Mac Barnett
Author
Series
Terrible Two volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.
Author
Series
Terrible Two volume 2
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"Friends and pranking partners Miles and Niles face a tough challenge when their favorite goat and nemesis, Principal Barkin, is replaced by his stern, no-nonsense father, Principal Barkin Senior, who turns the school into boot camp"--
Author
Series
Terrible Two volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
"School's out, and Miles and Niles are running wild in the woods outside town: climbing trees, exploring caves, and, yes, pranking. But these leafy, lazy days of mischief darken when bully Josh Barkin and his cadets from a nearby kids' boot camp discoverthe merrymakers--and vow to destroy them"--
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ernest is annoying. Ernest is awkward. Ernest is...Ernest. And Dean wants nothing to do with him, until Ernest wins the most spectacular trip in the history of America – and is allowed to bring one friend. A short story from the acclaimed collection Guys Read: Funny Business, edited by Jon Scieszka.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Once there was a bridge and a terrible and VERY hungry troll lived underneath it. When the three Billy Goats Gruff decide to clip-clop across the bridge to get to the grassy ridge, the troll is already imagining all the way to prepare a delicious goat dinner. But the troll underestimates those seemingly sweet but oh-so-savvy goats!
6) Extra yarn
Author
Publisher
Balzer & Bray
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
Description
With a supply of yarn that never runs out, Annabelle knits for everyone and everything in town until an evil archduke decides he wants the yarn for himself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
Overview: Sam and Dave are on a mission. A mission to find something spectacular. So they dig a hole. And they keep digging. And they find nothing. Yet the day turns out to be pretty spectacular after all. Attentive readers will be rewarded with a rare treasure in this witty story of looking for the extraordinary - and finding it in a manner you'd never expect.
Author
Series
First cat in space volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, HarperAlley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Something terrible is happening in the skies! Rats are eating the MOON! There's only ONE hero for the job, a bold and fearsome beast bioengineered in a secret lab to be the moon's savior and Earth's last hope! And that hero is ... a cat. A cat who will be blasted into space! Accompanied by the imperious Moon Queen and LOZ 4000, a toenail clipping robot, the First Cat in Space journeys across a fantastic lunar landscape in a quest to save the world....
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
350L
Language
English
Description
"The Lady gives Jack a gift. It's a lab kit! Jack goes into the shed to experiment and doesn't come out until he's made another Jack and another Jack and another. But one Jack was already too many. Can Jack stop his naughty robot clones before they destroy the town?"--Publisher
Author
Publisher
Disney/Hyperion Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
Description
Mac, the author, fires Adam, the illustrator, over their artistic differences about Chloe, the main character of their book, until Mac realizes both of their talents are needed and they must work together or their story about Chloe will never be finished.
11) Jack and Santa
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
300L
Language
English
Description
When Jack finds himself on the naughty list, he worries that Santa will bring him coal. But Jack wants presents--lots of them. Will Jack be able to prove to Santa that he's not so bad after all?
12) The magic word
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 480L
Language
English
Description
When Paxton accidentally discovers the magic word that grants his every wish, he learns that having it all might be fun at first but ultimately there are consequences for being selfish.
13) Triangle
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 310L
Language
English
Description
After Triangle plays a trick on Square, Square plans to reciprocate but runs into trouble when he tries to enter the triangular doorway of Triangle's home.
14) Telephone
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books Llc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In this picture book a string of birds on a telephone wire plays a game of telephone, with the usual mixed up results.
15) Guess again!
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2009]
Lexile measure
AD 440L
Language
English
Description
For each round of guessing, readers are presented with a page of illustrations opposite a rhyming quatrain. The unexpected conclusion of the verse's final line is revealed on the next page.
16) John's turn
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Every Friday, in the cafeteria, one of the kids gets up in front of the whole school and does something. A performance. Today it's John's turn."--Front jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 360L
Language
English
Description
"Follow a magnificent polar bear through a fantastic world of snow and shockingly blue sea. Over the ice, through the water, past Arctic animals and even a human...where is he going?"--
18) Mac undercover
Author
Series
Mac B. kid spy volume 1
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
One day, Mac (smartest boy in his class in a small town in California) receives a telephone call from the Queen of England, recruiting him to find the crown jewels (well, actually just the Coronation Spoon) and so Mac embarks on his first adventure as a secret agent--with the assurance that the Queen will give him a note excusing him from school.
Author
Series
Mac B. kid spy volume 2
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
In 1989 someone is threatening to steal the crown jewels, so the Queen of England summons Mac B. to England to protect them--and when they are stolen from a locked dungeon cell, where Mac and Holcroft, one of the warders, are supposed to be guarding them, it is up to Mac to figure out how they were stolen, and whether the thief is the descendant of an Irish soldier-of-fortune who tried to steal them in 1671, or someone else entirely.
Author
Series
Mac B. kid spy volume 3
Publisher
Orchard Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
450L
Language
English
Description
There is a legend that if the ravens at the Tower of London ever leave then Britain will fall, so when somebody steals the birds, the Queen calls for Mac B. to find the thief and retrieve them--a mission that takes him to Iceland, where he encounters secret submarines, hungry polar bears, and his arch-nemesis from the KGB.