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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
The adventures of an unusual dog, part St. Bernard, part Scotch shepherd, that is forcibly taken to the Klondike gold fields where he eventually becomes the leader of a wolf pack.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate. Set in Galilee in the time of Jesus, this story tells of a young Jewish rebel who is won over to the gentle teachings of Jesus.
3) The witches
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Witches are real, and they are very, very dangerous. They wear ordinary clothes and have ordinary jobs, living in ordinary towns all across the world -- and there's nothing they despise more than children. When an eight-year-old boy and his grandmother come face-to-face with the Grand High Witch herself, they may be the only ones who can stop the witches' latest plot to stamp out every last child in the country!
Author
Publisher
Dial Books
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
5) The giver
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's New Books: September 2021 e-Books
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children's New Books: September 2021 e-Books
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Description
"Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets."--
6) Moon rising
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"When Moonwatcher, a young NightWing with secret powers, begins school at the academy started by the dragonets of destiny after the end of the war, she soon realizes that someone is attacking the students. Moon must choose whether to help or continue to hide her gifts"--
7) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Family & Friends Chapter Books
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Children's Special Topics: Books about School for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Family & Friends Chapter Books
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Description
August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...
8) Mary Poppins
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Recommended: High Lexile Fiction for Younger Children
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Recommended: High Lexile Fiction for Younger Children
Description
A blast of wind, a house-rattling bang, and Mary Poppins arrives at Number Seventeen Cherry Tree Lane. Quicker than she can close her umbrella, she takes charge of the Banks children--Jane, Michael, and the twins--and she changes their lives forever.
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Winter has been a disappointment to his royal IceWing family, unlike his sister Icicle, who has been raised to challenge IceWing queen--but now that Icicle has broken the truce and escaped from Jade Mountain Academy, so Winter, accompanied by his new clawmates, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou, embarks on his own quest to free his brother from the clutches of Queen Scarlet, and win the respect of his family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Recommended: Graphic Novels for 3rd & 4th Grades
Children's Special Topics: Short Story Collections
Children's Special Topics: Short Story Collections
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Description
"Four short stories set in a hutong, or residential alleyway, of Beijing, China. Yu'er, her grandfather, and their eccentric neighbors experience the magic of everyday life."--
11) The Westing game
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Description
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Geronimo Stilton's friend, Professor von Volt, discovers the location of the famous Ruby of Fire, Geronimo soon finds himself in a race to find the gem before it can fall into the hands of some dark characters.
14) The cay
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, an adolescent white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old black man are stranded on a tiny Caribbean island where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Original series volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Geronimo Stilton finds himself in the wild West, where he becomes involved in a showdown with the "wickedest" rat of Cactus City.
16) Spy school
Author
Series
Spy school volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Ben Ripley leaves his public middle school to attend the CIA's highly secretive Espionage Academy, which everyone is told is an elite science school.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Short Story Collections
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Short Story Collections
Description
A boy recounts his annual summer trips to rural Illinois with his sister during the Great Depression to visit their larger-than-life grandmother.
Author
Series
Spy school volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"Follows the spies-in-training on a hunt to find the leader of the evil organization SPYDER and take them down once and for all"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 3rd Grade
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 3rd Grade
Description
Ten-year-old India Opal Buloni describes her first summer in the town of Naomi, Florida, and all the good things that happen to her because of her big ugly dog Winn-Dixie.
Author
Series
I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
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