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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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While staying at the remote and reputedly haunted Maine inn run by her father and pregnant stepmother, sixteen-year-old Cynda feels increasingly isolated from her father's new family and finds solace in the attentions of a charming but mysterious guest.
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Rookie pitcher Roy Tucker is full of hope for his first season with the Brooklyn Dodgers-and hope might be what the team needs most Roy Tucker-a small-town kid from Tomkinsville, Connecticut-has quit his job at the drugstore and packed up for Dodgers training camp in Clearwater, Florida, hoping to make the team as a rookie pitcher. He expects the field to be competitive and realizes he might not pass muster, but after just one practice, he discovers...
5) Moose Tracks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Twelve-year-old Seth, the son of a game warden, tries to save an orphaned moose calf from poachers.
6) Ghost boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Unhappy in a home seemingly devoid of love, a fourteen-year-old albino boy who thinks of himself as Harold the Ghost runs away to join the circus, where he works with the elephants and searches for a sense of who he is.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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No one knows the American Revolution better than Rock Kindle. Rock takes pride in his patriotic forefathers, and his belief that he himself could brave any combat helps him through the bad times, when Rock's father wages small wars on the rest of the family.
10) Stickeen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Surrounded by deep canyons of ice, John and a little black dog named Stickeen wonder-are they doomed?
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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.
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Hank the Cowdog volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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When the ranch security dog suffers from a bumblebee sting, it falls upon Sally May to take care of the dog.
13) Winnie-the-Pooh
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Christopher Robin had a friend named Edward Bear. One day Edward Bear said he would like an exciting name all to himself. Without stopping to think about it, Christopher Robin said that he was Winnie-the-Pooh. To follow are stories of wonderful times with characters who live in the same woods.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Laura, Almzanzo, and Rose say good-bye to Ma and Pa Ingalls and Laura's sisters. In a covered wagon containing all their possessions, they make their wayacross the drought-stricken Midwest to the lush greenvalleys of southern Missouri.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Seven-year-old Juan, abandoned by his parents, lives with his grandmother in Guatemala. Because his family is so poor, his grandmother puts him to work. But when his dream of going to school comes true, Juan turns out to be a brilliant student who makes his grandmother proud.