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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
An old hobo in Paris finds his life changed when he discovers three children under a bridge. The story of a Parisian tramp, Armand, who finds a ready-made family to live with him under the bridge, was a Newbery Honor book when it was first published more than 30 years ago.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wild August torrent sweeps Abel Mouse away from home, family, and familiar world to an uninhabited island where, between efforts to return home, he makes new discoveries about himself and the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Alone in a sampan with his pig and three ducklings, a little Chinese boy is whirled down a raging river, back to the town from which he and his parents had escaped the invading Japanese, and spends long and frightening days regaining his family and new home.
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Series
Moffats volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows the adventures and misadventures of ten-year-old Jane Moffat living with her widowed mother and three siblings in their new home in Cranbury, Connecticut, in the early twentieth century.
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Series
Ramona Quimby volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Now that Ramona is eight years old, she's doing all kinds of things she's never done before. She's in a new school with a new teacher, and best of all, she takes the school bus-all by herself! But since her mother works and her daddy's in art school, Ramona has to stay with old Mrs. Kemp every day until Beezus comes for her. And as if all that isn't bad enough, she has to be nice to four-year-old Wila Jean. Ramona knows the family is depending on...
9) Wringer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.
13) To be a slave
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1080L
Language
English
Description
A compilation, selected from various sources and arranged chronologically, of the reminiscences of slaves and ex-slaves about their experiences from the leaving of Africa through the Civil War and into the early twentieth century.
14) Rufus M
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Series
Moffats volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Formats
Description
The adventures of seven-year-old Rufus Moffat, living with his widowed mother and older siblings including his encounter with an invisible piano player and his attempts at ventroliquism.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp in the Dakota Territory and plan for their own homestead, but the influx of land-hungry people threaten their homestead claim.
16) Gone-away Lake
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Portia and her cousin Julian discover summer adventure in a hidden colony of forgotten summer houses on the shores of a swampy lake.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the second book of the Chronicles of Prydain, Taran, assistant pig-keeper of Prydain, faces even more dangers as he seeks the magical black cauldron, the chief implement of the evil powers of Arawn, lord of the Land of Death.
19) The Egypt game
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
Melanie and April turn a deserted lot into an imaginary Egypt where they spend many hours enacting rituals and consulting oracles, but there are real dangers and problems lurking outside their make-believe world that almost bring their game to a disastrous end.
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