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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Since its publication fifty years ago, Animal Farm has become one of the most controversial books ever written. It has been translated into seventy languages and sold millions of copies throughout the world. This edition is being published to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of its original U.S. publication. It features 100 full-color and halftone illustrations by world-renowned artist Ralph Steadman. As vital and relevant as it was fifty years...
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The Borrowers volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Escaping from an attic where they had been held captive over the long, dark winter, a family of tiny people sets up house in an old rectory.
6) Pinky Pye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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While spending a bird-watching summer on Fire Island, the Pye family acquires a small black kitten that can use a typewriter
7) Hamlet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
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Ramona Quimby volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Beezus' biggest problem was her 4-year-old sister Ramona. Even though Beezus knew sisters were supposed to love each other, with a sister like Ramona, it seemed impossible.
10) Black Beauty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus--three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman. Though her story explores big themes, Harper Lee chooses to tell it through the eyes of a child. The result is a tough and tender novel of race,...
12) The time machine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A beautifully designed edition of one of the most beloved science fiction novels of all time...First published in 1895, The Time Machine won author H.G. Wells immediate recognition and has been regarded ever since as one of the great masterpieces in the literature of science fiction. It popularized the concept of time travel and introduced the concept of a "time machine" device that could travel forwards and backwards through the years.It is the story...
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Ramona Quimby volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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English
Description
Ramona at 7 1/2 sometimes feels discriminated against by being the youngest in the family
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Sylvester is a rock collector. One day he finds a magic pebble that makes wishes come true. He rushes home to share his good fortune with his parents. On the way, he's frightened by a hungry lion and quickly asks the pebble to turn him into a rock, so the lion can't eat him. It works-but there sits Sylvester on Strawberry Hill with no way to hold the pebble to wish himself back into a donkey. Seasons come and go as Sylvester's parents desperately...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Sent to live with his uncle after a violent confrontation with his stepfather, sixteen-year-old Travis, an aspiring writer, finds life in a small Oklahoma town confining until he meets an eighteen-year-old horse trainer named Casey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"The lovable Mr. Popper dreams of being an intrepid Antarctic explorer, living his life among the penguins alongside his hero, Admiral Drake. So he is shocked one day when the Admiral responds to his fan letter by sending him a package containing a real, live penguin. Soon, this penguin is joined by another, and before long Mr. Popper has an ice rink in the basement and a dozen delightful penguins living in his house. With hardly enough money to feed...
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HarperCollins is proud to present its range of best-loved, essential classics. 'From that hour we had no further occasion for the exercise of reason, or judgment, or skill, or contrivance. We were henceforth to be hurled along, the playthings of the fierce elements of the deep.' In Verne's science-fiction classic, Professor Lidenbrock chances upon an ancient manuscript and pledges to solve the mysterious coded message that lies within it. Eventually...
18) Ramona the pest
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Ramona Quimby volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
Description
Ramona meets lots of interesting people in kindergarten class, like Davy whom she keeps trying to kiss and Susan whose springy curls seem to ask to be pulled.
19) Ramona the brave
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Ramona Quimby volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Six-year-old Ramona tries to cope with an unsympathetic first-grade teacher. In this touching and funny story, the ebullient Ramona, feeling brave and grown-up, enters first grade. Quickly she finds that her new teacher, Mrs. Griggs, appears perplexed by pupils who like to be different. Since Ramona cannot help being different, clearly the two are incompatible. Nevertheless, Ramona can be counted on to keep things lively. Enraged when Susan copies...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The intrepid adventurer Phileas Fogg and his French valet Passepartout try to circumnavigate the world on a wager from Phileas' friends. Their trip becomes more complicated when Phileas becomes a robbery suspect. Can they make it in time?
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