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When Rio is sent to live with a grandmother he barely knows in California, he feels completely alone. Then he makes a new friend on the foggy beach-a girl named Marina, who teaches him about the massive grey whales that migrate nearby. As Rio grows to love the whales, he discovers that his mother loved them, too. He's suddenly sure that if he can somehow find a way to connect her with these gentle giants - and especially with a particular whale named...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 410L
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English
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Relating the cycle of requests a mouse is likely to make after you give him a cookie takes the reader through a young boy's day. Includes "The Great Cookie Chase" board game on back lining papers.
5) Old Yeller
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Series
Old Yeller volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Gipson, in earlier books, has evinced an evocative quality which recaptures for the reader the sounds, the smells, the sights of the region he knows and loves, recaptures too the emotional quality, the moods of his central figure. This was particularly true in Hound-Dog Man, which for some readers was marred by the vernacular. In Old Yeller the story...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
The 50th Anniversary Edition of the Lord of the Flies is the volume that every fan of this classic book will have to own! Lord of the Flies remains as provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, igniting passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. Though critically acclaimed, it was largely ignored upon its initial publication. Yet soon it became a cult favorite among both students and literary critics who...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
NC 740L
Language
English
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Now a major motion picture, this movie novelization tells the story of a canine hero. When Justin's older brother, Kyle, is killed in Afghanistan, Justin can't believe that his brother is really gone. Except there's one thing that Kyle left behind.... Max is a highly trained military canine who has always protected his fellow soldiers. But when he loses his handler and best friend, Kyle, Max is traumatized and unable to remain in the service. He is...
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Stink Moody volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
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Stink Moody, friends Webster and Sophie, and Mrs. Birdwistle visit tourist attractions in Virginia as they try to give away 101 guinea pigs rescued from a laboratory, although Stink is very reluctant to relinquish his favorite, Astro.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the tradition of OLD YELLER comes the heartwarming friendship between a boy and his Tyrannosaurus Rex.
When Ely's beloved dog, Tommy, is hit by a car, he goes to his grandpa's house for the summer to get his mind off things. While exploring a nearby cave one day he discovers a full-grown but friendly Tyrannosaurus Rex. As the news of the dinosaur grows around town, so does the friendship between Ely and his Jurassic pet. But Randy, the mean...
10) TJ and the cats
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
560L
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English
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TJ Barnes hates cats, but that doesn't srop a taxi from showing up at his door bearing his grandmother's four felines. The cats involve TJ in a series of adventures, including two that bring the police to his door.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Fiery Ramona Quimby and the well-meaning Henry Huggins may clash, but in this delightful and hilariously told novel by Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, an unlikely compromise wins the day. Henry and his friends are building a no-girls-allowed clubhouse. With a private space of their own away from everyone else and even a top-secret entry password they're all thrilled with their boy fort. But Henry's about to find out that nothing, not...
12) AdoraBULL
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Tom leaves him to go to school, Alfred, his best friend (and a bull) worries that he will be replaced by another, cuter animal.
13) Ultimate attack
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Killer species volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Emmet finds himself in grave danger when Dr. Catalyst creates a beast specifically designed to hunt and destroy him.
14) The cobra clash
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Battle bugs volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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"Max Darwin is summoned back to Bug Island to discover the island in turmoil. Spike has vanished, and his disappearance has all the hallmarks of one of General Komodo's dastardly schemes. Max soon discovers that Spike has been bugnapped and is being held prisoner in the Reptilian Empire! Max must devise a daring rescue plan that involves traveling deep into enemy territory."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 820L
Language
English
Description
"A sensitive story of a little boy'slove for his toy rabbit and how the rabbit wanted to be real. The Skin Horse tells the rabbit, 'When a child loves you for a long, long time not just to play with, but REALLY loves you become Real.'"
16) Sheep
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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Description
After a fire destroys the farm where he was born, a young border collie acquires a series of owners and learns about life as he seeks a home and longs to fulfill his life's purpose of shepherding sheep. Finally, he arrives at the Good Shepherd Home for Boys, where he finds a friend in Luke, who is also alone in the world and looking for a home.
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English
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In 1250 B.C. the teenaged son of the Egyptian high priest sets off a series of harrowing events when he accidentally kills the sacred cat of Bubastes and, accompanied by his sister and two foreign slaves, embarks on a dangerous journey to find safe haven beyond the borders of Egypt.
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Lexile measure
1180L
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English
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The Bears of Blue River describes the adventures of a young boy growing up in early nineteenth-century rural Indiana. Little Balser lives with his parents, a younger brother, and a baby sister in a cozy log cabin on the bank of the Big Blue River. Although only thirteen or fourteen years old, he is quite familiar with the dangers and rigors of frontier life. As the story unfolds, the boy becomes lost in the forest, encounters the fierce one-eared...
20) Henry Huggins
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
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English
Description
Just as Henry Huggins is complaining that nothing exciting ever happens, a friendly dog sits down beside him and looks pleadingly at his ice-cream cone. From that moment on, the two are inseparable. But when Ribsy's original owner appears, trying to reclaim his dog, Henry's faced with the possibility of losing his new best friend. Has Klickitat Street seen the last of rambunctious Ribsy?
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