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Series
Ella enchanted volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
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Series
Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.
3) Shiloh
Author
Series
Shiloh quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
5) Scat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Nick and Marta are both suspicious when their biology teacher, the feared Mrs. Bunny Starch, disappears, and try to uncover the truth despite the police and headmaster's insistence that nothing is wrong.
9) Inkdeath
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Series
Inkheart trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 29
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Description
As Bluejay--Mo's fictitious double--tries to keep the Book of Immortality from unraveling, Adderhead kidnaps all the children in the kingdom, asking for Bluejay's surrender or the children will be doomed to slavery in the silver mines.
Author
Series
All-of-a-kind family volume 1
Pub. Date
[2005], c1951
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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The adventures of five sisters growing up in a Jewish family in New York in the early twentieth century.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Fountas & Pinnell
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Description
Billy isn't one to back down from a bet. But this one is gross: If he eats fifteen worms in fifteen days, Alan will pay him fifty dollars. Billy takes the bet and tries worms smothered in ketchup, drowned in mustard, even breaded and fried. Worm by worm, Billy gets closer to victory. But Alan won't let him win that easily...
12) Messenger
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Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
Author
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
In parallel stories, Bone, an orphaned dog, finds and loses a series of homes, Molly, a family pet, helps Charlie through the grief and other after-effects of his brother's death, and lonely Henry pleads for a dog of his own.
17) Love, Stargirl
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
19) Kira-kira
Author
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill. kira-kira (kee' ra kee' ra): glittering; shining Glittering. That's how Katie Takeshima's sister, Lynn, makes everything seem. The sky is kira-kira because its color is deep but see-through at the same time. The sea is kira-kira for the same reason. And so are...
20) The Saturdays
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Four New York City siblings decide to pool their resources so that each can do a special thing on the Saturday that is his turn to receive the combined allowance.