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1) Go, dog, go!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A story for beginning readers about busy dogs of all sizes and colors, engaged in all manner of silly activities.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Since thier father died, the five Pepper children and their mother have been living in poverty, with only potatoes and brown bread for supper. Ben chops wood to help support the family, and Polly looks after the little ones while their mother earns what she can by sewing. The Peppers are so poor, they've never even had a Christmas. But from measles to monkeys, through bad times and good, the cozy kitchen in the little brown house rings with laughter...
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Beginner books volume B-17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A large, spotted animal discovers he really belongs in a circus, not a zoo.
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Harriet the spy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
The story about eleven-year-old Harriet, who is a spy, plans to be a writer, and keeps a secret notebook filled with thoughts and notes on her schoolmates and people she observes on her after-school "spy route". However, when her classmates find and read her notebook, their anger and retaliation and Harriet's unexpected responses explode in a hilarious and often touching way.
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English
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Reader's Digest is an American general-interest family magazine, published ten times a year. Formerly based in Chappaqua, New York, it is now headquartered in Midtown Manhattan. The magazine was founded in 1922, by DeWitt Wallace and Lila Bell Wallace. For many years, Reader's Digest was the best-selling consumer magazine in the United States; it lost the distinction in 2009 to Better Homes and Gardens. According...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Mike Mulligan and his steam shovel, Mary Anne, lose their jobs to the gasoline, electric, and diesel motor shovels, they find a new opportunity in a very surprising place. Mike proves that, although dated, his steam shovel is still useful.
13) Lena
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lena and her younger sister Dion mourn the death of their mother as they hitchhike from Ohio to Kentucky while running away from their abusive father.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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This beautifully illustrated children’s book offers a sobering lesson about the horrors of war through the lens of a Japanese zoo during WWII.
At Tokyo’s famous Ueno Zoo, a zookeeper recounts the story of three performing elephants—John, Tonky, and Wanly—who became casualties of the Second World War. As bombs fell nightly on the city, the zoo was in danger of destruction. In the interest of...
At Tokyo’s famous Ueno Zoo, a zookeeper recounts the story of three performing elephants—John, Tonky, and Wanly—who became casualties of the Second World War. As bombs fell nightly on the city, the zoo was in danger of destruction. In the interest of...
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Anastasia Krupnik volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
For ten-year-old Anastasia, life is full of problems like teachers, boys, a grandmother who does not remember her name, and the arrival of a new baby brother.
16) The foxman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Among Mrs. Brice's 25 mice, all but one do everything together. And this mouse's difference comes in handy when the mice meet a cat, and while twelve run this way and twelve run that, this mouse runs this way and that, wearing out the cat and saving them all.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
For Milo, everything's a bore. What a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing: life is far from dull....
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