Elizabeth Levy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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It's been six-months since their last adventure aboard the S.S. Excalibur and Philipa and her friend Philip (who happens to be the son of the ship's captain) are both excited to meet the ship's new assistant cruise director, Herby Twining. Herby is a real jokester, the kind of guy who gets a kick out of shaking your hand with a buzzer hidden in his palm. Philip is quite entertained by Herby and appreciates his skills as an amateur magician, but when...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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A middle-grade retelling of Richard Nixon's downfall, Bringing Down A President: The Watergate Scandal is an inventive and timely look at one of the biggest scandals to ever rock our nation by Andrea Balis and Elizabeth Levy, featuring graphic novel style illustrations by Tim Foley.
Comprised almost completely of primary source quotes (good thing Nixon's recorder was on) and interspersed with contextual narrative, this captivating account of the...
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With the markings of a map of the world on his fur, Jill thinks her new dog Fletcher is an excellent candidate for show and tell. But when the class rabbit mysteriously disappears, Fletcher isn't such a hit anymore ; in fact, he's the prime suspect! A Live Oak Media audio production.
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The principal has promised to read aloud from the school's roof if the students read 1000 books during their reading marathon. When he agrees to read a story by Fletcher's owner Gwen, she is thrilled - until the principal starts sneezing uncontrollably as he's reading her science fiction story about aliens who live on rooftops and make humans sneeze! Can Fletcher and Jasper solve the mystery before the principal falls off the roof and Gwen gets blamed?...
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Fletcher is upset when someone tries to ruin the masked ball celebrating the opening of a new park. Everything seems to point to the young park ranger who's always getting mysterious calls on her cell phone, but Fletcher is sure she's innocent. Can Fletcher's trusty nose sniff out the real culprit?
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Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
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"A brief 250,000,000 years of history from hadrosaurs to hairy humans... Two hundred fifty million years ago, there wasn't an upright, two-legged human primate in sight. So who were the real first settlers in America? Think giant cockroaches, scaly, spiney, scary dinosaurs, rats the size of cows, mammoths with 10-foot tusks, and all kinds of prehistoric animals that crawled, lumbered, and stalked across North America before we even evolved!"--Cover,...
10) The drowned
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Pub. Date
c1995
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To fight boredom, and to earn a little spending money, Lily concocts a tour of Atlantic City. This is a tour of the dark haunted side, a seaside resort. As she is pulled deeper into the story of the "Drowned Boy's Bed," Lily is plunged into the middle of a terrifying circle of grief and tragedy.
12) Wolfman Sam
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Sam and Robert Bamford books volume 5
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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When Sam becomes "Wolfman Sam" as a disc jockey for the school radio station, his brother Robert tricks him into thinking he really may be a werewolf.
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Amber Brown volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Danziger's beloved character Amber Brown returns in a new book. Amber can't wait to be Best Child when her mom and Max get married, but planning a wedding comes with lots of headaches. Even though adults can be a lot of work, Amber is determined to be the best Best Child ever. Illustrations.
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Amber Brown volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Amber is excited to be spending the summer after fourth grade with her friends at Camp Cushetunk, but things start getting complicated when she learns that her worst enemy, Hannah Burton, is one of her bunkmates.