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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 13
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This memoir traces Maya Angelou's childhood in a small, rural community during the 1930s. Filled with images and recollections that point to the dignity and courage of black men and women, Angelou paints a sometimes disquieting, but always affecting picture of the people-and the times-that touched her life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Explore diamond mines, peer into a volcanic cave, and discover how some cliffs are built from shells and skeletons! Find precious metals hidden in rocks, and marvel at a hotel built from salt. Test your knowledge and have fun with eight pages of activities!
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A history of US volume 1
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Presents an overview of the origin and development of the United States from the Ice Age to 1600, with an emphasis on pre-Columbian Native Americans, and the arrivals of explorers and conquistadors.
4) Ancient Rome
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 2
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"Step into the world of ancient Rome and meet its emperors, gods, soldiers, and gladiators. Who were Rome's most famous emperors? What was everyday life like for a soldier in the Roman army? How did the citizens of ancient Rome live? Did gladiators really fight to the death in the mighty Colosseum? Find out the answers to all these questions, and many more, in Eyewitness Ancient Rome. Photographs of real artefacts and detailed illustrations will help...
6) Just Ella
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Palace chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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In this continuation of the Cinderella story, fifteen-year-old Ella finds that accepting Prince Charming's proposal ensnares her in a suffocating tangle of palace rules and royal etiquette, so she plots to escape.
7) Cowboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Text and photographs trace the history and lore of cowboys around the globe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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The story of Dewey Readmore Books, the beloved library cat, starts in the worst possible way. Only a few weeks old, on the coldest night of the year, he was stuffed into the book return slot at the Spencer, Iowa, Public Library. He was found the next morning by library director, Vicki Myron, a single mother who had survived the loss of her family farm, a breast cancer scare, and an alcoholic husband. Dewey won her heart, and the hearts of the staff,...
9) Mythology
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
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A collection of Greek and Roman myths from various classical sources arranged in section on the gods and early heroes, love and adventure stories, heroes before and during the Trojan War, and lesser myths. Includes a brief section on Norse mythology.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
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John and Jenny were just beginning their life together. They were young and in love, with a perfect little house and not a care in the world. Then they brought home Marley, a wriggly yellow furball of a puppy. Life would never be the same. Marley quickly grew into a barreling, ninety-seven-pound streamroller of a Labrador retriever. He crashed through screen doors, gouged through drywall, and stole women's undergarments. Obedience school did no good--Marley...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Bryon and Mark have been inseparable best friends from childhood, but now, at sixteen, they both sense they are growing apart. When Byron discovers that Mark is pushing dope to young kids, he must fce a decision that might destry their longtime friendship.
15) Japan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"This book will explore the history, geography, wildlife, government, economy, religion, culture, and people of Japan. Also, students will have at their fingertips the most current facts and statistics that relate to Japan"--Provided by Publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Even after taking Driver's Ed and passing that dreaded road test, there are so many things new drivers need to learn about the practical aspects of driving that will only come from experience. Covering virtually every scenario a new driver may face, from changing a tire to negotiating privileges with parents to handling a car in bad weather, Gravelle helps teen drivers navigate through tricky new territory.--From publisher description
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2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
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"Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the people behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider her own displacement-- first as an Internally Displaced Person when she was a young child in Pakistan, and then as an international activist who could travel anywhere in the world except to the home she loved. In We Are...
18) Going solo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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As a young man working in East Africa for the Shell Company, Roald Dahl recounts his adventures living in the jungle and later flying a fighter plane in World War II.
19) The kill order
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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"Mark struggles to make sense of his new, post-disaster world in this prequel to The Maze Runner"--
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