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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.
6) Home
Author
Description
A whimsical tribute to the myriad possibilities of home depicts homes in different real-world environments as well as fantastical settings.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Learn to read with young Amelia Bedelia! Amelia Bedelia has been loved by readers for more than fifty years, and it turns out that her childhood is full of silly mix-ups, too! The star of the bestselling picture book series now has her own Level 1 I Can Read books that will keep newly independent readers laughing, reading, and expanding their vocabularies. In this latest adventure, when Amelia Bedelia's parents decide to look for a new house, Amelia...
8) Bird
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Miranda, a small, delicate girl easily carried off by the wind, lands at Bourne Manor on the coast of Lake Champlain and is raised by the dour Wysteria Barrows, but she begins to believe rumors that the Manor is cursed and, aided by a new friend and kites secreted in an attic, seeks to escape.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Teenager Eliza and her friends are going to explore a cave near their upstate New York home, but first her friends insist on dragging her to Drowner's Swamp, a bog legendary for its dangerous sinkholes, and a place which her mother has frequently warned her about; Eliza does not want to go, and when the earth opens up and swallows her she finds herself in a system of caves--and what she finds living there is strange and dangerous beyond anything the...
10) Timescape
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
David, Xander, Dad, and Keal discover that Taksidian wants their house for himself in order to use the time portals to build an empire, and unless they can find his weakness in time, the future of the world itself may be in danger.
11) Mystery ranch
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"The Aldens spend the summer on their aunt's ranch! The ranch is a beautiful place, but it's also the source of trouble between Aunt Jane and Grandfather. As the Boxcar Children explore the land, they make an amazing discovery. Will it help mend Aunt Jane and Grandfather's relationship?"--Publisher's description.
12) The shadows
Author
Series
Books of Elsewhere volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When eleven-year-old Olive and her distracted parents move into an old Victorian mansion, Olive finds herself ensnared in a dark plan involving some mysterious paintings, a trapped and angry nine-year-old boy, and three talking cats.
13) Gatekeepers
Author
Series
Dreamhouse Kings volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
With their mother still missing after going through a Civil War time portal in their spooky house, and their father in jail under a false accusation, Xander, David, and their younger sister continue to try to bring their mother back, now with the help of an old relative who has turned up unexpectedly.
17) Farmhouse
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A farmhouse provides the setting for a dozen children to live and grow, and when they leave, another family arrives to fill the house with love again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.