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1) Nightwork
Author
Language
English
Description
When Harry Booth started stealing at nine, it was to keep a roof over his ailing mother's head and pay her medical bills. At night, in darkness, he'd slip into rich people's empty homes, opening drawers and safes filled with luxuries he could trade for precious cash. When his mother finally succumbed to cancer after a long, valiant battle, he left Chicago - but kept up his nightwork. From leaving a party at a Savannah mansion with a diamond bracelet...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When the bus driver decides to take a break from driving, a wild and wacky pigeon pleads and begs to take his place, in a hilarious picture book that perfectly captures a preschooler's temper tantrum.
6) The red book
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In detailed illustrations, a young girl crosses oceans and continents to meet a new friend, in a wordless book-within-a-book story.
7) Hoot
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.
9) Savvy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
10) Hondo & Fabian
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Hondo the dog gets to go to the beach and play with his friend Fred, while Fabian the cat spends the day at home.
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 24 x 32 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a day with Daddy at the laundromat, Trixie quickly notices that her cherished Knuffle Bunny is missing and turns to her father to help her get him back.
12) Rules
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
200 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Frustrated at life with an autistic brother, twelve-year-old Catherine longs for a normal existence, but her world is further complicated by a friendship with a young paraplegic.
13) Doctor De Soto
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Dr. De Soto, a mouse dentist, copes with the toothaches of various animals except those with a taste for mice, until the day a fox comes to him in great pain.
16) Whittington
Author
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
p. cm.
Language
English
Description
Whittington, a feline descendant of Dick Whittington's famous cat of English folklore, appears at a rundown barnyard plagued by rats and restores harmony while telling his ancestor's story.
17) Hatchet
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness. .
18) Mulan
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
2-disc widescreen Special ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Clever Mulan proves her worth outside of her tradition-bound society when, diguised as the male soldier, "Ping", she bravely takes her father's place in the Imperial Army. Helped by her funny guardian dragon Mushu and a lucky cricket named Cri-kee, Mulan strives to earn the respect of her fellow warriors and her courageous Captain Shang. Mulan's adventures lead to a climatic battle atop the Imperial Palace, where her family's honor and the fate of...
19) Drama
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Callie rides an emotional roller coaster while serving on the stage crew for a middle school production of 'Moon Over Mississippi,' as various relationships start and end, and others never quite get going.