Kate DiCamillo

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

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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

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

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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 tiger rising

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

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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.

4) Ferris

Author

Pub. Date

2024.

Accelerated Reader

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

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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.

5) The Beatryce prophecy

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Pub. Date

2021

Accelerated Reader

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

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"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...

6) The puppets of Spelhorst

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Series

The Norendy Tales

Pub. Date

2023.

Accelerated Reader

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

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"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 the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...

7) Raymie nightingale

Author

Pub. Date

2016.

Accelerated Reader

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

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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.

8) The magician's elephant

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Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2009

Accelerated Reader

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

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.

9) Louisiana's way home

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Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2018.

Accelerated Reader

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

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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)...

10) A very Mercy Christmas

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Series

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2022.

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1

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"Stella felt joyful. She felt like something miraculous might happen. She wanted to sing.. When Stella gets the sudden idea to go caroling, she has a little trouble getting someone to join her. Her brother, Frank, is not good at spontaneity. The Watsons are very involved in a precarious fruitcake attempt (but happy to send their pig, Mercy, out for the occasion). Eugenia Lincoln declines, a bit rudely, to accompany on her accordion, and Horace Broom...

11) Mercy Watson to the rescue

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Series

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1

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Book, eBook

Description

After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.

12) The miraculous journey of Edward Tulane

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Pub. Date

2006

Accelerated Reader

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

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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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.

13) Mercy Watson goes for a ride

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Series

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1

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Book, eBook

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Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.

14) Flora & Ulysses: The Illuminated Adventures

Author

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2013

Accelerated Reader

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

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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15) Flora & Ulysses: the illuminated adventures

Author

Pub. Date

2013

Accelerated Reader

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

Formats

Book, eAudiobook

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.

16) Mercy Watson thinks like a pig

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Series

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Accelerated Reader

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

Formats

Book, 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.

17) The Mercy Watson collection: Vol. 1 : CD

Author

Publisher

Listening Library

Pub. Date

p2006

Description

In two Mercy Watson tales, Mercy the pig finds herself behind the wheel of Mr. Watson's Cadillac, and Mercy joins Mr. and Mrs. Watson in their bed, only to awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.

18) Princess in Disguise

Author

Series

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2013

Accelerated Reader

IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1

Description

"Halloween was made for carefree Mercy Watson." – School Library Journal
Features an audio read-along! When the Watsons decide to zip their porcine wonder into a formfitting princess dress for Halloween – complete with tiara – they are certain that Mercy will be beautiful beyond compare. Mercy is equally certain she likes the sound of trick-or-treating and can picture piles of buttered toast already. As

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19) Louise: the adventures of a chicken

Author

Publisher

Joanna Cotler Books

Pub. Date

c2008

Accelerated Reader

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

Description

Longing for adventure, intrepid Louise leaves her comfortable nest and goes to sea.

20) Mercy Watson Fights Crime

Author

Series

Publisher

Candlewick Press

Pub. Date

2013

Accelerated Reader

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

Description