Brett Helquist
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While his shipmates face their toughest enemy, Roger has a chance to prove himself in a most unlikely way after being banished, as usual, below decks during the fighting.
2) Grumpy Goat
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Goat is the grumpiest animal at Sunny Acres farm until he remembers that there is more to life than eating and being alone.
Author
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events volume 5
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As their outrageous misfortune continues, the Baudelaire orphans are shipped off to a miserable boarding school, where they befriend the two Quagmire triplets and find that they have been followed by the dreaded Count Olaf.
Author
Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
Author
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Catastrophes and misfortune continue to plague the Baudelaire orphans after they're sent to live with fearful Aunt Josephine who offers little protection against Count Olaf's treachery.
Author
Series
Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With help from his Uncle Harold, who wrote books about Bunnicula, Howie the wire-haired dachshund writes a story in which he saves the world from a science experiment gone awry.
Author
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
Author
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events volume 13
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.
Author
Series
Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In his new book, Howie the wire-haired dachshund writes all about how the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6 invade Earth and how he and his friend Delilah save the day.
Author
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events volume 7
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Under a new government program based on the saying "It takes a village to raise a child," the Baudelaire orphans are adopted by an entire town, with disastrous results.
12) Chasing Vermeer
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When strange and seemingly unrelated events start to happen and a precious Vermeer painting disappears, eleven-year-olds Petra and Calder combine their talents to solve an international art scandal.
Author
Series
League of Seven volume 1
Publisher
Starscape
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
When an alternate 1875 steam-driven America rediscovers electricity, the lifeblood of the Mangleborn monsters, and the secret society to protect humanity from the Mangleborn is compromised, twelve-year-old Archie must assemble a team of seven young heroes to save the world.
Author
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.
16) The Calder game
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
Author
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events volume 11
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Still pursued by the evil Count Olaf, the Baudelaire orphans attempt to reach a very important VFD meeting, but first they must travel in a rattletrap submarine to the Gorgonian Grotto, a dangerous underwater cave, in search of the sugar bowl.
Author
Series
A Series of Unfortunate Events volume 9
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.
19) The Wright 3
Author
Series
Chasing Vermeer volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.
20) Cézanne's parrot
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Paul Cézanne longs to be a great painter, but even with the advice of his friends Monet and Pissarro, no one, not even his parrot, is impressed with his work.