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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Adult - Books Made Into Movies
Adult - Magic Realism Fiction
Adult - Shocking Plot Twists
Adult - Survival Stories (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
Adult - Magic Realism Fiction
Adult - Shocking Plot Twists
Adult - Survival Stories (Fiction and Non-Fiction)
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Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Life of Pi is at once a realistic, rousing adventure and a meta-tale of survival that explores the redemptive power of storytelling and the transformative nature of fiction. It's a story, as one character puts it, to make you believe in God. A fabulist novel that combines the delight of Kipling's Just So Stories with the metaphysical adventure of Jonah and the Whale.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
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English
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A 14th-century medieval allegory by Giovanni Boccaccio, told as a frame story coveriing 100 tales by ten young people. The bawdy tales of love in The Decameron range from the erotic to the tragic. Includes tales of wit, practical jokes, and life lessons and also documents life in 14th-century Italy.
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Gooney Bird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
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2015.
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English
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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
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Recalling the past at her daughters’ request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance with, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
10) The octopus
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Grandpa helps his favorite grandpup to avoid scratching his chicken pox by telling how he once had to fight off an octopus during a terrible storm.
11) Zen shorts
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways.
12) It's a tiger!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
A child imagines that he is in a story where he encounters a tiger at every turn.
13) Zen ghosts
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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On Halloween night, Stillwater the giant panda tells Karl, Addy, and Michael a spooky and unusual story. Based on a Zen koan.
16) The end (almost)
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Donut the bear is told his story is over and he has to leave, he employs trickery so the story can go on.
17) Icefall
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Princess Solveig and her siblings are trapped in a hidden fortress tucked between towering mountains and a frozen fjord, along with her best friend and an army of restless soldiers, all awaiting news of the king's victory in battle, but as they wait for winter's end and the all-encompassing ice to break, acts of treachery make it clear that a traitor lurks in their midst.
18) Max's words
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Series
Max books (Kate Banks) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
When Max cuts out words from magazines and newspapers, collecting them the way his brothers collect stamps and coins, they all learn about words, sentences, and storytelling.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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As a terrible storm rages, ten-year-old Dinah and her brother and sister listen to their cousin Gage's tale of a newly-hatched, orphaned, skibberee, or tooth fairy, called What-the-Dickens, who hopes to find a home among the skibbereen tribe, if only he can stay out of trouble.
20) Any questions?
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Answers many of the questions the author receives from children on writing, including where she gets her ideas, how she learned to draw, and how many books she can write in one day.
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