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1) Old Yeller
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, Old Yeller is the tale of a boy left in chage of his family's farm, and the big yellow dog who helps him with his many responsibilities.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A "novel of psychological suspense about the slipperiness of the truth and a family drowning in secrets"--A single mother turns up dead at the bottom of the river that runs through town. Earlier in the summer, a vulnerable teenage girl met the same fate. They are not the first women lost to these dark waters, but their deaths disturb the river and its history, dredging up secrets long submerged. Left behind is a lonely fifteen-year-old girl. Parentless...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Young Cassie Logan endures humiliation and witnesses the racism of the KKK as they embark on a cross-burning rampage, before she fully understands the importance her family attributes to having land of their own.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Published in 1926 to explosive acclaim, The Sun Also Rises stands as perhaps the most impressive first novel ever written by an American writer. A roman ̉clef about a group of American and English expatriates on an excursion from Paris's Left Bank to Pamplona for the July fiesta and its climactic bull fight, a journey from the center of a civilization spiritually bankrupted by the First World War to a vital, God-haunted world in which faith and...
5) Cannery Row
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Recounts the adventures and misadventures of cannery workers living in the run-down waterfront section of Monterey, California.
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Series
To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Twenty-six-year-old Jean Louise Finch, "Scout", returns home from New York City to visit her aging father, Atticus. Set against the backdrop of the civil rights tensions and political turmoil that were transforming the South, Jean Louise's homecoming becomes bittersweet when she learns disturbing truths about her close-knit family, the town and the people dearest to her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Leto II, God Emperor of Dune, trades his humanity for immortality. As the despotic sandworm of Dune, he desperately attempts to save humankind, in spite of a rising rebellion led by Siona, a member of the Atreides, who is unaware of her own destined role in preserving the future.
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
In a small southern town with a secret world hidden in plain sight, sixteen-year-old Lena, who possesses supernatural powers and faces a life-altering decision, draws away from her true love, Ethan, a mortal with frightening visions.
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Series
Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Kitty's owners are home with a big surprise for Kitty. But what is it? Kitty, reeling in horror, thinks it's a . . . dog. The neighbor cats are convinced it's a cat. But we all know that it's really a BABY!With Nick Bruel's trademark mix of antic humor (this time involving a Kitty game show and the Kitty Olympics - which the baby wins hands down), riotous illustrations, total mayhem, and Uncle Murray Fun Facts, this may be the funniest Kitty book...
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Ramona Quimby volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
Beezus Quimby tries very hard to be patient with her little sister, but four-year-old Ramona has the habit of doing the most unpredictable, annoying, embarrassing things in the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield--weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion--this...
12) Wandering stars
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Language
English
Description
"Wandering Stars traces the legacies of the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 and the Carlisle Industrial School for Indians through to the shattering aftermath of Orvil Redfeather's shooting in There There"--
Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found...
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 26
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Jack and Annie travel back in time to 1925 Nome, Alaska, where they meet Balto, the famous sled dog, and help save the town from illness"--
14) The whipping boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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When the massive metal tank filled with sticky brown molasses that rises up over her crowded North End neighborhood explodes, young Carmen must fight for her life, as a tsunami of molasses rushes through the streets.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens--DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life, even toys. And Jack’s newest toy--the Christmas Pig (DP’s replacement)--has a daring plan: Together they’ll embark on a magical journey to seek something lost, and to save the best friend...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 48
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Hank learns about a tool thief who uses a monkey to help him steal, Hank finds himself face-to-face with the primate on his ranch and must figure out how to stop the thief.
18) Family of liars
Author
Series
We were liars volume Prequel
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"A windswept private island off the coast of Massachusetts. A hungry ocean, churning with secrets and sorrow. A fiery, addicted heiress. An irresistible, unpredictable boy. A summer of unforgivable betrayal and terrible mistakes. Welcome back to the Sinclair family. They were always liars." --
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Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
"The Bad Guys are vanishing! A creature with tons of teeth and way too many butts is stealing them one by one. Is this the end for the Bad Guys? Maybe. Will it be funny? You bet your butts it will!"--Back cover.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Publisher Annotation: Perfect Mexican daughters do not go away to college. And they do not move out of their parents' house after high school graduation. Perfect Mexican daughters never abandon their family. But Julia is not your perfect Mexican daughter. That was Olga's role. Then a tragic accident on the busiest street in Chicago leaves Olga dead and Julia left behind to reassemble the shattered pieces of her family. And no one seems to acknowledge...