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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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From the bestselling author of The Bomber Mafia: discover Malcolm Gladwell's breakthrough debut and explore the science behind viral trends in business, marketing, and human behavior. The tipping point is that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire. Just as a single sick person can start an epidemic of the flu, so too can a small but precisely targeted push...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
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Alexander (Judith Viorst) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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On a day when everything goes wrong for him, Alexander is consoled by the thought that other people have bad days too.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A boy and a talking horse share an adventurous and dangerous journey to Narnia to warn of invading barbarians.
5) Starting now
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Blossom street novels volume 10
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English
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After being let go from her competitive, high-pressure Seattle law firm, Libby Morgan reaches out to old friends and spends her afternoons at A Good Yarn, the local knitting store, where she forms close bonds with three women and finds time for romance with a charming and handsome doctor who seems to be her perfect match. But just as everything is coming together, Libby must make a choice that could forever change the life she holds so dear.
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Chester Cricket volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.
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A series of unfortunate events volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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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.
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Lowcountry tales (Dorothea Benton Frank) volume 12
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English
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A Sullivan's Island beekeeper navigates her demanding hypochondriac mother and flamboyant rival sister while immersing herself in the lives of two young neighbor boys and their widowed father.
11) King of the Wind
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Follows the adventures of an Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed, and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
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Pippi Longstocking volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village.
13) Sycamore row
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Jake Brigance novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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The suspense never rests when A Time to Kill's Jake Brigance fights the good fight once again. America's favorite storyteller returns to Ford County, Mississippi, where defense attorney Jake Brigance will have to fight for justice in a trial that could tear the small town of Clanton apart.
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If you give-- (Laura Numeroff) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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You could hear the voices murmuring, small and muted, from the crowds that inhabited his body.
A peerless American storyteller, Ray Bradbury brings wonders alive. The Illustrated Man is classic Bradbury- eighteen startling visions of humankind's destiny, unfolding across a canvas of decorated skin. In this phantasmagoric sideshow, living cities take their vengeance, technology awakens the most primal natural instincts, Martian invasions are foiled...
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.
17) Pinocchio
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
A retelling of the adventures of Pinocchio, a mischievous wooden puppet, who wants more than anything else to become a real boy. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
18) Elsewhere
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After fifteen-year-old Liz Hall is hit by a taxi and killed, she finds herself in a place that is both like and unlike Earth, where she must adjust to her new status and figure out how to "live."
19) Maniac Magee
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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After his parents die, Jeffrey Lionel Magee's life becomes legendary, as he accomplishes athletic and other feats which awe his contemporaries.
20) Hop on pop
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
Pairs of rhyming words are introduced and used in simple sentences, such as "Day. Play. We play all day. Night. Fight. We fight all night."