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1) Lad, a dog
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Recounts the heroic and adventurous life of a thoroughbred collie who was devoted to his Sunnybank Master and Mistress.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
Dorothy's aunt and uncle get acquainted with Oz after they lose their farm and Ozma invites them to live with her.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 9
Language
English
Description
The adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill take them to Oz where they help solve the problem of Pom, whose truelove's heart has been turned to ice by witches.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 8
Language
English
Description
Introduces Ann Soforth, Queen of Oogaboo, whom Tik-Tok, the clockwork man, assists in conquering the Nome King.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A young citizen of Oz who learns an important magic word falls prey to the wickedness of the Nomes' ex-king who wants to destroy Dorothy, the Wizard, and Princess Ozma.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A boy, a patchwork girl, and a glass cat go on a mission to find the ingredients for a charm which will transform some people turned to marble.
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English
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With its vibrant new translation, perceptive introduction, and witty packaging, this new edition of Voltaires masterpiece belongs in the hands of every reader pondering our assumptions about human behavior and our place in the world. Candide tells of the hilarious adventures of the naïve Candide, who doggedly believes that "all is for the best" even when faced with injustice, suffering, and despair. Controversial and entertaining, Candide is a book...
9) The Stranger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
11) The dark frigate
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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In seventeenth-century England, orphaned Philip Marsham, forced to flee London after a terrible accident, finds himself in an even more difficult situation when his ship is taken over by pirates and he is forced to become a member of their crew.
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English
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A "Positively Diabolical" Correspondence "My dear Wormwood,..." So begins this product of C.S. Lewis's wickedly funny imagination, a correspondence between two devils, Screwtape and his young nephew, Wormwood. As the senior fiend advises his young apprentice in leading humanity astray, Lewis delves into questions about good and evil, temptation, repentance, and grace, offering knowledge and guidance to all who are trying to live good Christian lives....
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Chocolate War volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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A high school freshman discovers the devestating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
During a California earthquake Dorothy falls into the underground Land of the Manaboos where she again meets the Wizard of Oz.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated...
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Chronicles of Avonlea volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve tales of some very special people living on Prince Edward Island in the early days of the 20th century.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
William Goldman's beloved novel has sold over one million copies. A movie, released twenty years ago, perfectly captured the spirit of the book and has introduced new fans to its pages ever since. In 1941 a young boy lies bedridden from pneumonia. His perpetually disheveled and unattractive father, an immigrant from Florin with terribly broken English, shuffles into his bedroom carrying a book. The boy wants to know if it has any sports. His father...
19) Ozma of Oz
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Dorothy Gale, swept by a raging sea storm into the fairy land of Ev, sets off on a magic carpet with an assortment of old friends and new, to rescue the Queen of Ev and her ten children from the wicked Nome King, who has turned Princess Ozma into an emerald grasshopper.