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2) Wishtree
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
590L
Description
"A red oak tree and a crow help their human neighbors work out their differences"--
"Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Red is the neighborhood "wishtree"--People write their wishes on pieces of cloth and tie them to Red's branches. Along with a crow named Bongo and other animals who seek refuge in Red's hollows, this wishtree watches over the neighborhood. You might say that Red has seen it all. Until a new family moves in. Not everyone is...
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 6
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Middle-school drama queen Nikki Maxwell worries about asking a boy to her school's "sweetheart dance."
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
730L
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Description
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
It's just a small story really, about among other things: a girl, some words, an accordionist, some fanatical Germans, a Jewish fist-fighter, and quite a lot of thievery. Set during World War II in Germany, Markus...
Author
Series
If you give-- (Laura Numeroff) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Chaos can ensue if you give a moose a muffin and start him on a cycle of urgent requests.
10) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the Canadian wilderness, learning to survive with only the aid of a hatchet given him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Includes an introduction and sidebar commentary by the author.
11) Too many toys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Although he finally agrees that he has too many toys and needs to give them away, there is one toy that Spencer absolutely cannot part with.
Author
Series
Magic Shop (Kate Egan) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Mike reluctantly bonds with good-girl neighbor Nora while learning fun skills at The White Rabbit magic shop, the owner of which believes Mike could become a great magician.
Author
Publisher
Calkins Creek, an imprint of Highlights
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"In 1926, droves of Americans traveled by train across the United States to visit the West. They ate at Harvey Houses, where thousands of well-trained waitresses provided first-class service. [This novel] tells the first-person story of one spunky girl, Kitty Evans, as she faces the often funny and painful experiences she and fellow waitresses Cordelia and Emmy endure." --Amazon.com
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1000L
Description
For Milo, everything's a bore. What a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing: life is far from dull....
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
680L
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
19) Wringer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
Description
As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it. He did not want to be a wringer. Palmer LaRue is rUnning out of birthdays. For as long as he can remember, he's dreaded the day he turns ten, the day he's supposed to become a wringer. This thing, this not wanting to be a wringer, did it ever knock him from his bike? Unite his sneaker lace? Call him a name?...
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