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1) Homer Price
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Six episodes in the life of Homer Price including one in which he and his pet skunk capture four bandits and another about a donut machine on the rampage.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In the 1880's in southern Africa, Allan Quatermain, a hunter and guide, joins forces with a sea captain and an English nobleman to find the latter's missing brother, who disappeared while searching for King Solomon's legendary lost diamond mines.
4) Gentle Ben
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
A warm, dramatic story of a friendship between a boy and a bear in the Alaskan frontier. More than a fine animal story, a vivid chronicle of Alaska, its people and places, challenges and beauties.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy. Includes instructions on folding paper cranes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The mysterious death of an eccentric millionaire brings together an unlikely assortment of heirs who must uncover the circumstances of his death before they can claim their inheritance. Includes previously unpublished artwork and author's notes about design elements.
9) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five-year old Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers.
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Relates the incredible adventures of Professor William Waterman Sherman who in 1883 sets off in a balloon across the Pacific, survives the volcanic eruption of Krakatoa, and is eventually picked up in the Atlantic.