Andrew Clements
1) Fear itself
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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The threat to the Keepers doubles in the fourth Keepers of the School adventure from Andrew Clements, the master of the school story.
Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert are determined to save their school from destruction! But just when it seems they've finally gotten the upper hand over that awful Janitor Lyman, they're caught completely off guard by his next move: Lyman has called in reinforcements, and suddenly Benjamin, Jill, and...
3) Frindle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Nick Allen is very bright, but he often gets into trouble at school. When he starts fifth grade with Mrs. Granger, who has a reputation for never letting her studnets get away with anything, it looks like his trouble-making days is over.
4) No talking
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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The Grayson twins are moving to a new town. Again.Although it's a drag to be constantly mistaken for each other, in truth, during those first days at a new school, there's nothing better than having a twin brother there with you. But on day one of sixth grade, Ray stays home sick, and Jay is on his own. No big deal. It's a pretty nice school, good kids, too. But Jay quickly discovers a major mistake: No one seems to know a thing about his brother....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
7) Extra credit
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
8) Lunch money
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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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.
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Things not seen volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Gewns grandfather has disappeared from their home in New York City, but he's left her a phone message telling her not to wrry and to let no one know he's gone. But her new freedom actually seems to have some benefits. But people keep asking about her grandpa and she doesnt knwo what to say, which brings the NYPD carshing into her scene. Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school,...
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Jake Drake series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Jake is determined to win the grand prize at Despres Elementary School's first science fair, not only for the Hyper-Cross-Functional Bluntium Twelve computer system, but also to beat the annoying third grade know-it-alls, Marsha McCall and Kevin Young.
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Jake Drake series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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When Jake was 3 years old at Miss Lulu's Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing. But he learned fast. Now Jake's in 4th grade and he can look back and see that the year that made the differencewas second grade.
13) Big Al
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond learns that in a very small town, there's no such thing as an isolated event, and the solution of one mystery is often the beginning of another.
15) Things that are
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Things not seen volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Still adjusting to being blind, Alicia must outwit an invisible man who is putting her family and her boyfriend, who was once invisible himself, in danger.
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Jake Drake series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Jake remembers the terrible days in third grade when everbody thought he was the teachers' pet.
17) The map trap
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Sixth-grader Alton Barnes loves maps, and when his portfolio of secret maps is stolen, he begins getting notes with orders that he must obey to get the maps back but, with the help of a popular classmate, he just might succeed before his teacher, principal, or someone else learns he has been studying and mapping things about them.
18) About average
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
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"The Keepers of the School--known to their friends as Ben, Jill, and Robert--have one last chance to save their school before it's torn down to make room for a seaside amusement park. But their nemeses, janitors Lyman and Wally, are just as determined to keep the kids out of the way and the demolition on schedule"--Provided by publisher.