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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday afternoons when all his classmates go to either Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much of value about the world he lives inches.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great DepressionOver seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbecks tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of Americas most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living a hand-to-mouth existence. For George...
5) Tangerine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Paul, who lives in the shadow of his football hero brother Erik, fights for the right to play soccer despite his near blindness and slowly begins to remember the incident that damaged his eyesight.
6) Artemis Fowl
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
"In 2001, Eoin Colfer published Artemis Fowl, a hilarious and rip-roaring science-fiction/fantasy adventure about a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind who kidnaps a fairy, Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit. But these aren't the fairies of bedtime stories; these fairies are armed and dangerous. Artemis thinks he has them right where he wants them... until they stop playing by the rules. The novel was an instant sensation and became the start...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies.
8) Let's play!
Author
Series
Publisher
Kane/Miller Book Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Three friends named Red Dog, Blue Cat and Yellow Bird have fun on the playground.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew: girl detective volume 19
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 16
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 19
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 16
Nancy Drew girl detective volume 19
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew and her friends find unexpected trouble when they watch a house in London.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Raj's father signs him up for piano lessons so he can learn to play properly, Raj begins to lose his joy in creating music, and eventually stops playing altogether, but when his father becomes ill, he asks Raj to play again, from the heart.
12) Replay
Author
Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
13) The end zone
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Olivia is fast, strong, and can catch. She loves flag football, but the boys won't let her play. Find out if Olivia ever gets to play flag football.
15) I hate rules!
Author
Series
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Third-grader Katie Carew gets into trouble for breaking school rules, but when she magically turns into the school's principal and eliminates all rules, things get out of hand. Includes directions for playing Four Square, Statue Tag, and Poison.
16) Specials
Author
Series
Uglies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tally has been transformed into one of the Specials whose mission it is to suppress the uglies and keep the Pretties stupid.
When she is turned into a super-modelesque super-fighting machine, Tally, a former ugly, is ordered to keep the uglies down and the pretties stupid in a carefully engineered world of perfection where she refuses to play by the rules.
17) Stage fright
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Allie is ecstatic when Mrs. Hunter informs her fourth-grade class that they are putting on a play. However, when Cheyenne, Allie's bitter rival, wins the role of the princess, Allie is crushed. As the play comes together, though, Allie learns a little something about overcoming disappointment.
19) Pressure play
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1993]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Travis, less obsessed with baseball than his fellow team members, tries to balance his playing with his hobby of horror videos and starts receiving anonymous threats warning him to spend more time on baseball.
20) Balancing act
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two mice have fun playing on a teeter-totter, but as more and larger friends join them, it becomes increasingly difficult to stay balanced.
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