Jennifer L Holm
Author
Lexile measure
530L
Language
English
Formats
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 they 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...
Author
Series
Sunny volume 2
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 480L
Physical Desc
217 pages : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the mid-1970s Sunny Lewin is back, star of her personal show, facing the prospect of Middle School, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
191 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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
Series
Babymouse.Tales from the locker volume 1
Lexile measure
420L
Language
English
Description
For Babymouse, middle school is like a monster movie. You can never be sure who's a friend and who's an enemy, and the halls are filled with mean-girl zombies. Instead of brains, the zombies hunger for stuff--the perfect wedge sandals or the right shade of sparkly lip gloss--and they expect everyone to be just like them. But Babymouse doesn't want to fit in--she wants to stand out! So she joins the film club to write and direct a sweeping cinematic...
Author
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death. It's1953 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...
Author
Series
Fourteenth goldfish volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
500L
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 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
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 490L
Physical Desc
216 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sunny Lewin is sent to live with her grandfather for the summer in Florida, where she befriends Buzz, a boy completely obsessed with comic books, and faces the secret behind why she is in Florida in the first place.
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Schooled in the lessons of etiquette for young ladies of 1854, Miss Jane Peck of Philadelphia finds little use for manners during her long sea voyage to the Pacific Northwest and while living among the American traders and Chinook Indians of Washington Territory.
12) Full of Beans
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
195 pages ; 22 cm
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
Babymouse volume 14
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
GN 440L
Physical Desc
91 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
Babymouse discovers Squish, a new species of amoeba, while working on a school science fair project.
Author
Series
Babymouse volume 11
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
GN 500L
Physical Desc
91 pages : some color illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
An imaginative mouse who likes to read heroic fantasy novels finds herself on the school math team as it prepares to compete for the coveted Golden Slide Rule.
Author
Series
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 360L
Physical Desc
218 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and her cheer attempts are... not the best. So what can she do? When Sunny's friend Arun says he wants to start a debate club, she's not really sure what he...
Author
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 470L
Physical Desc
215 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"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, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...
Author
Series
Sunny volume 4
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
GN 500L
Physical Desc
218 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's summer and Sunny is bored. Most of her friends are out of town. Her mom wants her to babysit way more than Sunny wants to babysit. There's nothing good on TV. The only cool place that's cool is the community pool. Sunny loves going there--and loves it even more when she's offered a job at the snack shack. Soon she's flinging fries and serving frozen ice cream treats--with the assistance of the very sweet boy who works with her. Life is best when...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
GN 520L
Physical Desc
90 pages : chiefly 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
Lexile measure
690L
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.