Erin McGuire
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Description
Information is electronically stored, organized, and managed in every industry imaginable. The expansion of media, communication, and commerce on the Internet has added to the need to build and maintain databases. This book explains the important role of database designers, allowing readers to assess their interest and start on a path toward a thriving career. Fact boxes, photographs, and illustrations support the engaging narrative.
2) The Real Boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Description
On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy named Oscar. Oscar is a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the village, and spends his days in a small room in the dark cellar of his master's shop grinding herbs and dreaming of the wizards who once lived on the island generations ago. Oscar's world is small, but he likes it that way. The real world is vast, strange, and unpredictable. And Oscar does not quite...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Anne Ursu, author of the National Book Award nominee The Real Boy, returns with a story of the power of fantasy, the limits of love, and the struggles inherent in growing up. When you're an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant--and from their first moments in the world...
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Series
Hard Pan trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
The residents of Hard Pan, California, come together to help Brigitte and Lucky when the County Health Department threatens to close down the caf�e, and meantime Miles's life is complicated by his mother's return.
6) Breadcrumbs
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
"Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life" -- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
This second book in the acclaimed Bliss trilogy mixes the down-home heart-punch of Ingrid Law's Newbery Honor Book Savvy, the always-on-the-edge-of-chaos comedy of Cheaper by the Dozen, and a humorous magic all its own to create a thoroughly original confection to please every reader's sweet tooth!
The Bliss family's magical Cookery Booke was stolen by evil Aunt Lily at the end of Bliss, the first novel in the series. Now
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Series
Shelter pet squad volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In this charming illustrated chapter book series by Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord, the Shelter Pet Squad kids find the perfect homes for animals in need!
There's a big surprise for the Shelter Pet Squad: A group of sato puppies has arrived! Satos are homeless dogs -- of various breeds -- from Puerto Rico. The kids will help them settle in until they are ready for adoption. Suzannah plays with a pup named Paloma until the little dog falls asleep...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In this charming illustrated chapter book series by Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord, the Shelter Pet Squad kids find the perfect homes for animals in need!
A pet is missing! When Suzannah arrives to volunteer at the shelter, one of the animals is missing! It's Merlin, a mischievous ferret who gets into everything, and loves to play hide and seek.Owning a ferret can be really hard work, the Shelter Pet Squad discovers. Whoever takes Merlin home...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In this charming illustrated chapter book series by Newbery Honor author Cynthia Lord, the Shelter Pet Squad kids find the perfect homes for animals in need!
Suzannah's always wanted a pet of her own, but she lives in an apartment where there are absolutely no pets allowed. What she CAN do is volunteer at a local pet shelter. There, although she's the youngest, Suzannah quickly finds herself making friends with the kids and bonding with the animals....
11) Bite-Sized Magic
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
This third book in Kathryn Littlewood's acclaimed Bliss trilogy mixes the down-home heart punch of Ingrid Law's Newbery Honor Book, Savvy, the always-on-the-edge-of-chaos comedy of Cheaper by the Dozen, and a humorous magic all its own to create a thoroughly original confection, a delicious guilty pleasure for readers of all ages. Rose won back her family's magical Cookery Booke in an international baking competition in A Dash of Magic, the second...