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21) The good lion
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An account of the time in the pilot Beryl Markham's childhood in Kenya when she was attacked by a lion that her neighbors kept as a pet.
Author
Series
Little House volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Laura and her family move to Minnesota where they live in a dugout until a new house is built and face misfortunes caused by flood, blizzard, and grasshoppers.
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Here, in high style, is the story of a wisecracking adventurer who came of age in the untamed West. A rebel who surprised himself by becoming the most famous American of his time.
Author
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
One summer day in 1959, nine-year-old Ron McNair, who dreams of becoming a pilot, walks into the Lake City, South Carolina, public library and insists on checking out some books, despite the rule that only white people can have library cards. Includes facts about McNair, who grew up to be an astronaut.
26) Ugly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Robert Hoge was born with a tumor the size of a tennis ball in the middle of his face and short, twisted legs, but he refused to let what made him different stand in the way of leading a happy, successful life. This is the true story of how he embraced his circumstances and never let his "ugly" stop him from focusing on what truly mattered."--
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
28) Juno
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up for adoption. The next step is to find prospective parents...
Author
Publisher
Frances Foster Books/Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
Children's book author Claire A. Nivola explores the village of Orani, the tiny hamlet in the mountains of central Sardinia where her father lived before moving to New York during World War II.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 42
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie must travel back in time to New Orleans in 1915 to help a teenaged Louis Armstrong fulfill his destiny and become the "King of Jazz."
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
62 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ramona is very serious about beach volleyball, and she is frustrated with her summer league team--but when she learns that a plastics company is going to build a factory in their park, she realizes that it will take the whole team to try and save their court.
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books, Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by the author's grandfather's experiences living in a lodge in the woods, a story of how people and animals survive a forest fire in a small Canadian town"--
34) Solito: a memoir
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A young poet tells the unforgettable story of his harrowing migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company, an imprint of Hachette Book Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
419 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Masked Man is on the loose in the Land of Stories, and it's up to Alex and Conner Bailey to stop him ... except Alex has been thrown off the Fairy Council, and no one will believe they're in danger.