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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
Children's Special Topics: Fiction with Lexile Over 1000
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In 1911, Turner Buckminster hates his new home of Phippsburg, Maine, but things improve when he meets Lizzie Bright Griffin, a girl from a poor, nearby island community founded by former slaves that the town fathers--and Turner's--want to change into a tourist spot.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"A young adult adaptation of the national bestseller that details the true story of two Navy pilots from divergent racial and economic backgrounds who forge a deep friendship during the Korean War as they face extraordinary circumstances." --Amazon.com.
Makos tells the inspirational story of the U.S. Navy's most famous aviator duo, Lieutenant Tom Hudner and Ensign Jesse Brown, and the Marines they fought to defend. A white New Englander from the...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
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A portrait of the author of the Goosebumps series, shares insight into his childhood, education, and literary inspirations, with answers to frequently asked questions about his life, books, and writing style.
Author
Series
So B. it volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2020 eBooks and eAudiobooks
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: 4th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....
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...
8) Revolution
Author
Series
Sixties trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
"It's 1964, and Sunny's town is being invaded. Or at least that's what the adults of Greenwood, Mississippi are saying. All Sunny knows is that people from up north are coming to help people register to vote. They're calling it Freedom Summer. Meanwhile, Sunny can't help but feel like her house is being invaded, too. She has a new stepmother, a new brother, and a new sister crowding her life, giving her little room to breathe. And things get even...
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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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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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.
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