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Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
The Hardy brothers try to find out who is behind a rash of automobile thefts that are occurring on Shore Road just outside of Bayport.
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"Drop case or else danger for you and your family." This warning addressed to Fenton Hardy not only alarm the famous investigator and his detective sons, but also puzzles them, because Mr. Hardy is working on more than one case. Which one prompted the threat? When more ominous warnings follow, Frank and Joe suspect there is a link between the counterfeiting case they are investigating and a secret case their father cannot discuss since it involves...
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
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Description
Timber wolves, a rocky Mountain blizzard, and a mine cave-in are only a few of the perils Frank and Joe Hardy encounter during their search for the notorious gang responsible for a payroll robbery.
5) Kim
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Series
Language
English
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Description
McClure's Magazine serialized Kim from December 1900 to October 1901, Cassell's Magazine from January to November 1901, and Macmillan & Co. Ltd. published it as a book in October 1901. The narrative effectively illustrates Indian people, culture, and beliefs. "The book presents a vivid picture of India, its teeming populations, religions, and superstitions, as well as the life of the bazaars and the road." Russia and Britain's Central Asian political...
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 2
Pub. Date
[1987]
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
180 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teenage detectives Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a supposedly haunted house reported to be the hangout of criminals.
7) The borrower
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Language
English
Description
In this delightful, funny, and moving first novel, a librarian and a young boy obsessed with reading take to the road.
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...
Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home. The precocious Ian is addicted to reading, but needs Lucy's help to smuggle books past his overbearing mother, who has enrolled Ian in weekly...
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English
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"A gripping, page-turning novel set in Jim Crow Florida that follows Robert Stephens Jr. as he s sent to a segregated reform school that is a chamber of terrors where he sees the horrors of racism and injustice, for the living, and the dead." -Provided by Publisher
Author
Series
Hardy Boys mystery stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a dying criminal confesses that his loot has been stashed "in the tower", the Hardy boys make an astonishing discovery.,
11) The best of Iggy
Author
Series
Iggy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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2021-2022 Texas Bluebonnet Award Nominees
2021-2022 Texas Bluebonnet List
Battle of the Books 2021-2022: ELEMENTARY
2021-2022 Texas Bluebonnet List
Battle of the Books 2021-2022: ELEMENTARY
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Description
Relates three times that nine-year-old Iggy got into trouble, two of which he does not regret and one for which he is very, very sorry.
Welcome to the wonderful world of Iggy, where the motto is: It seemed like a good idea at the time. Iggy is not a bad kid - he's really not. Okay, so he's done a few bad things. And okay, he's not very sorry about most of them. No one got hurt! Except for that one time when the Best Idea Ever turned into the Worst...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
370L
Language
English
Description
"The classic boyhood adventure tale, updated with a new introduction by noted Mark Twain scholar R. Kent Rasmussen. A consummate prankster with a quick wit, Tom Sawyer dreams of a bigger fate than simply being a "rich boy." Yet through the novel's humorous escapades-from the famous episode of the whitewashed fence to the trial of Injun Joe-Mark Twain explores the deeper themes of the adult world, one of dishonesty and superstition, murder and revenge,...
14) Black boy joy
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
From seventeen acclaimed Black male and nonbinary authors comes a vibrant collection of stories, comics, and poems about the power of joy and the wonders of Black boyhood.
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"At a time when many boys are in crisis, a much-needed roadmap for helping boys grow into strong and compassionate men. Over the past two decades there has been an explosion of new studies that have expanded our knowledge of how boys think and feel. In How to Raise a Boy, psychologist Michael Reichert draws on his decades of research to challenge age-old conventions about how boys become men. Reichert explains how the paradigms about boys needing...
16) Dear boy
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 470L
Language
English
Description
"Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up." -- (Source of summary not specified)
17) Old Yeller
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
Description
"Travis was only fourteen, but he was proud of his new role as man of the family and determined to live up to his responsibility. It was hard work, too, plowing until his legs ached, chopping wood until his hands were raw and his head was spinning, weeding the garden in the hot sun, toting the heavy buckets tip from the spring, and trying to keep his mischievous little brother in line. But there were pleasant moments, too: his Ma treating him like...
Author
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
322 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
From NYU professor of developmental psychology Niobe Way, an in-depth exploration about what boys and young men teach us about themselves, us, and the toxic culture we have created, one in which we value money over people, toys over human connection, and academic achievement over kindness. Based on her longitudinal and mixed-method research over thirty-five years, Rebels with a Cause is a true call to action to change the culture so that we stop the...
Author
Series
Codex Alera volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
In the realm of Alera, where people bond with the furies--elementals of earth, air, fire, water, wood, and metal--15-year-old Tavi struggles with his lack of furycrafting. As his homeland erupts in chaos--when rebels war with loyalists and furies clash with furies--Tavi's simple courage will turn the tides of war.
20) Penrod
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Series
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xx, 199 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A timeless novel in the spirited tradition of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn" --Amazon.com.
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