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1) The jungle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 22
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A documentary novel portraying industry's conditions at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. Sinclair's novel prompted public outrage which led President Theodore Roosevelt to demand an official investigation. This eventually led to the passage of the Pure Food and Drug laws.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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Zitlally's family is undocumented, and her father has just been arrested for speeding and deported back to Mexico. As her family waits for him to return-they've paid a coyote to guide him back across the border-they receive news that he and the coyote's other charges have been kidnapped and are being held for ransom. Meanwhile, Zitlally and a new friend find a dog in the forest near their trailer park. They name it Star for the star-shaped patch over...
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Pub. Date
c2007
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The traditional American devices contained in this intriguing compilation date from an era long before milking machines, pesticide sprayers, and industrial hay bailers. Yet the simple inventions described for doing everything from managing young bulls to protecting drain outlets can be just as useful for today's farmer as they were for the homesteaders of over a century ago. Discover how to make such items as a movable nest for hens, a ribless boat,...
6) Circus Train
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Circus Train pulls in to town, and each kind of animal is in it's own brightly colored car.
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Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Presents a short history of the Continental Army's desperate winter at Valley Forge in 1777 written in graphic novel format, and focuses on the events leading up to that fateful encampment and Washington's struggle to keep his army together.
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The Great Barrier Reef teems with life. From algae to a grey reef shark, the animals in this book are linked together in a food chain. Each one of them needs the others in order to live. Find out what eats what in the ocean!
10) Behind the plate
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Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Danny has been the star catcher on his baseball team for three years, but this year his feelings about his parents' divorce seem to be effecting even routine plays.
11) Arctic fox pups
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Although adult Arctic foxes have the warmest fur of any mammal and can actually sleep out in the open, they need dens to raise their pups in. So every spring, the mother and father fox move into an earthen den that they have often used year after year. There, 7 to 15 pups are born, each blind and almost helpless. For two months, both parents work continuously to keep their babies fed, bringing them lemmings every single day. Readers will see how the...
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Pub. Date
2013
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Riveting and breath-taking, sole flood disaster survivor, Pancho Quintana, takes one last breath before the rushing flood waters inside Antelope Canyon submerge him and a female tourist. In the end, 11 tourists he was hired to lead through the canyon would perish as the freak flood welled up and swallowed the temporary inhabitants. Quintana would be all that was left living from that fateful August 12, 1997 day. Breathe For Me is Quintana's first-person,...
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[2013]
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Trading in Texas heat for Maine's tangy salt air, Natalie Barnes risked it all to buy the Gray Whale Inn, a quaint bed and breakfast on Cranberry Island. She adores whipping up buttery muffins and other rich breakfast treats for her guests until Bernard Katz checks in. The overbearing land developer plans to build a resort next door where an endangered colony of black-chinned terns is nesting. Worried about the birds, the inevitable transformation...
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