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Me Talk Pretty One Day contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, making it jagged with laughter; and just where the fault lines fall, he sits mischievously perched at the epicenter of it all.
David Sedaris's new collection, Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells a most unconventional...
5) Forrest Gump
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"Bein' a idiot is no box of chocolates," but "at least I ain't led no hum-drum life," says Forrest Gump, the lovable, surprisingly savvy hero of this wonderful comic tale. When the University of Alabama's football team drafts Forrest and makes him a star, that's only the beginning! He flunks out--and goes on to be a Vietnam war hero, a world-class Ping-Pong player, a wrestler, and a business tycoon. He compares battle scars with Lyndon Johnson, discovers...
6) Double Fudge
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Fudge books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
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I love money, money, money" is Fudge's new theme song. HE's drawing dollar signs for breakfast, thumbing through catalogs at bedtime and making enough "Fudge Bucks" so he can buy the whole world. But life really spins out of control when Peter and his family meet thier long-lost relatives.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem. Living with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter feel like a fourth grade nothing. Fudge is never far from trouble. He's a two-year-old terror who gets away with everything-and Peter's had enough. When Fudge walks off with Dribble, Peter's pet turtle, it's the last straw.
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Captain Underpants volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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When George and Harold hypnotize their principal into thinking that he is the superhero Captain Underpants, he leads them to the lair of the nefarious Dr. Diaper, where they must defeat his evil robot henchmen.
9) Superfudge
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Fudge books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
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Twelve-year-old Peter relates his life with his troublesome little brother, Fudge.
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My weird school volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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Disaster reigns when A.J. participates in the school's holiday pageant celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa.
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Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
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"As his school's centennial is coming up, Big Nate is stuck showing the dorky new kid around"--
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Norvelt books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
930L
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After an explosion, a new crime by an old murderer, and the sad passing of the founder of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack accompanies his slightly mental elderly mentor, Miss Volker, on a cross-country run as she pursues the oddest of outlaws.
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Terrible two volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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"Friends and pranking partners Miles and Niles face a tough challenge when their favorite goat and nemesis, Principal Barkin, is replaced by his stern, no-nonsense father, Former Principal Barkin, who turns the school into boot camp"--
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Henry Huggins volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Henry Huggins gets carried away with his own ambitions when he longs for a paper route of his own, and gets some unexpected help from the irrespressible and inescapable ramona Quimby.
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All the wrong questions volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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Thirteen-year-old Lemony Snicket begins his apprenticeship with S. Theodora Markson of the secretive V.F.D. in the tiny dot of a town called Stain'd By The Sea, where he helps investigate the theft of a statue.
19) Cats in the city
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Stick Cat volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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While admiring the view of the city from his friend Edith's apartment, Stick Cat notices that Hazel, the bagel maker, is in danger across the alley, and he devises a plan to rescue her.
20) Ungifted
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
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Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
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