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Series
Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous."
2) Inkheart
Author
Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
Author
Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Author/illustrator Nick Bruel tries to explain to the reader how to write a story, but Bad Kitty is not at all happy about the plot, which has her going on a turnip diet to lose weight. Includes a recipe for roasted turnips.
Author
Series
Aldo Zelnick comic novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Aldo and his friend, Jack, find a fossil in the neighborhood ditch.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When Aldo Zelnick's painter grandmother gives him a sketchbook to use during summer vacation, he starts to fill it in with pictures and text, even though he thinks that being artsy is uncool at first, in a book featuring vocabulary starting with A.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The life of a book isn't easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know--it's the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell. Through witty direct address and charming illustrations, readers meet a book that has never been read, with a...
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Series
Library mouse books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Sam, the shy mouse that lives in the library and likes to write books, collaborates with a boy in the library's Authors and Illustrators Club.
9) Lunch money
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
10) The fire within
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Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.
11) Finicky
Author
Series
Aldo Zelnick comic novels volume 6
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Description
When his school cafeteria eliminates sausage pizza and chocolate milk and incorporates healthier choices into its menu, Aldo Zelnick decides to fight back, recording it all in his illustrated journal.
Author
Series
Aldo Zelnick comic novels volume 7
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Aldo Zelnick lays plans to receive more Christmas gifts than ever before and is very surprised on Christmas day by his plan's outcome, recording it all in his illustrated journal.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I.B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
14) Dumbstruck
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Aldo, a ten-year old begins the fifth grade with his sketchbook.
Author
Series
Hank the Cowdog volume 53
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Drover C. Dog, faithful sidekick to Hank the Cowdog, tells the story of his life, from being the runt of the litter with dreams of being a handsome prince, to how he came to Loper and Sally May's ranch.
17) Whatshisface
Author
Pub. Date
c2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Twelve-year-old Cooper Vega and his military family has moved so often that he is used to new schoolmates not knowing his name, but at the moment he has a bigger problem--his new phone is haunted by the ghost of Roderick Northrop, a boy from the sixteenth-century, who needs his help to finish a quest, which is somehow tied up in the Stratford Middle School production of Romeo and Juliet.
19) Ava and Pip
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
When ten-year-old Ava uses her writing talents to help her older sister overcome her shyness, both girls learn the impact their words and stories can have on the world around them.
20) Darius & Twig
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
"Two best friends, a writer and a runner, deal with bullies, family issues, social pressures, and their quest for success coming out of Harlem"--Provided by publisher.