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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Unnatural Creatures is a collection of short stories about the fantastical things that exist only in our minds-collected and introduced by beloved New York Times bestselling author Neil Gaiman.
The sixteen stories gathered by Gaiman, winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards, range from the whimsical to the terrifying. Magical creatures from the werewolf, to the sunbird, to beings never before classified will thrill, delight, and quite possibly unnerve...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Family friendly Un-Adult-A-rated fun! Does size matter? Is bigger better? That's no small question to Tom Little-the circus midget with giant dreams. Tom may be king of the midgets, but he's got far grander ambitions-to become the muscleman at the top, the ringmaster. Now, drawing on some dark ancient secrets and mystic texts, he's about to get his wish. Imagine a pint-sized Mickey Rooney on steroids, trading up into a body like Burt Lancaster's....
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fortune hunter Billy Newman is not a man of great strength or physical courage. Like a young Johnny Depp, he gets by on his wit, wiles and good looks. And he's had quite a good run-striking gold in the Philippines and buying his very own island in the South Seas. . . .But there's trouble in paradise, and Billy's in the thick of it. The island's crops are failing. The island's people are dying. And the island's owner-Billy-is taking the heat....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Meet Chuck Lambert, who, though not exactly a fool, is guilty of letting his imagination get the best of his wits. That's because our young, naive Lambert wants his own planet. But rather than purchase one legally from the Interior Department of the Outer Galactic Control, he soon succumbs to the flashy advertising of an unsavory galactic swindler named Madman Murphy -- the purported King of Planetary Realtors. What Madman is the king of, is selling...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frustrated with a government that pays him to bury surplus produce while city people starve, Eben Smith loads his wagon with fruits and heads for the city with the intention of bartering them. However, his way soon becomes uncertain, and after falling into a nexus in time, Eben is soon bartering much more than produce with cultures in a series of alternate realities, accidentally wreaking havoc in each one.
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Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eight short stories and six personal essays sound off on body image, self-esteem, diets, eating disorders, and fashion magazines, in a volume that includes contributions by Carolyn Mackler, Daniel Pinkwater, and Megan McCafferty.
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