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21) Anybody shining
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In a series of letters to her cousin, twelve-year-old Arie Mae relates her life in a mountain valley of North Carolina in the 1920s.
22) Same sun here
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
Author
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, then when he faces the risk of losing a puppy he has come to love while helping his grandfather train hunting dogs, but writing to a new friend helps him sort his feelings and do the right thing.
24) P.S. be eleven
Author
Series
Gaither sisters volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old Brooklyn girl Delphine feels overwhelmed with worries and responsibilities. She's just started sixth grade and is self-conscious about being the tallest girl in the class, and nervous about her first school dance. She's supposed to be watching her sisters, but Fern and Vonetta are hard to control. Her uncle Darnell is home from Vietnam and seems different. And her pa has a girlfriend. At least Delphine can write to her mother in Oakland,...
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, Noah Breth's feuding children come to Ghastly, Illinois, to follow a trail of limericks to their inheritance, while Seymour tries to convince Iggy and Olive to let him keep Mr. Breth's dog.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While trying to discover who left a love poem in Noreen's ice cream during a blackout at the roller rink, fourth-grader Calliope Day learns some very interesting facts about boys.
29) 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.
30) Dear Anjali
Author
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When her best friend dies at the age of thirteen, Meredith writes letters to her as she tries to endure her grief and other confusing emotions.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 2
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, busybody Dick Tater tries to ban Halloween and ghost stories, as well as to break up the popular writing team of I. B. Grumply, ghost Olive C. Spence, and eleven-year-old illustrator Seymour Hope.
32) Lucky me
Author
Publisher
Aladdin M!X
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When superstitious Meghan receives a chain letter from Ireland, she takes a shortcut in its directions, and soon finds herself in a streak of bad luck that she must travel to Ireland to break.
33) I, Lorelei
Author
Publisher
Laura Geringer Books
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In letters to her recently deceased cat Mud, eleven-year-old Lorelei chronicles the ups and downs of her sixth-grade year, during which her parents separate, she gets a part in the school play, and she becomes friends with the cutest boy in her grade.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2014].
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"The unsuspecting trio at Spence Mansion starts a greeting card company--and winds up on the adventure of a lifetime!"--
35) The chain letter
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When sixth-grader Livvie decides to throw a chain letter in the trash, bad luck ensues.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Beginning in 1959, Abby, nearly eleven, writes a series of letters to Jackie Kennedy, each with sketches of outfits she has designed, as she faces family problems, concerns about neighbors, and her own desperate desire for both her first bra and a Barbie doll.
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 4
Publisher
Harcourt Children's Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
With the impending closure of the post office, the transition to the new communication system VEXT-mail is anything but smooth for the human and paranormal residents of Ghastly, Illinois. Story told mostly through letters.
38) Wenny has wings
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Having had a near-death experience in the accident that killed his younger sister, eleven-year-old Will tries to cope with the situation by writing her letters.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Through a series of letters written to a post office box, twelve-year-old Cadence describes her father's hospitalization for depression, her subsequent problems at school, and her hope that the mysterious recipient will help her find a happy ending.
40) Ghost letters
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
While exploring the area around his grandfather's home Gil discovers a bottle that carries messages into the past, finds a genie in a letter, and three letters that were never delivered but would have changed the course of history.