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1) The call of the wild

Author

London, Jack

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 7

Lexile measure

1120L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Graphic Novel, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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The Call of the Wild, by Jack London, is one of America's best-known novels. In his Reader's Companion to this new edition, Daniel Dyer provides a wealth of annotations explaining the book's many "sourdough" expressions and geographical references in order to help the modern reader see what London saw. Dyer also identifies characters in the novel - human and canine alike - whom London had known, and he spices his annotations with Northern lore and...

2) The wind in the willows

Author

Grahame, Kenneth

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11

Lexile measure

1140L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audio, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript, Playaway

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One of the true classics of English literature, here are the adventures of Mole, Water Rat, Badger, and Toad. Shy Mole is cleaning his underground house until the spring weather lures him above for a cautious encounter with the worldly Water Rat. Their exploration of the Wild Wood includes lunch with Otter and hilarious adventures at Toad Hall. Grahame's idyllic world is as fresh now as when they first discovered his enchanting tales, of Ratty sculling...

3) Freckles

Author

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Series

Library of Indiana classics
Limberlost
Puffin classics
Dover children's evergreen classics

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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Set in the Limberlost Swamp area of Indiana, “Freckles” is American writer and naturalist Gene Stratton-Porter's 1904 novel about the titular character, a one-handed adult orphan who takes a job guarding timber in the swamp. Freckles has lived all his life in a Chicago orphanage and has been missing his right hand as long as he can remember. Now an adult, he is hired on by the Grand Rapids lumber company to guard their valuable timber in the Limberlost...

4) New complete guide to home repair and improvement

Series

Better homes and gardens books

Language

English

Formats

Book, Journal

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Instructions for art, crafts, cooking, science, and nature activities which are zoo related.

5) The harvester

Author

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Series

Library of Indiana classics

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook

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The Harvester is set in Gene Stratton Porter's Limberlost Swamp series. David Langston lives a simple life harvesting medicinal herbs to sell in the city. He believes that he has all that he needs in life, that is until he meets Ruth and everything changes. A gentle love story that changes everyone who reads it.

6) White Fang

Author

London, Jack

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 13

Lexile measure

970L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, eComic, Kindle, Large Print, Playaway

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White Fang had come straight from the Wild, where the weak perish early and shelter is vouchsafed to none. In neither his father nor his mother was there any weakness, nor in the generations before them. A constitution of iron and the vitality of the Wild were White Fang's inheritance, and he clung to life, the whole of him and every part of him, in spirit and in flesh, with the tenacity that of old belonged to all creatures.

7) Fifty common trees of Indiana

Author

Shaw, T. E

Language

English

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"Professor T.E. Shaw of Purdue University, author of this publication who died shortly after he made this latest revision, was the first Indiana Extension Forester to work with 4-H Club boys in forestry. During the past 20 years he has brought this knowledge to many hundreds of 4-H boys who are now rural leaders or owners of farm timber themselves. As a result of his long experience this bulletin has been prepared with the hope that the study of trees...

8) A girl of the Limberlost

Author

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Series

Chapter book charmers
Library of Indiana classics
Signet classic
Limberlost volume 02

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18

Lexile measure

850L

Language

English

Formats

Book, Audiobook CD, eAudiobook, eBook, Kindle, Large Print, Manuscript

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Elnora Comstock's first day at high school is a disaster. The other students laugh at her clothes, and then -- to make matters worse -- she learns she has to pay for her books and tuition. --- [Excerpt from back cover.]

9) A child's garden of verses

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Series

Books of wonder
Puffin classics
Rainbow classics
Scribner's illustrated classics
More Series...

Language

English

Formats

Book, eAudiobook, eBook

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A collection of poems evoking the world and feelings of childhood, including "The land of Counterpane," "My Shadow," "The Swing," "The Moon," and "Looking Forward," complemented by digitally restored, retro-style illustrations by two Caldecott Medalists.

10) The song of the cardinal

Author

Stratton-Porter, Gene

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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"The Song of the Cardinal" is a fascinating story of the life of a redbird, or Kentucky cardinal, as it is popularly called, who is born in the valley of the Wabash.