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Author
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...
2) Rascal
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1140L
Language
English
Description
The author recalls his carefree life in a small midwestern town at the close of World War I, and his adventures with his pet raccoon, Rascal.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
4) Gentle Ben
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
Traces the friendship between a boy and a bear in the rugged Alaskan Territory.
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
A Newbery Medal Winner
Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition.
"William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific...
Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition.
"William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific...
6) Peter Pan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
A simplified retelling of the adventures of Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up. A fabulously redesigned edition of a Michael Hague backlist classic Peter Pan, the book based on J.M. Barrie's famous play, is filled with unforgettable characters: Peter Pan, the boy who would not grow up; the fairy, Tinker Bell; the evil pirate, Captain Hook; and the three children-Wendy, John, and Michael-who fly off with Peter Pan to Neverland, where they meet...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Hannah resents stories of her Jewish heritage and of the past until, when opening the door during a Passover Seder, she finds herself in Poland during World War II where she experiences the horrors of a concentration camp, and learns why she-- and we--need to remember the past.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jules Verne's pioneering classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher, written in runes, tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own. So with his nephew reluctantly in tow, the Professor follows this cryptic clue down into a dormant volcano, and the further they descend, the more extraordinary the discoveries and creatures...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When German prisoners of war are brought to her Arkansas town during World War II, twelve-year-old Patty, a Jewish girl, befriends one of them and must deal with the consequences of that friendship.
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