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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
720L
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Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
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Enhanced Ebook (includes audio) Every Saturday night at the Fais Dodo Thibaudeau, a suave young possum with a Zorro-like moustache takes the stage with his dobro to lead the band. In the audience, a pretty, doe-eyed possum falls for his charms. But just who could these plucky marsupials be? Mama and Papa Poss tell the story of how they first met and where their glory days as a musical duo began! Take a trip to the bayou in this side-splitting, toe-tapping...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 550L
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English
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Rosa organizes her friends into the Oak Street Band in order to earn money her family needs because of her Grandma's illness ... Community, family and personal triumphs converge, making unforgettable music for everyone. And the money jar--in which the family saved their change to buy the big red chair and Rosa's accordion--is empty too. Leora, Mae, and Jenny often make music for Grandma. She says their playing makes her feel like a girl again, dancing...
4) The Marvels
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
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The journey begins on a ship at sea in 1766, with a boy named Billy Marvel. After surviving a shipwreck, he finds work in a London theatre. There, his family flourishes for generations as brilliant actors until 1900, when young Leontes Marvel is banished from the stage. Nearly a century later, Joseph Jervis runs away from school and seeks refuge with a reclusive uncle in London. Albert Nightingale's strange, beautiful house, with its mysterious portraits...
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Little Pig (David Costello) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
360L
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English
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When Little Pig tries to join his Grandpa, brothers, and sisters in a marching band he discovers that, although he is too small for any of the available instruments, he can still play an important role.
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While working at country music legend Wanda Jean's amusement park, polar opposites Emmett (who idolizes Wanda Jean) and Luke (who hates country music) become inseparable, until a long-lost secret about Emmett's idol and Luke's grandmother, a disgraced singer, comes to light.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
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Pretending to have a much more glamorous family life, eleven-year-old Isabella worries that her new friends at a prestigious private school will discover that she is a "big fibbing, faking phony."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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In this unique offering of a book one of the most beloved children's songs gets a rollicking picture book treatment by the beloved trio. Featuring witty and whimsical art by the renowned illustrator Christine Davenier, this stunning new book offers plenty of fun, whether it's raining or not.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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While preparing for a role in the school play, twelve-year-old Leo finds an autobiography that his father wrote as a teenager and ponders the ways people change as they grow up. Includes the text for the play, "Rumpopo's Porch."
11) Drama Queen
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Kylie Jean's class is performing Alice in Wonderland! Kylie Jean knows she'd be just perfect as the Queen of Hearts. But mean girl Paula wants the part too . . . .
12) Singing Queen
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Kylie Jean shows her talent for singing at the annual Jubilee Talent Show.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 930L
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English
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Hana decides to play violin in the school talent show, but when the show day arrives, Hana is overcome with nerves until she recalls her grandfather's encouraging words, and shows the audience how beautiful music can take many forms.
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Chloe McBride has some reservations about accepting her elderly great-aunts' invitation to spend part of the summer with them in Little Venice, but her initial reluctance is outweighed by her curiosity about the mysterious key that came with her aunts' note. She's also anxious to put the humiliating memory of a disastrous piano recital as far behind her as possible. Chloe's great-aunts tell her the legend of her great-grandfather, Dante Magnus, an...
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Enhanced ebook featuring a narrated story by David Frances and two recorded songs perofrmed Martha Wainwright, Thomas Hellman, Jessica Vigneault and Paul Campagne. In this touching, poetic story set by the seaside, Old Man Tom teaches Sophie and Emilio the importance of seeing the world through their hearts.
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Livre enrichi musical — Collection Je Lis — Je Chante
De Gilles Vigneault illustrations de Stéphane Jorisch avec Pascale Bussières, Robert Charlebois, Diane Dufresne, Édith Butler, Fred Pellerin, Claude Gauthier, Clémence DesRochers et Claude Gauthier)
Cette magnifique fable de Gilles Vigneault relate l'aventure de Léo, le fils d'un pêcheur disparu en mer. Parti explorer le monde des cinq presqu'îles, Léo fait la rencontre de personnages...
17) Runaway Blues
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Twelve-year old Caleb Wallace has spent his summer at Autumn Springs, coaxing his papa out of his room when he's grumpy, attempting to gain the affections of a certain nurse, and pulling himself together when his grandpa looks right into him with nothing but a dull stare.
Seems the only thing that puts a light in Papa Clem's eyes is a family heirloom-an old folktale involving Robert Johnson's harmonica down in Arkansas. Caleb is happy to listen;...
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Jordan had a tough time with the other kids at his old school. So, on his first day at Massey Elementary, he has a plan: to be absolutely invisible. His new classmates don't need to know that his grandmother is his best friend or that they put on shows together dressing up in elaborate costumes each night in their apartment. When he's forced to pair up with Max, a loud-mouthed loner with a love for Hawaiian shirts, Jordan's cover of invisibility threatens...
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A cast of creative creatures take centre stage in this theatrical Barrington Stoke debut from Blue Peter Book Award shortlisted author Laura Wood. Summer by the seaside isn't working out as Callie hoped. Instead of enjoying sunshine and ice cream, she's stuck helping Gran's drama group put on a show to save the local theatre. Worst of all, they've asked her to star in their play. With Callie's stage fright, there's not a chance that's happening. But...
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En une froide nuit d'hiver, une jeune fille rêve qu'elle rend visite à son grand-père en Chine, plus précisément à Kunming, une ville magique que l'on surnomme « ville du printemps éternel ». Derrière sa fenêtre, des rafales de vent font valser la neige, alors que le doux son du pipa, joué par sa mère dans le salon, l'enveloppe comme une couverture réconfortante.
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