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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13
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"If you don't have the time to read, you don't have the time or the tools to write." In 1999, Stephen King began to write about his craft -- and his life. By midyear, a widely reported accident jeopardized the survival of both. And in his months of recovery, the link between writing and living became more crucial than ever. Rarely has a book on writing been so clear, so useful, and so revealing. On Writing begins with a mesmerizing account of King's...
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Last dragon chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
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When college student David Rain rents a room in an unusual boardinghouse full of clay dragons, he has no idea that they, along with some lively squirrels, will help jumpstart his writing career.
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Library mouse books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Sam, a shy but creative mouse who lives in a library, decides to write and illustrate his own stories which he places on the shelves with the other library books but when children find the tales, they all want to meet the author.
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Library mouse books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Sam, the shy mouse that lives in the library and likes to write books, collaborates with a boy in the library's Authors and Illustrators Club.
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2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"The life of a book isn't easy, especially when people judge you by your cover (not every book can be adorned with sparkly unicorns!). And this narrator should know--it's the book itself, and it has a lot of opinions. It gets irritated when readers bend its pages back, and it finds authors quite annoying. But it does have a story to tell. Through witty direct address and charming illustrations, readers meet a book that has never been read, with a...
6) Fire star
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Last dragon chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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While on a research trip to the Arctic, Chris begins writing a story about bears, dragons and a mysterious fire star, only to realize that his tale is coming alive and is populated by an old adversary out to destroy his world forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
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After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloé, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic...
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Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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"In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous."
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Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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In his new book, Howie the wire-haired dachshund writes all about how the Mind Swappers from Asteroid 6 invade Earth and how he and his friend Delilah save the day.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 30
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A science fiction story told by two unnamed lovers who meet in a dingy backstreet room. Set in a multi-layered story of the death of a woman's sister and husband in the 1940's, with a novel-within-a novel as a background.
14) Inkheart
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Inkheart trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
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Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Cooperatively writing a fairy tale for school, a girl imagines a beautiful princess whose beloved ponies are being stolen by a giant, and a boy conjures up the muscular biker who will guard the last pony in exchange for gold.
16) Icefire
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Last dragon chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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While researching the existence of dragons for an essay that could win him a trip to the Arctic, Chris opens himself to the possibility that a great, ancient treasure exists there, guarded by bears, and that he has some role in its protection.
17) The story keeper
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Carolina heirlooms novels volume 2
A Carolina Heirlooms Novel
The Prayer Box volume Bk 2
Carolina Chronicles volume 2
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A Carolina Heirlooms Novel
The Prayer Box volume Bk 2
Carolina Chronicles volume 2
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When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the twentieth century, will both take her on a journey and change her forever. Happy with her life in the city, and at the top of her career with a new job at Vida House Publishing, Jen has left her Appalachian past and twisted family ties far behind....
18) A Perfect Day
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Laid off from his sales rep job, Robert Paul decides to pursue his dream of becoming a writer and unexpectedly pens a best seller, but when his new world compromises his marriage, he receives unexpected guidance from a stranger
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Tales from the House of Bunnicula volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Under a deadline from his editor, Howie the wire-haired dachshund creates a story featuring a superhero whose ability to stink enables him and his sidekick, a sparrow named Little D, to fight crime in Central City.
20) Inkspell
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
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Now thirteen, Meggie "reads" herself into Inkworld, where she, her family, and the characters in the book face chaos and danger as the original creator of the world frantically tries to redirect the story.