Betsy Cromer Byars
4) Tornado
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As they wait out a tornado in their storm cellar, a family listens to their farmhand tell stories about the dog that was blown into his life by another tornado when he was a boy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Junior Blossom has set out to test his brand-new invention, a coyote trap. How on earth does he end up lost in a cave with Mad Mary, a.k.a. "the Vulture Lady" while his family attempts to find him in this suspenseful and sidesplitting Blossom Family sequel.
Author
Series
A Blossom family book volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Description
In the aftermath of a big flood in Alderson County, the Blossom family continues coping in their rare family style.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Junior Blossom is inventing again, but this time no one cares enough to ask about the secret his "KEEP OUT" signs conceal. A remark of his mother's brings Junior's world crashing down, as she tells his sister Maggie how proud her father would have been of her. Junior's grief makes him the focus of everyone's concern, and getting his newest invention, a flying saucer, off the ground becomes a family project.
10) Trouble River
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When he builds his raft, a twelve-year-old boy never dreams that it will serve as the sole means of escape for himself and his grandmother when hostile Indians threaten their prairie cabin.
11) The TV kid
Author
Pub. Date
c1976
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
To escape failure, boredom, and loneliness, a young boy plunges with all his imagination into the world of television.
13) The pinballs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Story of three lonely foster children who learn to care about themselves and others.
17) The Cybil war
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Simon learns some hard lessons about good and bad friendships when his good friend Tony's stories involve him in some very troublesome and complicated situations.
18) McMummy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Looking after an eccentric scientist's greenhouse doesn't seem any stranger than the other odd jobs taken by Mozie and his partner Battie--until Mozie discovers a large, mummy-shaped pod on one of the plants.
19) The dark stairs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The intrepid Herculeah Jones helps her mother, a private investigator, solve a puzzling and frightening case.
20) The computer nut
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Ten-year-old Kate begins a communication exchange on a computer with someone purporting to be from outer space, who says he is going to pay a visit to Earth soon.