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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 12
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On a seemingly normal day at the exclusive Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of great wealth and exacting tastes, makes an extraordinary Đ20,000 wager; he will perform an impossible feat and circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. Accompanied only by his new French valet, the steady Passepartout, he sets off on a thrilling journey. Adventure, chaos and romance ensue as the daring pair harness the new power of steam to escape their ever-increasing...
2) Black Beauty
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 11
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A horse in nineteenth-century England recounts his experiences with both good and bad masters.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 11
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Ceddie is a regular little boy living in New York with his mother. That is until the day a tall, old gentleman arrives to inform him of some startling news. Ceddie, it turns out, is the child of a great, old English family. He must go to England to live with the Earl his grandfather and become a person he never knew he was: Little Lord Fauntleroy. What the old gentleman neglects to mention is that Ceddie's grandfather is one of the most grumpy, grouchy,...
4) Pollyanna
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When orphaned Pollyanna comes to live with Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
9) Refugee
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2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
10) Old Yeller
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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A story of a boy and his dog in the Texas hill country ranks high in the annals of boy and dogdom. Gipson, in earlier books, has evinced an evocative quality which recaptures for the reader the sounds, the smells, the sights of the region he knows and loves, recaptures too the emotional quality, the moods of his central figure. This was particularly true in Hound-Dog Man, which for some readers was marred by the vernacular. In Old Yeller the story...
11) Number the stars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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When John Hale's parents moved from Chicago to a farm in the Dakota Territory in the late 1880s, he was not happy (too hot in summer, too cold in winter, and that is just the beginning); but after a year, and now eleven, he has settled in and made some friends at school--but when a sunny day in January 1888 turns abruptly into a deadly blizzard he will need all his strength and courage to survive what became known to history as The Children's Blizzard....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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A young Gascon nobleman, d'Artagnan, sets off for Paris in hopes of joining the Musketeers. He proves himself fighting with them and earns a place in their ranks. With d'Artagnan the three preserve the honor of the king and thwart the schemes of Cardinal Richelieu.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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Laura and her family find a new home in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, where the nearby creek and swimming hole lure Laura with dangerous, yet thrilling adventures. Too soon, their life is threatened when prairie fires and other strange events jeopardize their crops.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Laura Ingalls and her family live deep in the Big Woods of Wisconsin. Their log cabin is surrounded by miles of trees, and their closest neighbors are bears, wolves, and panthers. Daily chores keep Laura and her sister Mary busy, but they still find time to go exploring with their dog, Jack.
19) Treasure Island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 12
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While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads them to a notorious pirate's fortune.
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Ma and the girls follow Pa west by train where they make their home at a rough railroad camp and plan for their own homestead.
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