Lois Lowry

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Series

Giver

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

Formats

Description

Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.

2) Messenger

Author

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Series

Giver Quartet

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5

Language

English

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Description

In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.

3) Gathering blue

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Series

Giver quartet volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7

Language

English

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Description

Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.

4) Number the stars

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Book, Audiobook, eAudiobook, eBook

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

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Description

In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

5) Son

Author

Book, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle

Series

Giver

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11

Language

English

Formats

Description

Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.

6) The silent boy

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6

Language

English

Formats

Description

Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.

7) Number the Stars: A Newbery Award Winner

Author

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

1989

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

The unforgettable Newbery Medal–winning novel from Lois Lowry. As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people,

...

8) The Willoughbys

Author

Series

Willoughbys

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Formats

Description

In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.

9) Gossamer

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4

Language

English

Formats

Description

While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream-giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.

10) Gooney Bird and all her charms

Author

Series

Gooney Bird Greene

Accelerated Reader

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

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

Description

Gooney Bird's Great Uncle Walter lends her second grade class a skeleton while they study human anatomy, and at the end of the month the students use Gooney Bird's charm bracelet to present all they have learned.

11) Bless this mouse

Author

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Formats

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Description

Mouse Mistress Hildegarde musters all her ingenuity to keep a large colony of church mice safe from the exterminator and to see that they make it through the dangerous Blessing of the Animals.

12) Anastasia again!

Author

Series

Anastasia Krupnik

Accelerated Reader

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

Language

English

Formats

Description

Twelve-year-old Anastasia is horrified at her family's decision to move from their city apartment to a house in the suburbs.

13) Attaboy, Sam!

Author

Series

Sam Krupnik

Pub. Date

1992

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3

Language

English

Formats

Description

Sam is able to help his sister Anastasia with the poem she is writing for their mother's birthday, but his own efforts to create a special perfume are disastrous.

14) The Giver Quartet Omnibus

Author

Series

The Giver Quartet

Publisher

HarperCollins

Pub. Date

2014

Language

English

Formats

eBook, Kindle

Description

This omnibus ebook contains Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal-winning The Giver plus the acclaimed three companion books in the series.

This first-ever Lois Lowry single-volume collection includes unabridged editions of the complete Giver Quartet series: The Giver, Gathering Blue, Messenger, and Son.

Enter this dystopian, futuristic world through all four of these books on a page-turning dystopian journey.

The Giver

...

15) Gooney the fabulous

Author

Series

Gooney Bird Greene

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2

Language

English

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