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Harry Potter (Original series) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 29
Description
"The war against Voldemort is not going well: even Muggle governments are noticing. Ron scans the obituary pages of The Daily Prophet looking for familiar names. Dumbledore is absent from Hogwarts for long stretches of time, and the Order of the Phoenix has already suffered losses. And yet... As in all wars, life goes on. Sixth-year students learn to Apparate, and lose a few eyebrows in the process. The Weasley twins expand their business. Teenagers...
64) Blues journey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The African experience in America is brought to life in a poem that uses a call and response singing form common to the blues.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Kate has always adored her grandpa's storytelling - but lately he's been repeating the same stories again and again. One day he even forgets Kate's name. Her mother's patient explanations open Kate's eyes to what so many of the elderly must confront: Alzheimer's disease and other forms of memory loss. With special insight derived from her own father's struggle with Alzheimer's, Maria Shriver offers a touching and optimistic story that encourages awareness,...
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 1
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After the death of the uncle who had been his guardian, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider is coerced to continue his uncle's dangerous work for Britain's intelligence agency, MI6.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Details surrounding the four successful and seven unsuccessful assassination attempts on the lives of American presidents. Four chapters focus on the deaths of Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy. The fifth chapter, includes brief sketches of botched or foiled assassination attempts against Andrew Jackson, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Gerald Ford, and Ronald Reagan. Ages 10-up.
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Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
This book describes John Lennon's life from the night he was born in 1940 during a World War II air raid in Liverpool to the years after the Beatles when he struggled to make sense of his own artistic life--one that had turned from youthful angst to suffocating fame in almost a split second.
72) Polar bear night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After wandering out at night to watch a magical star shower, a polar bear cub returns home to snuggle with her mother in their warm den.
73) Skeleton Man
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Series
Skeleton Man (Joseph Bruchac) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
After her parents disappear and she is turned over to the care of a strange "great-uncle," Molly must rely on her dreams about an old Mohawk story for her safety and maybe even for her life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Up until the 1970s, if you were a girl, you were told you shouldn't play team sports, or go to college. But, in 1972, Title IX changed that, by ensuring that girls have the same opportunities as boys to participate in sports and classes. But that change did not come without a fight.
76) Mice and beans
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Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this rhythmic cumulative tale Rosa Maria spends the week getting ready for her granddaughter's birthday party and trying to avoid attracting mice--unaware that the mice in her walls are preparing for a party of their own.
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Series
Antsy Bonano volume 1
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A Brooklyn eighth-grader nicknamed Antsy befriends the Schwa, an "invisible-ish" boy who is tired of blending into his surroundings and going unnoticed by nearly everyone.
79) I face the wind
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Series
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Introduces the characteristics and actions of the wind through simple hands-on activities.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Salem, Massachusetts, 1692. In a plain meetinghouse a woman stands before her judges. The accusers, girls and young women, are fervent and overexcited. The accused is a poor, unpopular woman who had her first child before she was married. As the trial proceeds, the girls begin to wail, tear their clothing, and scream that the woman is hurting them. Are they acting or are they really tormented by an unseen evil? Whatever the cause, the nightmare has...