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A "Positively Diabolical" Correspondence "My dear Wormwood,..." So begins this product of C.S. Lewis's wickedly funny imagination, a correspondence between two devils, Screwtape and his young nephew, Wormwood. As the senior fiend advises his young apprentice in leading humanity astray, Lewis delves into questions about good and evil, temptation, repentance, and grace, offering knowledge and guidance to all who are trying to live good Christian lives....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
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Join Dorothy Gale, Toto, and all of her friends as they explore the incredible land of Oz. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is American's most enduring fairy tale. From the moment Dorothy puts on the silver slippers (changed to ruby slippers by MGM to take advantage of their new advance in movie making: color) until the moment she clicks her heals and returns home to Kansas you will be swept away and captivated by her extraordinary story. This lavishing...
3) Kidnapped
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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The story of young David Balfour, whose miserly uncle cheats him out of his inheritance and schemes to have him kidnapped, shanghaied, and sold into slavery. But justice triumphs - after a spirited odyssey that includes a shipwreck, a hazardous journey across Scotland with a daredevil companion, intrigues, narrow escapes, and desperate fighting.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Rafe Caradec - gambler, wanderer, soldier of fortune - was as hard a man as the battlefields and waterfronts of Latin America could fashion, but he was as good as his word. As Charles Rodney lay dying in a dank ship's fo'c'sle. Rafe swore to make sure that Rodney's Wyoming ranch went to his daughter, Ann. In Painted Rock, Wyoming, Caradec found land for a man to love, miles of rolling grasslands and towering mountains. He also found that one of the...
5) On the Beach
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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The last generation, innocent victims of an accidental nuclear war, live out their last days, make plans that will never be carried out, and hope for a miracle that will not come. As the deadly rain moves closer, the world as we know it moves toward the end.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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In order to seek revenge on the Sackett family whom she believes destroyed her father, Laura Pritts Sackett dupes her brother-in-law Tell into undertaking a deadly mission through Apache territory to search for her kidnapped son.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Pinkerton doesn't understand his owner's commands. When told to come, he jumps out the window. When asked to fetch, he destroys the slippers instead. Pinkerton's desperate owners take him to obedience school, but he flunks out in record time. Then one night a burglar breaks into their house, and Pinkerton is able to put his bad habits to good use. This silly charmer of a story was included on the Booklist and Horn Book best of the year lists and...
9) Ramona
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Avon volume 25130
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
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Ramona (1884) is a novel by Helen Hunt Jackson. Inspired by her activism for the rights of Native Americans, Ramona is a story of racial discrimination, survival, and history set in California in the aftermath of the Mexican American War. Immensely popular upon publication, Ramona earned favorable comparisons to Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin and remains an influential sentimental novel to this day. Orphaned after the death of her foster...
11) The hit-away kid
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Barry McGee, hit-away batter for the Peach Street Mudders, enjoys winning so much that he has a tendency to bend the rules; then the dirty tactics of the pitcher on a rival team give him a new perspective on sports ethics.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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There are some pretty weird grown-ups in Bailey City!
There's a new guidance counselor at Bailey Elementary School and he's giving the kids the creeps. No one understands why his skin is so pale, why he hides from the sun, or why his skin is deathly cold to the touch. But Counselor Drake couldn't really be Count Dracula, could he?
14) Mine's the best
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Two little boys meet at the beach, each sure that his balloon is better.
16) Dear Mr. Henshaw
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
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Time quintet volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Polly's stay with her grandparents in Connecticut becomes an extraordinary experience as she encounters old friends and mysterious strangers and finds herself traveling back in time to play a crucial role in a prehistoric confrontation.
20) The little house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A country house is unhappy when the city, with all its buildings and traffic, grows up around her. Includes CD.