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Intermediate School Recommended Reading

 

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1. Artemis fowl: the Arctic incident

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Author:
Colfer, Eoin
Series:
Artemis Fowl series volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.2 stars
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Book, Audio CD
Description:
Artemis is at boarding school in Ireland when he receives an urgent video e-mail from Russia. In it is a plea from a man who has been kidnapped by the Russian Mafiya -- a man Artemis had thought he would never see again: his beloved father. As Artemis rushes to his rescue, he is stopped by a familiar nemesis, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon fairy police. But this time, instead of battling the fairies, he is going to have to join forces with them...

2. Artemis Fowl: the opal deception

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Author:
Colfer, Eoin
Series:
Artemis Fowl series volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.7 stars
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Description:
After his last run-in with the fairies, Artemis Fowl's mind was wiped of memories of the world belowground and any goodness grudgingly learned is now gone, with the young genius reverting to his criminal lifestyle. Artemis has no memory of the fairy people and has returned to his unlawful ways. In Berlin, he is preparing to steal a famous Impressionist painting from a German bank. He doesn't know that his old rival, Opal, has escaped from prison...

3. Artemis Fowl: the time paradox

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Author:
Colfer, Eoin
Series:
Artemis Fowl series volume 6.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
Artemis's mother has contracted a deadly disease -- and the only cure lies in the brain fluid of African lemurs. Unfortunately, Artemis himself was responsible for making the lemurs extinct five years ago. Now he must enlist the aid of his fairy friends to travel back in time and save them. Not only that, but he must face his deadliest foe yet ... his younger self.

4. The Austere Academy

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Author:
Snicket, Lemony
Series:
A series of unfortunate events volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.9 stars
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Description:
From the Publisher: As the three Baudelaire orphans warily approach their new home Prufrock Preparatory School : they can't help but notice the enormous stone arch bearing the school's motto Memento Mori or "Remember you will die." This is not a cheerful greeting and certainly marks an inauspicious beginning to a very bleak story just as we have come to expect from Lemony Snickett's Series of Unfortunate Events, the deliciously morbid set of books...

5. Beyond the grave

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Author:
Watson, Jude
Series:
The 39 clues. Main series volume 4.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Description:
A Clue found in Book 3 sends Amy and Dan jetting off to find out just what's behind the fierce rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of the Cahill family. Was a Clue stolen from the Tomas branch? Where is it now? And most important, can Amy and Dan get their hands on it before their rivals do?

6. The black circle

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Author:
Carman, Patrick
Series:
The 39 clues. Main series volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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"A strange telegram lures fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother, Dan, deep into Russia and away from the only trustworthy adult they know. Signed with the initials NRR, the telegram launches a race to uncover a treasure stolen by the Nazis and the truth behind the murder of the last Russian royal family. All too soon, the treasure hunt starts to smell like a Lucian trap. But the bait might just be irresistible--what will Amy and Dan...

7. The Carnivorous Carnival

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Author:
Snicket, Lemony
Series:
A series of unfortunate events volume 9.
Average Rating:
4 stars
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Description:
On the run as suspected murderers, the unlucky Baudelaire orphans find themselves trapped in the Caligari Carnival, where they must masquerade as freaks in order to hide from the evil Count Olaf.

8. The End

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Author:
Snicket, Lemony
Series:
A series of unfortunate events volume 13.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
Lost at sea, the Baudelaire orphans, along with the evil Count Olaf, wash up on the shore of an island populated by an oddly placid group of inhabitants, and they try to decide whether or not they are truly safe.

9. The Ersatz Elevator

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Author:
Snicket, Lemony
Series:
A series of unfortunate events volume 6.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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The woeful saga of the Baudelaire orphans continues as evil Count Olaf discovers their whereabouts at Esmé Squalor's seventy-one bedroom penthouse and concocts a new plan for stealing their family fortune.

10. Holes

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Author:
Sachar, Louis, 1954-
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.

11. The Hostile Hospital

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Author:
Snicket, Lemony
Series:
A series of unfortunate events volume 8
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.

12. I survived the attacks of September 11, 2001

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Author:
Tarshis, Lauren
Series:
I survived volume 6.
Average Rating:
4.4 stars
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Description:
The only thing Lucas loves more than football is his Uncle Benny, his dad's best friend at the fire department where they both work. Benny taught Lucas everything about football. So when Lucas's parents decide the sport is too dangerous and he needs to quit, Lucas has to talk to his biggest fan. So the next morning, Lucas takes the train to the city instead of the bus to school. It's a bright, beautiful day in New York. But just as Lucas arrives at...

13. I survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863

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Author:
Tarshis, Lauren
Series:
I survived volume 7.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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It's 1863, and Thomas and his little sister, Birdie, have fled the farm where they were born and raised as slaves. Following the North Star, looking for freedom, they soon cross paths with a Union soldier. Everything changes: Corporal Henry Green brings Thomas and Birdie back to his regiment, and suddenly it feels like they've found a new home. Best of all, they don't have to find their way north alone -- they're marching with the army. But then orders...

14. I survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011

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Author:
Tarshis, Lauren
Series:
I survived volume 8.
Average Rating:
4.5 stars
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Visiting his dad's hometown in Japan four months after his father's death would be hard enough for Ben. But one morning the pain turns to fear: first, a massive earthquake rocks the quiet coastal village, nearly toppling his uncle's house. Then the ocean waters rise and Ben and his family are swept away -- and pulled apart -- by a terrible tsunami. Now Ben is alone, stranded in a strange country a million miles from home. Can he fight hard enough...

15. I survived the Nazi invasion, 1944

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Author:
Tarshis, Lauren
Series:
I survived volume 9.
Average Rating:
4.3 stars
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In a Jewish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by the Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?

16. I survived the San Francisco earthquake, 1906

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Author:
Tarshis, Lauren
Series:
I survived volume 5.
Average Rating:
4.6 stars
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Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally...

17. I survived the shark attacks of 1916

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Author:
Tarshis, Lauren
Series:
I survived volume 2.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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In the summer of 1916, ten year-old Chet Roscow is captivated by the local news: a Great White shark has been attacking and killing people up and down the Atlantic Coast, not far from Chet's hometown of Springfield, New Jersey. Then one day, swimming with his friends, Chet sees something in the water ...

18. Into the gauntlet

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Author:
Haddix, Margaret Peterson
Series:
The 39 clues. Main series volume 10.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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Description:
Throughout the hunt for the 39 Clues, Amy and Dan Cahill have uncovered history's greatest mysteries and their family's deadliest secrets. But are they ready to face the truth about the Cahills and the key to their unmatched power? After a whirlwind race that's taken them across five continents, Amy and Dan face the most the difficult challenge yet -- a task no Cahill dared to imagine. When faced with a choice that could change the future of the world,...

19. National Espionage, Rescue, and Defense Society

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Author:
Buckley, Michael, 1969-
Series:
NERDS volume 1.
Average Rating:
5 stars
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While running a spy network from their elementary school, five unpopular misfits combine their enhanced abilities and use cutting-edge gadgetry to fight evil around the world.

20. The penultimate peril

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Author:
Snicket, Lemony
Series:
A series of unfortunate events volume 12.
Average Rating:
4.8 stars
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Description:
The Baudelaire orphans disguise themselves as employees of the Hotel Denoument and find themselves pursued by the evil Count Olaf and others.