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In this book Bill Bryson explores the most intriguing and consequential questions that science seeks to answer and attempts to understand everything that has transpired from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization. To that end, Bill Bryson apprenticed himself to a host of the world's most profound scientific minds, living and dead. His challenge is to take subjects like geology, chemistry, paleontology, astronomy, and particle physics and see if...
2) Snow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
220L
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English
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As snowflakes slowly come down, one by one, people in the city ignore them, and only a boy and his dog think that the snowfall will amount to anything.
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Television news anchor Dana Evans is beautiful and intelligent. She is also fearless, having been a correspondent during the Bosnian war. But when she begins to investigate a string of murders that has wiped out one of America's most prominent families, she is shocked by evidence that points to powerful, international forces.
4) Catwings
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Catwings series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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Four young cats with wings leave the city slums in search of a safe place to live, finally meeting two children with kind hands.
9) Verdi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 620L
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English
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A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
11) Crash
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
560L
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English
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Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
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Today, buffeted by one food fad after another, America is suffering from what can only be described as a national eating disorder. Will it be fast food tonight, or something organic? Or perhaps something we grew ourselves? The question of what to have for dinner has confronted us since man discovered fire. But as Michael Pollan explains in this revolutionary book, how we answer it now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century may determine our survival...
13) Lost Lake
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On a summer night in Portland, Oregon, violence erupts at a Little League game — and attorney Ami Vergano watches in horror as the quiet, gentle artist she recently befriended does the unexpected and unthinkable . . .
In a cheap motel room in Washington, D.C., Vanessa Kohler — ex-mental patient, supermarket tabloid reporter, and estranged daughter of a powerful general running for president — views a news broadcast of the
...14) The compound
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
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English
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After his parents, two sisters, and he have spent six years in a vast underground compound built by his wealthy father to protect them from a nuclear holocaust, fifteen-year-old Eli, whose twin brother and grandmother were left behind, discovers that his father has perpetrated a monstrous hoax on them all.
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A completely revised and updated edition of the blockbuster bestseller from “the personal productivity guru” ( Fast Company ) Since it was first published almost fifteen years ago, David Allen's Getting Things Done has become one of the most influential business books of its era, and the ultimate book on personal organization. “GTD” is now shorthand for an entire way of approaching professional and personal tasks, and has spawned an entire...
16) Ivy and Bean
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
580L
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English
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When seven-year-old Bean plays a mean trick on her sister, she finds unexpected support for her antics from Ivy, the new neighbor, who is less boring than Bean first suspected.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
730L
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English
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This new version of the Caldecott-winning classic by illustrator David Small and author Judith St. George is updated with current facts and new illustrations to include our forty-second president, George W. Bush. Hilariously illustrated by Small, this celebration by St. George shows us the foibles, quirks and humanity of forty-two men who have risen to one of the most powerful positions in the world.
18) Things not seen
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Things not seen volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
690L
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English
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When fifteen- year-old Bobby wakes up and finds himself invisible, he and his parents and his new blind friend Alicia try to find out what caused his conditioin and how to reverse it.
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After his wife leaves him for another man, Hugues Martin's life revolves solely around two things--the celebrated five-star hotel he owns and manages in New York City and his daughter Heloise. At four, Heloise becomes the only woman in her father's life; by seven, she is the undisputed queen of the Hotel Vendome. And as the years pass, despite her mother's abandonment, she basks in her father's love, the devotion of the hotel's staff, and the affection...
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