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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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The Unteachables are a notorious class of misfits, delinquents, and academic train wrecks. Like Aldo, with anger-management issues; Parker, who can't read; Kiana, who doesn't even belong in the class - or any class; and Elaine (rhymes with pain). The Unteachables have been removed from the student body and isolated in room 117. Their teacher is Mr. Zachary Kermit, the most burned-out teacher in all of Greenwich. He was once a rising star, but his...
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Ramona Quimby volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
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When her father loses his job, seven-year-old Ramona Quimby thinks of ways to deal with the many problems that develop.
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Judy Moody volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
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When Judy meets Amy she finds they are so alike they are practically clones. Will Amy Same-Samey turn out to be Judy's new best friend? Will Judy remember her old best friends?
6) Ungifted
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Due to an administrative mix-up, troublemaker Donovan Curtis is sent to the Academy of Scholastic Distinction, a special program for gifted and talented students, after pulling a major prank at middle school.
7) Lost and found: helping behaviorally challenging students (and, while you're at it, all the others)
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The discipline systems used in most K-12 schools are obsolete, and aren't working for the kids to whom they're most often applied: those with behavioral challenges. Lost & Found provides a roadmap to a different paradigm, helping educators radically transform the way they go about helping their most challenging students.
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My weirder school volume 12
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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"It's time for the annual Ella Mentry School talent show, and this year Principal Klutz has hired a wacky professional, Mrs. Lane, to help the kids with their talents"--
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Magisterium volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Warned away from magic all of his life, Callum endeavors to fail the trials that would admit him to the Magisterium only to be drawn into its ranks against his will and forced to confront dark elements from his past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Three previously-published novellas that shed further light on the world of Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face, set before he entered Beecher Prep and during his first year there and told from other characters' points of view. "The Julian Chapter" reveals why the bully dislikes Auggie so much. "Pluto" is about the lifelong friendship between Auggie and Christopher. And, finally, "Shingaling" offers a view of how the girls at...
11) Rich dad, poor dad: what the rich teach their kids about money that the poor and middle class do not
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Argues that a good education and a secure job are not guarantees for financial success, and describes six guidelines for making money work for you.
14) Ramona's world
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Ramona Quimby volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Follows the adventures of nine-year-old Ramona at home with big sister Beezus and baby sister Roberta and at school, in fourth grade, in Mrs. Meacham's class.
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"Damaged finds Mary DiNunzio, partner at the all-female law firm of Rosato & DiNunzio, embroiled in one of her most heartbreaking cases yet. Suing the Philadelphia school district to get help for a middle school boy with emotional issues, Mary ends up becoming the guardian ad litem of her minor client. As she goes up against Nick Machiavelli, her opposing counsel and the dark prince of South Philly lawyers who will use any means necessary to defeat...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 12
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In this autobiography, initially published in 1903, Helen Keller recalls her remarkable life as a blind and deaf woman taught to communicate by Ann Sullivan. Here among other memories, Keller describes her epiphany at the water pump when she connected the physical world with its linguistic counterpart. Keller was eventually educated at Radcliffe University, where she graduated with honors.
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Truly Devious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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When Stevie Bell is finally able to return to Ellingham Academy after identifying the culprit in the murder of a classmate, she begins to wonder if the case was really resolved and attempts to uncover the truth about the school's founder.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 19
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In this first-person narrative, Greg Mortenson picks up where Three Cups of Tea left off in 2003, recounting his relentless, ongoing efforts to establish schools for girls in Afghanistan; his extensive work in Azad Kashmir and Pakistan after a massive earthquake hit in 2005; and the unique ways he has built relationships with Islamic clerics, militia commanders, and tribal leaders even as he was dodging shootouts with feuding Afghan warlords. He shares...