MILL CREEK MS NOVEL SETS IN DESTINY
B FRA
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl Lexile 1080 1 set of 20 books
Tells in simple text and pictures the life story of Anne Frank, who hid from the
Nazis with her parents for years in a secret apartment and wrote a diary that
became famous after her death.
B MAH Chinese Cinderella
Lexile 960
1 set of 30 books
The author tells the story of her painful childhood in China where she lived until
the age of fourteen with her father, stepmother, and siblings, all of whom
considered her bad luck because her mother died shortly after giving birth to her.
B TUB
Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad Lexile 1000
1 box of 11 books
A biography of the famous woman who worked to free her people on the
Underground Railroad
292 EVS
Heroes & Monsters of Greek Myth Lexile 870
1 set of 34 books
A retelling of all the great tales of Greek mythology in language that is simple,
swift and highly dramatic.
393 PER
Mummies, Tombs, and Treasures
Lexile 1090 1 set of 29 books
Text and photographs examine the mummies and tombs of ancient Egypt.
523 BER
Do Stars Have Points?
Lexile 700
1 set of 37 books
Questions and answers explore various aspects of stars and our solar system,
including the sun, planets, moons, comets, and asteroids.
551 BER
Do Tornadoes Really Twist?
Lexile 780 1 set of 35 books
Provides answers to a variety of questions about tornadoes and hurricanes,
including "Where do most tornadoes strike," and "How long do hurricanes last?"
636 HER
All Things Bright and Beautiful
Lexile 1070
1 set of 30 books
An English veterinarian reminisces about his life, career, and animal patients in an
English village.
796.5 PAU Woodsong
Lexile 1090
1 set of 28 books
For a rugged outdoor man and his family, life in northern Minnesota is a wild
experience involving wolves, deer, and the sled dogs that make their way of life
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possible. The story includes an account of the author's first Iditarod, a dogsled
race across Alaska.
940 PER
Four Perfect Pebbles
Lexile 1080
1 set of 29 books
The author tells the story of her family's experiences as Jews in Hitler's Germany,
tracing their horrifying journey from their home country to Holland and back
again, living in refugee, transit, and prison camps, including Bergen-Belson.
FIC AVI
Nothing But The Truth
No Lexile
1 set of 21 books
A ninth-grader's suspension for singing "The Star-Spangled Banner" during
homeroom becomes a national news story.
FIC AVI
Crispin
Lexile 730
1 set of 35 books
Branded as traitors by the king's authorities, Crispin and his guardian, Bear, flee to
coastal towns in fourteenth-century England, where they perform a musical
juggling act and bond as a family after befriending a disfigured girl.
FIC AVI
The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
Lexile 740
As the only passenger, and the only female, on a transatlantic voyage in 1832,
thirteen-year-old Charlotte finds herself caught between a murderous captain and
a mutinous crew.
FIC BLO
Tangerine
Lexile 680
1 set of 30 books
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik,
fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to
remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
FIC BUR
The Incredible Journey
Lexile 1320
1 set of 36 books
A Siemese cat, an old bull terrier, and a young Labrador retriever travel together
250 miles through the Canadian wilderness to find their family.
FIC CHR
And Then There Were None
Lexile 570 1 set of 12 books
Ten strangers, each with a sordid past, are summoned by an absent millionaire to
a private island off the coast of Devon and begin to die one by one upon arrival.
FIC COL
Artemis Fowl: The time paradox
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Lexile 780
1 set of 28 books
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Artemis's fairy friends help him travel back in time to find a cure for his mother's
rare disease which can only be cured by the brain fluid of now-extinct African
lemurs, and is shocked to discover that it was actually his younger self who was
responsible for bringing about the animal's extinction.
FIC COL
My Brother Sam is Dead
Lexile 770
1 set of 36 books
Recounts the tragedy that strikes the Meeker family during the Revolution when
one son joins the rebel forces while the rest of the family tries to stay neutral in a
Tory town.
FIC CRE
Children of the River
Lexile 700
1 set of 32 books
Having fled Cambodia four years earlier to escape the Khmer Rouge army,
seventeen-year-old Sundara is torn between remaining faithful to her own people
and adjusting to life in her Oregon high school as a "regular" American.
FIC CUR
Watsons Go To Birmingham
Lexile 1000
1 set of books
The ordinary interactions and everyday routines of the Watsons, an AfricanAmerican family living in Flint, Michigan, are drastically changed after they go to
visit Grandma in Alabama in the summer of 1963.
