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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
"For over forty years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people (including a dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge, a bookie, a burglar, and a bomber) who are invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the game. All they have to do is...
3) Vanity fair
Author
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1848, this social satire is about greed and corruption, told through the story of two girls: one a social climber who lives beyond her means and the other who is honest, but poor.
4) The getaway
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 12
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Greg Heffley and his family escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation, but sun poisoning, stomach troubles, and venomous creatures all threaten their vacation.
Author
Series
Enchanted Forest chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Bored with traditional palace life, Princess Cimorene travels to the Mountains of Morning where she is befriended by a group of powerful dragons and joins in their struggle to protect their kingdom from being taken over by disreputable wizards.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
440L
Language
English
Description
More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during Show and Tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
Escapades of a lucky little girl who lives with a horse and a monkey--but without any parents--at the edge of a Swedish village. Astrid Lindgren's story of feisty, red-haired Pippi has been given a sparkling new translation by award-winning Tiina Nunnally and engaging pictures by acclaimed Lauren Child.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
930L
Language
English
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Description
Overview: How shall we begin? This is the story of a book called The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy-not an Earth book, never published on Earth and, until the terrible catastrophe occurred, never seen or even heard of by any Earthman. Nevertheless, a wholly remarkable book.-Or- This is the story of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a number-one best seller in England, a weekly radio series with millions of fanatic listeners, and soon to be a...
9) Hard luck
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 8
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
"Greg Heffley's on a losing streak. His best friend, Rowley Jefferson, has ditched him, and finding new friends in middle school is proving to be a tough task. To change his fortunes, Greg decides to take a leap of faith and turn his decisions over to chance. Will a roll of the dice turn things around, or is Greg's life destined to be just another hard-luck story?"--
10) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Captured by a giant! The BFG is no ordinary bone-crunching giant. He is far too nice and jumbly. It's lucky for Sophie that he is. Had she been carried off in the middle of the night by the Bloodbottler, the Fleshlumpeater, the Bonecruncher, or any of the other giants -- rather than the BFG -- she would have soon become breakfast. When Sophie hears that they are flush-bunking off in England to swollomp a few nice little chiddlers, she decides she...
12) Sweet Thursday
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Series
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English
Description
In Monterey, on the California coast, Sweet Thursday is what they call the day after Lousy Wednesday, which is one of those days that are just naturally bad. Returning to the scene of Cannery Row, the weedy lots and junk heaps and flophouses of Monterey, John Steinbeck once more brings to life the denizens of a netherworld of laughter and tears, from Fauna, new headmistress of the local brothel, to Hazel, a bum whose mother must have wanted a daughter....
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Language
English
Description
"Set in 1960s California, this blockbuster debut is the hilarious, idiosyncratic and uplifting story of a female scientist whose career is constantly derailed by the idea that a woman's place is in the home, only to find herself starring as the host of America's most beloved TV cooking show. Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it's the...
14) The great brain
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
The exploits of the Great Brain of Adenville, Utah are described by his younger brother, frequently the victim of the Great Brain's schemes for gaining prestige or money.
15) The great escape
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Language
English
Description
Lucy Jorik, the daughter of the former president of the U.S., jilts her soon-to-be husband at the altar and embarks on the adventure she has been waiting for.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"CLASSIC FICTION (CHILDREN'S/TEENAGE)" Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Danny lives in a gipsy caravan with his father, the most marvellous and exciting father any boy ever had. All the land around them belongs to Mr Victor Hazell, a rich snob with a great glistening beery face and tiny piggy eyes. Nobody likes him, not one-little...
17) Socks
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
The happy home life of Socks, the cat, is disrupted by the addition of a new baby to the household.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Ignatius J. Reilly of New Orleans, --selfish, domineering, deluded, tragic and larger than life-- is a noble crusader against a world of dunces. He is a modern-day Quixote beset by giants of the modern age. In magnificent revolt against the twentieth century, Ignatius propels his monstrous bulk among the flesh posts of the fallen city, documenting life on his Big Chief tablets as he goes, until his maroon-haired mother decrees that Ignatius must work....