that. Ten books, arranged by theme, featuring the best of the best where writing for kids is concerned. Each book is a collection of original short stories, but these aren't your typical anthologies—each
...12) Half Magic
Author
Series
Tales of magic volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Faced with a dull summer in the city, Jane, Mark, Katharine, and Martha suddenly find themselves involved in a series of extraordinary adventures after Jane discovers an ordinary-looking coin that seems to grant wishes. Edward Eager's hilarious and heartwarming Half Magic has been working wizardry on young readers for fifty years. To celebrate the golden anniversary of this enduringly popular story, a deluxe edition of the book has been created. It...
Author
Series
Guys read volume 7
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Presents a collection of humorous stories featuring an array of characterswith and without capes.