FIC DEA
Door in the Wall
Lexile 990
1 set of 32 books
A disabled boy in fourteenth-century England proves his courage and earns
recognition from the King.
FIC DIC
A Christmas Carol
Lexile 1080
1 set of 9 books
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review
his past and foretell his future.
FIC DIC
A Tale of Two Cities
Lexile 1130
1 set of 14 books
In the early days of the French Revolution, a young Englishman determines to do
the utmost to save the husband of the woman he loves from the guillotine.
FIC DOY
Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
Lexile 1080 1 set of 31 books
A collection of Sherlock Holmes mystery adventures, including "A Scandal in
Bohemia," "The Red-headed League," and "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"
FIC FIT
Harriet the Spy
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Lexile 760
1 set of 10 books
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When Harriet's classmates find her diary and read what she has written about
them, they decide to make life miserable for her.
FIC GEO
Julie of the Wolves
Lexile 860
1 set of 10 books
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old
Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf
pack.
FIC GRE
Summer of My German Soldier
Lexile 800 1 set of 10 books
When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World
War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal
with the consequences of that friendship.
FIC HIN
Outsiders
Lexile 750
4 sets of 30 books
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their
quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society
FIC HIN
That was Then, This is Now
Lexile 780
4 sets of 30 books
Sixteen-year-old Mark and Bryon have been like brothers since childhood, but
now, as their involvement with girls, gangs, and drugs increases, their relationship
seems to gradually disintegrate.
FIC HUN
ACROSS FIVE APRILS
Lexile 1100
1 set of 27 books
Young Jethro Creighton grows from a boy to a man when he is left to take care of
the family farm in Illinois during the difficult years of the Civil War.
FIC JUS
Phantom Tollbooth
Lexile 1000
1 set of 35 books
A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and
numbers provides a cure for his boredom.
FIC KEY
Flowers for Algernon
Lexile 910
1 set of 10 books
Charlie Gordon, born with an unusually low IQ, must face his gradual return to his
former state when the astounding results of an experimental surgery that
increased his intelligence prove to be only temporary.
FIC KON
The View From Saturday
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Lexile 870
1 set of 10 books
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Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and
attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to
represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
FIC LEE
To Kill a Mockingbird
Lexile 870
9 sets of 30 books
Scout Finch, the young daughter of a local attorney in the Deep South during the
1930s, tells of her father's defense of an African-American man charged with the
rape of a white girl.
FIC L’EN
A Wrinkle in Time Lexile 740
1 set of 10 books, 1 set of 30 books
The story of the adventures in space and time of Meg, Charles Wallace, and Calvin
O'Keefe while searching for Meg's father, a scientist who disappeared while
engaged in secret government research.
FIC LEW
The Horse and His Boy
Lexile 970
1 set of 10 books
A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia
to warn of invading barbarians. (Chronicles of Narnia Book 3)
FIC LEW
The Last Battle
Lexile 890
1 set of 10 books
Jill and Eustace help fight the great last battle in Narnia after a false, cruel leader
deceives the people into believing he is Aslan.
FIC LEW
The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe Lexile 940 1 set of 22 books
Four children find their way into Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to
triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the magical land with eternal
winter.
FIC LEW
Magician’s Nephew
Lexile 790
1 set of 10 books
When Digory and Polly try to return the wicked witch Jadis to her own world, the
magic gets mixed up and they all land in Narnia where they witness Aslan blessing
the animals with human speech.
FIC LEW
Prince Caspian
Lexile 870
1 set of 10 books
Four children help Prince Caspian and his army of Talking Beasts to free Narnia
from evil.
FIC LEW
Silver Chair
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Lexile 840
1 set of 10 books
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Two English children undergo hair-raising adventures as they go on a search and
rescue mission for the missing Prince Rilian, who is held captive in the
underground kingdom of the Emerald witch.
FIC LEW
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
Lexile 970 1 set of 10 books
Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, sail to the land
of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because
of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
FIC LON
Call of the Wild
Lexile 1120
1 set of 31 books
Buck, who is half St. Bernard and half Scotch shepherd, is abducted and taken to
the Klondike where he reverts to the wild and becomes a leader of a pack of
wolves.
FIC LOW
THE GIVER
Lexile 760
3 set of 30 books
Given his lifetime assignment at the Ceremony of Twelve, Jonas becomes the
receiver of memories shared by only one other in his community and discovers
the terrible truth about the society in which he lives.
FIC MON
Anne of Green Gables
Lexile 990
1 set of 31 books
Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely middleaged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an
indelible impression on everyone around her.
