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1) Olivia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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Whether at home getting ready for the day, enjoying the beach, or at bedtime, Olivia is a feisty pig who has too much energy for her own good. Includes audio CD with a reading of the text.
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David (David Shannon) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
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David's activities in school include chewing gum, talking out of turn, and engaging in a food fight, causing his teacher to say over and over, "No, David!".
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 9
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An unforgettable odyssey of self-discovery and startling adventure begins as a young, inexperienced biologist is deposited alone onto the frozen Arctic tundra. Once settled, he struggles not only to endure the forces of nature, but also to learn as much as he can about the mysterious and misconstrued habits of the wolves he has been sent to study.
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David (David Shannon) volume 3
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When David gets in trouble, he has excuses right up until bedtime, when he realizes he really is sorry.
7) No, David!
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David (David Shannon) volume 1
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A young boy is depicted doing a variety of naughty things for which he is repeatedly admonished, but finally he gets a hug.
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In this beautiful account of thirty years of living with dogs, wolves, and dingoes and of the ways their lives intertwined with her own, the novelist and anthropologist Elizabeth Marshall Thomas brings us a completely new understanding of dogs by writing a sort of deeply truthful ethological poem, a loving yet absolutely unsentimental chronicle of the lives of a dozen dogs based on hundreds of thousands of hours of observation. Meet Misha, a husky...
10) Noisy Nora
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Feeling neglected, Nora makes more and more noise to attract her parents' attention.
11) Horrid Henry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Horrible Henry causes his brother Perfect Peter all sorts of problems when he behaves properly for a change, upstages Peter at a dance recital, plays pirates, and goes on a camping trip.
14) No talking
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Junie B. is having a run of bad luck, losing every game at the school carnival. When she finally wins the Cake Walk on her last ticket, she chooses a fruitcake as her prize. But who in the heck knew that sparkly foil-wrapped fruitcake was really a lethal weapon in disguise?
16) The bell jar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
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This extraordinary work--echoing Plath's own experiences as a rising writer/editor in the early 1950s--chronicles the nervous breakdown of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, successful, but slowly going under, and maybe for the last time.
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The author describes how scientists studying the growth of complexity in nature are discovering order and pattern in chaos. He explains concepts such as nonlinearity, the Butterfly Effect, universal constants, fractals, and strange attractors, and examines the work of scientists such as Mitchell J. Feigenbaum, Edward Lorenz, and Benoit Mandelbrot.
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What causes bear attacks? When should you play dead and when should you fight an attacking bear? What do we know about black and grizzly bears and how can this knowledge be used to avoid bear attacks? And, more generally, what is the bear's future?
Bear Attacks is a thorough and unflinching landmark study of the attacks made on men and women by the great grizzly and the occasionally deadly black bear. This is a book for everyone who hikes, camps,...
19) The bad seed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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A naughty seed with a bad attitude, bad temper, and bad manners vows to change his life for the better, but his efforts are met with skepticism by his friends.