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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Boy, Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days. With fabulous new line drawings by Quentin Blake. "An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography". (Roald Dahl). This reissue includes 30 delightful new line drawings by the inimitable Quentin Blake. Throughout his young days at school and...
2) Rascal
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
3) House Rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
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They tell me I'm lucky to have a son who's so verbal, who is blisteringly intelligent, who can take apart the broken microwave and have it working again an hour later. They think there is no greater hell than having a son who is locked in his own world, unaware that there's a wider one to explore. But try having a son who is locked in his own world, and still wants to make a connection. A son who tries to be like everyone else, but truly doesn't know...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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*COMING IN NOVEMBER AS A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES-from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti* Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
6) Soldier boy
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Follows Ricky from 1987-1991, and Samuel in 2006, as they are abducted to serve as child-soldiers in Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army in Uganda. Includes historical notes and information about Friends of Orphans, an organization founded by Ricky Richard Anywar, on whose life the story is partly based.
7) Forever
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Michael and Katherine, two high school seniors, are completely involved with each other until they are separated for the summer.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Language
English
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Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever. But would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected -- a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes or blurt out the very first thing she had to say. Anne was...