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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"When Dr. Baxter tells the family that they will be moving from Ann Arbor, Michigan, to Bloomington, Indiana, the five Baxter children, ages six to thirteen, are sure that their lives and home will never be the same. But they find that being together with the ones you love is the most important part of home"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
While Kari Baxter eagerly awaits a meteor shower and frets over what she wants to be when she grows up, Ashley gets an idea for how to keep her siblings from growing up too fast.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A sixth-grade field trip to Williamsburg, Virginia, stimulates the overactive imagination of future film director Sophie LaCroix, leading her to use eighteenth-century tactics to save a friend from humiliation by the popular girls.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As eleven-year-old future film director Sophie LaCroix imagines herself and her friends as female versions of Indiana Jones, her therapist helps her work on her relationships with family members and with Jesus.
6) Finding home
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
For Ashley, moving to Bloomington, Indiana, is especially hard but with time, prayer, a few surprises, and especially the love of her family, she finally feels at home.
7) Wild rescue
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When twins Ashley and Bryce Timberline investigate the burglary of a neighbor's house, they become involved with some alpacas and a guard dog as well.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Corn Flakes are devastated to learn that Kitty has cancer, but when summer vacations separate them and put their new film on hold, Sophie determines to do anything God calls her to do to make Kitty feel better--even give up her beautiful hair.
10) Stolen secrets
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The quiet community of Red Rock is upset by an apparent abduction attempt on two middle school girls.
11) Being Baxters
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Each of the Baxter children experiences trouble at school, and when Principal Bond announces a new Character Awards initiative competition breaks out between the siblings until they remember what being a Baxter really means.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As the sixth-grade dance approaches, Sophie turns to Dr. Peter and Jesus for help while trying to cope with her new feelings towards boys and with new tensions within her group of friends, the Corn Flakes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Ebenezer Scrooge is a penny-pinching, mean, old miser. He treats his family and employee poorly, and, in turn, is not a well-liked man. He especially does not like Christmas! But, one fateful Christmas Eve, he is visited by three ghosts that change his life forever!" -- Page [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
School science camp is a few weeks away, but Ashley and Kari Baxter have very different feelings about going. With the help of their siblings, Kari and Ashley prepare for wild experiments and the challenges of the great outdoors, and together they learn what it means to plan for an experience they wont forget. In the process, all five Baxter Children learn how to make new friends and that adventure awaits in the everyday. They just have to look for...
15) True Blue
Author
Series
Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1960s California, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt has trouble with True Blue, the newest horse on her family's ranch, a beautiful dappled gray who is so often spooked, Abby wonders if he is haunted by the ghost of his deceased former owner.
16) A summer secret
Author
Series
Mysteries of Middlefield series volume 1
Publisher
Tommy Nelson
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Mary Beth Mullet and her twin brother, Johnny, discover that someone has been spending time in the old barn Mary Beth escapes to when she needs time to herself.
17) Katy's new world
Author
Series
Katy Lambright series volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Katy Lambright gets permission to attend a public high school outside of her Mennonite community, but her relationships with her family and lifelong friends become strained as she struggles to find a balance between two very different worlds.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Worried that her parents are breaking up, Sophie gets lost in an imaginary world again as she and her friends transform Fiona's tree house into a space station as a school science project, despite sabotage and jealousies.
19) Katy's debate
Author
Series
Katy Lambright series volume 2
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Katy, a Mennonite teenager attending secular high school, joins the debate team, and tries to keep her father from remarrying so that she does not have to adjust to having a stepmother.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As the Corn Flakes and other members of the Film Club work on a school project about Cuban refugees in the 1980s, a newcomer's prejudices hurt Maggie and challenge Sophie's ability to understand and practice Jesus' teachings.
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