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To those who found Ayn Rand's "Atlas shrugged" a powerful voice raised in defense of the individual, this book continues the theme. It proclaims the same philosophy, and its theme is the right of the individual to the pursuit of his own happiness. It portrays the impact of the Russian Revolution on three people who demand the right to live their own lives. It tells of a girl's passionate love, held like a fortress against the viciousness, cruelty,...
5) Fancy Nancy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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A young girl who loves fancy things helps her family to be fancy for one special night.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
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When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has wronged, Elsa's greatest adventure begins. Her grandmother's instructions lead her to an apartment building full of drunks, monsters, attack dogs, and old crones but also to the truth about fairy tales and kingdoms and a grandmother like no other.
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy--as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers...
10) Whoever you are
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Despite the differences between people around the world, there are similarities that join us together, such as pain, joy, and love.
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2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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There will be times when you walk into a room
and no one there is quite like you.
There are many reasons to feel different. Maybe it's how you look or talk, or where you're from; maybe it's what you eat, or something just as random. It's not easy to take those first steps into a place where nobody really knows you yet, but somehow you do it.
Jacqueline Woodson's lyrical text and Rafael López's dazzling art reminds us that we all feel like outsiders...
13) Stargirl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Leo se siente tan fascinado como intimidado por Stargirl, la nueva de la escuela, una chica especial e inmune a las duras críticas del resto y que además no hace más que llamar la atención, algo que jamás haría él. In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
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Tacky the penguin books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Tacky the penguin adds his own unique touch to his team's routine at the Penguin Cheering Contest, with surprising results.
16) Amazing Grace
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Amazing Grace (Picture books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
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2008
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IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Henrietta, whose favorite color is red and who wants to be an explorer, describes some of her life with her baby brother Albert, her dog Madge, her best friend Olive, and what it is like to be "half a Hen and half a Rietta."
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Tacky the penguin books volume 8
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[2010]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Goodly, Lovely, Angel, Neatly, Perfect, and Tacky are having a wonderful Christmas, complete with an unusual tree, when Tacky's odd behavior saves them from a group of hunters.