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1) Hard Times
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hard Times, by Charles Dickens, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics:
• New introductions commissioned from todays top writers and scholars
• Biographies of the authors
• Chronologies of contemporary...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Freddy's first grade class is learning all about penguins. When the class discovers some are endangered, they want to help. Can Freddy come up with a good plan to save the penguins?
4) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Heidi is only five when she is taken to live with her grandfather, known as Uncle Alp, in the Swiss Mountains. Notorious in the village for his gloomy outlook and reclusive nature, Uncle Alp nevertheless comes to love little Heidi, and she him. Just as Heidi begins to grow fond of her new mountain family and friends, she is suddenly taken to Frankfurt to be a companion to Clara, an invalid. Although she brings great joy into Clara's life, Heidi pines...
Author
Publisher
Elephant Room Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Waking Up White is the book Irving wishes someone had handed her decades ago. By sharing her sometimes cringe-worthy struggle to understand racism and racial tensions, she offers a fresh perspective on bias, stereotypes, manners, and tolerance. As Irving unpacks her own long-held beliefs about colorblindness, being a good person, and wanting to help people of color, she reveals how each of these well-intentioned mindsets actually perpetuated her ill-conceived...
Author
Series
My weirder school volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A.J. and his fellow third-graders from Ella Mentry School, including new student Alexia, go on a field trip to the zoo, where they meet a very strange zookeeper.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Miss Daisy's unusual teaching methods surprise her second grade students, especially reluctant learner A.J.
Author
Series
My weirder school volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the power goes out in the school, everyone panics in the dark, and only nerdy Mr. Harrison, who can fix and build anything, can save the day.
Author
Series
If you give-- (Laura Numeroff) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows a boy and his mouse through a busy day at school.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"George 'Suds' Morton competes with his third-grade classmates to earn the first 'halo' of the year for good behavior, but being good turns out to be more stressful than he anticipated"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Wayside School volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Explanation--A message from the principal--poetry--doctor pickle--a story with disappointing ending--pet day--a bad word--santa clauss--something different about Mrs. Jewis--Mr. Gorf--Voices--Nose--The New Teacher--A Light bulb, a pencil sharpener, a coffeepot, and a sack of potatoes.
Author
Series
My weird school volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A skateboarding principal offers unusual incentives to his students to motivate them to learn more.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
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