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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Eleven-year-old John Hale has already survived one brutal Dakota winter, and now he's about to experience one of the deadliest blizzards in American history. The storm of 1888 was a monster, a frozen hurricane that slammed into America's Midwest without warning. Within hours, hundreds would be dead, thousands terrified, lost, and freezing. John's inner strength is seriously tested when he finds himself trapped in the blinding snow, the wind like...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Jack and Annie travel to a monastery in the Swiss Alps where, with the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, they seek the second of four special objects necessary to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Penny.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie back in time to feudal Japan where the siblings learn about the ways of the Ninja.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The magic treehouse takes Jack and Annie back two thousand years to ancient China where they must find the original copy of an old legend before the Imperial Library is burned down by the evil Dragon King.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Armed with a research book and magic rhymes, Jack and Annie travel back 1,200 years to ancient Baghdad and help the city's ruler spread wisdom throughout the world.
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Joshua's Oregon Trail diary volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Late in 1848, nine-year-old Joshua McCullough starts a second journal, this time recording events in Willamette Valley, Oregon Territory, as his family and others they met on the trail begin to get settled.
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I survived (Graphic novels) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Chet Roscow is finally feeling at home in his uncle's little New Jersey town. He has three new friends, and they love cooling off in the creek on hot summer days. But then comes shocking news: A massive shark has been attacking swimmers in the ocean along the Jersey Shore, not far from where Chet is staying. Fear is in the air. So when Chet spots a gray fin in the creek, he's sure it's his imagination running wild. It's impossible he's about to come...
12) A Night Divided
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"With the rise of the Berlin Wall, twelve-year-old Gerta finds her family suddenly divided. She, her mother, and her brother Fritz live on the eastern side, controlled by the Soviets. Her father and middle brother, who had gone west in search of work, cannot return home. Gerta knows it is dangerous to watch the wall, to think forbidden thoughts of freedom, yet she can't help herself. She sees the East German soldiers with their guns trained on their...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 27
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jack and Annie travel in their magic treehouse to the year 1621, where they celebrate the first Thanksgiving with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag Indians in the New Plymouth Colony.
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I survived volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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In a Polish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie to India during the Mogul Empire in the 1600s to search for an emerald needed to break a magic spell.
16) A single shard
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Tree-ear, a thirteen-year-old orphan in medieval Korea, lives under a bridge in a potters' village, and longs to learn how to throw the delicate celadon ceramics himself.
When Min takes on Tree-ear as his helper, Tree-ear is elated--until he finds obstacles in his path: the backbreaking labor of digging and hauling clay, Min's irascible temper, and his own ignorance. However, Tree-ear is determined to prove himself.
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I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs -- and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war -- brutal,...
18) Prisoner B-3087
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Based on the life of Jack Gruener, this book relates his story of survival from the Nazi occupation of Krakow, when he was eleven, through a succession of concentration camps, to the final liberation of Dachau.
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I survived volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally...
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Jack and Annie travel back to nineteenth-century Ireland to inspire a young Augusta Gregory to share her love of Irish legends and folktales with the world.