Sarah Weeks
1) Pie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Description
After the death of Polly Portman, whose award-winning pies put the town of Ipswitch, Pennsylvania, on the map in the 1950s, her devoted niece Alice and Alice's friend Charlie investigate who is going to extremes to find Aunt Polly's secret pie crust recipe. Includes fourteen pie recipes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
3) Honey
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"Melody has lived in Royal, Indiana, for as long as she can remember. It's been just her and her father, and she's been okay with that. But then she overhears him calling someone Honey-- and suddenly it feels like everyone in Royal has a secret. It's up to Melody and her best friend, Nick, to piece together the clues and discover why Honey is being hidden. Meanwhile, a dog named Mo is new to Royal. He doesn't remember much from when he was a puppy...
4) Drip, drop
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2000.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Pip Squeak the mouse is kept awake all night by the drips from his leaky roof.
11) Ella, of course!
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 790L
Language
English
Description
When Ella is banned from bringing her umbrella to the dance recital, she comes up with an ingenious solution to the problem.
13) So B. it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Verbena Polter gets through a difficult summer of turbulent emotions and the revelation of a disturbing family secret with an odd new friend who believes she is the ghost of a girl who drowned many years before.
16) Oggie Cooder
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
Quirky fourth-grader Oggie Cooder goes from being shunned to everyone's best friend when his uncanny ability to chew slices of cheese into the shapes of states wins him a slot on a popular television talent show, but he soon learns the perils of being a celebrity--and having a neighbor girl as his manager.
17) Mac and Cheese
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
430L
Language
English
Description
Two cats that are as different as night and day are nevertheless best friends.
20) I'm a pig
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In rhyming text, a little pig exults in the fact that she is a pig.