Mark Turetsky
Author
Series
The candymakers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
When four twelve-year-olds, including Logan, who has grown up never leaving his parents' Life Is Sweet candy factory, compete in the Confectionary Association's annual contest, they unexpectedly become friends and uncover secrets about themselves during the process.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Ally, Bree, and Jack meet at the one place the Great Eclipse can be seen in totality, each carrying the burden of different personal problems, which become dim when compared to the task they embark upon and the friendship they find.
3) House Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Formats
Description
They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn't know...
4) Notorious
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Told in different voices, on Centerlight Island, halfway between the United States and Canada, middle-schoolers Keenan and ZeeBee team up to seek gold rumored to be hidden there a famous gangster.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
"It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--
7) Supergifted
Author
Series
Ungifted volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Donovan Curtis has never been what anyone would call "gifted." But his genius friend Noah Youkilis is actually supergifted, with one of the highest IQs around. After years at the Academy for Scholastic Distinction, all Noah dreams of is the opportunity to fail if he wants to. And hes landed in the perfect place to do it-Donovans school. Almost immediately, Noah finds himself on the wrong side of cheerleading captain Megan Mercury and alpha jock Hash...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
"Peter and his best friend, Tommy, have a goal for their last summer before middle school: finish their Discovery Journal, a catalog of the wildlife around their Florida town. When they spot a manatee in a canal, Peter knows they've found something special--and when the manatee is injured by a boat, something to protect! As Peter joins the fight to save Florida manatees, he also finds himself taking care of his ailing grandfather and facing an unwelcome...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
Author
Series
Qwikpick papers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
While searching for the Rat with the Human Face, friendships fray as club members Dave and Lyle compete for Marilla.
Author
Series
Mutant bunny island volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Perry Owens has learned everything he needs to know from comic books. So when Perry receives a troubling message from his favorite uncle, Zeke, he knows exactly what's wrong. Obviously, evil newts wearing trench coats must have kidnapped Zeke. Now they're holding him hostage somewhere on Bunny Island, the remote vacation destination that Zeke calls home. On his own, Perry travels to Bunny Island, where dozens of bunnies are running wild....
Author
Series
Junior explorer series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
As the son of a biologist and an ecologist, nine-year-old Benjamin looks forward to seeing man-made wonders while visiting his cousin in New York City, but also hopes to observe and record some of the wildlife there.
Author
Series
Junior explorer series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
Budding naturalists Lucy, Benjamin, and Gabe camp in the Gila National Forest in New Mexico, and travel to White Sands National Monument and Carlsbad Caverns, exploring their environment and becoming Junior Rangers along the way.
Author
Series
The candymakers volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Description
"It has been a few months since the nationwide New Candy Contest, and Logan, Miles, Philip, and Daisy have returned to their regular lives. But when the winning candy bar comes down the conveyor belt at the Life Is Sweet candy factory, Logan realizes something's very wrong... When the Canymaker announces that they will be going on tour to introduce the new candy bar, the four friends see this as an opportunity to make things right. But with a fifty-year-old...
Author
Series
Junior explorer series volume 2
Pub. Date
p2010
Description
Host of the popular television show Corwin's Quest, author Jeff Corwin offers this second installment of his Junior Explorer series, The Great Alaska Adventure. Here Corwin proves that fun can be found right around the corner, as young adventurers discover the wonderful, exciting terrain and wildlife of Alaska.
16) Pi in the sky
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Joss, the seventh son of the Supreme Overlord of the Universe, must team up with a human girl to re-create Earth, when the planet is accidentally erased from existence.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the School Board to reinstate Dwight.
Author
Series
Inspector Flytrap volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Hoping to become the greatest detective that ever grew, Inspector Flytrap, a Venus Flytrap, and his assistant, Nina the Goat, investigate "big deal" mysteries at an art museum, a cookie shop, and a garden.
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a Princess learns from her Fairy Godmother that she is in last place in a car race against such fairy tale notables as Humpty Dumpty, the Three Bears, and Rumpelstiltskin, she boldly rebuffs defeat and steps on the gas.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The seventh graders of McQuarrie Middle School and their Star Wars-inspired Origami finger puppets go on a field trip to Washington, D.C., on what proves to be a very long trip full of shifting alliances, betrayals, carsickness, and sugar rushes.