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21) Rules
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IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, 12-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic. Includes discussion questions and activities.
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Lara Chandler has come home to the Rocking B Ranch though not for Carson Blackridge. Four years ago he cruelly rejected her, and her love turned to hate. But the chance to research the history of the ranch on a business footing is one she just can't pass up. Carson is waiting, though, and he is determined to show her that he's long regretted the way he treated her. Can she put her faith in him, or would she be making a terrible mistake?
24) 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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Princess in Black volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Today is Princess Magnolia's birthday party, and she wants everything to be perfect. But just as her guests are arriving ... Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! Princess Magnolia runs to the broom closet, ditches her frilly clothes, and becomes the Princess in Black! She rushes to the goat pasture, defeats the monster, and returns to the castle before her guests discover her secret. But every time Princess Magnolia is about to open her presents, the...
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"Against All Odds is the wise, moving new novel from Danielle Steel, whose many #1 New York Times bestselling tales have made her one of America's favorite authors"-- Provided by publisher. "The story of a long-widowed proprietor of a top flight haute couture resale shop and her four adult children, who, in their search to find the right partners for themselves, encounter and struggle with some very difficult and modern problems facing young people...
27) The yearling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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For nearly a century, Scribner has exemplified the very best in publishing by pairing classic texts with the illustrative giants of the time, such as N. C. Wyeth and Maxfield Parish. With the same commitment to the high standards established by the series' founders, Athenaeum Books for Young Readers is expanding the Scribner Illustrated Classics line over the next several years to include such modern-day classics as Jack London's The Call of the Wild...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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From the treasured author of Harold and the Purple Crayon, Crockett Johnson, comes an I Can Read adventure for Harold and his magical purple crayon.
Harold needs a picture for his bedroom wall, so he takes his purple crayon and begins to create a whole new world around him. But then he notices he has gotten very small-half the size of a daisy! Only a very clever artist could find his way home now.
This Level 1 I Can Read imagination-sparking adventure...
29) 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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
32) Gentle Ben
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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A warm, dramatic story of a friendship between a boy and a bear in the Alaskan frontier. More than a fine animal story, a vivid chronicle of Alaska, its people and places, challenges and beauties.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Marly had been waiting a long time for this special momwnt. She sat alone in the car and stared at the lonely countryside and the small dilapidated house. It had to be the right place. All outdoors. With miracles. Not crowded and people being cross and mean. Daddy not tired all the time. Mothernot worried. She whispered, "Please let there be miracles."
35) The Institute
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
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Atherton volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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After the destruction of the planet Atherton, Edgar must journey to a dark and damaged world named Earth in order to find the secrets of his civilization's past.
39) Lucinda's secret
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Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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With goblins, trolls, and the house boggart all trying to get them, the Grace children turn to Great Aunt Lucinda for help.
40) Three days
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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When her father suddenly dies while on a business trip, leaving her alone on an Italian highway, eleven-year old Jackie worries what will happen when she is picked up by two men with unknown motives.