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41) Word of mouse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The illuminating journey of a very special mouse, and the unexpected friendships he makes along the way"--
42) Riding Freedom
Author
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[released 2009], c2009
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized account of Charley (Charlotte) Parkhurst who ran away from an orphanage, posed as a boy, moved to California, and fooled everyone by her appearance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Audiobooks
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
In Mummy mystery, Jigsaw Jones has to work on a spooky case during Halloween. Joey Pignattano is going to eat a worm for a dollar bet. The only problem is someone stole the worm and the suspect is a mummy. In Glow in the dark ghost, kids saw a ghost dancing in the classroom. Jigsaw Jones will catch this glowing ghost, even if he has to stay after school to do it.
48) Extra credit
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Description
When Abby's first letter arrives at a small school in Afghanistan, Sadeed Bayat is chosen to be her pen pal ... well, kind of. He is the best writer, but he is also a boy, and in his village it is not appropriate for a boy to correspond with a girl. So his younger sister dictates and signs the letter, until Sadeed decides what his sister is telling Abby isn't what he'd like Abby to know. As letters go back and forth between Illinois and Afghanistan,...
50) Bull Run
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Northerners, Southerners, generals, couriers, dreaming boys, and worried sisters describe the glory, the horror, the thrill, and the disillusionment of the first battle of the Civil War.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lavender rat that has escaped from a laboratory, and a lonely boy whose parents are scientists, meet on an orbiting space station, communicate by email, and ultimately find themselves in need of each other's help and friendship.
Author
Publisher
Playaway Digital Audio
Pub. Date
[released 2008], c2008
Language
English
Description
Retelling of two tales from Homer's epic poems The Iliad and The Odyssey. Adventures of Odysseus is the story of what happened after the Trojan War when Odysseus, the most cunning of all the Greek heroes, left Troy and made his way back to his wife Penelope and his son Telemachus. The Tale of Troy tells how Telemachus, the son of Odysseus, went on a voyage in search of his father and how he heard tales of the Trojan Wars.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
They had the right stuff. They defied the prejudices of the time. And they blazed a trail for generations of women to follow.
What does it take to be an astronaut? Excellence at flying, courage, intelligence, resistance to stress, top physical shape — any checklist would include these. But when America created NASA in 1958, there was another unspoken rule: you had to be a man. Here is the tale of thirteen women who proved that they
55) Blood ties
Author
Series
Spirit animals. Main series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the Conquerors try to destroy Erdas, Meilin -- fed up with waiting and ready to fight -- sets off into enemy territory with her spirit animal, a panda named Jhi. Her friends Conor and Abeke aren't far behind ... but they're not the only ones.
56) Sounder
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and through his relationship with his devoted dog Sounder.
57) Dragon tales
Publisher
[Manufactured and distributed by] Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[released 2009], c2009
Language
English
Description
Tradition says that dragons come in many shapes and sizes but they all breathe fire, whisk fierce, scaly tails and frighten local villagers. Whenever they can, they capture princesses and take them to their caves. But this is not always the case. In these four stories, the authors introduce some very different kinds of dragons. One, for example, just wants to sit quietly in his cave and write poetry and really doesn't want to fight St. George; in...
58) Marty McGuire
Author
Series
Marty McGuire books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
When tomboy Marty is cast as the princess in the third-grade play, she learns about improvisation, which helps her become more adaptable.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
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