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2) Dark fire
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling author David Rain returns to help Lucy and the Pennykettle dragons try to find and destroy a drop of dark fire before it is discovered and used to birth a darkling, while in the Arctic, enshrouded in mist, hide dragons that have at last returned to Earth.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
While working on a project for an after-school club, Julia, a Korean American girl, and her friend Patrick learn not just about silkworms, but also about tolerance, prejudice, friendship, patience, and more. Between the chapters are short dialogues between the author and main character about the writing of the book.
5) Ava and Pip
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old Ava uses her writing talents to help her older sister overcome her shyness, both girls learn the impact their words and stories can have on the world around them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
Yearning for life in a cloistered scriptorium, thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, escapes her scheming cousin Ivo and joins her servant Judith and an old friend, Parz, in hunting dragons and writing about them.
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.
Author
Series
Way-too-real aliens volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Eleven-year-old Joshua Higgins' prize-winning science fiction novel draws the attention of sinister blue aliens who capture Josh and his sister Maggie and take them to the planet Yastrol, the setting of his novel.
Author
Series
Isaiah Dunn volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Referring to his late father's journal for advice on how to be the man of the house, young Isaiah taps the support and ideas of two school friends who help him navigate rules and manage without superpowers.
10) Inkheart
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Thirteen-year-old Penelope, the secret author of macabre tales in "The Penny Dreadful," Victorian London's bestselling magazine, investigates the mystery of a strange phenomenon occurring in the local insane asylum.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Susy Clemens wants the world to know that her papa, Mark Twain, is more than just a humorist and sets out to write a comprehensive biography of the American icon.
13) Fire star
Author
Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
David Rain is faced with the most perilous task yet when Gwilanna returns, this time determined to resurrect the dragon Gawain on the ice cap of the Tooth of Ragnar, unless David and her friends can stop her.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
Author
Series
Tuesday McGillycuddy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog Baxterr discover that Tuesday's mother--the famous author Serendipity Smith--has gone missing, they set out on a magical adventure. In their quest to find Serendipity, they discover the mysterious and unpredictable place that stories come from"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1902, fifteen-year-old Penelope Tredwell, magazine publisher and writer of macabre tales, must uncover a mystery surrounding the theft of the Crown Jewels and a thief that can walk through walls before the coronation of Edward VII"--
Author
Series
Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous.
18) Inkspell
Author
Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now thirteen, Meggie "reads" herself into Inkworld, where she, her family, and the characters in the book face chaos and danger as the original creator of the world frantically tries to redirect the story.
Author
Series
Cilla Lee-Jenkins volume 1
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Priscilla "Cilla" Lee-Jenkins is on a tight deadline. Her baby sister is about to be born, and Cilla needs to become a bestselling author before her family forgets all about her. So she writes about what she knows best -- herself!
20) Ruby electric
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Ruby Miller, movie buff and aspiring screen writer, tries to resolve the mysteries surrounding her little brother's stuffed woolly mammoth and their father's five year absence.