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4) Strider
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
In a series of diary entries, Leigh tells how he comes to terms with his parents' divorce, acquires joint custody of an abandoned dog, and joins the track team at school.
Author
Series
Flicka trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Through his intense devotion to the colt Flicka, a young boy, living on a Wyoming ranch, begins to learn about responsibility and gain a better understanding of his brusque father.
Author
Series
Peter books (Ezra Jack Keats) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Fountas & Pinnell
J
Formats
Description
When Peter discovers his blue furniture is being painted pink for a new baby sister, he rescues the last unpainted item, a chair, and runs away.
11) Mouse soup
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
240L
Description
A mouse convinces a weasel he needs the ingredients from several stories to make a tasty mouse soup.
12) Sick puppy
Author
Series
Skink novels (Carl Hiaasen) volume 4
Description
"When Palmer Stoat notices the black pickup truck following him on the highway, he fears his precious Range Rover is about to be carjacked. But Twilly Spree, the man tailing Stoat, has vengeance, not sport-utility vehicles, on his mind. Idealistic, independently wealthy and pathologically short-tempered, Twilly has dedicated himself to saving Florida's wilderness from runaway destruction."--Author's website.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 42
Appears on list
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1953, two 11-year-old boys--best friends--are playing in a Little League baseball game in New Hampshire. One of the boys hits a foul ball that kills his best friend's mother. Owen Meany believes he didn't hit the ball by accident. He believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after 1953 is extraordinary and terrifying. A Prayer for Owen Meany is a coming-of-age tale that ranks among the most cherished American classics....
Author
Series
Adam Dalgliesh mysteries volume 10
Pub. Date
1997
Description
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is drawn into the strange closed world of the London legal community when he is called to investigate the murder of criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge who was found stabbed to death at her desk shortly after successfully defending Garry Ashe on charges of having killed his aunt.
16) Resolution
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
When greedy mine owner Eamon O'Malley threatens the loose coalition of local ranchers and starts buying up Resolution's few businesses, Hitch and Cole find themselves in the middle of a makeshift war between O'Malley's men and the ranchers. In a place where law and order don't exist, Hitch and Cole must make their own, guided by their sense of duty, honor, and friendship.
17) Old bear
Author
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Old Bear falls asleep for the winter, he has a dream that he is a cub again, enjoying each of the four seasons.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Fountas & Pinnell
K
Formats
Description
"It’s time for the little red chicken’s bedtime story — and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can’t help herself! Whether the tale is Hansel and Gretel or Little Red Riding Hood or even Chicken Little, she jumps into the story to save its hapless characters. Now it’s the little red chicken’s turn to tell a story, but will her yawning papa make it to the end without his own kind of interrupting?"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
After finding a four-century-old gold medallion, a young girl is plagued by nightmares and then found hanging from the limb of a tree, at the time, coroner Doc Ford ruled her death an accident, but when the girl's mother begins complaining of strange threats, he begins to wonder if she was murdered.
20) Crooked house
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In the sprawling, half-timbered mansion in the affluent suburb of Swinly Dean, Aristide Leonides lies dead from barbiturate poisoning. An accident? Not likely. In fact, suspicion has already fallen on his luscious widow, a cunning beauty fifty years his junior, set to inherit a sizeable fortune, and rumored to be carrying on with a strapping young tutor comfortably ensconced in the family estate. But criminologist Charles Hayward is casting his own...