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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Babysitting is a great job. It's great fun, and it's a great way to help other people! This book will give you all sorts of great tips on becoming a better babysitter! Today's reluctant readers are easily drawn to the distractions of electronic games, DVDs, and TV. But what if they had a book series designed just for them? What if all the titles featured high-interest topics, rockin' designs, and language kids understand? Our Reading Rocks! series...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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When life gets difficult for Ana Rosa, a twelve-year-old would-be writer living in a small village in the Dominican Republic, she can depend on her older brother to make her feel better--until the life-changing events on her thirteenth birthday.
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Emily Windsnap volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Publisher Annotation: When Emily makes a wish on a magic stone, she gets a glimpse of what the future holds ? and it?s a disaster! She tries to make things right, but each trip through time takes Emily to a future where things turn out badly for either the humans of Brightport or the merpeople of Shiprock. Plastic pollutes the ocean, garbage overflows the landfills, and the two towns are no longer getting along. Emily realizes she can't save her hometown...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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This book explores how growing a cabbage can fight poverty, how a few dollars can help ten families start their own businesses, and how running errands for a neighbor can help you learn to become a bike mechanic. It asks the question "What if you could meet all your consumer needs while, at the same time, get to know your neighbors and protect the environment?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Best friends Isaac and Marco face various challenges in sixth grade, such as Isaac getting better grades, Marco winning a spot on the basketball team, and both seeing their efforts make a change in their respective family lives. They hope their friendship and support for one another will be enough to help them from falling short.
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Jake and the League volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After a disastrous 6th grade year, Jake is waiting for 7th grade where he hopes to start over. Jake's problems get bigger before they get better.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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My sister lives on the mantelpiece. Well, some of her does. Everyone kept saying it would get better with time, but thats just one of those lies that grown ups tell. Five years on, it.s worse than ever: Dad drinks, Mums gone and Jamies left with questions that he must answer for himself.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Karl is an Abyssinian ground hornbill with a special challenge. His lower bill had broken off and made eating difficult. Karl did a great job of adapting and finding new ways to eat, but he wasn't getting all the food he needed. His zookeepers at the National Zoo and friends at the Smithsonian Institute wanted to help. Could an old bird skeleton and a 3-D printer give Karl a new beak? Karl's new adventure was about to begin!
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Popularity papers volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Two best friends embark on a project to study the behavior and taste of the popular girls at their elementary school so that by the time they get to middle school they too will be in the right crowd. Novel appears in the form of a scrapbook.
12) Nouns
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Provides an introduction to the grammar rules and usage of nouns, discussing proper nouns, plural nouns, and compound nouns.
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Vanderbeekers volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"When autumn arrives on 141st Street, the Vanderbeekers are busy helping Mr. Beiderman get ready for the New York City Marathon and making sure the mysterious person sleeping in the community garden gets enough to eat. But when they discover the true identity of the person making a home in the community garden's shed, their world turns upside down as they learn what it means to care for someone in an impossible situation. In this fourth book in the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Snatch! A great white leaps out of the water to catch a seal. How did it get its dinner? It used its superpowers! From a super sense of smell to super speed, a shark's body is built for one thing-hunting. Its nostrils can smell some substances 10,000 times better than people! Low light? No problem! A shark's eyes see well in dim light. A shark can even detect electricity that comes from prey. Readers will find out how these abilities and more have...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Ladd knows that this summer is going to be special. She and her two best friends, Ronan and Brianna, are turning twelve. She is leaving camp behind and gets to do what she wants all day. She feels everything starting to change. But things don't always change for the better.With Brianna's cousin Eden visiting for the summer, Claire feels like a third wheel. Even though she is only a year older, Eden seems so much more sophisticated and glamorous......
18) Kart competition
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old friends Ted and Ashley are finally old enough to go to Kart Kamp in the summer, where they meet Gil Stevens, son of a famous driver, but soon Ted's competitive instincts start to get the better of him, and camp becomes less about learning than winning.
19) Ralph S. Mouse
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When Ralph and his pesky cousins accidentally make a mess at the Mountain View Inn, Ralph decides that he'd better take his motorcycle and leave. He persuade his young pal Ryan to take him to school, where Ralph is an instant hit with Ryan's classmates. But Ralph doesn't like being told what to do. Worse than that, his precious motorcycle gets broken.
20) Counting Thyme
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
"Thyme Owens moves across the country with her family so her younger brother can take part in a promising cancer drug trial, and though all she wants is for him to get better, adjusting to life in Manhattan is anything but easy"--