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I survived volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Barry's family tries to evacuate before Hurricane Katrina hits their home in New Orleans. But when Barry's little sister gets terribly sick, they're forced to stay home and wait out the storm. At first, Katrina doesn't seem to be as bad as predicted. But overnight the levees break, and Barry's world is literally torn apart. He's swept away by the floodwaters, away from his family. Can he survive the storm of the century -- alone?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
3) Front desk
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Series
Front desk volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mia Tang has a lot of secrets. Number 1: She lives in a motel, not a big house. Every day, while her immigrant parents clean the rooms, ten-year-old Mia manages the front desk of the Calivista Motel and tends to its guests. Number 2: Her parents hide immigrants. And if the mean motel owner, Mr. Yao, finds out they've been letting them stay in the empty rooms for free, the Tangs will be doomed. Number 3: She wants to be a writer. But how can she when...
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The Borrowers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. Includes a letter and a sketch of Homily and Arrietty by the author.
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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Harry Potter can't wait to get back to Hogwarts after a summer with no friends and no magic. But his second year at school is rife with fresh torments, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor, Gilderoy Lockhart; a spirit named Moaning Myrtle who haunts the girls' bathroom; and the unwanted attentions of Ron Weasley's younger sister, Ginny. These seem minor when the real trouble begins, and someone -- or something -- starts turning Hogwarts...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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English
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This is a book about dinosaurs. No it's not. Dinosaurs are not allowed. Oh. This is now a book about avocados! Sorry. We deleted those too. FINE. This book is about--nope! Forbidden! Maybe you shouldn't even try reading this book...But what could possibly be inside?Discover just what can happen when ideas are erased instead of expressed.
9) Artemis Fowl
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Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"In 2001, Eoin Colfer published Artemis Fowl, a hilarious and rip-roaring science-fiction/fantasy adventure about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. But these aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous. Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them... until they stop playing by the rules. The novel was an instant sensation and became the start...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
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An extraordinary creative achievement by two extraordinary talents, Jim Kay's inspired reimagining of J.K. Rowling's classic series has captured a devoted following worldwide. This stunning new fully illustrated edition of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire brings more breathtaking scenes and unforgettable characters to life - including Cedric Diggory, Fleur Delacour and Viktor Krum. With paint, pencil and pixels, Kay conjures the wizarding world...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
The war against Voldemort is not going well; even Muggle governments are noticing. Hermione scans the pages of the Daily Prophet, reading out terrible news. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate - and lose a few eyebrows in the process. Teenagers flirt and fight and fall in love. Classes...
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Three rancheros volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Raymie enters the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition in hopes of catching her father?s attention, she doesn?t expect to become friends with her sassy and eccentric fellow contestants, Louisiana and Beverly. But as time goes by, these three girls become allies and soon learn that even your biggest rivals can turn out to be your closest friends. 272pp.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the progress of a hungry little caterpillar as he eats his way through a varied and very large quantity of food until, full at last, he forms a cocoon around himself and goes to sleep. Die-cut pages illustrate what the caterpillar ate on successive days.
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Series
Harry Potter volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 18
Language
Español
Description
During his third year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter must confront the devious and dangerous wizard responsible for his parents' deaths.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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A war is brewing in Lyra's world--a battle between those who would keep people in ignorance and those who are willing to fight for true freedom. Lyra is thrust into the middle of the conflict when her uncle Asriel comes to Oxford, fomenting rebellion, and when her best friend, Roger, suddenly disappears. Lyra learns that Roger was kidnapped by a shadowy organization that steals children and, it is rumored, experiments on them. To find him, she will...
17) Understood Betsy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Timid and small for her age, nine-year-old Elizabeth Ann discovers her own abilities and gains a new perception of the world around her when she goes to live with relatives on a farm in Vermont.
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Judy Moody volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
19) We were liars
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Series
We were liars volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Spending the summers on her family's private island off the coast of Massachusetts with her cousins and a special boy named Gat, teenaged Cadence struggles to remember what happened during her fifteenth summer.
Each summer the wealthy, seemingly perfect Sinclair family meets on their private island. Cadence, Johnny, Mirren, and Gat are a unit, especially during "summer 15," marking their fifteenth year on Beechwood-- the summer that Cady and Gat...