Tavia Gilbert
Author
Language
English
Description
A true story about a mama duck and her five ducklings that had to be rescued from the town storm drain during an early morning walk. How three fireman and a pickup truck rush to their rescue makes for vivid and exciting drama that children will return to over and over again. This delightful new classic has an inspiring environmental message.
Author
Series
Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Piper's older brother leaves Peek-A-Book Island and Piper refuses to take off his old earmuffs, no matter what! Things are going from bad to worse... until she discovers The Fairy Tree"--
6) Pie Girl
Author
Series
Piper Green and the fairy tree volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Piper Green looks forward to serving pie at Peek-A-Boo Island's annual potluck supper, but a food allergy upsets her plan.
9) Camp daze
Author
Series
Garbage Pail Kids volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The ten Garbage Pail Kids leave their town of Smellville to get into mischief at summer camp together.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1030L
Language
English
Description
The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a children's novel written by L. Frank Baum and illustrated by W. W. Denslow. Originally published by the George M. Hill Company in Chicago on May 17, 1899, it has since been reprinted numerous times, most often under the name The Wizard of Oz, which is the name of both the popular 1902 Broadway musical and the well-known 1939 film adaptation.The story chronicles the adventures of a young girl named Dorothy Gale in the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 880L
Language
English
Description
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
12) Last breath
Author
Series
Rayne Tour volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
For sixteen-year-old Shayley, a dying man's last words about her long-lost father are almost worse than the violence and murders occurring during her famous mother's rock concert tour, and she is driven to find out if they are true.
13) The countdown
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In the concluding book in the otherworldly Taking trilogy, Kyra struggles to understand who she is as she races to save the world from complete destruction. Ever since Kyra was abducted by aliens and then returned to earth, she has known there was something different about her. Now she knows the truth: she is an alien too. Her alien captors replaced all her human DNA with their own—gifting her with supernatural powers like incredible healing, enhanced...
14) Final touch
Author
Series
Rayne Tour volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Minutes before her rock-star mother is to marry her once-estranged father and make her life complete, sixteen-year-old Shaley is kidnapped, and she must stay strong and rely on God to help her save herself.
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Language
English
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Description
""In America, one of the first things done in a new State is to have the mail come." -Alexis de Toqueville, 1835 Who's Got Mail? is an intriguing and fact-filled look at how the mail has been delivered in the U.S. since the Constitution was signed. In theUnited States, the spread of the postal service went hand in hand with the spread of democracy and transportation. As settlement spread west, communication became even more important to let distant...
16) Goblin market
Author
Language
English
Description
"In this story inspired by Polish folklore, two sisters face a goblin prince in the dark forest." --
17) Isaac Newton
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
Isaac Newton was not only briiliant, but secretive, vindictive and obsessive. Here is a portrait of the man, contradictions and all, than places him against the backdrop of seventeenth-century England, a time of plague, the Great Fire of London, and two revolutions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of the former first lady, secretary of state, and presidential candidate includes coverage of her childhood in Illinois, rise to political prominence, struggles with personal setbacks, and achievements as a senator and beyond.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When 10-year-old Thomas's mother, who suffers from depression, disappears, he creates a fantasy narrative in which his mother is safe and sets in motion a path of healing, not just for himself, but for his father and aunt as well"--
20) Marie Curie
Author
Series
Giants of science (Viking) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Describes the life and work of the scientist who won two Nobel Prizes and died of radiation poisoning from years of investigating the dangerous elements that she herself had discovered.