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Author
Publisher
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Do fishes think? Do they really have three-second memories? And can they recognize the humans who peer back at them from above the surface of the water? In What a Fish Knows, the myth-busting ethologist Jonathan Balcombe addresses these questions and more, taking us under the sea, through streams and estuaries, and to the other side of the aquarium glass to reveal the surprising capabilities of fishes.
Author
Series
Books of Bayern volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In Haley's high school there are two boys named Martin Nathaniel Munroe II (cousins), and one of them has started a text conversation with her, which becomes an all-consuming exchange between two people who see themselves as outsiders, but the only trouble is that Haley really does not know which Martin she is talking to, and actually meeting face-to-face may lead to an epic meltdown.
4) Half brother
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In 1973, when a renowned Canadian behavioral psychologist pursues his latest research project--an experiment to determine whether chimpanzees can acquire advanced language skills--he brings home a baby chimp named Zan and asks his thirteen-year-old son to treat Zan like a little brother.
Author
Series
Princess (Mette Ivie Harrison) volume 1
Publisher
Eos
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
George has always felt burdened by his princely duties, and even more by the need to hide the magic through which he speaks with animals, but when he is betrothed to the strange princess of a neighboring kingdom, his secret, and the persecution of people like himself, must come to an end.
Author
Publisher
Kingswell
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"Imagine being trapped inside a Disney movie and having to learn about life mostly from animated characters dancing across a screen of color. A fantasy? A nightmare? This is the real-life story of Owen Suskind, the son of the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind and his wife, Cornelia. An autistic boy who couldn't speak for years, Owen memorized dozens of Disney movies, turned them into a language to express love and loss, kinship, brotherhood....
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the unique landscape of the Camargue in the South of France during WW2, a young autistic boy lives on his parents' farm among the salt flats and the flamingos that live there. There are lots of things he doesn't understand, but he does know how to heal animals. He loves routine and music too; every week he goes to market with his mother, to ride his special horse on the town carousel. But then the Germans come, with their guns, and take the town....
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