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1) Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Author

Kinney, Jeff

Series

Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7
Recorded Books unabridged

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3

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NYT - Children’s Series

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Book, CD, eBook, Playaway, Realia - Game, Kit, etc.

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Greg records his sixth grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.

2) Anne of Green Gables

Author

Montgomery, L. M

Series

Anne of Green Gables volume 1
Great classics for children
Mackin classics
Usborne Illustrated Originals
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3

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Testing for Tom Sawyer bug

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Book, CD, eBook, Large Print

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"Marilla Cuthbert and her brother, Matthew, wanted to adopt a boy. Matthew needed someone to help him with the chores on their farm, and they sent word to town to have the orphanage send them a boy. What they got instead was a skinny, freckled-faced, eleven-year-old girl with a head full of dreams."--BOOK JACKET.

3) The adventures of Tom Sawyer

Author

Twain, Mark

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1

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Testing for Tom Sawyer bug

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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...

4) The adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Author

Twain, Mark

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1

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Banned & Challenged Books

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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...

5) Treasure Island

Author

Stevenson, Robert Louis

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12

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"Young Jim Hawkins and his friends set sail for Treasure Island, hoping to find the buried loot of Captin Flint, fiercest of all the pirates. But, unknown to them, the crew of their own ship is made up of Flint's former crew, led by the evil one-legged pirate Long John Silver. Once on the island Jim and his friends must find the buried treasure and escape before the pirates capture them. Robert Louis Stevenson's timeless tale of greed and gold remains...

6) Because of Winn-Dixie

Author

DiCamillo, Kate

Series

Andy Shane volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3

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Book, Audio Cassette, CD, eBook

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When ten-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, with her preacher father, she doesn't know what to expect, least of all, that she'll adopt Winn-Dixie, a dog she names after the supermarket where they met. Opal is lonely at first, but with such an unusually friendly dog at her side, she makes some unusual friends and discovers she has a whole lot to be thankful for.

7) The hobbit, or, there and back again

Author

Tolkien, J. R. R

Series

Lord of the rings
Hobbit
Middle-Earth Universe

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16

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Bilbo Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life, rarely traveling any farther than his pantry or cellar. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to whisk him away on an adventure. They have launched a plot to raid the treasure hoard guarded by Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon. Bilbo reluctantly joins their quest, unaware that on his...

8) Harry Potter and the chamber of secrets

Author

Rowling, J. K

Series

Harry Potter (MinaLima edition) volume 2
Year ... at Hogwarts volume 2

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14

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Book, Audio Cassette, CD, eAudiobook, Large Print

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"For Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls' bathroom. But then real trouble begins--someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects ... Harry Potter himself?"--Page...

9) The Secret Garden

Author

Burnett, Frances Hodgson

Series

A Yearling book
Classic literature with classical music
Scholastic classics
Puffin classics
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Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13

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When Mary Lennox is sent from India to the moors of England to live with her uncle after losing her parents, not only does she discover a secret garden, but she also discovers the true meaning of family, friendship, and perseverance. This magical, timeless classic, originally published in 1911, is by the author of A Little Princess and Little Lord Faunteleroy.

10) A tale of two cities

Author

Dickens, Charles

Series

Oxford world's classics
The World's Great Classics
Harper's modern classics
Classics to grow on
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Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27

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Book, Audio Cassette, CD, Graphic Novel, Large Print

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It was the time of the French Revolution - a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds.Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported...

11) The boys from Biloxi

Author

Grisham, John

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NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction

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For most of the last hundred years, Biloxi was known for its beaches, resorts, and seafood industry. But it had a darker side. It was also notorious for corruption and vice, everything from gambling, prostitution, bootleg liquor, and drugs to contract killings. The vice was controlled by small cabal of mobsters, many of them rumored to be members of the Dixie Mafia. Keith Rudy and Hugh Malco grew up in Biloxi in the sixties and were childhood friends,...

12) Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow

Author

Zevin, Gabrielle

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NYT - Audio Fiction
NYT - Combined Print & E-Book Fiction
NYT - Hardcover Fiction

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On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name. For a moment, she pretends she hasn't heard him, but then, she turns, and a game begins: a legendary collaboration that will launch them to stardom. These friends, intimates since childhood, borrow money, beg favors, and, before even graduating college, they have...

13) Charlotte's web

Author

White, E. B

Series

Newbery Honor Book volume 1953

Accelerated Reader

IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5

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Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.

14) Of mice and men

Author

Steinbeck, John

Series

Viking Large type Book
The Modern library of the world's best books
Penguin Audio Classics

Accelerated Reader

IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4

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Book, CD

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This book pulls you in and won't let you out until you have read through the last page. It captures your heart. It is the story of George Milton and Lennie Small. They struggle together to fight the realities of the American society. All they want is to own a farm of their own with horses, chickens, cows and rabbits. George is short tempered but always looks out for his friend Lenny. Lenny is mentally ill to a degree and thinks like a kid, but he...