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Gooney Bird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name. Two-time Newbery Medalist Lois Lowry introduces a new girl in class who loves being the center of attention and tells the most entertaining "absolutely true" stories. There's never been anyone like Gooney Bird Greene at Watertower Elementary School. What...
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Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Anastasia continues the perilous process of growing up as her thirteenth year involves her in conquering the art of rope climbing, playing Cupid for a recently widowered uncle, and surviving a crush on her gym teacher.
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Gooney Bird volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Mrs. Pidgeon has been reading Aesop's fables to her second grade class. What's a fable? Well, it's a story that has animals as characters, and it teaches you something important, and... Once again it is Gooney Bird Greene who knows how to turn lessons into fun. She has an idea. A fabulous idea! What if each child creates his or her own fable, and tells it to the class? One by one Mrs. Pidgeon's students create costumes and stories and morals and excitement....
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Ready for romance, thirteen-year-old Anastasia answers an ad in the personals with an exaggerated description of herself but soon runs into trouble when the unknown man turns up at a friend's wedding.
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Willoughbys volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.
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Gooney Bird volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird Greene returns for more adventures in this chapter-book series from Newbery Medal—winner Lois Lowry, with Middy Thomas's black-and-white illustrations bringing the classroom to life throughout.
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class has a lot to celebrate in February: presidents' birthdays, Valentine's Day, and school vacation. Of course, the students are talking about their awesome vacation plans every chance they get. It can be hard to...
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Sam Krupnik volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.
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Series
Gooney Bird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gooney Bird Greene, an entertaining second grader who introduces challenging vocabulary words and tells "absolutely true" stories, finds a surprise room mother to bring cupcakes for the Thanksgiving pageant.
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Series
Gooney Bird volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.
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Series
Gooney Bird volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"It's March!" Mrs. Pidgeon said as she wrote the day's date on the chalkboard. "In like a lion, out like a lamb!"
The morning bell has rung at Watertower Elementary School, and it's time for Mrs. Pidgeon's class to turn to page 52 in their science books to learn about one of the most spectacular scientific subjects of all-the human body! As usual, Gooney Bird has a special plan to make learning more fun. But what on earth is in that scary-looking...
12) Bless this mouse
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Mouse Mistress Hildegarde musters all her ingenuity to keep a large colony of church mice safe from the exterminator and to see that they make it through the dangerous Blessing of the Animals.
14) Switcharound
Author
Series
Caroline and J. P. Tate volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
c1985
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline, age eleven, and J.P., age thirteen, are given unpleasant responsibilities for which they are determined to get revenge.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 1
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird Greene loves to be the center of attention and entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name. Gooney Bird and her classmates share more adventures centered around Thanksgiving pageants, creating original fables, and writing poetry.
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