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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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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.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's Book Battles: 4th Grade
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
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"Welcome to the story of Despereaux Tilling, a mouse who is in love with music, stories, and a princess named Pea. It is also the story of a rat called Roscuro, who lives in the darkness and covets a world filled with light. And it is the story of Miggery Sow, a slow-witted serving girl who harbors a simple, impossible wish. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering...
3) Freewater
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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AUSD Book Battles 2024: 6th & 7th Grades
Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Award for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
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Under the cover of night, twelve-year-old Homer flees Southerland Plantation with his little sister Ada, unwillingly leaving their beloved mother behind. Much as he adores her and fears for her life, Homer knows there's no turning back, not with the overseer on their trail. Through tangled vines, secret doorways, and over a sky bridge, the two find a secret community called Freewater, deep in the swamp.
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Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
NYT - Children’s Series
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Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: C. S. King Honor for Afr. Amer. Author/Illustrator
Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Transportation
Children's Awards: Caldecott Honor for Quality Illustrations
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Transportation
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A young boy rides the bus across town with his grandmother and learns to appreciate the beauty in everyday things.
7) Hot dog
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"A summery picture book about mindfulness, featuring an overheated--and overwhelmed-- canine in need of sea, sand, and fresh air"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
9) Many moons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Though many try, only the court jester is able to fulfill Princess Lenore's wish for the moon.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Description
As a slag heap, the result of strip mining, creeps closer to his house in the Ohio hills, fifteen-year-old M.C. is torn between trying to get his family away and fighting for the home they love.
13) Dinosaurs the grand tour: everything worth knowing about dinosaurs from Aardonyx to Zuniceratops
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Publisher
The Experiment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
We live in a golden age of paleontological discovery - the perfect time to dig in to the spectacular world of dinosaurs. From Aardonyx, a lumbering beast that formed a link between two- and four-legged dinosaurs, to Zuniceratops, who boasted a deadly pair of horns, Dinosaurs - The Grand Tour details everything worth knowing about more than 300 dinosaurs. The important discoveries and gory details touch on topics from geology, anatomy, and evolution...
15) 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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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.
16) A single shard
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Children's Special Topics: AAPI Authors and Illustrators
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile 900 to 999
Description
Tree-ear, an orphan, lives under a bridge in Ch'ulp'o, a potters' village famed for delicate celadon ware. He has become fascinated with the potter's craft; he wants nothing more than to watch master potter Min at work, and he dreams of making a pot of his own someday. When Min takes Tree-ear on as his helper, Tree-ear is elated-until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min's irascible temper, and his...
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2023
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Description
Merci Suárez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They don't have a big house or a fancy boat, and they have to do extra community service to make up for their free tuition. So when bossy Edna Santos sets her sights on the new boy who happens to be...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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A memorable and deeply moving story of a family of New Mexican sheepherders, in which Miguel, neither child nor man, tells of his great longing to accompany men and sheep to summer pasture, and expresses his need to be recognized as a maturing individual.
19) If I ran the zoo
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
©1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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If Gerald McGrew ran the zoo, he'd let all the animals go and fill it with more unusual beasts--a ten-footed lion, an Elephant-Cat, a Mulligatawny, a Tufted Mazurka, and others.
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