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1) Dear Mothman
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
After the death of his best friend and the only other trans boy at school, Noah starts writing letters expressing his feelings to the humanoid creature Mothman and risks everything when he treks into the woods to prove Mothman's existence.
Author
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Eleven-year-old knuckleball pitcher Vivy Cohen, who has autism, becomes pen pals with her favorite Major League baseball player after writing a letter to him as an assignment for her social skills class.
Author
Series
Midnight hour volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When her parents go missing while investigating strange letters they have received, Emily continues their search for answers in a parallel world frozen in time and filled with magic and monsters.
4) Extra credit
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
Author
Series
Cecelia and Kate novels volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1828, English cousins Cecelia and Kate and their husbands search for a missing German railway engineer and with the help of their wizardry skills, uncover a plot that could endanger the unity of England.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nurk, a sort of brave shrew, packs up a few pairs of clean socks and sails off on an accidental adventure, guided by wisdom found in the journal of his famously brave and fierce grandmother, Lady Surka the warrior shrew.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tom learns first-hand about honor, first when he is wrongly accused of lying at school and then when he faces the risk of losing a puppy he has come to love while helping his grandfather train hunting dogs.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Augusta writes letters to her younger sister, Louie, about life in middle school, from tackling a new school building to meeting new people like the assistant principal, the class pet, and the renegade.
Author
Series
Clueless McGee volume 1
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters to his father, a private investigator, fifth-grader PJ "Clueless" McGee tells of his efforts to discover who stole macaroni and cheese from the school cafeteria.
10) In Darkling Wood
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Alice goes to stay with her grandmother she discovers the magical Darkling Wood, where she meets a strange friend and discovers letters written between a brother and sister during WWI.
Author
Series
Clueless McGee volume 2
Publisher
Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fifth-grader PJ "Clueless" McGee writes a series of letters to his father, a private investigator, telling of his attempt to learn who stole the science fair trophy, thus clearing his own name.
12) Dear Sister
Author
Publisher
A Caitlyn Dlouhy book, Atheneum books for young readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Brother chronicles life with his frequently-annoying Sister, from the time she is born until she is ten and he leaves for college, through a series of letters and drawings.
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