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Ping (Demi) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Ping admits that he is the only child in China unable to grow a flower from the seeds distributed by the Emperor, he is rewarded for his honesty.
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Series
Pandava volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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Description
"Twelve-year-old Aru Shah has a tendency to stretch the truth in order to fit in at school. While her classmates are jetting off to family vacations in exotic locales, she'll be spending her autumn break at home, in the Museum of Ancient Indian Art and Culture, waiting for her mom to return from her latest archeological trip. Is it any wonder that Aru makes up stories about being royalty, traveling to Paris, and having a chauffeur? One day, three...
6) Verify
Author
Series
Verify volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Chicago teen Meri Beckley's pride of living in a land of peace, prosperity, and truth crumbles when questions following her mother's death reveal buried facts, especially that words can have great power.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Daniel has only two friends, is unusually tall, is picked on by teachers, and does not look like anyone else in his family, so when he learns his mom saved a newspaper clipping about a meteor that landed nearby on his birthday, he embraces his pretend alien heritage and launches a mission with his two friends to return to his home planet.
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Series
Magic shop books (Bruce Coville) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Charlie, a sixth-grader with a compulsion to tell lies, acquires a mysterious skull that forces its owner to tell only the truth, causing some awkward moments before he understands its power.
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Junie B. Jones series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Junie B. Jones experiences glee while showing off her new furry mittens in kindergarten, but disaster strikes when they disappear from the playground.
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"Eleven-year-old Nico Krispis never told a lie. When the Nazi’s invade his home in Salonika, Greece, the trustworthy boy is discovered by a German officer, who offers him a chance to save his family. All Nico has to do is convince his fellow Jewish residents to board trains heading to 'new homes' where they are promised jobs and safety. Unaware that this is all a cruel ruse, the innocent boy goes to the station platform every day and reassures the...
13) Cursed
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Series
Gilded duology volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Description
"When the true intentions of the Erlking are revealed, which could forever alter the mortal realm, Serilda and Gild must foil the Erlking's evil agenda by solving the mystery of Gild's forgotten name in order to protect their unborn child"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is a variation on a familiar folktale. In this version a pair of tricksters make a suit of invisable cloth for the principal telling him that only people who are good at their jobs and intelligent can see the new suit, He ends up wearing it to school and a kindergarten girl tells everyone he is not wearing any clothes.
15) Spider's web
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Osborne completes his homage to Christie with this third and final adaptation of an original Christie play, following Black Coffee (1998) and The Unexpected Guest (1999). Though the play was written in 1954, the story suffers little from the passage of time, and aside from the static setting, reads well as a novel. Christie's exquisite timing and clever sleight-of-mind tricks are a delight, while Osborne has the good sense not to embroider the tale....
16) Pinocchio
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
The adventures of the puppet boy created by an old Italian woodcarver from a piece of wood that talked. Includes vocabulary notes in the margin, a brief biography of the author, and instructions for making a hand puppet.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this humorous retelling of the classic fable, Whisper the wolf explains that the shepherd boy was not lying about there being a wolf among the sheep, he just misunderstood the situation, because Whisper was just visiting the sheep who were his friends.