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Chocolate War volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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A high school freshman discovers the devestating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fund raising drive and arousing the wrath of the school bullies.
82) Cat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents a photographic introduction to cats, explaining what they are, tracing the history of cats, examining their physical characteristics and behaviors, and looking at different types of cats.
83) Explorer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Looks at the worlds of Amelia Earhart, Jacques Cousteau, Marco Polo and other famous explorers, sharing real-life photographs of their equipment and personal possessions as well as objects they found.
85) The Egypt Game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
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A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
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"Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress...
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88) Colorado
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Introduces the geography, history, people, industries, and environmental concerns of the Rocky Mountain State.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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From the No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of It Ends With Us and November 9 comes a moving and haunting novel of family, love, and the power of the truth.'Not every mistake deserves a consequence. Sometimes the only thing it deserves is forgiveness.' The Voss family is anything but normal. They live in a repurposed church, newly baptized Dollar Voss. The once cancer-stricken mother lives in the basement, the father is married to the mother's...
90) My "T" Book
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A boy named Little T puts objects that begin with the letter T, such as toys and turtles, into a box.
91) Pokémon
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"Engaging images accompany information about Pokémon. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
93) 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.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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"In the early morning of April 26, 1986, a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant became unstable, causing a huge explosion. But the disaster was only just beginning. Follow along with the true story of a doomed power plant that is still dangerous today. Then, review what you've learned with a recap timeline and a quick quiz to check how much doomed history you remember"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
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The author details his immersion in a world of hardcore drugs, revealing the mental and physical depths of addiction, and the violent relapse one summer in California that forever changed his life, leading him down the road to recovery.
97) A tree is nice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Briefly describes the value of a tree.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 7
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""Not even the scariest of fairy tales could have prepared me for the monsters I would confront while just a boy of ten ... or for the hero, disguised as a monster himself, who would save my life." Leon Leyson loved playing on the Krakow streetcars with his friends and tagging along after his older brothers ... Then, suddenly, German soldiers were: In his country. In his city. In his home. Seemingly overnight, the life he knew vanished. The Third...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
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When her evil aunt Redd kills her parents and seizes the throne, young Alyss Heart is forced to flee Wonderland through the Pool of Tears. She finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.
100) Astronomy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Looks at the history of astronomy, identitifes important astronomers, and summarizes what is known about the Sun, Moon, planets, and stars.