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1) Surfer dog
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Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
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Description
"In this vibrantly illustrated picture book, a boy and a dog share a special friendship and a love of surfing."--Provided by publisher.
3) Long shot
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When Nick and Kia arrive for try-outs for the basketball team they played on the previous year, they are surprised to meet their new coach. Coach Barkley is a former college star known for his fierce desire to win. Though the coach has been away from the game for many years, his competitive instincts are as strong as ever and his aggressive coaching techniques are a new experience for these kids. Suddenly making the rep team no longer seems the sure...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Seven-year-old Christina desperately wants a dog. When she visits a kennel with her parents, she comes home with Prince, a greyhound recently retired from his champion racing career. Christina is thrilled and spends all her time with her new pal. They are like two peas in a pod. But one day, when Prince is left alone in the backyard, he escapes. Christina's mother searches everywhere for him only to find him at the schoolyard gate waiting for Christina....
5) Hunter
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Hunter is a cat whose past has made him untrusting of humans, but when his family is endangered, Hunter must put aside his fear and trust a boy who has Hunter's and the cat colony's best interests in mind.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
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Description
Nick and Kia get excited when their school gym teacher announces a "three-on-three" basketball tournament. The two most dedicated players in grade three, they know they'll be tough to beat. But when Nick finds out they'll be up against teams in grade four and five, he is ready to throw in the towel before they start. How can shrimps like them ever hope to beat the older kids? Easy, get the best player in the school to be your third player. Marcus...
7) Road trip
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Nick, Kia and their Mississauga Magic teammates are on the road, heading off to an elite hoop tournament in the Midwest. Feeling outmatched by many of the high profile teams, the kids are still looking forward to a good time. However, Coach Barkley, who played college ball in the area and is still regarded as a hero, has other ideas. As usual, nothing but winning will be good enough for Coach. As the tournament progresses, the Magic players learn...
8) Hoop crazy!
Author
Series
Lexile measure
480L
Language
English
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Description
After losing their teammate for the three-on-three hoop tournament, Nick and Kia must try to turn Nick's nerdy cousin into a basketball player in a hurry.
Author
Series
Nick and Kia basketball series volume 8
Language
English
Description
It's summertime and hoops season is over, but that doesn't keep Nick and Kia off the court. One very hot day they head to the rec center for a swim but end up on the outdoor courts that are usually dominated by older players. Their enjoyment of the court is short-lived, however, when three teens show up and kick the kids and their ball off the court. Nick and Kia don't take well to being bullied, but there's nothing they can do about it. At least...
10) Splat!
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Series
Language
English
Description
Keegan and Alex are the only kids in Leamington who haven't volunteered to help out with the town's annual tomato festival. In an attempt to teach them a sense of responsibility, their fathers put them in charge of the tomato toss. The boys decide it's their responsibility to add a little excitement to the event. They exchange the traditional wooden targets for human targets and, before they know it, they are running the most popular event at the...
11) Catboy
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Taylor and his mother have moved from a small northern town to the heart of Toronto. The differences are dramatic as Taylor becomes part of a classroom of kids as diverse as the city itself. While taking a shortcut across a junkyard with his new best friend, Simon, Taylor becomes aware of a colony of wild cats that make the junkyard their home. Assisted by his classmates, teacher and the security guard, Mr. Singh, Taylor takes a special interest in...
12) Home team
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the tenth installment of the best-selling Eric Walters basketball series, Nick, Kia and their teammates embark on a letter writing campaign to persuade the Toronto Raptors community relations department to send one or more of the players to visit Clark Boulevard Elementary School. Unfortunately, they are too late in applying and the team's school program has already been set for the year. But Nick and Kia do not give up easily, and their efforts...
13) In a Flash
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Series
Language
English
Description
The first flash mob Ian puts together himself is a sixty-plus person, four-minute pillow fight in a department store. His friend Oswald is thrilled with the event, but Julia, the one Ian really wants to impress, is still convinced that flash mobs are stupid. While Ian tries to prove Julia wrong by initiating flash mobs with political impact, Julia is busy waging war with the strict new principal at school. When Julia goes too far and gets herself...
14) Off Season
Author
Series
Nick and Kia basketball series volume 6
Language
English
Description
Readers of Hoop Crazy will remember Ned as the bug-loving beanpole who lives in an isolated national park out West, three hours from the nearest basketball court. But Ned's participation in the three-on-three tournament when he visited Nick has sparked his interest in the game and now he and his father have built their own basketball court in the wilderness. And Ned's hoop skills have improved considerably. Nick and Kia are just beginning to get the...
15) Underdog
Author
Series
Nick and Kia basketball series volume 7
Language
English
Description
It's a new season for Nick and Kia and once again they have to prove they've got what it takes to make the Mississauga Magic rep team. There is no free ride on Coach Barkley's team. The tryouts are tough but fair and it looks like the nucleus of last yearís team will be together once again. But there is one new player who seems to have the skills to impress the coach. Though Ashton has great skills, he's not much of a team player. On top of that...
16) Grind
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Wally is badly injured skateboarding, Phillip must decide what is more important-- skating or making things right with friends. Philip lives for skateboarding. School is merely the break between trying to land a difficult jump and outrunning the security guards. When he and his best friend Wally meet a professional skate-boarder who videotapes himself for his website, Philip thinks they can do it too-and make money at the same time. When they...
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Language
English
Description
During WWII, Jed's English father serves as a fighter pilot overseas, while Jed and his mother move back to her Tsimshian community on Canada's west coast. When the military sets up a naval base in town, Jed is hired to help out, honored it seems, for both his father's bravery and his own native skills as a hunter. Presented with a military jacket, Jed finds an allegiance to his country and a pride in his mixed heritage that he's never felt before.
But...
19) Caged Eagles
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Language
English
Description
When Canada went to war with Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbour, Canadians of Japanese descent were declared "Enemy Aliens." Without recourse of any kind, they were forced to leave their homes along with the British Columbia coast, their possessions were sold, and their rights as citizens denied. Caged Eagles follows fourteen-year-old Tadashi Fukushima and his family as they embark on a tortuous physical and emotional journey. Along with...
20) Boot camp
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Series
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nick and Kia learn that teamwork can be more important than talent.
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