Betsy Byars
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Formats
Description
When Sammy must spend weeks alone with his grandfather, he learns that the old man isn’t quite as boring as he thought . . .
When his parents leave for Detroit, Sammy is left alone with his out-of-touch grandfather in a dull, creaky house. All Sammy wants to do is run away to rejoin his folks. But Grandpa’s world holds a few surprises, including a majestic crane found in the woods with a broken wing. Sammy finds himself seeing...
When his parents leave for Detroit, Sammy is left alone with his out-of-touch grandfather in a dull, creaky house. All Sammy wants to do is run away to rejoin his folks. But Grandpa’s world holds a few surprises, including a majestic crane found in the woods with a broken wing. Sammy finds himself seeing...
2) The Pinballs
Author
Pub. Date
1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Two boys and a girl meet in a foster home where they have been sent to live.
Author
Series
Blossom family volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Newbery Award-winning author Betsy Byars's heartwarming and timeless books about the irrepressible Blossom family are back. In this introduction to the one-of-a-kind clan, Pap, the Blossoms' grandfather, has landed himself in jail for disturbing the peace. Even though Junior is laid up in the hospital with two broken legs after jumping off the barn roof to test his new homemade wings, he and his sister and brother, Maggie and Vern, have come up with...
Author
Pub. Date
c1982
Description
From the depths of the sewers comes a monster so gargantuan that no fishbowl can hold it. Warren Otis wants to make horror films when he grows up. But as an eight-year-old boy, he has to settle for imagining movies instead of making them. He's thought up some real nightmares, including Bubbles, an innocent goldfish flushed down the toilet and exposed to a chemical that turned her into a one-ton monster. Warren's life sometimes feels like it's a bad...
9) Tornado
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
10) Ant plays bear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Ant and his brother play a game, discuss growing up, hear a scary noise, and learn to be friends.
14) La Compugenio
Author
Pub. Date
c1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Ten-year-old Kate uses a computer to communicate with someone who, claiming he is from outer space, says he plans to visit Earth soon.
Author
Series
Herculeah Jones mysteries volume 5
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
17) Me Tarzan
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Dorothy gets the part of Tarzan in the class play, her tremendous yell attracts the attention of increasingly larger and wilder animals.
18) Trouble river
Author
Pub. Date
c.1969
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for his and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.
Author
Series
Herculeah Jones mysteries volume 6
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3