Andrew Clements
1) Frindle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
Author
Publisher
Houghton, Mifflin, Harcourt Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When things go wrong during a day at the beach, like a ball that drifts away or a gooey ice cream mess, a father could do a lot of things but always picks the loving one.
3) No talking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
4) Lunch money
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favorite books.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
When fifteen-year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his condition and how to reverse it.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a key to the Oakes School in his possession Benjamin, his friend Jill, and a new friend continue to seek ways to protect the school and their town but Lyman, the janitor and a spy, has new tricks up his sleeve.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
10) The report card
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.
11) Lost and found
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Time is almost out for the Keepers of the School in this fifth Keepers adventure from Andrew Clements, the master of the school story.
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.
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13) In harm's way
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert continue their efforts to save their school, they find themselves dodging two evil janitors, Lyman and Wally, but their team has also grown and now has a secret fund of millions of dollars.
14) The school story
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.
17) Big Al
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[1991], c1988
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A big scary fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance, until the day his size and strength save them all from a fisherman's net.
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
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.
19) The Landry news
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
20) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.