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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Born with an ability to float in the air, Barnaby Brocket is entreated by his parents to hide his unusual trait until a fateful day when he finds himself on a journey that takes him all over the world and into outer space.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ivy Green, whose mother may have run off with a charismatic preacher to Panhandle, Florida, and classmate Paul Dobbs, who wants to see a Space Shuttle before the program's scrapped, team up for a summer adventure that's full of surprises.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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When twelve-year-old Nick runs away from his uncle's in the middle of a blizzard, he stumbles onto a very opinionated bookstore. He also meets its guardian, the self-proclaimed Evil Wizard Smallbone, who calls Nick his apprentice and won't let him leave, but won't teach him magic, either. It's a good thing the bookstore takes Nick's magical education in hand, because Smallbone's nemesis--the Evil Wizard Fidelou--and his pack of shape-shifting bikers...
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The Boxcar Children
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, four orphaned siblings, suddenly appear in a small town. The children make a home for themselves in an abandoned red boxcar they discover in the woods. Ambitious and resourceful, the plucky children make a happy life for themselves—until Violet gets too sick for her brothers and sister to care for her.
Surprise Island
Adventure abounds as Henry, Jessie, Violet,...
Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny, four orphaned siblings, suddenly appear in a small town. The children make a home for themselves in an abandoned red boxcar they discover in the woods. Ambitious and resourceful, the plucky children make a happy life for themselves—until Violet gets too sick for her brothers and sister to care for her.
Surprise Island
Adventure abounds as Henry, Jessie, Violet,...
9) Tiger wild
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English
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Struggling to keep her emotions in check whenever they get very big, a little girl attempts to resist the naughty impulses of a disruptive imaginary best friend who convinces her to run away on an adventure of endless stomping, jumping, and wild fun.
10) Come Home, Angus
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Little Angus wakes up angry, and decides to run away from home when his mother scolds him for being rude--but he is very soon lost, hungry, and more than a little frightened.
11) The honest truth
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A boy named Mark, tired of being sick with cancer, conceives a plan to climb Mount Rainier, and runs away from home with his dog, Beau--but with over two hundred miles between him and his goal, and only anger at his situation to drive him on nothing will be easy, and only his best friend, Jessie, suspects where he is heading.
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