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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 2
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"Grab a flashlight, crawl under the covers, and dive into the twisted, unexpectedly hilarious world of Rowley Jefferson's imagination. You'll meet zombies, vampires, ghosts, and much more in these comically terrifying tales. Rowley's spooky stories might leave you laughing, but beware--you could end up sleeping with the lights on!" --
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Allan Quatermain series volume 2
Pub. Date
2017
Description
After the tragic death of his son, Allan Quatermain's grief is inconsolable. Feeling that the only possible way to ease his pain is through an expedition, Quatermain seeks out Captain Good, Sir Henry Curtis, and the Zulu chief Umslopogaas, who all previously journeyed with him to King Solomon's Mine. After explaining his predicament, Quatermain persuades them to accompany him on one last journey-a search mission to find a lost city. Together they...
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Last kids on Earth volume 3
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
"Jack teams up with the evil King Wretch in order to convince his friends to stay with him instead of going in search of others who may have survived the monster apocalypse"--
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Greg Heffley is not willing to be the odd man out. A dance at Greg's middle school has everyone scrambling to find a partner, and Greg is determined not to be left by the wayside. So he concocts a desperate plan to find someone -- anyone! -- to go with on the big night. But Greg's schemes go hilariously awry, and his only option is to attend the dance with his best friend, Rowley Jefferson, and a female classmate as a "group of friends." But the night...
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Last kids on Earth volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
During the first winter after the Monster Apocalypse, Jack and his buddies prepare for a monstrous Christmas celebration, but a supervillainess steals Jack's prized monster-slaying weapon, his Louisville Slicer, and he vows to get it back.
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Breadwinner series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Young Parvana lives with her family in one room of a bombed-out apartment building in Kabul, Afghanistan. Because Parvana's father has a foreign education, he is arrested by the Taliban. Women cannot appear in public unless covered head to toe, go to school, or work outside the home, so the family becomes increasingly desperate until Parvana conceives a plan.
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Last kids on Earth volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Now wielding the Midnight Blade, Jack Sullivan and the gang are furiously searching for the villainous Thrull and his skeleton army. The clock is ticking: the enemy has begun constructing the Tower--a portal with the power to bring Rezzoch the Ancient, Destructor of Worlds, to our dimension. Equipped with a crucial clue discovered by June on her Wild Flight, the group does the once-unthinkable: they leave Wakefield behind and embark on an...epic...
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Pub. Date
2018
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*When a school blows up its basement, two worlds are about to collide...* Lewis is just like any other boy – except he's half zombie. He's about to start his first day at middle school. Little does he know that he's about to get an education *at the school of hard knocks, too*. Pensive, reserved Lewis is not enthused when his human classmates treat him like an outcast for being half zombie. Good thing he has his loyal friend Sebastian in tow. Sebastian...
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Big Nate (Chapter books) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Supremely confident middle school student Nate Wright manages to make getting detention from every one of his teachers in the same day seem like an achievement.
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Last kids on Earth volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Description
The zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombiesbut to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
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Magic misfits volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
From beloved award-winning actor Neil Patrick Harris comes the magical first book in a new series with plenty of tricks up its sleeve.When street magician Carter runs away, he never expects to find friends and magic in a sleepy New England town. But like any good trick, things change instantly as greedy B. B. Bosso and his crew of crooked carnies arrive to steal anything and everything they can get their sticky fingers on.After a fateful encounter...
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Pub. Date
2018
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*Things take a wild turn for the monsters when humans are thrown into the mix at school…* Everything is going great for Z, the plucky, likable young zombie. Although middle school is a bit of a hustle, his gig at the school newspaper is going off without a hitch and he loves hanging out with his monster friends Trevor and Bonnie, and his new human compatriot, Steve. Even his relationship with brooding older brother R is improving. But *things are...
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Pub. Date
2018
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*the adventure is not about the treasure at the end. It’s the journey that gets you there... * Zombie Villager and his best buddy Sebastian are about to go on *the adventure of a lifetime – literally.* Under the counsel of the Carlisle Shadowvale, founder of the city and the area’s most gifted story teller, the boys set out to follow a treasure map that they have discovered in the library. This...
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Pub. Date
2016
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Banishment from his life's calling can't keep a comically overconfident detective down in the latest episode by New York Times best-seller Stephan Pastis. This book was never meant to exist. No one needs to know the details. Just know this: there's a Merry, a Larry, a missing tooth, and a teachers' strike that is crippling Timmy Failure's academic future. Worst of all, Timmy is banned from detective work. It's a conspiracy of buffoons. He recorded...
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Series
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Nikki Maxwell's adventures continue in the twelfth installment in the blockbuster #1 New York Times bestselling Dork Diaries series!In Nikki Maxwell's newest diary, it's the countdown to the end of the school year, and Nikki's juggling some big questions about how she'll spend her summer. She's also facing an unexpected crush catastrophe—there's a new kid interested in Nikki, but the last thing she wants to do is accidentally hurt Brandon! It all...
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Series
Pub. Date
2018
Description
*The school clubs are calling! How will you answer?* Rambunctious middle school monster Z is loving life with his crew of friends – Bonnie, Trevor and human boy Steve.* Duty calls when the school newspaper asks Z to ramp up his efforts*, but he is wondering he could be doing more. The friend group is troubled when they realize that they aren't involved in many extra-curricular activities, and they are on a quest to remedy the problem! They explore...
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Pub. Date
2020
Description
*When a bewitching young student shows up to school, it might just be love….* Friendly fun loving Z the middle school zombie loves two things the most: hanging out with his crew of friends, and writing amazing short stories for the newspaper. But things are about to get interesting when a new student, Morgana begins to attend the school and enthusiastically tells Z how much she loves his writing. Z can't understand his feelings for this mysterious...
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Pub. Date
2019
Description
-- The Sleepwalker’s Guide to DancingLike many six-year-olds, Mira Jacob’s half-Jewish, half-Indian son, Z, has questions about everything. At first they are innocuous enough, but as tensions from the 2016 election spread from the media into his own family, they become much, much more complicated. Trying to answer him honestly, Mira has to think back to where she’s gotten her own answers: her most formative conversations about race, color, sexuality,...