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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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From the author of The Jungle Book and Kim, Just So Stories is the perfect combination of education and fun to get kids to love reading. It is considered not only a quintessential children's book, but one of Kipling's best works.
How did the elephant get its trunk? How did the leopard get its spots? And how was the alphabet made? Rudyard Kipling's classic collection of fables answers the great questions of animal and humankind in a fun, eloquent...
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"With two parts and seventeen stories, Stephen Crane’s The Open Boat and Other Stories is an eclectic collection that stuns with its use of naturalism and angst. In the first part, titled Minor Conflicts, Crane shares eight works of short fiction. Among these is The Bride Comes to the Yellow Sky, a tense drama that explores themes of change with the portrayal of a Texas marshal who is saved from gunfight by his bride. Death and the Child follows...
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Weenies short story collections volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Bizarre tales of a teenager going to the school dance with a robot, a Thanksgiving dinner interrupted by turkeys looking for revenge, and other strange short stories.
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Brimming with cinematic references, this collection of short fiction ably combines humor with pulsating action. Readers will be able to celebrate the celluloid as they read their way through novellas that evoke a noir film, a romantic farce, a comedy heist, a thriller, and a classic road movie. The book also includes an introduction on how to adapt film scripts to stories. Cinephiles and lovers of crime fiction alike will be utterly drawn in by these...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1140L
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English
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"Since its inception in 1894, 'The Jungle Book' has enchanted readers-both young and old-with its invaluable moral lessons. By bestowing the animals in the stories with human traits, famed writer Rudyard Kipling gives readers timeless parables that teach family values and the importance of community. The most popular of these tales center on Mowgli, a young boy who lives in the jungle amongst a community of animals. All before reaching his teenage...
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Weenies short story collections volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Thirty creepy stories about warped technology, revengeful ants, sadistic gym teachers, and other terrifying things. Includes author's notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.
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Français
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Cette délicieuse collection d'histoires courtes pour l'heure du coucher vise à divertir, inspirer et enseigner aux enfants l'importance des vertus intemporelles. À travers des personnages dynamiques et des récits passionnants dans chacune de ces courtes histoires morales pour enfants, ces histoires morales pour enfants encouragent leur esprit à adopter les valeurs qui les façonnent. Avec chaque histoire, les enfants se lanceront dans une aventure,...
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An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge' is a short story by American author Ambrose Bierce. It is one of the best classic tales filled with detail and vision. This story inspires the imagination, then provides one of the best twists ever invented. The story is set in the time of the Civil War. It is famous for its irregular time sequence and twisted end. Bierce's abandonment of strict linear narration in favor of the internal mind of the protagonist is,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A girl wagers her soul in a sour-gummy-frog-eating contest with the devil. Love and a homemade coat rescue a boy from his fairyland jailers. A newly bitten teenage vampire uses the Internet to show the world just how uncool the "cold" life is. In this collection of stories, the supernatural intersects with everyday life in surprising and dangerous ways.
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Weenies short story collections volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Thirty-three stories about stranded aliens, a horrifying cheesemaker, a boy with the power to make stars vanish, and other frightening things. Includes notes on how the author got his ideas for these stories.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Nestled between the ocean and the hills of Prince Edward Island is a road that leads to the house where a girl named Anne grew up, Green Gables, and to the wonderful place called Avonlea. In this second volume of heartwarming tales a Persian cat plays an astonishing part in a marriage proposal, a ghostly appearance in a garden leads a woman to the fulfillment of her youthful dreams, a young girl risks losing her mother to find the father she never...
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2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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An illustrated collection of fourteen short stories featuring dragons and wizards, councilors and mayors, an adventurous tortoise and a monster in a lake, along with plenty of pointy hats and a few magic spells, written when the author was a teenaged newspaper reporter.
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Unabridged
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English
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Gary Soto, an award-winning poet, is renowned for getting at the heart of a young person's everyday life. In these eleven stories, performed with spice and energy by young actors Stephanie Diaz and Miguel Gongora, Soto again scores. With a sensitivity and humor born from his own experiences while growing up in California's Central Valley, the author brings to the surface issues such as success and failure, honesty and deceit, love and friendship.
...20) The Red Room
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The Red Room is a short Gothic story written by H. G. Wells in 1894. It was first published in the March 1896 edition of The Idler magazine. An unnamed protagonist chooses to spend the night in an allegedly haunted room, coloured bright red in Lorraine Castle. He intends to disprove the legends surrounding it. Despite vague warnings from the three infirm custodians who reside in the castle, the narrator ascends to "the Red Room" to begin his night's...
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