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81) Just so stories
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
Twelve stories about animals, insects, and othr subjects include "How the Camel Got His Hump," "the Butterfly That Stamped," and "How the Alphabet Was Made."
82) Airplanes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Text and illustrations teach young children about different types of airplanes and their parts.
83) Dog
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Text and photographs highlight the evolutionary history of dogs, their domestication, anatomy, behavior, and breeds, and offer guidance on dog care and training.--
84) Train
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A picture-packed guide to the fascinating story of trains and how they have transformed our world. Discover how the vision of George Stephenson, the "father of the railroad," materialized into an age of steam around the world. Study the cut-out of a locomotive to understand how the movement of the piston turns the wheels. Learn how the American railroad contributed to the development and progress in the US and facilitated the spread of population...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Appears on list
Description
This 1962 novel is set in an Oregon psychiatric hospital, and depicts the chaos when McMurphy, a rebellious prison inmate who has faked insanity in order to finish his sentence in the hospital, incites the other patients to disobey the feared Nurse Ratched. An escalating series of incidents leads to a tragic conclusion.
86) Mermaids
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
Learn about mermaids and why they were believed to be real.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
Meticulously researched and drawn from numerous primary sources, this biography-in-verse tells the story of racism in the U.S. through six important Black Americans from different eras who struggled for justice, chronicling how much — and how little — racism has changed since our country’s founding.
88) My first book
Author
Pub. Date
[1984]
Description
Each illustration is accompanied by a single word that identifies it.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Things are finally looking up for defense attorney Mickey Haller. After two years of wrong turns, Haller is back in the courtroom. When Hollywood lawyer Jerry Vincent is murdered, Haller inherits his biggest case yet: the defense of Walter Elliott, a prominent studio executive accused of murdering his wife and her lover. But as Haller prepares for the case that could launch him into the big time, he learns that Vincent's killer may be coming for him...
91) The summons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Description
"Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single...
94) Cat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents a photographic introduction to cats, explaining what they are, tracing the history of cats, examining their physical characteristics and behaviors, and looking at different types of cats.
95) Under the lilacs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Relates the adventures of Ben Brown, his performing poodle Sancho, and the two young girls who feed and care for them after the boy and dog run away from the circus.
96) The moon
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about the Moon. The combination of high-interest subject matter and light text is intended for students in grades 3 through 7"--
97) The Snow Child
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart--he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build a child out of snow. The next morning the snow child is gone--but they glimpse a young, blonde-haired girl running through the trees. This little girl,...
98) Ancient Egypt
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A photo essay on ancient Egypt and the people who lived there, documented through the mummies, pottery, weapons, and other objects they left behind. Describes their society, religion, obsession with the afterlife, and methods of mummification.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
Description
"Ruth Jefferson is a labor and delivery nurse at a Connecticut hospital with more than twenty years' experience. During her shift, Ruth begins a routine checkup on a newborn, only to be told a few minutes later that she's been reassigned to another patient. The parents are white supremacists and don't want Ruth, who is African American, to touch their child. The hospital complies with their request, but the next day, the baby goes into cardiac distress...