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My weird school volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A.J. and his friends in the second grade learn that art can be made out of anything, even garbage.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
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After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Seth, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe - a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
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Nancy Clancy volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"It's Nancy Clancy's time to shine as she takes center stage in the school play! There's no way Nancy will get stuck in the chorus again this year--she's been practicing guitar for months and her audition was superb. So when Nancy gets a callback, she's overwhelmed with joy! But after Nancy's performance during the play is captured on a video that gets posted on YouTube, it seems her stardom has gone viral. Will Nancy's humiliation get the best of...
5) Cameron Diaz
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Cameron Diaz was thrown into the spotlight at the age of 16, when working as a fashion model she graced the covers of seventeen magazines in two years. At 22 she auditioned and won a role in "The Mask" with Jim Carrey; then, proving she was no one-hit wonder, appeared in ten movies over the next four years, including "Feeling Minnesota" with Keanu Reeves, "There's Something about Mary" and "My Best Friend's Wedding".In 2000 she became the second woman...
6) The concerto
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The concerto offers a kind of unique excitement no other instrumental music can match. Where a symphony enthralls us with its thematic variations and development, a concerto gives us human drama - the exhilaration of a soloist or group of soloists ringing forth against the mass of the orchestra. In 24 musically rich lectures, Professor Greenberg provides a guided tour of the concerto, from its conception as a child of Renaissance ideals, through its...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Orwell's 1945 fable about the power struggles among animals on a farm parallels the situation in Russia at the time as Orwell saw it; the characters include the ruthless pig Stalin, his idealistic Trotsky-like adversary, and the simple, kindly horse who represents the common man. All animals are equals but some animals are more equal than others. George Orwell's classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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Presents the adventures of a boy and a runaway slave as they travel down the Mississippi River on a raft. Universally acclaimed as one of the greatest creations of American fiction, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is one of those few books that are read over and over again, with ever increasing enjoyment.
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"A collection of previously published essays and profiles by the legendary critic Janet Malcolm. The title piece of this wonderfully eclectic collection is a profile of the fashion designer Eileen Fisher, whose mother often said to her, "Nobody's looking at you." But in every piece in this volume, Malcolm looks closely and with impunity at a broad range of subjects, from Donald Trump's TV nemesis Rachel Maddow, to the stiletto-heel-wearing pianist...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
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When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind. When she later discovers that Darcy has involved himself in the troubled relationship between his friend Bingley and her beloved sister Jane, she is determined to dislike him more than ever. In the sparkling comedy of manners that follows, Jane Austen shows the folly of judging by first...
13) Okay for now
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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"He lands there in the summer of 1968, when the Apollo space missions are under way, Joe Pepitone is slugging for the New York Yankees, and the Vietnam War is raging. At home he lives with a father who has lost his way and a brother accused of robbery. And Doug's oldest brother is returning from Vietnam. Who knows what wounds his missions have given him? But Doug has his own mission, too, and it begins when he first sees the plates of John James Audubon's...
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"When we think of '70s cinema, we think of classics like The Godfather, Taxi Driver, and The Wild Bunch. But the riches found in the overlooked B movies of the time, rolled out wherever they might find an audience, unexpectedly tell an eye-opening story about post-Watergate, post-Vietnam America. Revisiting the films that don't make the Academy Award montages, Charles Taylor finds a treasury many of us have forgotten, movies that in fact "unlock the...
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Victorian Britain was a paradoxial society and one of extreme contrasts. On the one hand, it witnessed an unprecedented outpouring of inventions, scientific advances, and humanitarian reforms, backed by an array of outstanding literary and political figures. On the other hand, it practiced a harsh form of laissez-faire capitalism at home, which resulted in chronic poverty for most of the population, and harsh imperial policies abroad, which subordinated...
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