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1) Double down
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
The pressure?s really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush, so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his ?creative side.? As if that?s not scary enough, Halloween?s just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . . and will he become rich and...
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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In the latest diary of middle-schooler Greg Heffley, he records his attempts to spend his summer vacation sensibly indoors playing video games and watching television, despite his mother's other ideas.
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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 19
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"It's just another day of high school for Zack Lightman. He's daydreaming through another boring math class, with just one more month to go until graduation and freedom--if he can make it that long without getting suspended again. Then he glances out his classroom window and spots the flying saucer. At first, Zack thinks he's going crazy. A minute later, he's sure of it. Because the UFO he's staring at is straight out of the videogame he plays every...
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Kids under the stairs volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2021 - 22
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees: 2021-2022 Master List
VT Golden Dome Book Award 2021-2022
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees 2021 - 22
Vermont Golden Dome Book Award Nominees: 2021-2022 Master List
VT Golden Dome Book Award 2021-2022
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Told in multiple voices, four summer school classmates band together to save their teacher and their academic futures after Ms J.'s unorthodox teaching methods are questioned.
7) Epic
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Series
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
Description
On New Earth, a world based on a video role-playing game, fourteen-year-old Erik pursuades his friends to aid him in some unusual gambits in order to save Erik's father from exile and safeguard the futures of each of their families.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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"Survival is difficult in the perilous Nether and End dimensions, and you'll need to up your game if you want to make it back to the Overworld. The official Minecraft : Guide to the Nether & the End will teach you how to navigate the alien terrain, battle the native mobs and find rare blocks and items. With insider info and tips from the experts at Mojang, this is the definitive guide to survival in the Nether and the End"--Back cover.
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Pub. Date
2011
Description
Visionary game designer Jane McGonigal shows how we can harness the power of computer games to solve real-world problems and boost global happiness, since her research suggests that gamers are expert problem solvers and collaborators because they regularly cooperate with other players to overcome daunting virtual challenges.
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
The world of Minecraft is waiting to be explored. But danger lurks around every corner and survival can prove difficult for even the bravest adventurer. The official Minecraft: Guide to Exploration will help you to survive. Learn how to find resources, craft equipment and protect yourself from hostile mobs. With insider info and tips from the experts at Mojang, this is the definitive guide to exploration for new Minecrafters.
13) The never game
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Series
Colter Shaw novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"From the bestselling and award-winning master of suspense, the first novel in a thrilling new series, introducing Colter Shaw. "You have been abandoned." A young woman has gone missing in Silicon Valley and her father has hired Colter Shaw to find her. The son of a survivalist family, Shaw is an expert tracker. Now he makes a living as a "reward seeker," traveling the country to help police solve crimes and private citizens locate missing persons....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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You might think that working in the video game industry is all fun and, well...games. Jobs like combat designer and animator sound pretty exciting. But do you know what it really takes to do one of these jobs? Do you have the skills? The knowledge? Are you ready to work hard? Game designers create the images, sounds, and action that gamers enjoy. Find out if you can handle a job in this fast-paced industry.
15) The cliffs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
820L
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"Some things must be learned the hard way...Reed sees an opportunity to teach the school bully not to mess with him, but ends up mangling the lesson. Robert, an exhausted single father, gets a crash course in parenting when he buys a fancy new teddy bear to watch and entertain his young son. Chris, eager to join the Science Club at school, agrees to undergo a grisly experiment to be accepted. But in the malevolent universe of Five nights at Freddy's,...
16) Insignia
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Series
Insignia trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
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Tom, a fourteen-year-old genius at virtual reality games, is recruited by the United States Military to begin training at the Pentagon Spire as a Combatant in World War III, controlling the mechanized drones that do the actual fighting off-planet.