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Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jake, a budding juvenile delinquent, is sent for home schooling to the arty and eccentric Applewhite family's Creative Academy, where he discovers talents and interests he never knew he had.
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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello holds a contest for his young friends where they must race to bring interesting facts back to his library"--
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English
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The historical record crowns success. Those enshrined in its annals are men and women whose ideas, accomplishments, or personalities have dominated, endured, and most important of all, found champions. John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage, Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Artists, and Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets are classic celebrations of the greatest, the brightest, the eternally constellated.
Paul Collins' Banvard's Folly is a different...
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Mr. Lemoncello's library volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Mr. Lemoncello has invited teams from all across America to compete in the first ever LIBRARY OLYMPICS...but someone is trying to censor what the kids are reading"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher andthe school board.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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For years, 12-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille--the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To the rescue comes her previously unknown great-aunt from Savannah, Tootie Caldwell, who whirls CeeCee into her world of female friendship, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart.
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English
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"Balthazar Jones lives in the Tower of London with his wife, Hebe, his one-hundred-eighty-one-year-old pet tortoise, and a few eccentric neighbors. Balthazar is a Beefeater. The white-hot flame of his and Hebe's love has dwindled in the few years since their son died. Their marriage is teetering on the brink of extinction, when Balthazar is unexpectedly tasked with setting up an elaborate menagerie within the Tower to house the many exotic animals...
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Origami Yoda books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
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Origami Yoda books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
One month before the state standards test are to take place, the Origami Rebel Alliance has found powerful allies in unexpected places in their fight against the FunTime test preparation program, but Principal Rabbski has not yet declared her allegiance.
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Origami Yoda books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Surprise Attack of Jabba the Puppett isthe fourth case file of the New York Times bestselling Origami Yoda series from Tom Angleberger!
Some problems are too big for Origami Yoda alone . . .
This semester, Dwight, Tommy, Sara, and the gang must face their deadliest enemy yet: the FunTime Education System. Meant to raise standardized test scores, the mind-numbing videos of Professor FunTime...
Some problems are too big for Origami Yoda alone . . .
This semester, Dwight, Tommy, Sara, and the gang must face their deadliest enemy yet: the FunTime Education System. Meant to raise standardized test scores, the mind-numbing videos of Professor FunTime...
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Adrian Monk novels volume 2
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English
Description
Most people think Hawaii is paradise. But Monk knows that danger--like dirt--lurks everywhere. Look at Helen Gruber, the rich tourist who took a blow from a coconut. The police say it fell from a tree, but Monk suspects otherwise. Smooth-talking TV psychic Dylan Swift is on the island and claims to have a message from beyond--from Helen Gruber herself. Monk has his doubts about Swift's credibility. But finding the killer and proving Swift a fraud--all...
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English
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The truck driver is decked out like a rhinestone cowboy, only instead of a guitar he's slinging a gun -- and Odd Thomas is on the wrong end of the barrel. Though he narrowly dodges a bullet, Odd can't outrun the shocking vision burned into his mind .... or the destiny that will drive him into a harrowing showdown with absolute evil.
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Adrian Monk novels volume 12
Language
English
Description
Monk investigates three strangers and murder victims--a security guard, a struggling student, and a beautiful woman--who have nothing in common but a couch.
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Berenson schemes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Upon the death of his Aunt Julia, twelve-year-old Jack is whisked by his scheming and dreaming parents from Pennsylvania to a small Caribbean island, Compano, and soon finds himself alone on a deserted island.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mike, whose father is a brilliant mathematician but who has no math aptitude himself, spends the summer in rural Pennsylvania with his elderly and eccentric relatives Moo and Poppy, helping the townspeople raise money to adopt a Romanian orphan.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a small fishing village in British Columbia, twelve-year-old Primrose tries to be a matchmaker for her Uncle Jack, befriends Ked, a new foster child, tries to decide if she is willing to go to jail for her convictions, and together with Ked, publishesa cook book to raise money for the Fisherman's Aid. Includes recipes.
20) Navigating Early
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Odyssey-like adventure of two boys' incredible quest on the Appalachian Trail where they deal with pirates, buried secrets, and extraordinary encounters"--
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