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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Leo loves being a newsboy in San Francisco -- not only does he get to make some money to help his family, he's free to explore the amazing, hilly city as it changes and grows with the new century. Horse-drawn carriages share the streets with shiny new automobiles, new businesses and families move in every day from everywhere, and anything seems possible. But early one spring morning, everything changes. Leo's world is shaken -- literally...
23) Learning lace tying: the dance of the coloured shoe lace : lace tying made easy with EZI-LACE-UPS
Author
Publisher
Xlibris LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A fun children's rhyming story which takes kids and their parents/ care-givers step by step through the lace tying process, demonstrating use of the EZI-LACE-UPS-- unique tri-coloured shoelaces using colours to make shoelace tying fun, interesting, and easy..."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
By flipping selected pages, the reader may view animated illustrations that follow Ricky Ricotta, a small mouse, his giant flying robot, and his annoying cousin Lucy, as they battle the nightcrawlers from Neptune that are invading through a wormhole.
25) Half a chance
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Lucy, with her mother and her photographer father, has just moved to a small rural community in New Hampshire, and with her new friend Nate, she plans to spend the summer taking photos for a contest, but pictures sometimes reveal more than people are willing to see.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A little girl has a wonderful idea. With the help of her canine assistant, she is going to make the most magnificent thing! She knows just how it will look. She knows just how it will work. But making the most magnificent thing turns out to be harder than she thinks.
27) Winnie-the-Pooh
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Edward Bear acquires a new name and with it a new life of many good times and adventures.
Author
Series
Front desk volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Recent immigrants from China and desperate for work and money, ten-year-old Mia Tang's parents take a job managing a rundown motel in Southern California, even though the owner, Mr. Yao is a nasty skinflint who exploits them; while her mother (who was an engineer in China) does the cleaning, Mia works the front desk and tries to cope with demanding customers and other recent immigrants--not to mention being only one of two Chinese in her fifth grade...
29) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
Author
Publisher
Christian Faith Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
38 p.
Language
English
Description
Awesome Possum-bilities is the thought-provoking story of a possum trying to be everything he isn't. It is only when this little possum understands his true purpose that he finds contentment and shines brightest for his Creator. This children's story compels us all to be true to ourselves.
31) City of ghosts
Author
Series
Cassidy Blake volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
285 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ever since her near-fatal drowning, Cassidy has been able to pull back the "Veil" that separates the living from the dead and see ghosts, not that she wants to, and she was really looking forward to a ghost-free summer at the beach; however her parents are going to start filming a TV series about the world's most haunted places, starting with Edinburgh with its graveyards, castles, and restless phantoms--and Cass and her personal ghost companion,...
32) Flunked
Author
Series
Fairy Tale Reform School volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Gilly wouldn't call herself wicked, exactly ... but when you have five siblings and live in a run-down boot, you have to get creative to make ends meet. Gilly's a pretty good thief-until she gets caught and sentenced to three months at Fairy Tale Reform School. There Gilly has to deal with teachers who are former villains like the Big Bad Wolf, the Evil Queen, and Cinderella's Wicked Stepmother.Harsh. But when she meets fellow students Jax and Kayla...
33) The capture
Author
Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Soren, a barn owl, arrives at St. Aggie's, a school for orphaned owls, he suspects trouble and with his new friend, a clever elf owl named Gylfie, embarks on a perilous journey to save all owls from the danger at St. Aggie's.
34) The tiger rising
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Rob, who passes the time in his rural Florida community by wood carving, is drawn by his spunky but angry friend Sistine into a plan to free a caged tiger.
36) Exclamation mark
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A punctuation mark feels bad that he does not fit in with the others until a friend reveals the possibilities that exist when differences are accepted.
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
39) The Ickabog
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
As the legend of the fearsome Ickabog spreads terror in the peaceful kingdom of Cornucopia, best friends Bert and Daisy set out to discover the truth and bring happiness back to the kingdom.
Author
Series
The One and Only Ivan volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bob sets out on a dangerous journey in search of his long-lost sister with the help of his two best friends, Ivan and Ruby. As a hurricane approaches and time is running out, Bob finds courage he never knew he had and learns the true meaning of friendship and family.
