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Picture Books |
Mrs. Muddle's Holidays
by Laura Nielsen;
Illustrated by Thomas Yezerski.
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Katie's neighbor Mrs. Muddle declares more holidays than
anyone else, and she celebrates them in style.
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Lexile: 720 ; Accelerated Reader Book Level; 4.3
New York, Farrar Straus, 2008, 32 pp. ISBN:
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Young Readers |
Countdown
by
Ben Mikaelsen
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When 14-year-old Elliot Schroeder is selected by NASA to
be the first Junior Astronaut, he has no way of knowing
the profound effect it will have on Vincent Ole Tome, a
Maasai herder who is also 14 years old....More
Lexile: 650;
Accelerated Reader Book Level . 4.6
New York: Hyperion, 1996, 248 pp. ISBN:
0786802529
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Middle Readers |
The Wednesday Wars
by
Gary Schmidt
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During the 1967 school year, on Wednesday
afternoons when all his classmates go to either
Catechism or Hebrew school, seventh-grader Holling
Hoodhood stays in Mrs. Baker's classroom where they read
the plays of William Shakespeare and Holling learns much
of value about the world he lives in.
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Lexile: 990; Accelerated Reader Book
Level: 5.9
New
York: Clarion Books, 2007,
256 pp. ISBN: 9780618724833
Awards include:
ALA Notable Children's Books 2008
Booklist Editor's Choice 2007
Oprah's Kids' Reading Lists
Newberry Honor Book 2008
Texas Lone Star Reading List 2008-2009
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Teen Readers |
Life as We Knew It
by
Susan Beth Pfeffer
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When a meteor hits the
Moon, Miranda must learn to survive the unimaginable.
Told in journal entries, this heart-pounding story
chronicles Miranda's struggle to hold on to the most
important resource of all--hope--in an increasingly
desperate and unfamiliar world.
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Lexile: 770; Accelerated Reader Book Level: 4.7.
Orlando: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2006, 352 pp. ISBN:
9780152061548
Awards include:
Garden State Teen Book Awards (New Jersey): Fiction
(Grades 6-8) Booklist Editors' Choice - Books for
Youth - Older Readers Category: 2006 Truman
Readers Award (Missouri) |
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Summer Reading
2009 |
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