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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lindy finds a ventriloquist's dummy and has fun learning to make him move and talk. Kris is jealous, and decides to get a dummy of her own. Then nasty evil things begin to happen. No way can a dummy be causing all the trouble. Or is there?
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of a naughty wooden puppet who has a penchant for lying and dreams of becoming a real boy, The Adventures of Pinocchio has entered our collective imagination and fascinated generations of young and adult readers since its first publication in 1883. Part fable, part coming-of-age novel, part cautionary tale, Pinocchio's rollicking exploits through an unforgiving and often incomprehensible world - populated by unforgettable characters such...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: The author of wildly popular ghost stories, Mary Downing Hahn has created a group of tales for fans of her "scary but not too scary" books. Even the stories without actual ghosts are spooky. Each tale turns something ordinary-a pigeon, a white dress, a stranger on the bus, a puppet-into a sinister link to to the supernatural. For the human characters, secrets from the past or careless behavior in the present can lead to serious...
Author
Series
Goosebumps. Original series volume 31
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Amy's ventriloquist dummy, Dennis, keeps losing his head. So Amy begs her family for a new dummy. That's when her dad finds Slappy in a local pawnshop. Slappy's kind of ugly, but Amy's having fun practicing her new routine. Then horrible things start happening. Horrible, nasty things. Just like what happened the first time. Because there's something odd about Slappy. Something not quite right. Something evil.
Author
Series
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
McQuarrie Middle School's students miss Origami Yoda when Dwight leaves for Tippett Academy, but he sends Sara a paper Fortune Wookiee that seems to give advice just as good as Yoda's--even if, in the hands of girls, it seems preoccupied with romance.
10) Louie
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[1975]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A shy, withdrawn boy loses his heart to a puppet.
13) Pinocchio
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of the puppet boy created by an old Italian woodcarver from a piece of wood that talked. Includes vocabulary notes in the margin, a brief biography of the author, and instructions for making a hand puppet.
14) Pinocchio
Author
Series
Publisher
Sterling Pub. Co
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
An abridged retelling of the adventures of the puppet boy whose nose grows whenever he tells a lie. Includes discussion questions.
17) Son of Slappy
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
"Jackson Stander is every parent's dream. He doesn't get into trouble, he always does his homework, and he never ever lies. His teachers all trust him completely. He even volunteers at the local Youth Center. But that was before Jackson came across an evil ventriloquist dummy. Now he must deal with Slappy wreaking havoc on his own family and friends. Jackson will soon see that two Slappys are not better than one" -- Cover verso.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Harvey, upset when his Darth Paper finger puppet brings humiliation, gets Dwight suspended, but Origami Yoda asks Tommy and Kellan, now in seventh grade, to make a new casefile to persuade the School Board to reinstate Dwight.