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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.
2) The River
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
The government sends Brian back to the Canadian wilderness in this beloved follow-up to the award-winning classic Hatchet from three-time Newbery Honor-winning author Gary Paulsen!
Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay alive. This time Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him....
Two years after Brian Robeson survived fifty-four days alone in the Canadian wilderness, the government wants him to head back so they can learn what he did to stay alive. This time Derek Holtzer, a government psychologist, will accompany him....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"Steve is back and ready for more adventures! But this time the excitement lands closer to home. While walking home from the village, Steve is surprised to hear a loud BOOM! When he arrives, he finds his wheat farm destroyed and a huge crater where the wheat once grew. And his diamond sword is missing! Steve believes its the act of a griefer with a lot of TNT. Devastated, Steve wants to rebuild and find his sword, but with his wheat destroyed,...
6) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Genre: Adventure Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In this third installment of the Minecraft Gamer's Adventure series, Steve is invited to participate in an elite building competition on Mushroom Island. His friends Max, Lucy, and Henry are impressed and want to join their friend on a journey to the island. Yet not everyone is happy: Steve's neighbor Kyra is upset because she wasn't chosen as a contestant. Steve asks Kyra to come to the competition and help the gang build boats to get to Mushroom...
10) Brian's hunt
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Millions of readers of Hatchet, The River, Brian's Winter, and Brian's Return know that Brian Robeson is at home in the Canadian wilderness. He has stood up to the challenge of surviving alone in the woods. He prefers being on his own in the natural world to civilization. When Brian finds a dog one night, a dog that is wounded and whimpering, he senses danger. The dog is badly hurt, and as Brian cares for it, he worries about his Cree friends who...
Author
Series
Janie Johnson volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
No one ever really paid close attention to the faces of the missing children on the milk cartons. But as Janie Johnson glanced at the face of the ordinary little girl with her hair in tight pigtails wearing a dress with a narrow white collar a three-year-old who had been kidnapped twelve years before from a shopping mall in New Jersey-she felt overcome with shock. She recognized that little girl-it was she. How could it possibly be true. Janie can't...
13) The golden day
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The Vietnam War rages overseas, but back at home, in a year that begins with the hanging of one man and ends with the drowning of another, eleven schoolgirls embrace their own chilling history when their teacher abruptly goes missing on a field trip. Who was the mysterious poet they had met in the Garden? What actually happened in the seaside cave that day? And most important--who can they tell about it?"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Children's Read Alikes: Series of Unfortunate Events
Description
The master puppeteer, Gaspare Grisini, is so expert at manipulating his stringed puppets that they appear alive. Clara Wintermute, the only child of a wealthy doctor, is spellbound by Grisini's act and invites him to entertain at her birthday party. Seeing his chance to make a fortune, Grisini accepts and makes a splendidly gaudy entrance with caravan, puppets, and his two orphaned assistants. Lizzie Rose and Parsefall are dazzled by the Wintermute...
16) The Wizard of Oz
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
"One day, Dorothy and her dog, Toto, get swept away by a powerful cyclone and find themselves in the Land of Oz. The only way she can return home is by going to the Emerald City to ask the famous Wizard of Oz for his help. As she travels along the yellow brick road, Dorothy makes the acquaintance of some of the curious inhabitants of the Land of Oz."--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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Description
Mark Twain created one of America's best-loved fictional characters in Huckleberry Finn. Recounting the exploits of the imaginative adolescent as he and the runaway slave, Jim, raft down the Mississippi River, Twain ultimately addresses far deeper themes - man's inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values.
18) Moby Dick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Call me Ishmael". So begins Moby-Dick, Herman Melville's epic account of the last voyage of the ill-fated whaling ship Pequod, and its captain's obsessive pursuit of the legendary white whale that maimed him years before. Melville's classic novel has given American literature some of its most iconic characters. Inspired by the real-life ordeal of the crew of the whaling ship Essex--who, in 1819, were set adrift in the heart of the sea for eighty-nine...
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