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4321) Cobweb weavers
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This book describes the anatomy, web-making, food, reproduction, enemies, and usefulness to humans of cobweb weavers, a family of spiders that includes the harmless house spider and the poisonous black widow and Australian redback spiders.
Author
Series
Epossumondas volume 2
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Presents a children's story about why possums don't have hair on their tails.
4323) Squirrel and John Muir
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In the early 1900s, a wild little girl nicknamed Squirrel meets John Muir, later to become a famous naturalist, when he arrives at her parents' hotel in Yosemite Valley seeking work and knowledge about the natural world.
4324) Gwinna
Author
Pub. Date
[1990]
Description
Having grown a pair of wings and felt the longing for the freedom of the skies, twelve-year-old Gwinna goes to the Mother of the Owls, who sends her on a quest to find the songs of the wind.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Spread the Christmas cheer with this whimsical retelling of Clement C. Moore's cherished poem, "A Visit from St. Nicholas." This new edition of the classic features the text of Moore's original poem, illustrated with beautifully detailed LEGO brick scenes and characters. See the colorful stockings hung by the chimney in the fanciful brick house, and look on at the visions of dancing brick sugarplums. Turn the pages to reveal Saint Nicholas with...
4326) The color purple
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Celie is a poor black woman whose letters tell the story of 20 years of her life, beginning at age 14 when she is being abused and raped by her father and attempting to protect her sister from the same fate, and continuing over the course of her marriage to "Mister," a brutal man who terrorizes her. Celie eventually learns that her abusive husband has been keeping her sister's letters from her and the rage she feels, combined with an example of love...
4327) Dora's chicks
Author
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
While Dora is out looking for their breakfast all six of her chicks disappear.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
A uge sea monster has attacked and wrecked several ships from beneath the sea. Professor Aronnax bravely joins a mission to hunt down the beast. He goes aboard the Nautilus, a secret submarine helmed by the mysterious Captain Nemo. At first, the mission is exciting, as Nemo takes Aronnax on a voyage around the underwater world. But when things start to go wrong, Aronnax finds there's no escape from the Nautilus. He is now Captain Nemo's captive -...
4329) The firekeeper's son
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In eighteenth-century Korea, after Sang-hee's father injures his ankle, Sang-hee attempts to take over the task of lighting the evening fire which signals to the palace that all is well. Historical notes are included.
4330) Go, dog, go!
Author
Series
Beginner books volume B-20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Dogs go by skates, bike, skis, a blimp, a boat, a car, and on foot to get to a special party being held on top of a tree.
4331) My lucky day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When a young pig knocks on a fox's door, the fox thinks dinner has arrived, but the pig has other plans.
4332) Bear snores on
Author
Series
Bear books (Karma Wilson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
One by one, a whole host of different animals and birds find their way out of the cold and into Bear's cave to warm up. But even after the tea has been brewed and the corn has been popped, Bear just snores on! See what happens when he finally wakes up and finds his cave full of uninvited guests, all of them having a party without him!.
4333) War and peace
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
Description
War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleons war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoys view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters. Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoys philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The 1930s in America will always be remembered for twin disasters-the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl. Michael L. Cooper takes readers through this tumultuous period, beginning with the 1929 stock market crash that ushered in the Great Depression and continuing with the severe drought in the Midwest, known as the Dust Bowl. He chronicles the everyday struggle for survival by those who lost everything, as well as the mass exodus westward to California...
Author
Description
"Based on [the author]s own experiences as a young man, the books two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in [the author]s own words, 'a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.'y--...
4336) The perfect Thanksgiving
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Two families--one that is perfect and one that is far from it--celebrate Thanksgiving in their own loving ways.
4337) Bear's new friend
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Bear and his friends persuade a bashful owl to play with them.
4339) Robin Hood
Author
Description
Recounts the legend of Robin Hood, who plundered the king's purse and poached his deer and whose generosity endeared him to the poor.