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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Juvenile fiction.
Adolescence.
This is the second of five chronicles of Prydain in which Taran, the assistant-pig-keeper, longs to enter the world of men, but when he achieves his desire, he finds there is treachery as well as friendship.
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Pub. Date
2024, c1956.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"PaperStar" -- T.p.How can an old man and his wife select one cat from a choice of millions and trillions? Newbery Honor Book. "Share the Adventure" collection--Recommended books for Kindergartners--look for purple spine label.
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Pub. Date
[1986], c1954
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Remembering her mother's words, an eight-year-old girl finds courage to go alone with her father to build a new home in the Connecticut wilderness and to stay with the Indians when her father goes back to bring the rest of the family. Newbery Honor Book.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
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Earthsea series volume 2
Earthsea trilogy volume 2
The Earthsea cycle volume 2
The second book of Earthsea
Earthsea trilogy volume 2
The Earthsea cycle volume 2
The second book of Earthsea
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Description
Arha's isolated existence as high priestess in the tombs of Atuan is jarred by a thief, wizard Ged Sparrowhawk, who seeks a special treasure.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Tucker is a streetwise city mouse. He thought he'd seen it all. But he's never met a cricket before, which really isn't surprising, because, along with his friend Harry Cat, Tucker lives in the very heart of New York City-the Times Square subway station. Chester Cricket never intended to leave his Connecticut meadow. He'd be there still if he hadn't followed the entrancing aroma of liverwurst right into someone's picnic basket. Now, like any tourist...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Includes bibliographical references. An unusual work horse, raised in Vermont and known originally as "Little Bub," becomes the sire of a famous American breed and takes the name of his owner -- Justin Morgan. Newbery Honor book, 1946.
11) Charlotte's web
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
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An affectionate, sometimes bashful pig named Wilbur befriends a spider named Charlotte, who lives in the rafters above his pen. A prancing, playful bloke, Wilbur is devastated when he learns of the destiny that befalls all those of porcine persuasion. Determined to save her friend, Charlotte spins a web that reads "Some Pig," convincing the farmer and surrounding community that Wilbur is no ordinary animal and should be saved. In this story of friendship,...
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Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A collection of ghost stories with African American themes, designed to be told during the Dark Thirty--the half hour before sunset--when ghosts seem all too believable. With an extraordinary gift for suspense, McKissack brings us ten original spine-tingling tales inspired by African-American history and the mystery of that eerie half-hour before nightfall--the dark thirty. "The atmosphere of each selection is skillfully developed and sustained to...