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2) Onion John
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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His friendship with the town odd-jobs man, Onion John, causes a conflict between Andy and his father.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century. At age 11, Caddie Woodlawn is the despair of her mother and the pride of her father: a clock-fixing tomboy running wild in the woods of Wisconsin. In 1864, this is a bit much for her Boston-bred mother to bear, but Caddie and her brothers are happy with the status quo. Written in 1935 about Carol Ryrie Brink's grandmother's childhood, the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
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Julie of the wolves trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 6
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13-year-old Julie Miyax Kapugen, an Eskimo girl, is caught between the old ways and new.
Miyax rebels and runs away, but soon finds herself lost in the Alaskan wilderness.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Four students, each with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
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Hitty is a doll of great charm and real character. It is indeed a privilege to be able to publish her memoirs which, besides being full of the most thrilling, adventures on land and sea, also reveal a personality which is delightful and forceful. One glance at her portrait will show that she is no ordinary doll. Hitty, of Mehitable, as she was really named, was carved from a piece of white ash by a peddler who was spending the winter in Maine. Phoebe...
10) Shiloh
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Shiloh quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
12) Up a road slowly
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
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After her mother's death, Julie goes to live with Aunt Cordelia, a spinster schoolteacher, where she experiences many emotions and changes as she grows from seven to eighteen.
13) Thimble summer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
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The story of a Wisconsin farm that sings with the happiness and contentment of a small girl whose roots are sinking deep into the soil of a loved place.
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Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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One and only Ivan stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Ivan is an easygoing gorilla. Living at the Exit 8 Big Top Mall and Video Arcade, he has grown accustomed to humans watching him through the glass walls of his domain. He rarely misses his life in the jungle. In fact, he hardly ever thinks about it at all. Instead, Ivan thinks about TV shows he's seen and about his friends Stella, an elderly elephant, and Bob, a stray dog. But mostly Ivan thinks about art and how to capture the taste of a mango or...
16) To be a slave
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
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A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
17) Ginger Pye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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"Meet the marvelous Pyes: There is Mrs. Pye, the youngest mother in town; Mr. Pye, a famous bird man, who handles all the nation's important bird problems; Rachel Pye, who is so reasonable she can make unreasonable ideas sound like good ones; Jerry Pye, who knows about rocks of all sorts and plans to grow up to be a rock man; and Uncle Bennie, who is only three years old. Last is Ginger Pye, the "intellectual dog." The most famous pup in all of Cranbury,...
18) Rabbit hill
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 3
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New folks are coming to live in the Big House. The animals of Rabbbit Hill wonder if they will plant a garden and thus be good providers.
20) Dear Mr. Henshaw
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world.
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