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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Fiona Sweeney wants to do something that matters, and she chooses to make her mark in the arid bush of northeastern Kenya. By helping to start a traveling library, she hopes to bring the words of Homer, Hemingway, and Dr. Seuss to far-flung tiny communities where people live daily with drought, hunger, and disease. Her intentions are honorable, and her rules are firm: due to the limited number of donated books, if any one of them is not returned,...
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English
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"Everyone's on the sofa to share a book: zebra, cat, child, lion. Wait! says zebra, stork isn't here yet! Then cat needs a cushion, hamster's missing, someone's sitting on lion's tail, fish wants to be in the middle... Now they'll be able to start, won't they? In this fun, cumulative story, the familiar chaos of piling onto the sofa with friends builds to a climactic hullabaloo until the happy ending of sharing a book in an ideal reading spot, behind...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
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"Every Saturday at noon precisely, the T. Middleton Nightingale City Library is transformed, and today Kelly, one of the library pages, arrives just in time to find herself inside the Labyrinth, confronting the Minotaur with Princess Ariadne; her fellow pages are nowhere in sight--and defeating the Minotaur is only the beginning, because other monsters of Greek mythology are also roaming the confusing corridors, and there seems to be no way out of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
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"At T. Middleton Nightingale City Library, when the old, broken clock strikes twelve, the library is transformed into something out of an author's mind--and today the volunteer pages find themselves in the middle of Edgar Allan Poe's imagination where monsters lurk, and a raven is telling them to find Lenore if they want to restore the library to normal."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
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Description
"Library page Baru Reddy loves horror stories so when the T. Middleton Nightengale City Library transforms into a ruined gothic cathedral complete with authors Mary Shelley, Ann Radcliffe, and Charlotte Brontë, not to mention a host of zombie monks, he is not as alarmed as his fellow pages; he just needs to figure out a way to bring Mary Shelley's creation (made out of books, not body parts) to life to defeat the zombies--and who better to help than...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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"When library page Jordan Young falls asleep in the children's section of T. Middleton Nightingale City Library, she misses the initial transformation of the library and wakes up to find herself in the land of Lilliput, where the tiny people are fighting over how to crack an egg and a friendly giant from Brobdingnag is looking for her giant mischievous monkey."--Provided by publisher.
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English
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"Anthony Grafton explores the art and influence of an opaque historical figure: the magus, or learned magician. A distinctive intellectual type in Renaissance Europe, magi contributed to the humanistic currents of the time and had a transformative impact on public life, influencing advances in sculpture, painting, engineering, and other fields."--
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