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IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
4) Peter Pan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie's tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up, remains one of the most beloved children's books ever written. For nearly a hundred years, kids across the world have drifted off to sleep dreaming about Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys, pixie dust and ticking clocks, crocodiles and Captain Hook. But in spite of the story's visual richness, it has never been illustrated photographically until now. In this lavishly produced edition of the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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A mass-market paperback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior artwork by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh and narrow lives, they soon find themselves at the center of a terrible battle. It is a...
7) Pax
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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"From bestselling and award-winning author Sara Pennypacker comes a beautifully wrought, utterly compelling novel about the powerful relationship between a boy and his fox. Pax is destined to become a classic, beloved for generations to come. Pax and Peter have been inseparable ever since Peter rescued him as a kit. But one day, the unimaginable happens: Peter's dad enlists in the military and makes him return the fox to the wild. At his grandfather's...
8) Maniac Magee
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Jeffrey Lionel "Maniac" Magee might havelived a normal life if a trolley accident hadn't made him an orphan. After living with his unhappy and uptight aunt and uncle for eight years, he decides to run-- and not just run away, but run. And this is where the myth of Maniac Magee begins, as he changes the lives of a racially divided small town with his amazing and legendary feats.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Meet Judy Moody, the queen of moods! Judy Moody can't stop winning - at bowling, at spelling, at everything! Until her lucky penny has an unlucky accident, that is. Suddenly it's good-bye, Lucky Duck! Hello, C-A-L-A-M-I-T-Y! Has Judy's luck gone down the toilet for good?
10) Paper towns
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
High school senior Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, his neighbor and classmate,...
11) A dog for life
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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When John, who has a special ability to communicate with animals, finds that his dog, Mouse is scheduled to go to the pound, he and Mouse decide to run away and find his uncle who may be able to help them.
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The Penderwicks volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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While vacationing with their widowed father in the Berkshire Mountains, four lovable sisters, ages four through twelve, share adventures with a local boy, much to the dismay of his snobbish mother.
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I survived volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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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...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 30
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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Hank the Cowdog doesn't like cats. Not one bit. So when a mother cat and her kittens take up residence in the haystack, he does all he can to get them to leave.
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[2019]
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Calling all Pups! Join Chase and the pups as they save a runaway stargazer! Next, the pups try to crack the mysterious case of a missing cellphone, and things get freaky when Chase and Chickaletta switch bodies. Then join Marshall, Skye, Zuma, and the whole team as they celebrate Chase's birthday and rescue Captain Gordy!
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Three rancheros volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now buried underneath the orange trees back home; her friend Raymie, whom she left without a word; and her mom, Rhonda, who has never cared about anyone but herself. Beverly doesn't...