Kate Klise
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Appleton Elementary's new school board president, Ivana Beprawpa, uses her position to line her own pockets, student sleuths Sara and May, supported by passionate librarian Rita B. Danjerous, seek the truth. Told through letters, memos, and text messages.--
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
In this illustrated novel told through journal entries, news clippings, and letters, twelve-year-old Lily finds herself on the jury of a murder trial while conducting her own undercover investigation of the case.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A series of letters reveals the selection of the famous fountain designer, Florence Waters, to design a new sink for the Geyser Creek Middle School cafeteria, her subsequent disappearance, and the efforts of a class of sixth-graders to find her.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, Noah Breth's feuding children come to Ghastly, Illinois, to follow a trail of limericks to their inheritance, while Seymour tries to convince Iggy and Olive to let him keep Mr. Breth's dog.
Author
Publisher
Feiwel & Friends, an imprint of Macmillan Publishing Group, LLC
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eli the dog has been with Astrid since she was a baby, and now that Eli is getting older and slowing down, Astrid wants to make fun memories with him, but knows what is most important to Eli is the time he spends with Astrid.
7) Grounded
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After her father, brother, and sister are killed in a plane crash, twelve-year-old Daralynn's life in tiny Digginsville, Missouri, proceeds as her mother turns angry and embittered, her grandmother becomes senile, and her flamboyant aunt continues to run the Summer Sunset Retirement Home for Distinguished Gentlemen, while being courted by the owner of the town's new crematorium.
8) In the bag
Author
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"A European vacation. A luggage mix-up. A note from a secret admirer. Meet two single parents who think they're too busy to date. And two teenagers who can't stop writing flirty emails. This is a tale of connections, missed and made, in a universe that seems to have its heart set on reuniting Ms. 6B and Mr. 13C." -- Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
With a mother who buys Christmas cards in August and a younger brother who describes the Trinity as a toasted marshmallow on a graham cracker, life for eleven-year-old Charles Harrisong is anything but normal in Normal, Illinois.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, busybody Dick Tater tries to ban Halloween and ghost stories, as well as to break up the popular writing team of I. B. Grumply, ghost Olive C. Spence, and eleven-year-old illustrator Seymour Hope.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized biography of Ella Kate Ewing, born in 1872, who was eight feet tall by the age of seventeen and who became financially independent by traveling the country for nearly twenty years appearing at museums, exhibitions, and in circus shows.
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As his fifth birthday party approaches, Little Rabbit decides to invite only those friends who are also too old to cry until he learns that others of all ages weep for all sorts of reasons.
Author
Series
Three-ring rascals volume 1
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two mice and a crow, who travel with a circus, cleaning up the spilled popcorn after every performance, come to the rescue when a greedy con artist takes over the management of the circus.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois. Story told mostly through letters.
17) Imagine Harry
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
After Little Rabbit starts school, he sees less and less of his invisible friend, Harry, and finally tells his mother that Harry moved away.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 5
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When film producer Moe Block Busters offers to make their book into a movie, Iggy, Olive, and Seymour head to Hollywood where Olive, furious at being written out of the script, enlists the help of a famed femme fatale to scare the despicable director half to death.
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Upset that his mother will not let him go out until he cleans his playroom, Little Rabbit sneaks away to join the circus and sells tickets by promising the audience a view of The Meanest Mother on Earth.