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Kingdom at the end of the driveway volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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A twelve-year-old boy stumbles upon a secret cave of talking animals and learns this dog was their king. Benjamin and his animal friends embark on a dangerous journey to destroy a monster before it returns to kill them all.
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Kingdom at the end of the driveway volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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Three weeks have passed since King Benjamin, Paco and the others saved the kingdom at the end of the driveway. Farangis's carcass decays in the old ivy-covered barn. The kingdom is once again safe ... or is it? Talk of King Pugsly's long lost son fills the hall. Anticipation is setting in to declare the new king. Now, however, news out of Persly's Woods is that a massive gathering of animals in fear of another terror waits to be led safely to the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 15
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Twelve-year-old Ben Brown runs away from the circus with his dog (and best friend) Sancho to seek out his missing father. He stumbles into the lives of young sisters Bab and Betty Moss who live with their mother in a quiet, tidy house. Ben's juggling skills, Sancho's trick of spelling his name with letter blocks, and the duo's other tricks of the trade charm the small family while Bab and Betty's whimsical antics and their mother's steady goodness...
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Kingdom at the end of the driveway volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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"With King Pugsly's do-nothing heir, Mac, now on the throne, problems are building for both the kingdom and Benjamin Biggs. Mac's owner, Jessica Howell, the Watermelon Queen, has gone missing and Benjamin believes Farangis's mysterious mother is behind her disappearance. There are worse things, however, than snakes out there. Mac's defiant brother Jonah has gotten himself trapped inside the giant python due to a hair-brained scheme to win the throne....
7) Old Yeller
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
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When a novel like Huckleberry Finn, or The Yearling, comes along it defies customary adjectives because of the intensity of the respouse it evokes in the reader. Such a book, we submit, is Old Yeller; to read this eloquently simple story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country is an unforgettable and deeply moving experience. Set in the rough wilderness of early frontier Texas, "Old Yeller" is a timeless coming-of-age tale. Travis is left to...
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Come along with Average Boy, the longtime popular character from the Clubhouse magazine feature, "Adventures of Average Boy," in his hilarious journey through the school year. In this middle-grade fiction book, readers will follow Bob (Average Boy) and laugh at his antics as he seeks to set goals and reach them with varying success. One of his big goals is his youth group's yearlong challenge to stand up for God. Enjoy the signature humor of Christian...
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I survived volume 23
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
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It was 1964 in the brand-new state of Alaska, a vast land of staggering beauty and heart-stopping dangers. Eleven-year-old Jack had grown up living happily with his parents in an off-the-grid cabin, miles from their closest neighbors. Grizzlies and wolves outnumbered people, and dark winter days were 30 degrees below zero. Jack had always thought of himself as strong--"Alaska tough". But then the most powerful earthquake in American history--the Good...
10) The Red pony
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
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The Red pony: On cover: "The moving and beautiful story of a boy, a sorrel colt and the sun-drenched California earth." Junius Maltby: After ten years as a San Francisco accountant, Junius moves to sunny Pastures of Heaven, marries, has a son and becomes poverty stricken through laziness. When he realizes he is hurting his son, he has to make a decision.
11) Vicious cycle
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When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan--the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
950L
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The adventures of a mischievous young boy and his friends growing up in a Mississippi River town in the nineteenth century. Who could forget the pranks, the adventures, the sheer fun of Tom Sawyer? It's something every child should experience and every child will love. From Tom's sly trickery with the whitewashed fence, when he cleverly manipulates everyone so they happily do his work for him, to his and Becky Thatcher's calamities in Bat Cave, the...
13) Fire the depths
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Max Tilt volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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When thirteen-year-old Max Tilt happens upon his great-great-great-grandfather Jules Verne's unfinished, unpublished manuscript, The Lost Treasures, he doesn't realize that he's found the answers to all his problems. And Max has a lot of problems--his mother is sick, his father is out of work, and his home is about to be foreclosed on. But when Max and his cousin Alex discover that Verne's last work reveals everything he wrote was fact, not fiction,...
15) Soup & me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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The further adventures and misadventures of Rob and Soup, two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.
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In this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age novel, thirteen-year-old Joel Knox, after losing his mother, is sent from New Orleans to live with the father who abandoned him at birth. But when Joel arrives at Skully's Landing, the decaying mansion in rural Alabama, his father is nowhere to be found. Instead, Joel meets his morose stepmother, Amy, eccentric cousin Randolph, and a defiant little girl named Idabel, who soon offers Joel the love and approval...
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Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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An unbelievably hilarious middle-grade story inspired by true experiences from bestselling author Jordan Sonnenblick. In a typical school year, every kid has one or two things go wrong. But for Jordan, there's A LOT going wrong ALL THE TIME By keeping his cool (some of the time), banging on the drums (a lot), and keeping his sense of humor (all the time), Jordan's going to try to make it through the year . . . and grow up to write a book about it!...
19) The sandlot
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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
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The kids' classic about a magical summer of baseball, wild adventures, first kisses, and fearsome confrontations with the dreaded Beast.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. A sweet and charming coming-of-age story that explores friendship, love, and coming out. Charlie and Nick's relationship has been going really well, and Charlie thinks he's ready to say those three little words: I love you. Nick feels the same way, but he's got a lot on his mind -- especially the thought of coming out to his dad and the fact that Charlie might have an eating disorder. As a new...
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