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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return. He becomes a thief for a band of dwarves and soon finds himself in the midst of a war with the evil goblins and wargs, and is forced to make a decision between the call of duty and the pull of the simple life.
3) Corn
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
©2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the crop of corn, including its history, types, growth and harvesting cycles, and end products.
Author
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Based on Psalm 118:24, this story shows children how to rejoice and be glad in each day the Lord has made. Getting dressed, playing, eating lunch, and listening to a story are all activities worthy of being joyful.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em. Now, Gender Queer is here. Maia's intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Celia Thaxter grew up on a desolate island off the coast of Maine, where her father worked as lighthouse keeper. Amid the white and gray of the sea, the rocks, and even the birds, young Celia found color where she could: green mosses and purple starfish and pink morning glories by the shore. And she planted her first garden, tucking bright marigolds between rocky ledges. When she was twelve, Celia's family moved to nearby Appledore Island, where her...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nonfiction picture book tells the story of Central Park and how it was created out of barren swampland in the 1850s.
New York City needed a park -- a special spot to gather, play, and enjoy nature. A quiet, wild place made just for you. In 1858, New York City was growing so fast that new roads and tall buildings threatened to swallow up the remaining open space. The people needed a green place to be -- a park with ponds to row on and paths for wandering...
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Back in the 1830s, who was a young blacksmith from Vermont, about to make his mark on American history? John Deere, that's who! Who moved to Illinois, where farmers were struggling to plow through the thick, rich soil they called gumbo? Who tinkered and tweaked and tested until he invented a steel plow that sliced into the prairie easy as you please? Long before the first tractor, who changed farming forever? John Deere, that's who! The life and accomplishments...
13) How a seed grows
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1992]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Uses observations of bean seeds planted in eggshells to demonstrate the growth of seeds into plants.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnet, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears...
15) Animal farm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
George Orwell's famous satire of the Soviet Union, in which "all animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others." A satire on totalitarianism in which farm animals overthrow their human owner and set up their own government.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Inc
Pub. Date
©2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Cesar Chavez, from age ten when he and his family lived happily on their Arizona ranch, to age thirty-eight when he led a peaceful protest against California migrant workers' miserable working conditions.
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"The U.S. Army is a powerful military force. But there is more to this hard-fighting military branch than you might imagine. These surprising facts about the U.S. Army will amaze you"--
Author
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"A picture book biography of Frieda Caplan, the produce pioneer who changed the way Americans eat by introducing exciting new fruits and vegetables, from baby carrots to blood oranges to kiwis"--
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Overview: While teaching upper- and lowercase letters to preschoolers, Ehlert introduces fruits and vegetables from around the world. A glossary at the end provides interesting facts about each food. An alphabetical tour of the world of fruits and vegetables, from apricot and artichoke to yam and zucchini.
20) Jack's garden
Author
Language
English
Description
Cumulative text and illustrations depict what happens in Jack's garden after he plants his seeds.
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