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3) Broken pride
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
A lion cast out from his pride. An elephant who can read the bones of the dead. A baboon rebelling against his destiny. For generations, the animals of the African plains have followed a single rule: only kill to survive. But when an unthinkable act of betrayal shatters the peace, the fragile balance between predators and prey will rest in the paws of three unlikely heroes, each with something to gain--and everything to lose.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
"Walking gthrough the misty Florida woods one morning, twelve-year-old Rob Horton is stunned to encounter a tiger--a real-life, very large tiger--pacing back and forth in a cage. What's more, on the same extraordinary day, he meets Sistine Bailey, a girl who shows her feelings as readily as Rob hides his. As they learn to trust each other, and ultimately, to be friends, Rob and Sistine prove that some things--like memories, and heartache, and tigers--can't...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The story of the training of a carrier pigeon and its service during the First World War, revealing the bird's courageous and spirited adventures over the housetops of an Indian village, in the Himalayan Mountains, and on the French battlefield.
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
"The true Great Parent has finally risen and must unite all the animals of Bravelands to prevent an ancient evil from taking root"--
"As the new Great Father, the young baboon, Thorn, hopes to guide Bravelands to peace after a period of great turmoil. But a pack of rogue wolves lurks among the Great Herd, committing acts so evil they threaten to shatter that peace before it's even begun. The animals of the Great Herd must once again unite to defend...
Author
Series
One and only Ivan stories volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
"Ruby's story picks up a few months after the events of The One and Only Bob. Now living in a wildlife sanctuary, Ruby's caretaker from the elephant orphanage in Africa where she grew up is visiting. Seeing him again brings back a flood of memories both happy and sad of her life before the circus, and she recounts the time she spent in the African savannah to Ivan and Bob"--
9) Old Yeller
Author
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...
Author
Series
Stink Moody volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Brown first met Paddington on a railway platform in London. He was sitting on a battered suitcase, wearing a most odd-looking hat and a sign hanging around his neck that said, "Please look after this bear, Thank you." So they took gave him home and he became a member of their family.
Author
Series
Bowser and Birdie novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
Bowser is a mutt, just adopted by eleven-year-old Birdie Gaux and her grandmother, but when they all get home to Grammy's bait and tackle shop in the bayou they discover that their prize stuffed marlin has been stolen--so Bowser decides to investigate, and things quickly become complicated and dangerous.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
"Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees that life, like racing, isn't simply about going fast. On the eve of his...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus is an 1818 novel written by English author Mary Shelley (1797-1851) that tells the story of Victor Frankenstein, a young scientist who creates a sapient creature in an unorthodox scientific experiment. Shelley started writing the story when she was 18, and the first edition was published anonymously in London on 1 January 1818, when she was 20. Though Frankenstein is infused with elements of the Gothic novel...
16) Sun flower lion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"On a warm morning, a little lion sleeps under a sun that shines so brightly, it looks like a flower. He dreams the flower is as big as the sun. He dreams the flower is a cookie. He lets his imagination soar."--publisher's website.
17) The black pearl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
980L
Language
English
Description
In claiming as his own the magnificent black pearl that he finds, a sixteen-year-old youth enrages the sea devil who legend says is its owner.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"Now with the third prophecy fulfilled, Gregor is drawn into a crisis. For generations, rats have run the mice--or "nibbles"--out of whatever lands they've claimed, keeping them on the move. But now the mice are disappearing, and the young queen Luxa is determined to find out why. When Gregor joins her on a fact-finding mission, the true fate of the mice is revealed. It is something far more sinister than Gregor or Luxa had imagined--and it points...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
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