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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A famous chef is coming to visit Mr. Hopper's second grade class, and every one is excited about bringing in their family's favorite dish to share except Ollie, who loves to cook but cannot find a dish his whole family likes.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In The World Beyond Your Head, Crawford investigates the challenge of mastering one's own mind. We often complain about our fractured mental lives and feel beset by outside forces that destroy our focus and disrupt our peace of mind. Any defense against this, Crawford argues, requires that we reckon with the way attention sculpts the self. Crawford investigates the intense focus of ice hockey players and short-order chefs, the quasi-autistic behavior...
5) Anthem
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Equality 7-2521 lives in the Dark Ages of the future, where all decisions are made by committee, all people live in collectives, all traces of individualism have been wiped out. But the spark of individual thought and freedom still burns in Equality 7-2521, a passion which he has been taught to call sinful. In a purely egalitarian world, he dares to stand forth from the herd -- to think and choose for himself, to discover electricity, and to love...
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Nancy wants to adopt a special puppy so that she is no longer the only fancy member of her family, but after a day of puppysitting a papillon, she realizes that being fancy is not always the most important thing.
Author
Series
Tacky the penguin books volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1994.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
470L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Tacky the penguin adds his own unique touch to his team's routine at the Penguin Cheering Contest, with surprising results.
11) Elmer and Rose
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Grandpa Eldo asks Elmer and Wilbur to help a young elephant find her way back to her herd, they are surprised to find that she is pink, but even greater surprises are in store for them.
12) The family book
Author
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Represents a variety of families, some big and some small, some with only one parent and some with two moms or dads, some quiet and some noisy, but all alike in some ways and special no matter what.
13) Be you!
Author
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"Discover a joyful reminder of the ways that every child is unique and special, from the beloved creator of The Dot, Happy Dreamer, and New York Times bestseller, The Word Collector. Here, Reynolds reminds readers to "be your own work of art." To be patient, persistent, and true. Because there is one, and only one, YOU."--Amazon.
14) Whoever you are
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 490L
Language
English
Description
Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love.
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
A young girl draws a family portrait, then makes it more accurate by adding common objects to show aspects of each member's personality, such as her father's playfulness, her mother's sweetness, and her brother's strength.
Author
Series
Simply Sarah volume 1
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Physical Desc
76 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Sarah longs to find a way to be someone special, and when her friend's Chinese restaurant needs customers, she finds a special way to save it.
18) Atlas shrugged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 102
Lexile measure
1070L
Language
English
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Description
Peopled by larger-than-life heroes and villains, charged with towering questions of good and evil, Atlas Shrugged is Ayn Rand’s magnum opus: a philosophical revolution told in the form of an action thriller—nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read.
Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why...
Who is John Galt? When he says that he will stop the motor of the world, is he a destroyer or a liberator? Why...
19) Rash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a future society that has decided it would "rather be safe than free," sixteen-year-old Bo's anger control problems land him in a tundra jail where he survives with the help of his running skills and an artificial intelligence program named Bork.
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