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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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"William Golding's unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate debate with its startling, brutal portrait of human nature. William Golding's compelling story about a group of very ordinary boys marooned on a coral island...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 4
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The life-changing story of a young boy's struggle for survival in a Nazi-run concentration camp, narrated in the voice of Holocaust survivor Jack Mandelbaum.
When twelve-year-old Jack Mandelbaum is separated from his family and shipped off to the Blechhammer concentration camp, his life becomes a never-ending nightmare. With minimal food to eat and harsh living conditions threatening his health, Jack manages to survive by
...4) Eldest
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 36
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970L
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After successfully evading an Urgals ambush, Eragon is adopted into the Ingeitum clan and sent to finish his training in magic and swordsmanship so he can further help the Varden in their struggle against the Empire.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Documents the true story of the legendary samurai who was raised in the household of the enemies who killed his father before being sent to live in a monastery where, against the odds, he learned and perfected his fighting skills. --Publisher's description.
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Wolves Chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Dido wants to leave the mysterious Nantucket farmhouse and go home to England but everything depends on the pink whale.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 9
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"Critically acclaimed Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings to bold life the remarkable story of the Danish resistance and rescue of over 7,000 Jews during WWII. When the Nazis invaded Denmark on Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go about their daily lives as if nothing had changed. But...
14) See what I see
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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When eighteen-year-old Kate arrives on the Detroit doorstep of her long-estranged father, a famous painter, she is shocked to learn that he is dying and does not want to support her efforts to attend the local art school.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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This profoundly moving memoir is the remarkable and inspiring true story of Sandra Uwiringiyimana, a girl from the Democratic Republic of the Congo who tells the tale of how she survived a massacre, immigrated to America, and overcame her trauma through art and activism. Sandra was just ten years old when she found herself with a gun pointed at her head. She had watched as rebels gunned down her mother and six-year-old sister in a refugee camp. Remarkably,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1845, a disaster struck Ireland. Overnight a mysterious blight attacked the potato crops, turning the potatoes black and destroying the staple food of the Irish people. Some people blamed the fairies, whom they believed lived in the Irish countryside. Other people called it "the will of God." Still others blamed the British government and landlords, who held power over Ireland and the Irish people. Over the next five years, the blight attacked...
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