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Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 01
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When Joe and Wishbone must confront a scary neighbor who owns a big mean dog, Wishbone imagines himself as the hero Beowulf of Geatland who helps King Hrothgar rid his kingdom of the terrible monster Grendel and his equally fearsom mother.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Locked out of school while Joe and his friends are inside,Wishbone imagines himself as D'Artagnan, a young seventeenth-century Frenchman who achieves his dream of becoming one of the prestigious musketeers who guard the king and his court.
3) Be a wolf!
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When Joe and Wishbone must confront a scary neighbor who owns a big mean dog, Wishbone imagines himself as the hero Beowulf of Geatland who helps King Hrothgar rid his kingdom of the terrible monster Grendel and his equally fearsome mother.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Because Wishbone keeps getting interrupted while trying to take a nap, he begins thinking about Rip Van Winkle and finds himself in Rip's shoes, finally waking to a changed world.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
During a fast-paced roller hockey game in which an awkward boy is humiliated by the other players, Wishbone imagines himself as Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer of Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, who defeats his enemies and saves the life of a beautiful gypsy.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
An intrigue involving the election of class president reminds Wishbone of the twin brother of King Louis XIV of France who must decide if he should risk everything to escape his iron mask and trade it for the king's crown.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Joe gets a chance to prove himself as coach and discovers that it is not as easy as it seems, Wishbone is reminded of the tale in which a poor boy trades places with the crown prince of England, each one believing that the other has the easier life.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
As he and Joe try to get to the eight-grade basketball game in time, Wishbone the dog imagines himself as Robinson Crusoe, the sole survivor of a shipwreck who lived on a deserted island for nearly thirty years.
9) Salty dog
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
When he accompanies Joe and his friends to look for treasure in the condemmed Trumbull barn, Wishbone imagines himself as young Jim Hawkins who acquires a treasure map and soon finds himself involved with dangerous pirates.
Author
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When David enlists Joe's aid in babysitting, Wishbone escapes from his noisy home and imagines himself as Charles Darnay, a young Frenchman who, despite great danger, returns to France during the Revolution to help a friend.
11) Dog overboard!
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Wishbone imagines that he is David Balfour, the young Scottish Lowlander bound for adventure in Kidnapped, the novel by Robert Louis Stevenson.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Joe's neighbor undergoes a change of personality after meeting the man of her dreams, Wishbone is reminded of the mysterious relationship between the kind, well-respected Dr. Jekyll and the evil Mr. Hyde.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 13
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Wishbone is kidnapped by Emily Barnes and a land development company tries to bulldoze one of Oakdale's favorite trees, but using what he has learned from Odysseus, Wishbone returns home and saves the tree.
Author
Series
Super adventures of Wishbone volume 2
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
15) Moby Dog
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
While pursuing the stranger who ran off with Joe's basketball, Wishbone imagines himself to be the young sailor Ishmael on Captain Ahab's whaling ship chasing the great white whale, Moby Dick, across the seven seas.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While helping Joe protect a top-secret note, Wishbone remembers the brilliant French detective, C. Auguste Dupin, who lived in Paris in the nineteenth century and solved crimes using psychological reasoning.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Joe and David decide to use a computer to publish a sports newsletter that will outshine the one that the school produces, Wishbone is reminded of Mark Twain's story and imagines himself as Hank Morgan, a nineteenth-century American who travels back in time to King Arthur's court.
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When David enlists Joe's aid in babysitting, Wishbone escapes from his noisy home and imagines himself as Charles Darnay, a young Frenchman who, despite great danger, returns to France during the Revolution to help a friend.
Author
Series
Super adventures of Wishbone volume 1
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Author
Series
Adventures of Wishbone volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
When he uncovers a mysterious metal object while digging in the front yard, Wishbone imagines himself as Professor Otto Lidenbrock who attempts to discover the center of the earth by leading an expedition into the crater of an Icelandic volcano.
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