Claudia Mills
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Afraid he will always be an outsider like ex-planet Pluto, nine-year-old Oliver finally shows his extremely overprotective parents that he is capable of doing great things without their help while his class is studying the solar system.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Hurt that her father routinely attends her half-brother's games and misses hers even though she is the star athlete of the third grade, Izzy receives her friends' support when she decides to tell her father how she feels
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When he is assigned Teddy Roosevelt as his biography project in school, fourth-grader Riley finds himself inspired by Roosevelt's tenacity and perseverance and resolves to find a way to get what he most wants--a saxophone and music lessons.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventh-grader Alex Ryan enjoys attracting attention, though he never seems to impress his father, but when his antics cause problems with his would-be girlfriend on a school outing, he has second thoughts about his actions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
When their mother's behavior changes and she starts to neglect her children, seventh-grader Cooper and his little sister take refuge in Inchland, an imaginary country inspired by deeds to one square inch of land that their grandfather gave them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
While dealing with her parents' separation and her best friend's distance, Amanda is able to work out some of her anxiety through her fifth-grade project--writing a diary from the point of view of a ten-year-old girl whose brothers fight on opposite sides in the Civil War.
11) Losers, Inc
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Although he knows that his efforts to impress a beautiful student teacher and outdo his perfect older brother jeopardize his status in the losers' club that he and his best friend have started, twelve-year-old Ethan realizes that he no longer wants to be a loser.
12) Trading places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fifth-grade twins, Amy and Todd, tackle a school project, they also have to cope with issues of friendship at school and problems at home, including their father's unemployment.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nine-year-old Chelsea's experiences, which include a fight with her best friend, making mistakes in the handbell concert, and saying goodbye to the only church minister she has ever known, help her to accept that things change and that people, including herself, are not perfect.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 1
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Kelsey is the best reader in her third grade class, and she is determined to lead her class to victory in the alll-school reading contest.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 2
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Annika hopes to change her best friends' hatred of math by winning a Sudoku contest, but she does not realize how important their lack of mathematical ability is until they make a mistake at the school carnival.
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 02
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books/Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Vera, a budding artist who loves every minute of her after-school comic-book camp, searches for a way to get her mother's permission to attend the camp's final field trip to Comic-Con.
Author
Series
After-School Superstars volume 1
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Nixie and Grace have been best and only friends since preschool, but now Nixie must attend an after-school cooking camp while Grace spends her afternoons with classmate Elyse.
Author
Series
Franklin School friends volume 5
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Cody Harmon loves animals--he even has nine pets--so when the school holds a pet show fundraiser, it should be his time to shine"--
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Boogie Bass feels his best friend, Nolan, is better than he at everything, even caring for Boogie's little brothers, but an after-school camp reveals Boogie's talent at communicating using American Sign Language. Includes facts about ASL.
Author
Series
After-school superstars volume 3
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Lucy Lopez attends coding camp at her after-school program and becomes a coding star.