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1) Superstar
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Formats
Description
Lester's first days as a fifth grader at Quarry Elementary School are not even a little bit like he thought they would be -- the cafeteria is too loud for Lester's ears, there are too many kids, and then there's the bully. Lester was always home-schooled, and now he's shocked to be stuck in a school where everything just seems wrong. That's until he hears about the science fair, which goes really well for Lester! But then things go a bit sideways,...
Author
Series
Publisher
The Child's World
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A child has fun running and eating a cinnamon bun in the warm sun. This simple story for beginning readers teaches the 'un' sound through rhyming text and bright, original illustrations.
6) The red book
Author
Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2004
Description
A book without words in which friends who have never met meet.
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
10) Teacher's pets
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A teacher invites her students to bring their pets in each Monday for sharing day, but by the end of the year, she has a classroom full of "forgotten" animals.
11) Finding Noel
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A heartwarming and inspirational Christmas novel in the tradition of The Christmas Box, Grace, The Gift, and The Christmas List. The New York Times bestselling author of The Christmas Box and The Walk series returns with a holiday novel of hope, love, and redemption. A young woman, who has been adopted as a child by a loving family, has only a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word Noel as a keepsake of her birth family, about whom she remembers...
14) The goodbye boat
Author
Publisher
Eerdmans Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c1999, c1998
Description
Presents the phenomena of grief and loss and the concept that death is not the end.
16) Let me finish!
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
"A young boy wants to read his favorite books without interruption, but the creatures around him keep spoiling the ending!"--
19) Belle Teal
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Belle Teal Harper is from a poor family in the country, and beginning fifth-grade is a challenge as her grandmother's memory is slipping away and she becomes involved with the two new children in her class.
Author
Series
Edge chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Thirteen-year-old Twig, having always looked and felt different from his woodtroll family, learns that he is adopted and travels out of his Deepwoods home to find the place where he belongs.
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