Keith Nobbs
1) Sky raiders
Author
Series
Five kingdoms volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Whisked through a portal to the Outskirts, an in-between world, sixth-grader Cole must rescue his friends and find his way back home--before his existence is forgotten.
Author
Series
Five kingdoms volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cole Randolph ventures to a new kingdom as he continues his search for his friends -- and also pursues his quest to mend what has gone awry with the magic in The Outskirts.
3) Time jumpers
Author
Series
Five kingdoms volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trapped in a world where magic is powerful and dreams are real, Cole and his friends are pushed to the limit as they make one final attempt to restore magic to the Outskirts and find their way back home.
Author
Series
Five kingdoms volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cole and his friends finally reach the fourth of the five kingdoms, Necronum, land of the dead, where they confront unexpected dangers and meet new allies.
5) Frindle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
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.
Author
Series
Five kingdoms volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the hunt for his lost friends leads Cole Randolph to the kingdom of Elloweer, he and new friends Mira, Twitch, and Jace team up with the resistance movement to search for Mira's sister Honor, but enemies abound and Cole and Mira must use a new kind of magic to protect themselves.
Author
Series
Michael Vey volume 4
Publisher
Mercury Ink/Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Michael, Taylor, Ostin, and the rest of the Electroclan head to Taiwan in search of nine-year-old child prodigy Lin Julung, or Jade Dragon, who the Elgen kidnapped for Hatch's army of electric children.
8) No Talking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first in a six-book series, We the Children follows Ben, his tech-savvy friend, Jill, and the class know-it-all, Robert, as they uncover a remarkable history and use it to protect the school.
Sixth grader Benjamin Pratt loves history, which makes going to the historic Duncan Oakes School a pretty cool thing. But a wave of commercialization is hitting the area and his beloved school is slated to be torn down to make room for an entertainment park....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
With a key to the Oakes School in his possession Benjamin, his friend Jill, and a new friend continue to seek ways to protect the school and their town but Lyman, the janitor and a spy, has new tricks up his sleeve.
11) Lost and found
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
p2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Twin brothers Jay and Ray Grayson learn about friendship, honesty, and themselves after taking advantage of a clerical oversight in which their new school thinks there is only one Grayson boy.
12) Troublemaker
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When his older brother gets in serious trouble, sixth-grader Clay decides to change his own mischief-making ways, but he cannot seem to shake his reputation as a troublemaker.
13) Poison princess
Author
Series
Arcana chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a cataclysmic event, sixteen-year-old Evie, from a well-to-do Louisiana family, learns that her terrible visions are actually prophecies and that there are others like herself--embodiments of Tarot cards destined to engage in an epic battle.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Ted Hammond, the only sixth grader in his small Nebraska town's one-room schoolhouse, searches for clues to the disappearance of a homeless family. 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...
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Jake must leave his championship soccer team to play on a team with a losing record when his family moves to a neighboring town.
16) Safe at home
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 3
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
p2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nick Crandall's new foster parents are both professors who know nothing about sports, and his new teammates feel he is too young to play varsity baseball; but Nick is out to prove that he belongs not only to his team, but to his parents as well.
17) Long shot
Author
Series
Comeback kids volume 4
Publisher
Penguin Audio
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A point guard for his school basketball team, Pedro decides to run for class president, but his running mate, Ned, who happens to be the most popular boy in school and Pedro's teammate, does not appreciate the competition.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Keepers of the School--known to their friends as Ben, Jill, and Robert--have one last chance to save their school before it's torn down to make room for a seaside amusement park. But their nemeses, janitors Lyman and Wally, are just as determined to keep the kids out of the way and the demolition on schedule"--
19) The only game
Author
Series
Home team novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixth grade is supposed to be the year that Jack Callahan would lead his team to a record-shattering season and the Little League World Series, but after the death of his brother he loses interest in baseball and only Cassie, star of the girls' softball team, seems to understand.
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 4
Publisher
Audioworks, Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Marty and his best friend, Shiloh are on another adventure. Marty learns when a secret is too dangerous to keep, and that hate can spread like fire"--