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1) Dog
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Text and photographs highlight the evolutionary history of dogs, their domestication, anatomy, behavior, and breeds, and offer guidance on dog care and training.--
2) Colorado
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The uses maps, full color photographs, and easy-to-read text to introduce the state of Colorado"--
4) Music
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes some of the many different types of instruments made throughout history, and discusses their construction and sound. Includes photographs.
6) Skeleton
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A look at the parts of the human skeleton, the types of joints, and the diseases that affect the bones.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 36
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Set in the 1930s, this novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success, caught between dreams of service and a lust for power.
8) Billy Budd
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
On board the warship Bellipotent, handsome young orphan Billy Budd was well-liked by all his shipmates but one. When a fear of mutinies swept through the fleet, that one shipmate plotted to frame Billy Budd for treason.
11) Babbitt
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
Description
Presents the story of George F. Babbitt, the owner of a real estate company in the 1920's. Through the life and times of the main character, the author provides a satirical view of the sociology of American business and middle-class culture.
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In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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"An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and...
14) Djibouti
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In a modern-day pirate story, ambitious documentary filmmaker Dara Barr and her right-hand man, Xavier LeBo, a seventy-two-year-old African American seafarer, get more than they bargained for on the Horn of Africa.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Adela Quested travels to India with Mrs. Moore, her fiance's mother, to visit her fiance, who is the city magistrate of Chandrapore. They befriend a young Indian man, Dr. Aziz, who invites them on a picnic to Marabar caves, and is later accused of attempting to rape Miss Quested.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In order to raise money to rebuild a one-hundred-thousand-dollar barn, destroyed by fire, Alec returns to racing the Black.
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If you give-- (Laura Numeroff) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin. He suddenly has a cycle of urgent requests. A moose? Oh dear... What do you do when....?