Kelly Murphy
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A very small mouse of unknown origins runs away from school in the Royal Mews of Buckingham Palace shortly before the celebration of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee, celebrating her sixty years on the British throne.
2) Loony Little
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In a plot similar to the traditional tale of Chicken Little, Loony Little fears that the polar ice cap is melting and, along with other animals, travels to alert the Polar Bear Queen. Includes notes on global warming and Arctic animals.
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
In 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his father's cousin on a flight to Arabia where they must oversee the death and rebirth of the phoenix, thus beginning his training as a "beastologist."
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
5) Masterpiece
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After Marvin, a beetle, makes a miniature drawing as an eleventh birthday gift for James, a human with whom he shares a house, the two new friends work together to help recover a Durer drawing stolen from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Author
Series
The masterpiece adventures volume 2
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Marvin the beetle is going collecting with his family. All is good and well until Uncle Albert gets hurt. Marvin needs his human friend James's help to save Uncle Albert before it's too late"--
Author
Series
Nathaniel Fludd beastologist volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Beastologist-in-training Nathaniel Fludd and his Aunt Phil nurse a mysteriously ill unicorn, try to stop Obediah from taking the unicorn's horn, and finally get a solid lead on the whereabouts of Nathaniel's parents.
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The continuing adventures of beastologist-in-training, Nathaniel Fludd, as he accompanies his intrepid Aunt Phil on a dangerous mission across West Africa to find a deadly basilisk that is missing and begins to find clues relating to the mysterious disappearance of his parents.
10) Haunted houses
Author
Series
Are you scared yet? volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Presents ten horror tales about various types of haunted houses, including a mansion with a pirate looking for his head, a dollhouse inhabited by a ghost, and a vacation house with people-eating spiders.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this variation on the folk song "Over the Meadow," the occupants of a medieval castle spend their day spinning, cleaning, cooking, and dancing, until they receive a special surprise from their dragon neighbors.