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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
1090L
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English
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning,...
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'They lived in a kind of hieroglyphic world, where the real thing was never said or done or even thought, but only represented by a set of arbitrary signs.' Edith Wharton's most famous novel, written immediately after the end of the First World War, is a brilliantly realized anatomy of New York society in the 1870s, the world in which she grew up, and from which she spent her life escaping. Newland Archer, Wharton's protagonist, charming, tactful,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
5) Casey Jones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Tells the exagerated tale of John Luther Jones, nicknamed Casey, an American railroad engineer who sacrificed himself to save everyone on his train from a terrible crash.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
NC 800L
Language
English
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In this honest look at the literal foundation of our country, Dave Eggers and Shawn Harris investigate a seemingly small trait of America's most emblematic statue. What they find is about more than history, more than art. What they find in the Statue of Liberty's right foot is the message of acceptance that is essential to an entire country's creation.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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From the legendary creator of Where the Sidewalk Ends, A Light in the Attic, Falling Up, and The Giving Tree comes an unforgettable new character in children's literature.
Welcome to the world of Runny Babbit and his friends Toe Jurtle, Skertie Gunk, Rirty Dat, Dungry Hog, Snerry Jake, and many others who speak a topsy-turvy language all their own.
So if you say, ""Let's bead a rook
That's billy as can se,""
You're
9) Dreamers
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
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"An illustrated picture book autobiography in which award-winning author Yuyi Morales tells her own immigration story"--
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Madman's Daughter volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Back in London after escaping from her father's island and the secrets she left behind, Juliet Moreau strives to stop a killer while searching for a serum to cure her own worsening illness.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author James Swanson delivers a riveting account of the chase for Abraham Lincoln's assassin.
Based on rare archival material, obscure trial manuscripts, and interviews with relatives of the conspirators and the manhunters, CHASING LINCOLN'S KILLER is a fast-paced thriller about the pursuit and capture of John Wilkes Booth: a wild twelve-day chase through the streets of Washington, D.C., across the swamps of Maryland,...Author
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Looking for a stiff dose of seat-of-your-pants wartime action and adventure? Check out The Spy from American literary master James Fenimore Cooper. This extensively researched tale of the Revolutionary War focuses on the exploits of protagonist Harry Birch, who is passionately devoted to the cause of American independence but nonetheless finds himself falsely accused of treason.
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My dragon books volume 22
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English
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Having a pet dragon is very fun. But what if your dragon is constantly worrying about so many things This book for children, parents and teachers teaches kids the proper way to think, and deal with worry and anxiety!
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Ten years ago, Izzy Stone's mother fatally shot her father while he slept. Devastated by her mother's apparent insanity, Izzy, now seventeen, refuses to visit her in prison. But her new foster parents, employees at the local museum, have enlisted Izzy's help in cataloguing items at a long-shuttered state asylum. There, amid piles of abandoned belongings, Izzy discovers a stack of unopened letters, a decades-old journal, and a window into her own past.
Clara...
17) Pecos Bill
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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This tall tale weaves the story of legendary cowboy Pecos Bill, who was raised by coyotes and had adventures with his beloved horse, Widow-Maker.
20) Freight Train
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English
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Brief text and illustrations trace the journey of a colorful train as it goes through tunnels, by cities, and over trestles. Clear bright illustrations show all the cars of a train bringing the reader the excitement of movement through day and night, country and city.
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