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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"As a young boy, Bao Phi awoke early, hours before his father's long workday began, to fish on the shores of a small pond in Minneapolis. Unlike many other anglers, Bao and his father fished for food, not recreation. Between hope-filled casts, Bao's father told him about a different pond in their homeland of Vietnam"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Walking to school with Mama, Gogo or Tata is fun. But riding high on Papa's shoulders is the BEST! On my Papa's Shoulders invites young readers along on a little boy and his Papa's walk to school, where they have their own special way of saying goodbye
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
Language
English
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"A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather's grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea."--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
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Like his ancestors before him, ten-year-old Eduardo enjoys going into Ecuador's rain forest to collect Brazil nuts with his father, but when the wild tamarins that always accompany them disappear Eduardo is determined to find them.
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Series
Loveboat volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh have what some would call a tumultuous past, but at least they're friends now. They left the drama behind them at the summer program in Taipei. Sophie is determined to be the best student Dartmouth's ever had. Xavier just wants to stay under his overbearing father's radar, collect his trust fund when he turns eighteen, and concentrate on what makes him happy, for the first time ever. But Sophie's college professor thinks...
6) Cam's walk
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Lexile measure
170L
Language
English
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"Cam and his father enjoy a leisurely shopping trip in their suburban town in this sweet story that features appealing illustrations plus text leveled for emergent readers. Pairs with the nonfiction title Suburban Places."--
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English
Description
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved, and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in. When Gustav was set to be transferred to Auschwitz--a certain death sentence--Fritz refused to leave his side. Throughout the horrors they witnessed and the suffering...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
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"When the tsunami destroyed Makio's village, Makio lost his father . . . and his voice. The entire village is silenced by grief, and the young child's anger at the ocean grows. Then one day his neighbor, Mr. Hirota, begins a mysterious project-building a phone booth in his garden. At first Makio is puzzled; the phone isn't connected to anything. It just sits there, unable to ring. But as more and more villagers are drawn to the phone booth, its purpose...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and he's forced to find another spades partner. And Shirley,...
12) Nasreddine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 680L
Language
English
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Description
As Nasreddine and his father take dates, wool, chickens, or watermelon to market, people tease them no matter who is riding their donkey, and this causes Nasreddine embarrassment until his father helps him to understand.
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Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
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When a greedy entrepreneur searching for a legendary pearl forces Hector's family to close their tourist expedition business in an Italian coastal town, Hector decides to thwart the man's plans and save the sea, his family, and his dream of becoming a deep-sea diver, just like his father.
14) Museum mix-up
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
500L
Language
English
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"Seven-year-old J.C. is excited about the class field trip to the Famous Black Americans Museum, especially since his dad is coming along--and when his group gets separated from their teacher in the crowded museum it is J.C. who remembers the map their teacher showed them, and reunites the groups"--Title verso page.
15) Grizzly Peak
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Series
Aaron's wilderness volume 03
Language
English
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"Aaron's latest adventure takes him river kayaking with his dad and tests his perseverance, patience and survival skills in encounters with bears, moose, and life-threatening accidents."--
16) The dream bearer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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Description
During a summer in Harlem, David relies on his mother and a close friend and on an old man he meets in the park to help him come to terms with his father's outbursts and unstable behavior.
17) Body slammed!
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Lexile measure
730L
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Jesse Baron feels like he's living his life on the sidelines. He's on the varsity football team, but only because it's what his dad wants him to do. And the girl he used to go out with is dating the popular quarterback. Jesse is fed up with being cut down and dismissed, whether by the coach or his friends. If only he was bigger, tougher and more athletic, like his dad.
Those things didn't matter to Jesse's mom. She left his father,...
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English
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Sent to New England in the 1870s as a part of a Chinese educational mission, Leon falls in love with baseball, even though he is forbidden to play, and learns more about America with the help of his host father, who has recently lost his own son in an accident.
20) When the earth dragon trembled: a story of Chinatown during the San Francisco earthquake and fire
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English
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"Han Liu rejects his father's attempts to teach him traditional Chinese values, but when an earthquake and fire strike Chinatown, separating Han from his father, a book of family proverbs is all Han has left to guide him. Includes author's note"--Verso page.
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