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1) Wondrous Rex
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Grace's aunt is a writer. She works with words every day and teaches Grace interesting words like "melancholy" and "delirious." But Lily is often "flummoxed" by her writing. Her stories don't go anywhere, her desk is a mess, and her writer's group can't help. So Lily posts an ad for an assistant: A writer of books needs an assistant, a coach, a helper, for inspiration and some magic! The next day, Grace opens the door, and there is Rex: a Labrador...
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Series
Tuesday McGillycuddy volume 1
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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"When Tuesday McGillycuddy and her beloved dog Baxterr discover that Tuesday's mother--the famous author Serendipity Smith--has gone missing, they set out on a magical adventure. In their quest to find Serendipity, they discover the mysterious and unpredictable place that stories come from"--
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43 Old Cemetery Road volume 3
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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In this story told mostly through letters, Noah Breth's feuding children come to Ghastly, Illinois, to follow a trail of limericks to their inheritance, while Seymour tries to convince Iggy and Olive to let him keep Mr. Breth's dog.
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"Everyone knows the students in Corbin College's elite academic society, Magni Viri, have it allfree tuition, inspirational professors, and dream jobs once they graduate. So when Tara is offered a chance to enroll, she takes it. But once she's settled into the gorgeous Victorian dormitory the academy calls home, something strange starts to happen. She finally has the chance to write, but her stories are dark and twisted. When she's not sleepwalking,...
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"Why? distills the conversations many children and adults are having about race, injustice, and anger in communities throughout our country, and gives them context that young readers can connect with. Heartfelt and deeply piercing illustrations from Shane W. Evans will leave a lasting impact on readers of any age. One that will hopefully lead to more conversations, change, and peace within our own communities and the world." --
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"A delightfully creepy collection of tales about everything from a Jekyll/Hyde homeroom teacher to a boiler-room ghoul to a kid's wobbly "baby eye," woven between excerpts from a central story about a girl whose favourite horror author is stealing children's nightmares for his books."--
8) More bears!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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When an author starts writing, children yell that they want more bears in the story.
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Treehouse series volume 4
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Andy and Terry try to solve the mystery of: What happened to Mr. Big Nose? After all, it's hard to turn in your next book when your publisher has vanished.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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All Imogene Scott knows of her mother is the bedtime story her father told her as a child. It's the story of how her parents met: he, a forensic pathologist, she, a mysterious woman who came to identify a body. A woman who left Imogene and her father when Imogene was a baby, a woman who was always possessed by a powerful loneliness, a woman who many referred to as "troubled waters." Now Imogene is seventeen, and her father, a famous author of medical...
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Treehouse books volume 12
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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"It's the night before Christmas but Andy and Terry aren't ready yet! They haven't written their letters to Santa, they haven't sung any carols or hung their stockings, and now Mr. Big Nose wants their next book done by tomorrow. When Santa Claus's sleigh crash-lands in the treehouse, the reindeer become tangled in the branches and Santa falls into the cloning machine. With dozens of Santas running around and no way to tell which one's the real one,...
Author
Series
43 Old Cemetery Road volume 1
Publisher
Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
In this story told mostly through letters, children's book author, I. B. Grumply, gets more than he bargained for when he rents a quiet place to write for the summer.
14) Dark fire
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Series
Last dragon chronicles volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
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Bestselling author David Rain returns to help Lucy and the Pennykettle dragons try to find and destroy a drop of dark fire before it is discovered and used to birth a darkling, while in the Arctic, enshrouded in mist, hide dragons that have at last returned to Earth.
15) Someone Like Me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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In this semi-autobiographical picture book, author Patricia MacLachlan relates what it might take to grow up to become a writer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
560L
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Andy and Terry live in a 78-story treehouse. It has a an open-air movie theatre with a super-giant screen ... which is a very useful thing to have now that Terry s going to be a big-shot movie star! After Andy gets cut out of the movie, he and Terry have a big fight and decide they don t want to be best friends anymore.
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Series
Treehouse series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
770L
Description
It used to be the Thirteen-Story Treehouse, but now Andy and Terry, two creative boys who write books together, have added on and it is Twenty-Six Stories now, complete with a skate ramp, the Maze of Doom, an ice cream parlor, and even an antigravity chamber--plenty of space to have adventures in.
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Cici's journal volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Cici dreams of being a novelist. Her favorite subject: people, especially adults. She's been watching them and taking notes. Everybody has one special secret, Cici figures, and if you want to write about people, you need to understand what's hiding inside them. But now she's discovered something truly strange: an old man who disappears into the forest every Sunday with huge pots of paint in all sorts of colors. What is he up to? Why does he look so...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Andy and Terry live in a 143-story treehouse. (It used to be a 130-story treehouse, but they built another 13 stories.) It has a baked bean geyser that erupts on the hour every hour, a wrecking ball, a fish milkshake shack, a word-o-matic (it knows every word in the whole world!), a toffee apple orchard guarded by a kind-hearted scarecrow, and a camping ground.Andy's been a bit stressed out lately, so Terry decides the perfect way to relax would be...
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