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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mr Willy Wonka is the most extraordinary chocolate maker in the world. And do you know who Charlie is? Charlie Bucket is the hero. The other children in this book are nasty little beasts, called: Augustus Gloop - a great big greedy nincompoop; Veruca Salt - a spoiled brat; Violet Beauregarde - a repulsive little gum-chewer; Mike Teavee - a boy who only watches television. Clutching their Golden Tickets, they arrive at Wonka's chocolate factory. But...
6) Lyddie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
Description
Impoverished Vermont farm girl Lyddie Worthen is determined to gain her independence by becoming a factory worker in Lowell, Massachusetts, in the 1840s.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 720L
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, Luli and Yun, raised in an orphanage to age sixteen, work together in a factory until Yun, pregnant, disappears and Luli must confront the dangers of the outside world to find her. Includes facts about China's One-Child Policy and itseffects.
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Pub. Date
2006.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
After a seventh-grader discovers that the grooves in his Thigpen-brand blue jeans are encoded with a cry for help, he sets out to save the factory workers from greedy entrepreneur Howard Thigpen.
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
490L
Language
English
Description
Have you ever thought about how a car is made? Let s take a tour of a fascinating factory. Here, teams of workers plan and build the cars that get us around and keep us safe.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton volume 27
Publisher
Scholastic, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
Geronimo Stilton regrets that he is too busy to celebrate Christmas in New Mouse City and wishes he could fly to Santa's toy factory.
14) Reality leak
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Train noises without trains and mysterious explosions baffle the residents of South Wiggot as eleven-year-old Bryan and his friend Spot try to connect the strange happenings with the town's newest industry and its president, Mr. Keen.
15) Monsters, Inc
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the world behind our closet doors, James P. "Sulley" Sullivan and Mike Wazowski work hard. To be exact, monsters like Mike and Sulley pick up their paychecks at Monsters Inc., the utility company that generates energy for the monster world from our children's screams. These days, it's getting harder and harder to shock kids properly--they've been spoiled by television--so much so that now there's an energy shortage! One day Sulley, the number one...
Author
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
When Carrington Brouwer receives the enviable job of painting carousel horses for a factory in Ohio, she believes her future is secure. But after an expensive necklace disappears from the home where she's been staying, she's caught up in a search for the truth that puts her entire livelihood--and her developing relationship with the factory manager--at risk. Can she lead police to the real culprit before she loses everything?
Author
Language
English
Description
British pilots James Teasdale and Bryan Young have been chosen to conduct a special photo-reconnaissance mission near Dresden, Germany. Intelligence believes the Nazis are building new factories that could turn the tide of the war. When their plane is shot down, James and Bryan know they will be executed if captured. With an enemy patrol in pursuit, they manage to jump aboard a train reserved for senior SS soldiers wounded on the eastern front. In...