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"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Small Great Things and The Book of Two Ways comes a deeply moving novel about the resilience of the human spirit in a moment of crisis. Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's an associate specialist at Sotheby's...
Author
Series
Jake Drake series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Jake was 3 years old at Miss Lulu's Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing. But he learned fast. Now Jake's in 4th grade and he can look back and see that the year that made the differencewas second grade.
4) Seek
Author
Publisher
Cricket Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Rob becomes obsessed with searching the airwaves for his long-lost father, a radio announcer.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
During the 2001 Afghan War, the lives of Najmal, a young refugee from Kunduz, Afghanistan, and Nusrat, an American-Muslim teacher who is awaiting her husband's return from Mazar-i-Sharif, intersect at a school in Peshawar, Pakistan.
Author
Series
Halo series. Standalone novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
The Covenant, forging ahead with its plan to wipe out humankind, has arrived on Reach, the last military fortress to defy the alien onslaught, where it comes face to face with the SPARTANs, a team of bioengineered warriors that will never surrender.
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Therese is chosen to do the coveted oral report on Ethan Allen, she learns a great deal about the Vermont hero and also discovers what pleasure she gets from writing and presenting the report.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Jess and her friends establish the Order of the Oleander to collect supplies for an orphanage in Kabul, Afghanistan, where two of their parents are deployed, but when disaster strikes and many blame the Order, Jess must find a way to go on.
Author
Series
Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Georgia cannot figure out what's going on in her family. Her mother, Francie, is extremely overprotective. Her grandmother, Dana, and her great-grandmother, Abby, don't speak to each other. And Georgia's great-great-grandmother also had some secrets that nobody else knows about. Georgia knows this because she's found her great-great grandmother's diary hidden in a wall in the family's house in Maine. Reading the diary makes her think of her own...
10) Harley
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Because Harley the llama does not get along with other llamas, he becomes a guard llama, protecting sheep from hungry coyotes and befriending a cantankerous ram.
11) Storm warriors
Author
Publisher
Alfred A Knopf
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1895, after his mother's death, twelve-year-old Nathan moves with his father and grandfather to Pea Island off the coast of North Carolina, where he hopes to join the all-black crew at the nearby lifesaving station, despite his father's objections.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The 1845-1846 diary of thirteen-year-old Maria, servant to the wealthy Spanish family which took her in when her Indian mother died. Includes a historical note about the settlement and early history of California.
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins Pub
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In Scotland in 1791, eight-year-old Martha Morse, who would grow up to become the great-grandmother of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, meets her new governess and learns the difference between growing up a laird's daughter and a child of a cottager.
17) Meet Trouble
Author
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents two stories in which Trouble, a mischievous kitten, lives up to his name.
18) A fishy story
Author
Publisher
Night Sky Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The fish in Puffer's class at school realize that his stories are exaggerated and sometimes untrue.