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Norvelt books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A remarkably handsome youth, Dorian Gray, meets Lord Henry Wotton and is corrupted into a life of terrible evil. Granted eternal youth, Dorian Gray lives a wild, dissipated life while his portrait grows old and haggard. Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations,...
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Books of Ember volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
5) Blubber
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
6) Pollyanna
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
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Description
Unwanted and unloved, Pollyanna Whittier comes to her aunt's home without a warm welcome. Pollyanna's irrepressible spirits make punishments seem like treats and her cheerfulness brings happiness to her aunt and other members of the community.
7) Flipped
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
8) Superfudge
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
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Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother, Fudge.
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English
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"From singer, model and YouTube celebrity Natasha Bure, the daughter of Candace Cameron Bure, comes a real, honest conversational book that doesn't hold back. Everywhere she goes and every video she posts has one basic message: this is real, this is life, and we all go through it. Whether it's acne, boyfriends, faith, stress, or having fun, Natasha's view is to simply be honest, simply be real, no matter what you face. Natasha's real and relatable...
13) How do you live?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
Originally published in Japanese: Tokyo : Shinchosha, 1937.
Told in two voices, fifteen-year-old Copper struggles to confront inevitable and enormous change after his father's death and his uncle writes to him in a journal, sharing knowledge and advice in 1937 Japan.
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Little Wolf Adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
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Description
Little Wolf has been behaving too courteously, so his parents send him to his uncle's Big Bad Wolf school to learn to be a proper wolf.
15) I am respectful
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
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Description
Explains what respect is, describes different ways it can be expressed, and discusses why it should be practiced.
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Series
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Pleasant Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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In 1764, Kaya greatly admires a courageous and kind young woman in her Nez Perce village and wants to be worthy of her respect. Includes historical notes on the winter activities of the Nez Perce Indians, including ceremonies and crafts.
20) Ungifted
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
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