Kate DiCamillo

Book, CD Book Junior, eAudiobook, eBook

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

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Description

Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.

2) The tale of Despereaux: being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Formats

Description

The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.

3) The Beatryce Prophecy

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Formats

Description

"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...

4) Raymie Nightingale

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Formats

Description

Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.

5) The Tiger Rising

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Formats

Description

Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.

6) Louisiana's Way Home

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Formats

Description

When Louisiana Elefante’s granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn’t overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny)...

7) Leroy Ninker Saddles Up

Author

Series

Tales from Deckawoo Drive book 1

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1

Lexile measure

500L

Language

English

Formats

Description

Saddle up for this first volume in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from DiCamillo's "New York Times"-bestselling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight.

8) Beverly, Right Here

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Formats

Description

Revisiting once again the world of Raymie Nightingale, two-time Newbery Medalist Kate DiCamillo turns her focus to the tough-talking, inescapably tenderhearted Beverly.
Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still.
This was what Beverly wanted — what she always wanted. To get away. To get away as fast as she could. To stay away.
Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but

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9) A piglet named Mercy

Author

Series

Mercy Watson

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Description

When a pig named Mercy arrives at the Watsons' front door, she brings love and chaos to their lives.

10) The Puppets of Spelhorst

Author

Series

Norendy Tales

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

"Five puppets confront circumstances beyond their control with patience, cunning, and high spirits ... Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by...

11) The Hotel Balzaar

Author

Series

The Norendy Tales

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

At the Hotel Balzaar, Marta's mother rises before the sun, puts on her uniform, and instructs Marta to roam as she will but quietly, invisibly like a little mouse. While her mother cleans rooms, Marta slips down the back staircase to the grand lobby to chat with the bellman, study the painting of an angel's wing over the fireplace, and watch a cat chase a mouse around the face of the grandfather clock, all the while dreaming of the return of her soldier...

12) The Magician's Elephant

Author

Great Fantasy Titles for Middle Grade

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

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Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

Description

When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.

13) Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Author

Book, CD Book Junior, eAudiobook

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Formats

Description

Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.

14) Mercy Watson Fights Crime

Author

Series

Mercy Watson

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy. Leroy Ninker is a small man with a big dream: he wants to be a cowboy, but for now he's just a thief. In fact, Leroy is robbing the Watsons' kitchen right this minute! As he drags the toaster across the counter - screeeeeech - and drops it into his bag - clannngggg - little does he know that a certain large pig who loves toast with a great deal...

15) Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

Formats

eComic, Kindle

Description

Winner of the 2014 Newbery Medal
Holy unanticipated occurrences! A cynic meets an unlikely superhero in a genre-breaking new novel by master storyteller Kate DiCamillo.
It begins, as the best superhero stories do, with a tragic accident that has unexpected consequences. The squirrel never saw the vacuum cleaner coming, but self-described cynic Flora Belle Buckman, who has read every issue of the comic book Terrible Things Can Happen

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16) The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Author

Book, CD Book Junior, eAudiobook

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

Formats

Description

Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.

17) Mercy Watson Thinks Like a Pig

Author

Series

Mercy Watson

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

Description

After Mercy Watson follows the delightful scent and delicious taste of the pansies her thoughtful neighbors plant to beautify their yard, animal control officer Francine Poulet is called out to handle the case, which brings unexpected results.

18) Where Are You Going, Baby Lincoln?: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Three

Author

Tales from Deckawoo Drive

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

What if timid Baby Lincoln broke free of her bossy sister and set off on an unexpected journey? Kate DiCamillo presents a touching new adventure set in Mercy Watson's world.
Baby Lincoln's older sister, Eugenia, is very fond of telling Baby what to do, and Baby usually responds by saying "Yes, Sister." But one day Baby has had enough. She decides to depart on a Necessary Journey, even though she has never gone anywhere without Eugenia

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19) Francine Poulet Meets the Ghost Raccoon: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Two

Author

Tales from Deckawoo Drive

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description

Deckawoo Drive's intrepid animal control officer meets her match—or does she? A funny, heartfelt, and fast-paced romp from Kate DiCamillo.
Francine Poulet is the greatest animal control officer in Gizzford County. She hails from a long line of animal control officers. She's battled snakes, outwitted squirrels, and stared down a bear. "The genuine article," Francine's dad always called her. She is never scared – until, that

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20) Stella Endicott and the Anything-Is-Possible Poem: Tales from Deckawoo Drive, Volume Five

Author

Tales from Deckawoo Drive

Series

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1

Language

English

Formats

eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Description