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1) Inkheart
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie Bone's life with his widowed mother and two grandmothers undergoes a dramatic change when he discovers that he can hear people in photographs talking.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
After his parents are kidnapped, timid twelve-year-old Henry York leaves his sheltered Boston life and moves to small-town Kansas, where he and his cousin Henrietta discover and explore hidden doors in his attic room that seem to open onto other worlds.
4) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When a twelve-year-old evil genius tries to restore his family fortune by capturing a fairy and demanding a ransom in gold, the fairies fight back with magic, technology, and a particularly nasty troll.
Author
Series
100 cupboards volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the continuing adventures of Henry York, who has been living in Kansas with his cousins, where he discovers doorways leading to other worlds and becomes involved in a multi-world struggle between good and evil.
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
When the Chamber of Secrets is opened again at the Hogwarts School for Witchcraft and Wizardry, second-year student Harry Potter finds himself in danger from a dark power that has once more been released on the school.
7) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matilda Wormwood's father thinks she's a little scab. Matilda's mother spends all afternoon playing bingo. And Matilda's headmistress, Miss Trunchbull? Well, she's the worst of all. She is a big bully, who thinks all her pupils are rotten and locks them in the dreaded chokey. As for Matilda, she's an extraordinary little girl with a magical mind - and now she's had enough. So all these grown-ups had better watch out, because Matilda is going to teach...
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When Apophis, the chaos snake, threatens to plunge the world into eternal darkness, siblings Carter and Sade Kane plan to use an ancient spell to destroy the snake, but first must rely on the murderous ghost of a powerful magician.
9) Mary Poppins
Author
Series
Mary Poppins series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The Banks children, Jane and Michael, change nannies just about as often as most people change their clothes. It's not that they're naughty, exactly -- just awkward. Everyone in the household is at their wits' end with them -- until Mary Poppins arrives! The Classic tale from P.L Travers. This, the first book about Mary Poppins, will be familiar to everyone who has seen the film. For it is in this book that Jane and Michael draw up their advertisement...
Author
Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Description
As Harry faces his upcoming fifth year at Hogwarts Academy, there are increasing rumors of dark times coming and of Lord Voldemort's return to power, and a secret anti-Voldemort society, The Order of the Phoenix, begins meeting again.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
Harry Potter wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter,...
12) The red pyramid
Author
Series
Kane chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl (Graphic novels) volume 1
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Artemis learns that his father has been kidnapped by the Russian mob, he races to the Arctic Circle to make a daring rescue, where he finds an old acquaintance, Captain Holly Short, who is investigating a plot of the goblin mob.
16) To be a king
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 11
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and searches for the ideal place to establish an order of free owls.
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 7
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Magically-gifted Charlie Bone, accompanied by his best friend's dog, Runner Bean, comes to the rescue when the enchanter Count Harken takes revenge on the Red King's heirs by kidnapping and imprisoning Charlie's ancestors in the dark, forbidding land of Badlock.
Author
Series
Circle reforged volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
On visit to Namorn to visit her vast landholdings and her devious cousin, Empress Berenene, eighteen-year-old Sandry must rely on her childhood friends and fellow mages, Daja, Tris, and Briar, despite the distance that has grown between them.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 5
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When demons begin appearing on Earth unpredictably, foreshadowing a cataclysmic breakdown of their magic, Artemis and his friends face a new foe--a twelve-year-old girl whose intellect just might match Artemis's own--as they try to prevent catastrophe.
Author
Series
Children of the Red King volume 3
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Charlie and his friends unite to rescue Ollie, a boy who was turned invisible and made to live in the attics at Bloor's Academy more than a year ago, but they are hindered by a mysterious new student who lives with Charlie's aunts.
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