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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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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...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Schoolboys marooned on a tropical island revert to primitive savagery.
''Get ready for an adventure tale in its purest form, a thrilling and elegantly told account of a group of British schoolboys marooned on a tropical island. Alone in a world of uncharted possibilities, devoid of adult supervision or rules, the boys begin to forge their own society, their own rules, their own rituals. With this seemingly romantic premise, and through the seemingly...
Author
Series
Spy school volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Following Murray Hill to an undisclosed location to identify SPYDER leadership, Ben Ripley and Erica Hale face rogue agents, trained killers, and crocodiles in a race against the clock to find out what SPYDER is up to this time and stop them.
4) Promise me
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix drama The Stranger reveals the deadly consequences that can be born of the best intentions in this Myron Bolitar thriller. As the school year winds down, Myron Bolitar is determined to help keep his friends’ children safe from the dangers of drinking and driving. So he makes two neighborhood girls promise him that if they are ever in a bind but are afraid to call their parents, they must call...
5) Howards End
Author
Language
English
Description
When impetuous Helen Schlegel believes herself to be in love with Paul, the youngest of the Wilcox sons, she sparks off a connection between the two families that leads to collision.
A chance acquaintance brings together the prosperous bourgeois Wilcox family and the clever, cultured, and idealistic Schlegel sisters. As clear-eyed Margaret develops a friendship with Mrs. Wilcox, the impetuous Helen brings into their midst a young bank clerk named...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Life was hard for children during the Great Depression: kids had to do without new clothes, shoes, or toys, and many couldn't attend school because they had to work. Even so, life still had its bright spots. Take a closer look at the lives of young Americans during this era.
Author
Series
Agent Alfie volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins Children's Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Follows the misadventures of an ordinary boy, Alfie at an extraordinary school for young spies.
9) Ender's game
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
Winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards. In order to develop a secure defense against a hostile alien race's next attack, government agencies breed child geniuses and train them as soldiers. A brilliant young boy, Andrew "Ender" Wiggin lives with his kind but distant parents, his sadistic brother Peter, and the person he loves more than anyone else, his sister Valentine. Peter and Valentine were candidates for the soldier-training program but didn't...
12) Let's play!
Series
Publisher
KaBOOM! Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Join Franklin, Farzzle, Elliot Moose, George Shrinks, and Timothy in the ultimate preschool collection. Includes nine episodes.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
In rural Indiana in 1904, fifteen-year-old Russell's dreams of quitting school and joining a wheat threshing crew are disrupted when his older sister takes over the teaching at his one-room schoolhouse after mean old Myrt Arbuckle "hauls off and dies."
15) The wild year
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this book, Joshua's diary comes to an end with stories of life in Oregon, his sister lost in the woods, and Joshua starting school.
16) War dance
Publisher
Thinkfilm, LLC
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
A depiction of the transformative and uplifting potential of music and dance in the lives of children. Dominic, Rose, and Nancy are three children of the Acholi tribe, living in the war zone displacement camp in Patongo, Uganda. As war refugees, their families have been decimated, their homes lost, and they have been burdened with vivid memories of violence. However, the children are at least able to attend a camp school that offers them inspiration,...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Join Madeline, Miss Clavel, Pepito, eleven school friends, and her ever-so-smart dog, Genevieve, in a thrilling Paris adventure that kids won't want to miss, where everyone learns the true meaning of family! Includes five new Madeline songs.
19) Twenty and ten
Author
Publisher
Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1980
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Twenty school children hide ten Jewish children from the Nazis during the occupation of France during World War II.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"Satisfying, gratifying, touching, weightythis authentic piece of work has got soul."The New York Times Book ReviewAs twelve-year-old Marlee starts middle school in 1958 Little Rock, it feels like her whole world is falling apart. Until she meets Liz, the new girl at school. Liz is everything Marlee wishes she could be: she's brave, brash and always knows the right thing to say. But when Liz leaves school without even a good-bye, the rumor is that...
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