Laurie Klein
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Colo el puma y su amigo Ruff el gato montés saltan y juegan juntos, pero descubren que Ruff no puede saltar tan lejos como Colo. Ruff no tiene una cola larga y elegante como la de Colo, para darle balance en los saltos más largos. La cola de Ruff es mucho más corta. Está seguro de que algo no está bien con él. La comprensiva Colo sugiere que busquen una cola que le guste más a Ruff y salen a buscarla. Los dos felinos exploran una variedad de...
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Rebecca Fletcher grew up on the genteel plantation of Live Oaks, her father's family home on the James River in Virginia. After her father was killed in Vietnam, her grandmother, Minnie, assumed the role of both mother and father to Rebecca. Rebecca's mother, Nina, was never talked about. But after Minnie's death, Rebecca's Uncle William decided to subdivide Live Oaks. Now, to save Live Oaks, Rebecca must find Nina alive. The search pulls Rebecca...
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Danielle Alexander's life has suddenly turned upside down. On a wagon train to California to join her fiancé, her father falls terminally ill. Add to that a motherless newborn half-breed baby boy dropped literally into her arms by a wise, ancient Indian chief, who wants her to be the baby's mother "just until" her fiancé comes to rescue her. Throw in, for good measure, a heady attraction to a handsome stranger named Joel Riley now making his fortune...
46) Up From Thunder
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For 16-year-old Hattie Rood, Mr. Lincoln's War has brought nothing but death and hardship. She has lost one brother to a Yankee sharpshooter, another is away fighting with the Confederate army, and her aging father is barely able to keep the family tobacco farm going. One hot August night in 1864, Hattie's life takes another dramatic turn when rebel bushwhackers bring a wounded Jesse James to the Rood farmhouse, to recover or die. During the next...
47) The Likes Of Me
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Cordelia Lu Hankins is the half Caucasian, half Chinese – and all albino. She has grown up in a remote lumber town with her distant father and a giant stepmother nicknamed Babe, convinced she is ugly. Then, in the summer of 1918, when she is fourteen, she falls in love with the dashing Squirl.
48) Honor Bright
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While much of the world is at war, 14-year-old Teddy wages her own war against herself, her brother, and her perfect, and perfectly despised, mother. Forced to spend the summer at the beach with a grandmother she'd never met, Teddy faces her enemies with arrogance and anger.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Colo the cougar and her friend Ruff jump and play together, but they find that Ruff can't jump nearly as far as Colo. Ruff doesn't have a long, swishy tail like Colo does, to provide balance on long leaps. Ruff is a bobcat and his tail is much shorter. He is sure that something is wrong with him. The sympathetic Colo suggests that they go find a tail that Ruff would like better, so off they go. As the two kittens explore the variety of tails worn...
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Rebecca, the red-tailed hawk, is not afraid of ghosts! One night, she bravely ventures into the barn to meet the famous ghost of Donley Farm. But when she finally meets him, Rebecca is surprised to discover that this "ghost" is much more familiar than she'd expected. Join Rebecca as she stays up late to talk with her new friend and find out what they have in common and how they are different. This fictional story includes a 4-page For Creative Minds...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Below-freezing temperatures, scorching heat, and
storms bigger than planet Earth are just some of the
wild weather you will encounter on your trip through
the solar system! Get your fun facts along with your
forecast for each major planet, as well as a moon
(Titan) and a dwarf planet (Pluto). Get ready for some
out of this world fun with Solar System Forecast!
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Tiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came to love Tiana. As the Cherokee would say, she walked in his soul. But Sam was a white man, and Tiana, a Cherokee. And the dreams each had for their land and their people were far apart...
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Tiana was a Cherokee woman. She grew up learning the magic, spells, and nature religion of her people. Before Sam Houston became the father of Texas, he was a young man who had run away from his home in Tennessee to live among the Cherokee. He came to love Tiana. As the Cherokee would say, she walked in his soul. But Sam was a white man, and Tiana, a Cherokee. And the dreams each had for their land and their people were far apart...
56) Ride The Wind
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In 1836, when she was nine years old, Cynthia Ann Parker was kidnapped by Comanche Indians. This is the story of how she grew up with them, mastered their ways, married one of their leaders, and became, in every way, a Comanche woman.