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1) Dog
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Text and photographs highlight the evolutionary history of dogs, their domestication, anatomy, behavior, and breeds, and offer guidance on dog care and training.--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Two children sitting at home on a rainy day are visited by the Cat in the Hat who shows them some tricks and games. "Poor Dick and Sally. It's cold and wet and they're stuck in the house with nothing to do . . . until a giant cat in a hat shows up, transforming the dull day into a madcap adventure and almost wrecking the place in the process! Written by Dr. Seuss in 1957 in response to the concern that "pallid primers [with] abnormally courteous,...
5) Fox in socks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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A collection of tongue twisters that is an amusing exercise for beginning readers.
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Bad Kitty (Chapter books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Bad Kitty really needs a bath, and she is forced to take one. The following are some items you will need for Kittyś bath: one bathtub, plenty of water, dry towels, a suit of armor, a letter to your loved ones, clean underwear, an ambulance in your driveway with the engine running, and, oh, yeah, youĺl also need Kitty, but good luck with that!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 36
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Set in the 1930s, this novel traces the rise and fall of demagogue Willie Talos, a fictional Southern politician who resembles the real-life Huey "Kingfish" Long of Louisiana. Talos begins his career as an idealistic man of the people, but he soon becomes corrupted by success, caught between dreams of service and a lust for power.
9) Cat's cradle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Told with deadpan humour and bitter irony, Kurt Vonnegut's cult tale of global destruction preys on our deepest fears of witnessing Armageddon and, worse still, surviving it.
11) Ancient Greece
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Illustrations and text provide information about the land, history, beliefs, achievements, and daily lives of the people of ancient Greece.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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"An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who must unlock the powerful magic buried deep inside her. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the forest, Xan, is kind and gentle. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster named Glerk and...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 24
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to San Francisco in 1906, in time for them to experience one of the biggest earthquakes the United States had ever known.
17) Player piano
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Vonnegut's first novel spins the chilling tale of engineer Paul Proteus, who must find a way to live in a world dominated by a super computer and run completely by machines. His rebellion is a wildly funny, darkly satirical look at modern society.
This novel, an unforgiving portrait of an automated and totalitarian future, was published in 1952. A human revolt against the machines which control life was arranged by the machines themselves to prove...
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In Anthony Burgess’s influential nightmare vision of the future, where the criminals take over after dark, the story is told by the central character, Alex, a teen who talks in a fantastically inventive slang that evocatively renders his and his friends’ intense reaction against their society. Dazzling and transgressive, A Clockwork Orange is a frightening fable about good and evil and the meaning of human freedom. This edition includes the controversial...
19) Djibouti
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In a modern-day pirate story, ambitious documentary filmmaker Dara Barr and her right-hand man, Xavier LeBo, a seventy-two-year-old African American seafarer, get more than they bargained for on the Horn of Africa.