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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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This memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people-and the times-that touched her life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Bryon and Mark have been inseparable best friends from childhood, but now, at sixteen, they both sense they are growing apart. When Byron discovers that Mark is pushing dope to young kids, he must fce a decision that might destry their longtime friendship.
3) Cowboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Text and photographs trace the history and lore of cowboys around the globe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff,...
5) Mythology
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
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A collection of Greek and Roman myths from various classical sources arranged in section on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, heroes before and during the Trojan War, and lesser myths. Includes a brief section on Norse mythology.
10) Criss cross
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Newbery medal book volume 2006
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
11) Tex
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wriggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, and stole women's undergarments. Obedience school did no good--Marley...
14) The rifle
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
A priceless, handcrafted rifle, fired throughout the American Revolution, is passed down through the years until it fires on a fateful Christmas Eve of 1994.
15) Ancient Rome
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 2
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"Step into the world of ancient Rome and meet its emperors, gods, soldiers, and gladiators. Who were Rome's most famous emperors? What was everyday life like for a soldier in the Roman army? How did the citizens of ancient Rome live? Did gladiators really fight to the death in the mighty Colosseum? Find out the answers to all these questions, and many more, in Eyewitness Ancient Rome. Photographs of real artefacts and detailed illustrations will help...
16) Revolver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold from when the two men knew each other during...
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Pub. Date
[2024]
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"The Norse, also frequently called the Vikings, were the hardy, often warlike inhabitants of Scandinavia, Denmark, and some nearby European regions during the mid-to-late medieval era. The first of those two crucial aspects of Norse people's beliefs was the way they envisioned their world. On the one hand, it was thought that the events of people's lives were directed or influenced by either an invisible force-fate-or the will of various gods"--
19) Germany
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 3
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"Provides comprehensive information on the geography, history, wildlife, governmental structure, economy, cultural diversity, peoples, religion, and culture of Germany"--Provided by publisher.