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21) Big shot
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 16
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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"After a disastrous field day competition at school, Greg decides that when it comes to his athletic career, he's officially retired. But after his mom urges him to give sports one more chance, he reluctantly agrees to sign up for basketball. Tryouts are a mess, and Greg is sure he won't make the cut. But he unexpectedly lands a spot on the worst team. As Greg and his new teammates start the season, their chances of winning even a single game look...
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English
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Pittsburgh professor and author Grady Tripp is working on an unwieldy 2,611 page manuscript that is meant to be the follow-up to his successful, award-winning novel The Land Downstairs, that was published seven years earlier. On the eve of a college-sponsored writers and publishers weekend called WordFest, two monumental things happen to Tripp: his wife walks out on him, and he learns that his mistress, who is also the chancellor of the college, Sara...
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English
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"Sally Milz is a sketch writer for The Night Owls, the late night live comedy show that airs each Saturday. With a couple of heartbreaks under her belt, she's long abandoned the search for love, settling instead for the occasional hook-up, career success, and a close relationship with her stepfather to round out a satisfying life. But when Sally's friend and fellow writer Danny Horst begins dating Annabel, a glamorous actress who guest-hosted the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Primary)
Children's Picture Books: Recommended (General)
Children's Picture Books: Recommended (General)
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Hally, the Tosis family dog, has such bad breath that Mr. and Mrs. Tosis plan to give her away, until she proves to be an invaluable watchdog.
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100 year old man novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Confined to a nursing home and about to turn 100, Allan Karlsson, who has a larger-than-life back story as an explosives expert, climbs out of the window in his slippers and embarks on an unforgettable adventure involving thugs, a murderous elephant and a very friendly hot dog stand operator.
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Series
Hot and hammered volume 1
Language
English
Description
Georgette Castle's family runs the best home renovation business in town, but they don't take her work seriously: she loves planning children's birthday parties and making people laugh. She plans reinvent herself, which involves a new framework for her business, updates on her wardrobe and her exterior, and putting herself on the market. Georgie hasn't been on a date since, well, ever. Travis Ford was major league baseball's hottest rookie when an...
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Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Saddle up for this first volume in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from DiCamillo's "New York Times"--Bestselling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight.
29) Holidays on ice
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Language
English
Description
A best-selling classic features six additional works on the joys and embarrassments of favorite holidays, in a volume that includes tales of tardy trick-or-treaters, the difficulties of explaining the Easter Bunny to another culture, and a barnyard Secret Santa scheme gone awry.
30) The deep end
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 15
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
On their a cross-country camping trip, Greg Heffley and his family find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise and when the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation--or if they're already in too deep.
Author
Series
Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 1
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous.
32) Straight man
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Language
English
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In the course of one week, Henry Devereaux, Jr., a once-promising novelist and now the middle-aged chairman of a university English department in hilarious disarray, faces an angry colleague, a curvaceous adjunct trying to seduce him, and a goose on local television--all while coming to terms with his philandering father, the dereliction of his youthful promise, and the ominous failure of certain vital body functions.
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Flat Stanley volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Flat Stanley was an ordinary boy until the night his bulletin board fell and flattened him. As a result, he knows he is the only one who can help The Famous Museum of Art catch the thieves who have been stealing paintings.
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Series
Stink Moody volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A class visit to the Gross-Me-Out exhibit at the science museum inspires Stink Moody to create a variety of terrible smells to put on the sneakers he plans to enter in the World's Worst Super-Stinky Sneaker contest.
35) Scorch
Author
Series
Croak trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old grim reaper Lex Bartleby tries to redeem herself among her fellow Grims by finding renegade Zara, who is indiscriminately damning souls, and stopping her once and for all.
36) The best nest
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Mr. and Mrs. Bird search for a place to build a new nest only to discover their old one is better.
37) The good egg
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
Author
Series
My weirder school volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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On Career Day at Ella Mentry School, local reporter Mrs. Lilly helps A.J. and his fellow third-graders start a school newspaper, but their efforts have unexpected, and terrible, consequences.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Amelia Bedelia wants a new bike--a shiny, fast one just like Suzanne's Amelia Bedelia's mom says that a bike like that is expensive and will cost an arm and a leg. Amelia Bedelia can't give away one of her arms and one of her legs! She needs both arms to steer, and both legs to pedal. What Amelia Bedelia needs is a job"--
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