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Kate DiCamillo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
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"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
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Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
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Series
Mercy Watson volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
After Mercy Watson follows the delightful scent and delicious taste of the pansies her thoughtful neighbors plant to beautify their yard, animal control officer Francine Poulet is called out to handle the case, which brings unexpected results.
10) Bink and Gollie
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
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Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
When she confronts a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost, animal control officer Francine Poulet questions her abilities.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, twelve-year-old Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and her eccentric grandmother) and find a way home.
When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana figures that it is only a matter of time before Granny changes her mind and they come back home. After all,...
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Series
Mercy Watson volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Persuaded by the word "treating" to dress up as a princess for Halloween, Mercy the pig's trick-or-treat outing has some very unexpected results.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.
Mr. Watson and Mrs. Watson have a porcine wonder named Mercy. Every Saturday, Mercy and Mr. Watson go for a ride in Mr. Watson's convertible. But one Saturday, things take a surprising turn. And a certain someone ends up behind the wheel.
17) Great joy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.
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Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Stella Endicott loves her teacher, Miss Liliana, and she is thrilled when the class is assigned to write a poem. Stella crafts a beautiful poem about Mercy Watson, the pig who lives next door - a poem complete with a metaphor and full of curiosity and courage. But Horace Broom, Stella's irritating classmate, insists that Stella's poem is full of lies and that pigs do not live in houses. And when Stella and Horace get into a shouting match in the classroom,...
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Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives, Eugenia Lincoln tries to get rid of the instrument by selling it, destroying it, and giving it away, but nothing works.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.