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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Through carefully chosen stories from the olden days and art that meticulously reflects traditional designs and colors, Goble provides wonderful insights into the spiritual life of the Plains Indians. His intimate knowledge of their world transports the reader into a vision of the sacred beauty and wisdom that defined traditional Native America.
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Allie Finkle's list of rules helps her navigate a tricky situation with a new girl at school.
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While trying to spare Erica's feelings so she could go to Brittany's birthday party, Allie disobeys one of her own rules and lies.
4) The Whisper
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Members of an elite squadron of mutants, the telepathic twins, Ellie and Mika have specialized skills that will enable them to steal the top-secret formula for an age-reversing drug developed by rebel scientists on the wild side of The Wall. Juiced by these potent pills, the cadaver-like Gorman foresees a future in which he'll be forever young - released from the machinery that now supports him. Unless the twins have a master plan of their own: to...
5) Moving day
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Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
6) Stage fright
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Allie's theatrical hopes are crushed when, instead of being cast as the princess, she is given the role of the evil queen in the fourth-grade class play.
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Allie is excited about her class field trip to an old schoolhouse until she gets the news that everyone is going to be assigned a buddy from her former school, and her buddy just happens to be her ex-best friend.
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grader Allie establishes a new set of rules after she is forced to pair up with ex-best friend Mary Kay on a class trip to a historic one-room schoolhouse.
10) The new girl
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settlling into their new home.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Samantha faces some stiff competition when a new friend is interested in the same boy Samantha has a crush on, and another girl starts an internet version of her business of passing secrets, unread, from one classmate to another.
12) Never forgotten
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In eighteenth-century West Africa, a boy raised by his blacksmith father and the Mother Elements--Wind, Fire, Water, and Earth--is captured and taken to America as a slave.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
From the revered British illustrator, a modern fable for all ages that explores life's universal lessons, featuring 100 color and black-and-white drawings.
"What do you want to be when you grow up?" asked the mole.
"Kind," said the boy.
Charlie Mackesy offers inspiration and hope in uncertain times in this beautiful book based on his famous quartet of characters. The Boy, the Horse, the Fox and the Mole explores their unlikely friendship and the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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When Alice follows a rabbit down its rabbit hole, she enters a fantastical new world full of strange and nonsensical creatures. There Alice stumbles from one predicament to the next-- drinking potions that make her shrink and grow, inviting herself to a tea party with the Mad Hatter, speaking to a disappearing Cheshire Cat, and playing croquet with a Queen of Hearts who is a little too eager to behead her opponents--as life in Wonderland gets curiouser...
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In 2008, J.K. Rowling delivered a deeply affecting commencement speech at Harvard University. Now published for the first time in book form, VERY GOOD LIVES presents J.K. Rowling's words of wisdom for anyone at a turning point in life. How can we embrace failure? And how can we use our imagination to better both ourselves and others? Drawing from stories of her own post-graduate years, the world famous author addresses some of life's most important...
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Amelia rules! volume 7
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While trying to figure out the meaning of life, Amelia learns that even when the world is scary and life is as mystifying as ever, some things, such as friends, do last.