Kathryn Reiss
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Physical Desc
163 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, twelve-year-old Clara finds a baby left on the doorstep of her family's boarding house, and sets out to unravel the surrounding mysteries.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
After Rebecca meets a new family in her New York City apartment building and helps watch their fussy baby while they are moving in, she becomes convinced that they have been victimized by the kidnappers that have been operating in their neighborhood.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a way for her elementary school to help fund the seabird rescue following an oil spill in the San Francisco Bay, Julie investigates the theft of rare guitar. Includes a "Looking Back" essay about benefit concerts in the 1970s.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
161 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1878, twelve-year-old Ida Kate and her widowed father welcome a mail-order bride and her baby to their Kansas homestead, but Ida Kate soon suspects that the bride is not the woman with whom Papa has corresponded.
7) Time windows
Author
Pub. Date
[1991]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
260 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Miranda moves with her family to a small Massachusetts town and a new house in which a mysterious dollhouse allows her to see into the past, where she discovers her new home exerts an evil influence on the women of each generation of inhabitants--including Miranda's mother.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
209 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When Julie visits Gold Moon Ranch, a farming commune in California's gold rush country, the back-to-the-land lifestyle seems idyllic at first. But peculiar problems keep cropping up, almost as if someone was trying to shut down the commune! Then, on a secret trip to an abandoned gold mine, Julie stumbles on a mysterious message that hints at long-lost treasure. Julie is desperate to find it, before danger closes in on Gold Moon Ranch."--Publisher....