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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea elephants and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. This is the story of Karana, the Indian girl who lived alone for years on the Island of the Blue Dolphins. Year after year, she watched one season pass into another...
Author
Series
I survived volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Excited to board the Titanic with his aunt and little sister, ten-year-old George begins to explore the ill-fated ship's first-class storage cabin when the ship is rocked by a collision with an iceberg and begins to sink.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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AR 8 to 10 Childrens and Teen Titles
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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Description
Relates the fortunes of a shipwrecked family as they imaginatively adapt to life on an island abundantly inhabited by animal and plant life.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Awards: National Book Award for Young People's Literature Finalist
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
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Description
An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.
6) Nuts to you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Warrior Cats
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: E-Books Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
After surviving being carried off by a hawk, a young squirrel resolves to find his way home, as his best friends begin their search for him.
7) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Book Battles: 6th-8th Grade
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Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Book Battles: 6th-8th Grade
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Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Series
Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Medal for Distinguished Literature
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Description
While running away from home and an unwanted marriage, a thirteen-year-old Eskimo girl becomes lost on the North Slope of Alaska and is befriended by a wolf pack.
9) Allies
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
It is June 6, 1944, D-Day, and Dee Carpenter (true name Dietrich Zimmermann), an underage private in the United States Army, is headed for Omaha Beach, seeking revenge for his uncle, who was arrested by Nazis when Dee was a little boy; meanwhile, Samira Zidano, an eleven-year old French-Algerian girl is looking for the French resistance, desperate to deliver the message that the invasion is about to begin, and get their help in freeing her mother--this...
10) Nation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
After a devastating tsunami destroys all that they have ever known, Mau, an island boy, and Daphne, an aristocratic English girl, together with a small band of refugees, set about rebuilding their community and all the things that are important in their lives.
11) Silverwing
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Grades 3-5
Children's New Books: February 2024 Graphic Novels
Children's Read Alikes: Warrior Cats
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Children's New Books: February 2024 Graphic Novels
Children's Read Alikes: Warrior Cats
Children's Special Topics: Comics or Graphic Adaptations of Well Known Books
Formats
Description
In this graphic novel edition of a best-selling story, young silverwing bat Shade is blown off course during his colony's migration to Hibernaculum, during which he meets other winged loners on his journey back to his family, but with a long and dangerous flight ahead, he must figure out who he can trust.
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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Description
"Razi, a local fisherboy, is watching turtle eggs hatch when he sees a boat bobbing into view. With a chill, he notices a small, still hand hanging over the side. Inside is Zheng, who's escaped a shipwreck and is full of tales of sea monsters and missing treasure. But the villains who are after Zheng are soon after Razi and his sister, Shifa, too! And so begins an exhilarating escapade in the shadow of the biggest sea monster of them all"--
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