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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"I always thought we'd be friends to the end."
Grace and Kya always do everything together, and nothing can get in the way of their friendship. They have a pact: Sisters Before Misters. Buds Before Studs.
Only Grace knows what Kya's been through, or how much she needs someone to stick by her. No matter what. Besides, Kya keeps life exciting—pulling Grace into things she'd never dare to do on her own. But inch by inch, daring is starting
...2) Wintersmith
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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When witch-in-training Tiffany Aching accidentally interrupts the Dance of the Seasons and awakens the interest of the elemental spirit of Winter, she requires the help of the six-inch-high, sword-wielding, sheep-stealing Wee Free Men to put the seasons aright.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Tiffany Aching, a young witch-in-training, learns about magic and responsibility as she battles a disembodied monster with the assistance of the six-inch-high Wee Free Men and Mistress Weatherwax, the greatest witch in the world.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.5 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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A new illustrated gift edition of a beloved classic. Three hundred years ago, a great deal of the world as we now know it was still undiscovered. A voyage in those days was not a pleasant thing, and a traveller was likely to encounter mysterious islands and strange people. Danger lurked around every corner, and friends and foes are to be found unexpectedly, and in equal measure. When Lemeul Gulliver, a ship's surgeon, sets off on the high seas in...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Tiffany Aching, the witch of the Chalk, seeks her place amid a troublesome populace and tries to control the ill-behaved, six-inch-high Wee Free Men who follow her as she faces an ancient evil that agitates against witches.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"Just two months into his presidency, Ronald Reagan lay near death after a gunman's bullet came within inches of his heart. His recovery was nothing short of remarkable -- or so it seemed. But Reagan was grievously injured, forcing him to encounter a challenge that few men ever face. Could he silently overcome his traumatic experience while at the same time carrying out the duties of the most powerful man in the world?"--Novelist.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
2008 Retailer's Choice Award winner!
Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach—especially a football coach—to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming histrionics, the profanities, and the demand that the sport come before anything else? How...
Tony Dungy's words and example have intrigued millions of people, particularly following his victory in Super Bowl XLI, the first for an African American coach. How is it possible for a coach—especially a football coach—to win the respect of his players and lead them to the Super Bowl without the screaming histrionics, the profanities, and the demand that the sport come before anything else? How...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Tova lives amongst the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue, but when two neighboring clans bury their age-old blood feud and join together as one, her world is dangerously close to collapse.
Tova lives among the Svell, the people who found her washed ashore as a child and use her for her gift as a Truthtongue. The sacred symbols and staves inked over every inch of her skin mark her as...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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At the age of twenty, an Iranian student named Zarah Ghahramani was swept off the streets of Tehran and taken to the notorious Evin prison, where criminals and political dissidents were held side by side in conditions of legendary brutality. Her crime, she asserts, was in wanting to slide back her headscarf to feel the sun on a few inches of her hair.
That modest desire led her to a political activism fueled by the fearless idealism of the young....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Annawadi is a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport, and as India starts to prosper, Annawadians are electric with hope. Abdul, a reflective and enterprising Muslim teenager, sees "a fortune beyond counting" in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Asha, a woman of formidable wit and deep scars from a childhood in rural poverty, has identified an alternate route to the middle class: political corruption....
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Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1884, after being sold as a servant by her parents to a harsh school mistress, tiny twelve-year-old Josephine, who stands less than twenty-nine inches tall, finds refuge in the Museum of Earthly Astonishments in New York City.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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'Twas the night before Christmas when a bedraggled white feline enters the heart--and home--of Cleveland Amory. To say it is a friendly takeover is an understatement. For the cat who came for Christmas is clearly of the Independent Type, and Cleveland Amory, curmudgeon or not, is, where animals are concerned, a pushover.Toe to toe they stand--Amory at six feet three, the cat at six inches--and eyeball to eyeball with each other on every issue: whether...
Publisher
Twelve
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"No announcer ever proclaimed: "Up rises Frazier!" "Havlicek commits the foul, trying to steal the ball!" or "The Giants lose the pennant, The Giants lose the pennant!" Such moments are indelibly etched upon the mind of every sports fan. Or rather, they would be, had they happened. Sports are notoriously games of inches, and when we conjure the thought of certain athletes - like Bill Buckner or Scott Norwood - we can't help but apply a mental tape...