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The Man in the Iron Mask is the name given to an unidentified prisoner who was arrested in 1669 or 1670 and subsequently held in a number of French prisons, including the Bastille and the Fortress of Pignerol (modern Pinerolo, Italy). Recent research suggests that his name might have been "Eustache Dauger", but this still has not been completely proven. He was held in the custody of the same jailer, Bénigne Dauvergne de Saint-Mars, for a period of...
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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After the sight of a night sky filled with stars makes eight-year-old Uma feel very small, she asks people how they think about infinity and gets a variety of answers before realizing the comfort in knowing that some things go on forever.
4) Ashes
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Ashes trilogy (Ilsa J. Bick) volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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An electromagnetic pulse flashes across the sky, destroying every electronic device, wiping out every computerized system, and killing billions. When it happens, Alex was hiking in the woods to say good-bye to her dead parents and her personal demons. Now desperate to find out what happened after the pulse crushes her to the ground, Alex meets up with Tom—a young soldier—and Ellie, a girl whose grandfather was killed by the EMP. For this improvised...
5) Just Ash
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Ashley "Ash" Bishop has always known that he's intersex, born with both male and female genitalia. It's never been a big deal-- until his junior year of high school, when Ash gets his first period in front of the entire boys' soccer team. Now his friends and teachers see him differently, and tensions mount with his parents. Ash can't help feeling a deeper kinship with his ancestor Bridget Bishop, who was executed for witchcraft. She didn't conform...
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The Island of Doctor Moreau is a classic work of early science fiction and one of H. G. Wells' most visionary novels. It recounts the harrowing ordeal of Edward Prendick, an Englishman who survives a shipwreck in the southern Pacific Ocean. Rescued by a man named Montgomery, Prendick finds himself on an island belonging to Dr. Moreau, formerly an eminent physiologist in London who was expelled from his homeland for his cruel vivisection experiments.
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7) Guinea dog
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Guinea dog volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
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When his mother brings home a guinea pig instead of the dog he has always wanted, fifth-grader Rufus is not happy--until the rodent starts acting exactly like a dog.
8) We belong
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Explore and celebrate who you are and who others are too! Rhyming verse invites others to notice the diversity of our world and affirm that we all belong, just as we are.
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Wolf in underpants volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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After living in fear of the wolf with crazy eyes and fangs like ice picks, a forest community is stunned when he shows up looking calm and wearing striped underpants, leaving them wondering why they were so afraid of him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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After her best friend moves away, Dani is trying her best to stay happy, but when some of the girls in Dani's class start bullying her, she becomes despondent, and her father steps in to help Dani sort out her feelings.
12) Dino-racing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Illustrations and rhyming text follow dinosaurs as they race against each other in dragsters, then off-road vehicles, and finally stock cars.
13) Think big!
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IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Vinney is frustrated about being one of the smallest children at school, but when he takes his mother's advice and thinks big for a day, he discovers that there are advantages to being small.
16) Dino-soccer
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IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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Plant-eating dinosaurs face meat-eating dinosaurs in a soccer match.
17) One good deed
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IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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A young boy transforms his neighborhood by performing one good deed for his neighbor, which leads to a chain of kind and helpful actions.
18) Dino-Easter
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IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Dinos have fun as they prepare for their Easter celebration.
20) Riot
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As the Civil War rages, another battle breaks out behind the lines. During a long hot July in 1863, the worst race riots the United States has ever seen erupt in New York City. Earlier that year, desperate for more Union soldiers, President Abraham Lincoln instituted a draft—a draft that would allow the wealthy to escape serving in the army by paying a $300 waiver, more than a year's income for the recent immigrant Irish. And on July 11, as the...
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