FIC O’DE
The Black Pearl
Lexile 980
2 sets (different publishers)
1 set of 12 books, 1 set of 14 books
In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl he finds, a sixteen-year-old
youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.
FIC O’DE
Island of Blue Dolphins
Lexile 1000
1 set of 10 books
Records the courage and self-reliance of an Indian girl who lived alone for
eighteen years on an isolated island off the California coast when her tribe
emigrated and she was left behind
FIC O’DE
Sing Down the Moon
Lexile 820
1 set of 16 books
A young Navajo girl recounts the events of 1864 when her tribe was forced
to march to Fort Sumner, New Mexico, as prisoners of the white soldiers.
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FIC PAT
Bridge To Terabithia
Lexile 810
12 set of 30 books
Jess Aarons, a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia, finds a beloved and unexpected
friend in Leslie, the new girl at school, with whom he creates a secret kingdom in
the woods and from whom he learns lifelong lessons when tragedy strikes.
FIC PAU
Brian’s Winter
Lexile 1140
1 set of 29 books
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this
story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive
a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
FIC PAU
The Foxman
Lexile 1090
1 set of 28 books
A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an
elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.
FIC PAU
Hatchet
Lexile 1020
1 set of 28 books
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the
wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given him by
his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
FIC PAU
The River
Lexile 960
1 set of 29 books
Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteenyear-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a
similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival.
(Sequel to Hatchet)
FIC PAU
Tracker
Lexile 1010
1 set of 20 books
Only thirteen, John must track a deer in the Minnesota woods for his family's
winter meat, and in doing so, finds himself drawn to the doe who leads him and
coming to hate his role as hunter.
FIC RAW
Summer of the Monkeys
Lexile 810
1 set of 12 books
In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer
trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus.
FIC RAW
Where The Red Fern Grows
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Lexile 700
2 sets
1 set of 35 books, 1 set of 29 books
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The adventures of a ten-year-old boy and the two dogs he bought with money he
had earned.
FIC SAC
Holes
Lexile 660
1 set of
books
An unlucky boy goes from loser to hero when he beats the odds and solves a
mystery at Camp Green Lake, a detention center where he is forced to dig holes
every day.
FIC SNY
The Egypt Game Lexile 1010 1 set of 28 books, 2 sets of 29 books
Melanie and April turn a deserted lot into an imaginary Egypt where they spend
many hours enacting rituals and consulting oracles, but there are real dangers and
problems lurking outside their make-believe world that almost bring their game
to a disastrous end.
FIC SPE
Call It Courage
Lexile 830
1 set of 35 books
The story of Mafatu, a Polynesian boy, whose fear of the sea forced him into a
courageous canoe trip, alone except for his little dog and pet albatross.
FIC SPE
Witch of Blackbird Pond
Lexile 890
1 set of 26 books
In 1687 in Connecticut, Kit Tyler, feeling out of place in the Puritan household of
her aunt, befriends an old woman considered a witch by the community and
suddenly finds herself standing trial for witchcraft.
FIC SOT
Local News
Lexile 820
1 set of 12 books
A collection of thirteen short stories about the everyday lives of Mexican
American young people in California's Central Valley.
FIC SPI
Maniac McGee
Lexile 820 1 set of 24 books, 3 sets of 30 books
An orphaned adolescent boy with a legendary talent for running goes on a
journey of self-discovery, leaving his aunt and uncle's unhappy home, bouncing
from place to place, and learning about racism and what it means to belong.
FIC STE
The Pearl
Lexile 1010
1 set of 30 books
Terrible events follow the discovery of a magnificent pearl by a poor Mexican
fisherman.
FIC STE
Treasure Island
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Lexile 1100
1 set of 30 books
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While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money,
the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a
pirate's fortune.
FIC STG
Mystery Isle
Lexile 590
1 set of 30 books
Twelve-year-old Kim and her great-grandfather are alone in their family's mansion
on Shag Island when they begin to hear strange music and see bright flashing
lights, and realize they might be in grave danger.
FIC TAY The Cay
Lexile 860
1 set with 10 books, 2 sets with 30 books
Phillip Enright, and the ship's cat are castaways on a barren Caribbean island after
their ship is torpedoed during World War II. The book describes the struggle for
survival.
FIC TAY
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry Lexile 920
5 sets of 30 books
An African-American family living in the South during the 1930s is faced with
prejudice and discrimination which its children do not understand.
FIC ZIN
The Pigman
Lexile 950
2 sets of 30 books
Two high school sophomores from unhappy homes form a close friendship with a
lonely old man who has a terrible secret.
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