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1) Me-- Jane
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Holding her stuffed toy chimpanzee, young Jane Goodall observes nature, reads Tarzan books, and dreams of living in Africa and helping animals. Includes biographical information on the prominent zoologist.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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As a young boy, Theodore "Teedie" Roosevelt was small, had weak eyes, and frail muscles. But Teedie was also inquisitive, brave, and self-sufficient. Determined to overcome his childhood ailments, Teedie changed from a timid homebody into an adventurous man. He explored the Wild West, fought in the Spanish-American War, served as president of the United States, and helped build the Panama Canal.
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Magic tree house. Merlin missions volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Jack and Annie travel in their magic tree house to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Young Abe Lincoln is all dressed up in his best suit and on his way to deliver an important speech. As he walks along, he finds a pig stuck in a mudhole. Abe hates to see any animal suffer. If he helps the pig, his clothes will get muddy. What would people think of a mud-covered speaker? Abe doesn't want to leave the pig stranded, but he has no other nice clothes to wear. So, he continues down the road toward town, feeling guilty. He knows a pig isn't...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When she is chosen to compete in the local spelling bee, Stacey learns that, win or lose, her words are powerful, and sometimes perseverance is the most important word of all, in this debut picture book from the iconic voting rights advocate.
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As he spends hours studying his father's world map, a young boy escapes the hunger and misery of refugee life. Based on the author's childhood in Kazakhstan, where he lived as a Polish refugee during World War II.
14) The shape game
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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The author/illustrator describes how his mother's wish to spend her birthday visiting an art museum with her family changed the course of his life forever.
16) Here we all are
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Children's author-illustrator Tomie De Paola describes his experiences at home and in school when he was a boy.
18) What a Year
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tomie has an eventful first grade year with his sixth birthday party, his first Halloween trick-or-treating followed by Thanksgiving, his first Christmas pageant, and a late night New Year's celebration.
20) The Good Lion
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
An account of the time in the pilot Beryl Markham's childhood in Kenya when she was attacked by a lion that her neighbors kept as a pet.
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