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2) Onion John
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
4) Rabbit hill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Four students, each with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Hitty is a doll of great charm and real character. It is indeed a privilege to be able to publish her memoirs which, besides being full of the most thrilling, adventures on land and sea, also reveal a personality which is delightful and forceful. One glance at her portrait will show that she is no ordinary doll. Hitty, of Mehitable, as she was really named, was carved from a piece of white ash by a peddler who was spending the winter in Maine. Phoebe...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
12) Thimble summer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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The story of a Wisconsin farm that sings with the happiness and contentment of a small girl whose roots are sinking deep into the soil of a loved place.
14) The slave dancer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Kidnapped by the crew of an Africa-bound ship, a thirteen-year-old boy discovers to his horror that he is on a slaver and his job is to play music for the exercise periods of the human cargo.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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After finding a way to teach the ship's crew members to understand navigation, Nat, a self-taught mathematician and astronomer in eighteenth-century Salem, Massachusetts, writes down his explanations and compiles them into "The American Practical Navigator," also known as the "Sailors' Bible."
16) Up a road slowly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.
Author
Series
Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
20) Strawberry girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking strawberries. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is the heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, just itching to start a feud.