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1) Black Beauty
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English
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
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English
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Through the Looking-Glass is a novel by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), and is the sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Set some six months later than the earlier book, Alice again enters a fantastical world, this time by climbing through a mirror into the world that she can see beyond it. Through the Looking-Glass includes such celebrated verses as "Jabberwocky" and "The Walrus and the Carpenter", and the episode involving Tweedledum...
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English
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First published in 1865, Mary Mapes Dodge's "Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates" is an endearing children's story about a hard-working, honorable Dutch boy and the challenges he faces as a result of his family's poverty. Hans dreams of entering a big ice-skating race with his sister Gretel so that he may win the beautiful silver skates he desires. Yet, he is also very concerned for his father, who has been injured from a fall off of a dike and in...
4) The BFG
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
6) Eragon
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Series
Inheritance volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Don’t miss the eagerly anticipated epic new fantasy from Christopher Paolini—Murtagh!
A new adventure hatches in Book One of the Inheritance Cycle, perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings! This New York Times bestselling series has sold over 40 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation.
"Christopher Paolini is a true rarity." —The Washington Post
When fifteen-year-old...
A new adventure hatches in Book One of the Inheritance Cycle, perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings! This New York Times bestselling series has sold over 40 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation.
"Christopher Paolini is a true rarity." —The Washington Post
When fifteen-year-old...
9) Eldest
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 36
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English
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After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, fifteen-year-old Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
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Goosebumps volume 19
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English
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Get Goosebumps with the startling repackage of a best selling classic. Now with bonus materials!
Two pink flamingos. A whole family of plaster skunks. Joe Burton's dad loves those tacky lawn ornaments. But then he brings home two ugly lawn gnomes. And that's when the trouble starts.Late at night, When everyone's asleep. Someone's creeping in the garden. Whispering nasty things. Smashing melons. Squashing tomatoes. No way two dumb old lawn ornaments...
12) Library of souls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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When a madman is on the loose and Miss Peregrine in peril, Peculiar Children Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom stage rescue missions, meet new allies, and face great dangers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne published in 1870. The novel was originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's periodical, the Magasin d'Éducation et de Récréation. The deluxe illustrated edition, published by Hetzel in November 1871, included 111 illustrations by Alphonse de Neuville and Édouard Riou. The book was highly acclaimed, when released and...
15) The Last Straw
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The highly anticipated third book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series takes the art of being wimpy to a whole new level. Let's face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg's father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and other "manly" endeavors. Of course, Greg is able to easily sidestep his father's efforts...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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After passing a series of mind-bending tests, four children are selected for a secret mission that requires them to go undercover at the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened, where the only rule is that there are no rules.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (the Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (the Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.
18) Stuart Little
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The adventures of the debonair mouse Stuart Little as he sets out in the world to seek out his dearest friend, a little bird who stayed a few days in his family's garden.
19) The death cure
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Series
Maze runner volume 3
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING MAZE RUNNER SERIES • “[A] mysterious survival saga that passionate fans describe as a fusion of Lord of the Flies [and] The Hunger Games” (Entertainment Weekly)
WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test.
What...
WICKED has taken everything from Thomas: his life, his memories, and now his only friends—the Gladers. But it’s finally over. The trials are complete, after one final test.
What...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The charming story of Blueberries for Sal has won audiences' hearts for generations.
Kuplink, kuplank, kuplunk! Sal and her mother a picking blueberries to can for the winter. But when Sal wanders to the other side of Blueberry Hill, she discovers a mama bear preparing for her own long winter. Meanwhile Sal's mother is being followed by a small bear with a big appetite for berries! Will each mother go home with the right little one?