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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
During a summer spent at Rockaway Beach in 1944, Lily's friendship with a young Hungarian refugee causes her to see the war and her own world differently. This year, as in other years, Lily has planned a spectacular summer in Rockaway, in her family's cozy house on stilts over the Atlantic Ocean. But by the summer of 1944, World War II has changed almost everyone's life. Lily's best friend, Margaret, and her family have moved to a wartime factory...
2) Eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When Sam, who is a talented woodworker but can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past. With the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Jilli and Jim solve the mystery of the monster in their garden in the third book in the endearing new chapter book series by two-time Newbery Honor Book author Patricia Reilly Giff.
It is time to plant a vegetable garden! Best friends Jilli and Jim must keep the bugs and slugs away.Then they can march in the Vegetable Parade at the end of the summer. But what is that HUGE monster plantgrowing in the middle of the garden?Will it eat their vegetables?Will...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
An endearing new chapter book series by two-time Newbery Honor author of the bestselling Polk Street series.Jilli and Jim are best of friends. But today, Jim has some news. Something scary is happening next door. Workmen are building something that is big and red. And a woman in a pointy hat is on a ladder painting. Could she be the witch from Hansel and Gretel making a big red gingerbread house?When Jilli's dog Fiercely crawls under the fence and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In 1941, circumstances bring together Brick, a boy from New York's apple country, and Mariel, a young girl made shy by her bout with polio, and the two make a journey from Brooklyn back to help Brick's elderly neighbors save their apple crop and to help Mariel learn about her past.
Author
Series
Ronald Morgan volume 6
Publisher
Viking
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ronald Morgan is afraid he won't get a medal at camp because he's not especially good at swimming or running or singing, but on Medal Day he discovers what he is really good at.
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Richard looks forward to the Candy Corn contest in Ms. Rooney's class, but he can't resist sneaking just a few pieces.
10) Sunny-Side Up
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Summer for Richard Best, nicknamed Beast, means facing the two ordeals of summer school and losing his best friend, who is moving to a distant state.
12) December secrets
Author
Publisher
Dell Publishing Co
Pub. Date
c1984
Language
English
Description
Each student in Ms. Rooney's room celebrates the December holidays by being a secret pal to a classmate.
13) Fish face
Author
Series
Kids of the Polk Street School volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Making friends with the new girl in her class is hard for Emily after she replaces Emily as the fastest runner and steals her lucky unicorn.
Author
Series
Friends and amigos volume 4
Publisher
Gareth Stevens Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
Sarah writes to her pen pal in South America about her attempts to plan a surprise birthday party and her dislike of a new girl at school.
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