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Accelerated Reader
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.
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Soon after the American Civil War, Confederate soldier John Carter joins the gold rush in Arizona. After striking a vein of gold, Carter runs into trouble with the natives of the area. In attempts to evade their pursuit, Carter hides in a cave, unaware of its magical properties. Mysteriously, Carter is transported to Mars, which the planet inhabitants call "Barsoom". When Carter discovers that the gravity difference between Mars and Earth has granted...
4) Ashes
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Ashes trilogy (Ilsa J. Bick) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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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...
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
6) Guinea dog
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Guinea dog volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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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.
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William Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night," is a classic comedy of mistaken identities, a device employed in a number of the bard's plays, which is believed to have been written sometime between 1601 and 1602. When Viola is shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria she is separated from her twin brother Sebastian, who she mistakenly believes to be dead. With the help of the ship captain who rescues her, she enters into the service of Duke Orsino, who has fallen...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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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.
9) Shadows
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Ashes trilogy (Ilsa J. Bick) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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The post-EMP world only gets worse as the Changed grow in number and the Spared may not survive. Facing multiple adversaries, Alex continues to fight for her life.
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Hamlet is commonly, regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. Drawing on Danish chronicles and the Elizabethan vogue for revenge tragedy, Shakespeare created a play that is at once a philosophic treatise, a family drama, and a supernatural thriller. In the wake of his father's death, Prince Hamlet finds that his Uncle Claudius has swiftly taken the throne and married his mother, Queen Gertrude. The ghost of the dead king then, appears and...
11) Think big!
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Accelerated Reader
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.
12) Monsters
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Ashes trilogy (Ilsa J. Bick) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 30
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English
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In the final installment of The Ashes Trilogy, Alex must face the evolving Changed, whether she's ready or not.
13) Dino-soccer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Plant-eating dinosaurs face meat-eating dinosaurs in a soccer match.
14) One good deed
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Accelerated Reader
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.
16) 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...
17) Sit still!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Patrick has difficulty sitting still until his mother comes up with a plan to help him.
18) The Lost World
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Originally published serially in 1912, "The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of discovery and adventure. The story begins with the narrator, the curious and intrepid reporter Edward Malone, meeting Professor Challenger, a strange and brilliant paleontologist who insists that he has found dinosaurs still alive deep in the Amazon. Malone agrees to accompany Challenger, as well as Challenger's unconvinced colleague Professor Summerlee,...
19) Kidnapped Novel
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Kidnapped was published in 1886 amid one of the most productive periods of Robert Louis Stevenson's career. Although it was immediately met with popular success and critical acclaim, the novel was derided for decades as a story for children before being recognized as a major work of English literature.
Set in the aftermath of the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and full of a rich blend of English and Scots, Kidnapped is a powerful work with strong Scottish...
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