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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Readers will agree: fruits are some of the most popular and tastiest plant parts. Many people enjoy eating fruit, but they may not know how fruits function as plant parts before they make their way to our kitchens.
2) The lie tree
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree only grows healthy and bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, will deliver a hidden truth to the person who consumes it. The bigger the lie, the more people who believe it, the bigger the truth that is uncovered. The girl realizes that she is good at lying...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Silence. That was the response at Cafe Society the first time Billie Holiday performed a song called "Strange Fruit." In the 1930s, Billie was known as a performer of jazz and blues music, but her song wasn't either of those things. It was a song about injustice, and it would change her life forever. Discover how two outsiders -- Billie Holiday, a young black woman raised in poverty, and Abel Meeropol, the son of Jewish immigrants -- combined their...
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