Andrew Clements
1) Frindle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
2) Lunch money
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Greg, who has always been good at moneymaking projects, is surprised to find himself teaming up with his lifelong rival, Maura, to create a series of comic books to sell at school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favoritebooks.
8) Big Al
Author
Publisher
Picture Book Studio
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
A big, ugly fish has trouble making the friends he longs for because of his appearance--until the day his scary appearance saves them all from a fisherman's net.
11) The Landry News
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
A fifth-grader starts a newspaper with an editorial that prompts her burnt-out classroom teacher to really begin teaching again, but he is later threatened with disciplinary action as a result.
12) Room one
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. Ted Hammond loves a good mystery, and in the spring of his fifth-grade year, he's working on a big one. How can his school in the little town of Plattsford stay open next year if there are going to be only five students? Out here on the Great Plains in western Nebraska, everyone understands that if you...
14) No talking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
When Jake was three years old at Miss Lulu's Danity Diaper Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing. But he learned fast--too fast! Why? Because Jake is kind of smart, and he's not a tattletale, and he doesn't have a big brother to protect him ..."
17) Fear itself
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
As the new Keepers of the School, sixth-graders Ben and Jill must decipher a handful of clues written as maritime riddles to save their school from demolition by a greedy company.
18) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
830L
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.
19) We the children
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Sixth-grader Ben Pratt's life is full of changes that he does not like--his parents' separation and the plan to demolish his seaside school to build an amusement park--but when the school janitor gives him a tarnished coin with some old engravings and then dies, Ben is drawn into an effort to keep the school from being destroyed.
20) The report card
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Nora Rowley has always hidden the fact that she is a genius from everyone because all she wants is to be normal, but when she comes up with a plan to prove that grades are not important, things begin to get out of control.