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1) The batboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
It is every baseball kid's dream summer job: batboy for your hometown Major League team. Yet for fourteen year-old Brian, the job means more than just the chance to hang around his idols. Baseball was the job his father loved so much, in the end he couldn't leave it. Yet he could leave his family. Now Brian sees the job as the way to win back his father. There is no winning back some people, though. Just ask Hank Bishop?once the most popular player...
2) Jack at bat
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jack the mischievous rabbit serves as bat boy and Rex the dog helps in left field during a baseball game between the Lady City Ladies and the Big City Brats.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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Called "the veriest trash" by a member of the Concord, Massachusetts Library Board that banned the novel when it was first published, Huckleberry Finn has come to be viewed, as H.L. Mencken put it, as "one of the great masterpieces of the world." Ernest Hemingway wrote that "All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn....There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since." A daringly ironic...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
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"Mark Twain's classic The Adventures of Tom Sawyer has been enjoyed by generations of readers across the world since its publication in 1876. With its humorous glimpses into life in nineteenth-century, small-town America, this novel has provided unique social commentary that continues to be discussed in classrooms today. Tom Sawyer, a mischievous boy growing up in the fictional town of St. Petersburg, Missouri, is constantly getting in and out of...
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Series
Underland chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Whe eleven-year-old Gregor follows his little sister through a gate in the laundry room he ends up the dark Underland beneath the city populated with humans living in an uneasy peace beside giant spiders, bats cockroaches and rats. He discovers a strange prophecy which fortells a role for him in Underland's future that will be the only way to solve the biggest mystery of his life and change him and Underland forever.
6) Little men
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Continues the story of Little Women. This story takes place at Plumfield, a school founded by Jo and Father Bhaer for young boys and girls. Meg's and Jo's children are in the story, as are Marmee, Aunt Amy, and Uncle Laurie.
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Series
Pub. Date
2016
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From Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park, this is a captivating fantasy-adventure about a boy, a bat, and an amazing transformation. The first book in an enchanting trilogy, Raffa Santana has always loved the mysterious Forest of Wonders. For a gifted young apothecary like him, every leaf could unleash a kind of magic.When an injured bat crashes into his life, Raffa invents a cure from a rare crimson vine that he finds deep in the Forest....
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"An average kid with an above average talent for predicting baseball pitches tries to help his favorite player out of a slump in this entertaining novel from bestselling authors Tim Green and Derek Jeter. Jalen DeLuca loves baseball. Unfortunately his dad can't afford to keep him on the travel team. His dad runs a diner and makes enough to cover the bills, but there isn't enough to cover any extras. So Jalen decides to take matters into his own hands...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
From Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park, this is a captivating fantasy-adventure about a boy, a bat, and an amazing transformation. The first book in an enchanting trilogy, Forest of Wonders richly explores the links between magic and botany, family and duty, environment and home.
Raffa Santana has always loved the mysterious Forest of Wonders. For a gifted young apothecary like him, every leaf could unleash a kind of magic.
When an injured...
10) Withering tights
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Self-conscious about her knobby knees but confident in her acting ability, fourteen-year-old Tallulah spends the summer at a Yorkshire performing arts camp that, she is surprised to learn, is for girls only.
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Series
Awfully beastly business volume 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"When a messenger bat arrives at the RSPCB, boy-werewolf Ulf receives a warning that beasts are in trouble in the wild. Unaware of the danger he is facing, Ulf soon uncovers foul play: a rare colony of trolls is being smoked out from their caves to be used as game in an evil beast-hunting preserve"--P. [4] of cover.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In the second installment of the spellbinding Wing & Claw series, Newbery Medal-winning author Linda Sue Park takes a young apothecary hero to new heights of danger, exciting adventure, and intriguing botanical magic.
Raffa Santana has spent all winter hiding in the harsh wilderness of the Sudden Mountains, and now it's time to return home. Home, where his parents will help him fight back against the vile Chancellor who has captured and altered...
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