Andrew Clements
1) Frindle
Author
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Formats
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
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Formats
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
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Formats
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.
Author
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
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 lose the school, you lose the town. But the mystery that has Ted's full attention at the moment is about that face, the face he sees in the upper window...
8) No talking
Author
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
9) The map trap
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth-grader Alton Ziegler loves maps, and when his portfolio of secret maps is stolen, he begins getting notes with orders that he must obey to get the maps back but, with the help of a popular classmate, he just might succeed before his teacher, principal, or someone else learns he has been studying and mapping things about them.
11) The school story
Author
Lexile measure
760L
Physical Desc
196 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After twelve-year-old Natalie writes a wonderful novel, her friend Zoe helps her devise a scheme to get it accepted at the publishing house where Natalie's mother works as an editor.
12) The report card
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Lexile measure
700L
Physical Desc
173 pages ; 22 cm
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.
13) The Landry News
Author
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
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.
14) Big Al
Author
Pub. Date
1988
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
26 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
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.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grace and Ellie have been best friends since second grade. Ellie's always right in the center of everything--and Grace is usually happy to be Ellie's sidekick. But what happens when everything changes? This time it's Grace who suddenly has everyone's attention when she accidentally starts a new fad at school. It's a fad that has first her class, then her grade, and then the entire school collecting and trading and even fighting over . . . buttons?!...
16) The Losers Club
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
860L
Physical Desc
231 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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 favorite books.
18) In harm's way
Author
Series
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
880L
Physical Desc
209 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
As Benjamin Pratt and his friends Jill and Robert continue their efforts to save their school, they find themselves dodging two evil janitors, Lyman and Wally, but their team has also grown and now has a secret fund of millions of dollars.
19) Fear itself
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
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.
20) Things hoped for
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery when her grandfather suddenly goes missing.