Barbara O'Connor
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After Owen captures an enormous bullfrog, names it Tooley Graham, then has to release it, he and two friends try to use a small submarine that fell from a passing train to search for Tooley in the Carter, Georgia, pond it came from, while avoiding nosy neighbor Viola.
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Unpopular sixth-grader Burdette "Bird" Weaver persuades the new boy at school, whom everyone thinks is mean and dumb, to be her partner for a spelling bee that might win her everything she's ever wanted.
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Summer days drift by slowly in Meadville, South Carolina-that is, until Sherman the one-legged pigeon flies into town and causes a ruckus. First Stella, who's been begging for a dog, spots him on top of a garage roof and decides she wants him for a pet. Then there's Ethel and Amos, an old couple who sees the pigeon in their barn keeping company with a little brown dog that barks all night. The pigeon lands smack in the middle of Mutt Raynard's head,...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2022
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Set in a trailer park called Paradise
"You're just wasting your God-given talents if you don't get yourself something besides a little ole harmonica to play." Wylene made it sound so easy. Martin had always like music -- liked to listen to it, liked to make up tunes in his head. But all he had to do was say the word "piano" to his father and all hell would break loose. His father thought music was for sissies, and was always mad at Martin for not...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jennalee is jealous when a slow-thinking black man arrives in her Smoky Mountains community and claims to be the son of Uncle Beau, the owner of the general store and Jennalee's only friend.
7) Wonderland
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
From Barbara O'Connor, the beloved author of Wish, comes a big-hearted story about the meaning of friendship, the challenges of growing up, and one lovable runaway dog. Mavis Jeeter is fearless and bold, but she has never lived in one place long enough to have a real best friend. Her flighty mother has uprooted them again to another new home and taken a job as a housekeeper for the Tully family. Mavis wants this home to be permanent which means finding...
8) Wish
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"A story about a girl who, with the help of the dog of her dreams, discovers that family doesn't always have to be related--they are simply people who love you for who you are"--
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books, Inc
Pub. Date
2021
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A heartfelt middle-grade novel from bestselling author Barbara O'Connor about a boy whose life is upended after the loss of his older brother--timeless, classic, and whimsical.
Walter Tipple is looking for adventure. He keeps having a dream that his big brother, Tank, appears before him and says, "Let's you and me go see my world, little man." But Tank went to the army and never came home, and Walter doesn't know how to see the world without him.
Then...