Eleanor Estes
1) Ginger Pye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This Newbery Honor classic, illustrated by a Caldecott Medalist, is a beautifully written tribute to the power of kindness, acceptance, and standing up for what's right.
Wanda Petronski is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. She claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't. When Wanda is pulled out of school one day, the class feels terrible, and classmate
...3) The Moffats
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Moffats volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Meet the Moffats. There is Sylvie, the oldest, the cleverest, and-most days at least-the responsible one; Joey, who though only twelve is the man of the house ... sometimes; Janey, who has a terrific upside-down way of looking at the world; and Rufus, who may be the littlest but always gets in the biggest trouble.
Even the most ordinary Moffat day is packed with extraordinary fun. Only a Moffat could get locked in a bread box all afternoon, or...
4) Pinky Pye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter.
5) Rufus M
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Moffats volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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You've never met anyone quite like Rufus Moffat. He gets things done-but he gets them done his way.
When he wants to check out library books, Rufus teaches himself to write...even though he doesn't yet know how to read. When food is scarce, he plants some special "Rufus beans" that actually grow ...despite his digging them up every day to check on them. And Rufus has friends that other people don't even know exist! He discovers the only invisible...
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Moffats volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A 1943 Newbery Honor Book
Who is Jane Moffat, anyway? She isn't the youngest in the family, and she isn't the oldest-she is always just Jane. How boring. So Jane decides to become a figure of mystery . . . the mysterious "Middle Moffat." But being in the middle is a lot harder than it looks.
In between not rescuing stray dogs, and losing and finding best friends, Jane must secretly look after the oldest inhabitant of Cranbury . . . so he can live...
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Jimmy McGee is a tiny, leprechaun-like man whose peaceful life is disrupted when he rescues Amy's doll Little Lydia from a monstrous wave that sweeps her off the beach. Can Jimmy find a way to restore Little Lydia to her original state as a "do-nothing doll" before he returns her to her rightful owner?
From the bestselling author of Ginger Pye comes the quirky story of a little man who saves the day in a big way.
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Moffats volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Jane Moffat decides to open a family museum in the barn behind the little grey house at Twelve Ashbellows Place in Cranbury, Connecticut.
11) The Alley
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English
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Ten-year-old Connie, who lives in the Brooklyn neigborhood called The Alley, investigates a burglary with her friend Billy Maloon.
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English
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In The Curious Adventures of Jimmy McGee, Jimmy McGee is a tiny leprechaun-like man who thinks of himself as nothing more than a plumber, even if he does do his job very quickly thanks to a certain magic he possesses called zoomie-zoomies. But Jimmy's life of turning on water and fixing dripping faucets is disrupted when he rescues Amy's doll, Little Lydia, from a monstrous wave that sweeps her off the beach. Jimmy keeps Little Lydia safe under his...