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(0)Jim Dale
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Description
The Too-Bad-It's-Your-Birthday Book is like the best outrageous birthday cards rolled into one. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, the book's edgy humor needles everyone who's suffered the slings and arrows of one too many birthdays:
Your friends got together to light your birthday candles. Oops, not enough friends. Who's older ... you or the Earth? Now that you're older, admit it. You watch the Weather Channel. It's now estimated the...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Description
Children have always found a delightful friend in James Herriot. His award-winning stories for young readers bring the farmyard world of Herriot's Yorkshire to vibrant life. Featuring a host of adorable animals and colorful townsfolk, each of the stories is narrated by the country vet himself, with all of the warmth, caring, and good humor that have made James Herriot beloved the world over.
Here, in James Herriot's Treasury for Children,
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. Within the black-and-white striped canvas tents is an utterly unique experience full of breathtaking amazements. It is called Le Cirque des Rêves, and it is only open at night.
But behind the scenes, a fierce competition is underway - a duel between two young magicians, Celia and Marco, who have been trained since childhood expressly for...
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Kate, Michael, and Emma have passed from one orphanage to another in the 10 years since their parents disappeared to protect them. Now they learn that they have special powers, a prophesied quest to find a magical book, and a fearsome enemy. First in the Books of Beginning series.
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Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 44
Description
When the government of the magic world and authorities at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry refuse to believe in the growing threat of a freshly revived Lord Voldemort, fifteen-year-old Harry Potter finds support from his loyal friends in facing the evil wizard and other new terrors.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 34
Description
Burdened with the dark, dangerous, and seemingly impossible task of locating and destroying Voldermort's remaining Horcruxes, Harry, feeling alone and uncertain about his future, struggles to find the inner strength he needs to follow the path set out before him.
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Series
Harry Potter (Original series) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 29
Description
Sixth-year Hogwarts student Harry Potter gains valuable insights into the boy Voldemort once was, even as his own world is transformed by maturing friendships, schoolwork assistance from an unexpected source, and devastating losses.
Author
Series
Books of beginning volume 2
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"In the second book in the Books of Beginning Trilogy, Michael and Emma must track down the Chronicle of Life, while Kate must find a way back to present day from the year 1899"--Provided by publisher.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Soon after Peter, an orphan, sets sail from England on the ship Never Land, he befriends and assists Molly, a young Starcatcher, whose mission is to guard a trunk of magical stardust from a greedy pirate and the native inhabitants of a remote island.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 32
Description
Harry Potter wants to get away from the pernicious Dursleys and go to the International Quidditch Cup with Hermione, Ron, and the Weasleys. He wants to dream about Cho Chang, his crush (and maybe do more than dream). He wants to find out about the mysterious event involving two other rival schools of magic, and a competition that hasn't happened for a hundred years. He wants to be a normal, fourteen-year-old wizard. Unfortunately for Harry Potter,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
940L
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Description
Harry Potter is a wizard. He is in his second year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. Little does he know that this year will be just as eventful as the last - even getting there is an adventure in itself! In this sequel to "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone", Harry keeps hearing strange voices, sinister and dark messages appear on the wall, and then his friend Ron's sister disappears. Winner of the 1998 Smarties Gold Award.
When...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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"Till now there's been no magic for Harry Potter. He lives with the miserable Dursleys at number four, Privet Drive. His room is the cupboard under the stairs, and he hasn't had a birthday party in eleven years. But then a mysterious letter arrives by owl messenger: a letter with an invitation to an incredible place called Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. And there he finds not only friends, flying sports on broomsticks, and magic in everything...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Formats
Description
"Amos McGee, a friendly zookeeper, always made time to visit his good friends: the elephant, the tortoise, the penguin, the rhinoceros, and the owl. But one day--'Ah-choo!'--he woke with the sniffles and the sneezes. Though he didn't make it into the zoo that day, he did receive some unexpected guests."--Dust jacket.
16) Stoneheart
Author
Series
Stoneheart trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When twelve-year-old George accidentally decapitates a stone statue in London, England, he falls into a parallel dimension where he must battle ancient "live" statues and solve a dangerous riddle.
19) Ghost Hawk
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
At the end of a winter-long journey into manhood, Little Hawk returns to find his village decimated by a white man's plague and soon, despite a fresh start, Little Hawk dies violently but his spirit remains trapped, seeing how his world changes.
20) Ironhand
Author
Series
Stoneheart trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Having upset the balance between the warring statues of London, twelve-year-old George is confronted with new challenges as he tries to free his captured friends Edie and The Gunner from the formidable Walker and deal with the three strange veins of marble, bronze, and stone that have begun to grow out of his hand.
