Jennifer L Holm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As the only girl in a Finnish American family of seven brothers, May Amelia Jackson resents being expected to act like a lady while growing up in Washington state in 1899.
She may be a miracle, but she's no proper young lady! It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it's particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson just...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
4) Babymouse
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
v. : chiefly ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An imaginative mouse learns life lessons while living her life. Queen of the world: A mouse dreams of being queen of the world, but will settle for an invitation to the most popular girl's slumber party. Our hero: A young mouse is terrified to face her enemy in dodgeball, but with the help of her best friend and support from her mother, she not only plays the game, she proves herself a hero. Rock star: Babymouse has music in her soul--but sadly, not...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when a enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the award-winning duo of Jennifer and Matthew Holm comes the third book in the bestselling Sunny series, Sunny Rolls the Dice -- full of heart, laughs, and adventure!
Too cool for school . . . or the least groovy girl in the grade?Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things,...
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When is a summer vacation not really a summer vacation?
Sunny Lewin has been packed off to Florida to live with her grandfather for the summer. At first she thought Florida might be fun -- it is the home of Disney World, after all. But the place where Gramps lives is no amusement park. It's full of . . . old people. Really old people.Luckily, Sunny isn't the only kid around. She meets Buzz, a boy who is completely obsessed with comic books,...
Author
Series
Sunny volume 2
Language
English
Description
From the award winning duo of Jennifer and Matthew Holm comes the sequel to the bestselling Sunny Side Up -- full of just as much heart and just as many laughs.
Summer's over and it's time for Sunny Lewin to enter the strange and unfriendly hallways of . . . middle school. When her Gramps calls her from Florida to ask how she's doing, she always tells him she's fine. But the truth? Sunny is NOT having the best time.Not only is the whole middle school...
10) The lion of Mars
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Description
Bell has spent his whole life--all eleven years of it--on Mars. But he's still just a regular kid-he loves cats, any kind of cake, and is curious about the secrets the adults in the US colony are keeping. Like, why don't have contact with anyone on the other Mars colonies? Why are they so isolated? When a virus breaks out and the grown-ups all fall ill, Bell and the other children are the only ones who can help. It's up to Bell--a regular kid in a...
11) Sunny
Author
Series
Sunny side up volume 5
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2015-
Edition
First edition, September 2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 470L
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From the groundbreaking and award-winning sister-brother team behind Babymouse comes a middle-grade, graphic-novel memoir. Following the lives of kids whose older brother's delinquent behavior has thrown their family into chaos, 'Sunny Side Up' is at once a compelling 'problem' story and a love letter to the comic books that help the protagonist make sense of her world" --
12) Squish
Author
Series
Squish volume 8
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 520L
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Squish, a meek amoeba who loves the comic book exploits of his favorite hero, "Super Amoeba," tries to emulate him when his best friend is threatened by a bully.
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]-
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
420L
Physical Desc
volumes : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Babymouse joins the school Film Club and writes the greatest cinematic masterpiece of all time! But when the movie gets shown to the entire school, will it be a box office hit or a flop?"--
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
274 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that easy in Penny's family. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother's afraid she'll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living in a car. Her Nonny cries every time her father's name is mentioned. And the two sides of her family aren't speaking to each other! Inspired by Newbery Honor...
Author
Series
Publisher
Salamandra
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
1a edición.
Physical Desc
171 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
Español
Description
Ellie's scientist grandfather has discovered a way to reverse aging, and consequently has turned into a teenager--which makes for complicated relationships when he moves in with Ellie and her mother, his daughter.
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
217 unnumbered pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When thirteen-year-old Ellie's Grandpa Melvin, a world-renowned scientist in the body of a fourteen-year-old boy, comes for an extended visit, he teaches her that experimenting--and failing--is part of life.
Author
Series
Babymouse: Tales from the locker volume 2
Babymouse.Tales from the locker volume 2
Babymouse Tales from the locker volume 2
Babymouse.Tales from the locker volume 2
Babymouse Tales from the locker volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After finally getting a cell phone, Babymouse tries to increase her popularity in middle school by becoming the queen of social media.
Author
Publisher
Random House Graphic
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
246 pages
Language
English
Description
In 1935, when her mother gets a job housekeeping for a woman who does not like children, eleven-year-old Turtle is sent to stay with relatives she has never met in far away Key West, Florida.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Two young siblings, the Evil Princess and the Brave Knight, confront the truth about their respective reputations as a mischief-making princess and a chivalrous do-gooder.