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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse -- Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for...
2) Little women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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This story of a wife and her four daughters living outside Boston during the Civil War has captivated readers for decades. Louisa May Alcott's classic heroines offer something with which every reader can identify. Jo's independence, Meg's resourcefulness, Beth's sweetness, and Amy's impetuousness see the girls through countless adventures and the everyday struggles of life during the Civil War.
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Ramona Quimby volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Beezus Quimby wants to be a good older sister, but little Ramona makes it so hard. She has to be the most embarrassing sister ever. Although Ramona isn't trying to get into trouble, her unmatchable imagination usually carries her there.
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NEW EDITION, REVISED AND UPDATED
The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 42 languages) will change your life. There just isn't enough time for everything on our "To Do" list—and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.
There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning...
The legendary Eat That Frog! (more than 1.5 million copies sold worldwide and translated into 42 languages) will change your life. There just isn't enough time for everything on our "To Do" list—and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.
There's an old saying that if the first thing you do each morning...
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World War II novels volume 4
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English
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A fictional account of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island.
8) Lawn boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Things get out of hand for a twelve-year-old boy when a neighbor convinces him to expand his summer lawn mowing business.
9) Sounder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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A young black boy learns the pain of humiliation and anger when his father is given an unjust jail sentence for stealing a ham from a white man. Learning to read and to discover that things do not die, but become part of other things, brings the youngster new hope.
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Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A little boy wishes so much he could whistle.
12) Lawn Boy returns
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Lawn Boy says: The summer I was twelve, mowing lawns with Grandpa's old riding mower turned into big business. With advice from Arnold the stockbroker, I learned all about making money. Six weeks and hundreds of thousands of dollars later, life got more complicated. You see, the prizefighter I sponsor, Joey Pow, won a big fight. And a TV interview made me famous. As Arnold says, 'Capitalism plus publicity equals monster commerce.' Even my best friends...
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Julia Gillian volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Nine-year-old Julia Gillian learns a lot about facing fear as she and her St. Bernard, Bigfoot, take long walks through their Minneapolis neighborhood one hot summer, and she seeks the courage to finish a book that could have an unhappy ending.
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2010
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English
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Shawn Achor, a pioneer in the field of Positive Psychology, presents a seven-step guide to achieving true happiness and gratification in the workplace. Here, listeners will discover that happiness is one of the biggest factors in becoming successful and that with Achor's advice, they will easily be able to find that happiness.
16) Oggie Cooder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Oggie Cooder has a talent; he can charve better than anyone else in Truman Elementary School. (For the uninitiated, charving is the carving of a piece of cheese with one's teeth.) Oggie doesn't think this is anything special, but his whole school soon disagrees with him. After he inadvertently charves during a nationwide hunt for unusual talents, he becomes well-known, famous even! Suddenly, he's the star of the school, but Oggie isn't sure that he...
17) Grayson
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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The author describes how, while training for a long-distance swim off the coast of California, she encountered a baby gray whale that had become separated from its mother and had been following her instead, and her efforts to find the baby's mother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 34
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English
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In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, an anxious twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable's girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, forced to run from Coos County-to Boston, to southern Vermont, to Toronto-pursued by the implacable constable. Their lone protector is a fiercely libertarian logger, once a river driver, who befriends them. A tale that...
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Ghosthunters (Cornelia Funke) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Nine-year-old Tom Tomsky finds he has to face down not just the ASG (Averagely Spooky Ghost) in the basement but the IRG (Incredibly Revolting Ghost) in town. Lucky for Tom, his grandma's best friend just happens to be the world's foremost ghosthunter.
20) The cookcamp
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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During World War II, a little boy is sent to live with his grandma, a cook in a camp for workers building a road through the wilderness.
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