Elana K Arnold
Author
Series
Boy called BAT volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
For Bixby Alexander Tam (nicknamed Bat), life tends to be full of surprises some of them good, some not so good. Today, though, is a good-surprise day. Bat s mom, a veterinarian, has brought home a stray baby skunk, which she needs to take care of until she can hand him over to a wild-animal shelter. But the minute Bat meets the kit, he knows they belong together. And he s got one month to show his mom that a baby skunk might just make a pretty terrific...
2) Red Hood
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
A dark, engrossing, blood-drenched tale of the familiar threats to female power--and one girl’s journey to regain it. Five starred reviews greeted this powerful story from Elana K. Arnold, author of the Printz Honor winner Damsel. You are alone in the woods, seen only by the unblinking yellow moon. Your hands are empty. You are nearly naked. And the wolf is angry. Since her grandmother became her caretaker when she was four years old, Bisou Martel...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Alder has always lived in his cozy little house in Southern California. And for as long as he can remember, the old, reliable, comforting walnut tree has stood between his house and the one next door. That is, until a new family—with a particularly annoying girl his age—moves into the neighboring house and, without warning, cuts it down. Oak doesn’t understand why her family had to move to Southern California. She has to attend a new school,...
4) Just Harriet
Author
Series
Just Harriet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Formats
Description
Harriet Wermer is unhappy about having to spend her summer with her grandmother on Marble island until she discovers a mystery involving her Dad from when he was a boy living on the island.
5) Damsel
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 11
Formats
Description
Waking up in the arms of Prince Emory, Ama has no memory of him rescuing her from a dragon's lair, but she soon discovers there is more to the legend of dragons and damsels than anyone knows and she is still in great danger.
Author
Series
Boy called BAT volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When Bat's older sister Janie gets a part in the school play, and can't watch him after school, it means some pretty big changes. For one, someone else will have to take care of the skunk kit in the afternoons.
Author
Series
Boy called BAT volume 3
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Bat grows anxious as his third-grade year comes to an end and the time to release his pet skunk, Thor, out into the wild approaches"--
Author
Series
Just Harriet volume 2
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
"There are a few things you should know about Harriet Wermer: She always tells the truth. She's loving spending her summer on Marble Island, where she is an A+ mystery-solver. Okay, maybe she doesn't always tell the truth. Actually...she has a tendency to lie quite a bit. Which is why, when one of the guests at her grandmother's bed-and-breakfast finds that their treasured pair of binoculars has gone missing, no one believes Harriet when she said...
10) Far from fair
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
As far as twelve-year-old Odette Zyskowski is concerned, her parents have ruined her life by selling the house she and her younger brother have grown up in, getting an RV, and giving her some little mutt instead of the Labrador Retriever she wanted--but as they travel north to see her grandmother, Odette becomes aware of an even more frightening problem: her parents may be on the verge of a divorce.
Author
Series
Starla Jean volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Starla Jean is full of moxie, clever as a fox, and obsessed with catching a chicken she finds at the park. When Starla first sees the scrawny bird wandering around, she just knows they're destined for one another. Her dad says, 'If you can catch it, you can keep it,' and Starla Jean is not one to back down from a challenge.
12) The blood years
Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Based on the true experiences of her grandmother's childhood in Holocaust-era Romania, ... author Elana K. Arnold weaves [a] tale of love and loss in the darkest days of the twentieth century--and one young woman's will to survive them"--Publisher description.
13) Infandous
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Seventeen-year-old Sephora, a surfer and artist who loves fairy tales and mythology, struggles with a secret so horrible she cannot speak it aloud, especially not to her beautiful, single mother, although they have always been unusually close.
15) Pip and Zip
Author
Pub. Date
c2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a family brings home two abandoned duck eggs and waits for them to hatch, they read, learn and laugh until one day Pip and Zip are born!
Author
Series
Just Harriet volume 3
Pub. Date
[2024]
Description
"There are some things you should know about Harriet Wermer: She used to lie a lot, but not anymore. Seriously, she only tells the truth now. Even though she hadn’t wanted to come to Marble Island in the first place, now she doesn’t want to leave. It's the truth. With her mom and new baby brother home from the hospital, it's almost time for Harriet to pack up and head home from Marble Island and all the friends she's made. But Harriet doesn't...
Author
Series
Starla Jean volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"It's Willa's first birthday -- a day that doesn't come along...every day. In fact, it only comes once and Starla Jean is going to make the best out of it for her baby sister. How? A party! All she has to do is: -decorate -keep Opal Egg entertained -get ingredients for a cake -try to get Opal Egg to lay an egg -invite guests -come on, Opal Egg! How hard is it to lay an egg? You're a chicken! -bake the cake -Give Willa the best first birthday party...
18) An ordinary day
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"An ordinary day in an ordinary neighborhood turns out to be extraordinary in this story about new life, death, and family"--
Author
Series
Starla Jean volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
Have you ever walked a chicken on a leash? Well, chicken expert Starla Jean will let you know first hand, it's not easy. But that doesn't stop Starla from taking her pet chicken, Opal Egg, and her baby sister, Willa, out on a stroll through the neighborhood. On their walk, they stumble upon a mysterious bead. And then another! Before they know it, there's a conundrum on their hands, and it's up to Starla and her friends to figure out just who exactly...
20) All by himself?
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
Illustrates that we are all connected and that no one goes through life--or builds anything--all by themselves.