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41) The climbers
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Alma's longing to explore the forest beyond her village leads her to a frightened bear cub who becomes her friend, but soon they are forced away, seeking a place to belong.
42) Los otros osos
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
"Mother and Father Koala are suspicious of the 'other' bears. They don't like the panda bears and they don't trust the polar bears. But their grumpiness melts away as they watch their little Koalas play together with 'other' bears"--
44) Quaking
Author
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In a Pennsylvania town where anti-war sentiments are treated with contempt and violence, Matt, a fourteen-year-old girl living with a Quaker family, deals with the demons of her past as she battles bullies of the present, eventually learning to trust in others as well as herself.
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.4 - AR Pts: 17
Description
A simplified, abridged version of the classic about a monster assembled by a scientist from parts of dead bodies who develops a mind of his own as he learns to loathe himself and hate his creator. Accompanied by a short biography of Mary Shelley and an essay focusing on the story's lessons of tolerance.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
While Rebecca Rubin helps her building's ailing superintendent take care of his homing pigeons, she puzzles over what to do with the Christmas centerpiece her teacher insisted she make but which has no place in her Jewish home.
48) Wally and Mae
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A rabbit and a bear learn the importance of balancing housework with fun.
Author
Formats
Description
Set during WWII and told in alternating voices, Nellie, a young Oregonian and survivor of a balloon bomb sent over by the Japanese, strives to understand how the war has torn her community apart and created prejudice against Japanese-Americans, while across the ocean, as part of her nationalist duty, Tamiko helps create the balloon bombs, but in her struggle to survive hunger and starvation, Tamiko muddles her way through her anger against the United...
50) The meeting
Author
Series
Mr. Badger and Mrs. Fox volume 1
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Having lost their home, a fox and her daughter move in with a badger and his three children, but when the youngsters throw a big party hoping to prove that they are incompatible, their plan backfires.
Author
Series
Half bad trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In modern-day England, where witches live alongside humans, Nathan, son of a White witch and the most powerful Black witch, must escape captivity before his seventeenth birthday and receive the gifts that will determine his future.
52) Clothes minded
Author
Series
Sew Zoey volume 11
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Zoey worries that she is closed-minded when she fouls things up trying to help someone who has a crush on her friend and when she tries to bar someone from joining the school's fashion club.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An old and tired winter wind looks for a place to rest. An oak tree orders the wind away as does a mountain. In frustration the wind gathers into a storm and covers the earth with snow. How will a littlle girl finally offer the wind rest? Allegedly based on a Jewish tale from Soviet Russia. But the writer of the afterword couldn't find the source of the tale in the Soviet Union.
54) Time will tell
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Formats
Description
Relates the efforts of teens Elayah, Liam, Jorja, and Marcie to solve a 1986 murder, and the actions of their then-teenaged parents leading up to the crime.
55) Not our summer
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"Two estranged cousins struggle to overcome a family feud as they travel together on five vacation trips that will change their lives forever. It's bad enough that estranged cousins Becka and KJ see each other at their grandfather's funeral, but when he leaves them a bucket list of places to visit together over the summer, so they can earn their inheritance, it seems like things are about to get much worse. However, with each trip the cousins complete—like...
56) New dragon city
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
"No one predicted the dragon apocalypse. The dragons came suddenly and decimated the world as we knew it, including New York City. Now, three years later, Noah, his hardcore survivalist father, and a ragtag group of survivors are barely scraping by in this new reality. Kids scavenge not only for materials in abandoned homes but also for leftover books at the library. Adults spend their time establishing a make-shift society and defending their shelter…...