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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Twelve-year-old Isobel is unhappy about spending the summer of 1918 at her aunt's home in Hollywood with her mother and sister until her cousin, Ranger, involves the girls in creating the perfect film and, when her father returns from the war, his serious injury becomes their inspiration.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
940L
Language
English
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This modern edition of "Twas the night before Christmas," features four different homes and families, each on Christmas Eve, that reflect the diverse world we live in, lush landscapes and charming scenes capture the wonder and magic of Christmas. What do these four homes share? The excitement and anticipation of the most splendid night of the year. In this tale, the illustrator reminds us that no matter where we live, all children share the same wish...
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My weird school volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When the hippie crossing guard, Mr. Louie, puts a love potion in the water fountain before Valentine's Day, everyone at Ella Mentry School falls in love.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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"Meek little Mole, wilful Ratty, Badger the perennial bachelor, and petulant, boastful Toad: over one hundred years since their first appearance in 1908, they've become emblematic archetypes of eccentricity, folly and friendship. And their misadventures - in gypsy caravans, stolen sports cars, and their beloved Wild Wood - continue to capture readers' imaginations and warm their hearts long after they grow up. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth...
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English
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Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1953) had a lifelong attraction to children's stories. By far the best known of all his music inspired by children's literature is Peter and the Wolf. Prokofiev was asked to write a piece that would introduce young audiences to the workings of an orchestra and its instruments. Peter and the Wolf showcases the composer's superb ability to bring a simple story to life, giving each character a recognizable motive and instrumental...
8) The dot
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Series
Creatrilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Lucy and Edmund, accompanied by their peevish cousin Eustace, are transported to the land of Narnia where Eustace is temporarily transformed into a green dragon because of his selfish behavior and skepticism.
12) Frindle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Adult - Best Children's Novels for Adults
Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Realistic Fiction
Kids - Chapter Books (Staff Favorites)
Kids - Realistic Fiction
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When he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
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English
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A fascinating novel of the friendship and creative partnership between two of Hollywood's earliest female legends--screenwriter Frances Marion and superstar Mary Pickford--from the New York Times bestselling author of The Swans of Fifth Avenue and The Aviator's Wife It is 1914, and twenty-five-year-old Frances Marion has left her (second) husband and her Northern California home for the lure of Los Angeles, where she is determined to live independently...
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English
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"Having recalled his life through the story of his physical self in Winter Journal, internationally acclaimed novelist Paul Auster now remembers the experience of his development from within through the encounters of his interior self with the outer world in Report from the Interior. From his baby's-eye view of the man in the moon, to his childhood worship of the movie cowboy Buster Crabbe, to the composition of his first poem at the age of nine,...
18) The Wizard of Oz
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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After being transported by a cyclone to the land of Oz, Dorothy and her dog are befriended by a scarecrow, a tin man, and a cowardly lion, who accompany her to the Emerald City to look for a wizard who can help Dorothy return home to Kansas.
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English
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"The United States is in a fifty-states-wide couples' counseling session, thinking about filing for divorce. Can a nation composed of states that are so different possibly hang together? Quinn ... calls us out state-by-state, from Connecticut to Hawaii. He identifies the hypocrisies inherent in what we claim to believe and what we actually do. Within a framework of big-picture thinking about systems of government- after all, how would you put this...
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Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 276 pages)
Language
English
Description
"For over a century throughout Japan and beyond, children and concepts of childhood have been appropriated as tools for decidedly unchildlike purposes: to validate, moralize, humanize, and naturalize war, and to sentimentalize peace. Playing War argues that modern conceptions of war insist on and exploit a specific and static notion of the child: that the child, though the embodiment of vulnerability and innocence, nonetheless possesses an inherent...
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