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List: Kumon Level F


A photo of Sounder

Sounder

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Angry and humiliated when his sharecropper father is jailed for stealing food for his family, a young black boy grows in courage and understanding by learning to read and with the help of the devoted dog Sounder.

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A photo of The Shakespeare stealer

The Shakespeare stealer

Also available in Overdrive. A young orphan boy is ordered by his master to infiltrate Shakespeare's acting troupe in order to steal the script of "Hamlet," but he discovers instead the meaning of friendship and loyalty.

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A photo of Alice's adventures in Wonderland

Alice's adventures in Wonderland

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Alice falls down a rabbit hole and discovers a world of nonsensical and amusing characters.

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A photo of Secret of the Andes

Secret of the Andes

An Indian boy who tends llamas in a hidden valley in Peru learns the traditions and secrets of his Inca ancestors.

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A photo of Bud, not Buddy

Bud, not Buddy

Also available in Overdrive. Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.

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A photo of Thimble summer

Thimble summer

Summary: Garnet Linden finds a silver thimble, which marks the beginning of a happy summer on her father's mid-western farm.

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A photo of Harriet, the spy

Harriet, the spy

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Eleven-year-old Harriet keeps notes on her classmates and neighbors in a secret notebook, but when some of the students read the notebook, they seek revenge.

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A photo of Homesick, my own story

Homesick, my own story

The author's fictionalized version, though all the events are true, of her childhood in China in the 1920's.

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A photo of The wind in the willows

The wind in the willows

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. The escapades of four animal friends who live along a river in the English countryside--Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger.

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A photo of The house of Dies Drear

The house of Dies Drear

Also available in Hoopla. A black family of five moves into an enormous house once used as a hiding place for runaway slaves. Mysterious sounds and events as well as the discovery of secret passageways make the family believe they are in grave danger.

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A photo of From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

From the mixed-up files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Also available in Overdrive. Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.

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A photo of A wizard of Earthsea

A wizard of Earthsea

A boy grows to manhood while attempting to subdue the evil he unleashed on the world as an apprentice to the Master Wizard.

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A photo of Strawberry girl

Strawberry girl

Also available in Hoopla. Strawberries--big, ripe, and juicy. Ten-year-old Birdie Boyer can hardly wait to start picking them. But her family has just moved to the Florida backwoods, and they haven't even begun their planting. "Don't count your biddies 'fore they're hatched, gal young un!" her father tells her. Making the new farm prosper is not easy. There is heat to suffer through, and droughts, and cold snaps. And, perhaps most worrisome of all for the Boyers, there are rowdy neighbors, just itching to start a feud. The land was theirs, but so were its hardships.

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A photo of Number the stars

Number the stars

Also available in Overdrive. In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.

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A photo of The princess and the goblin

The princess and the goblin

Also available in Overdrive and Hoopla. Young Princess Irene, sent away to the country to be raised in a place nestled into the side of a mountain that's half farmhouse and half castle, has stumbled into a conspiracy -- of Goblins Really, Goblins Their evil plot threatens the king and his palace and of course Irene and her friend and her great-great-grandmother (who is a witch, just for good measure).

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A photo of The red pony

The red pony

Ownership of a red pony teaches ten-year-old Jody about life and death.

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A photo of Dicey's song

Dicey's song

Also available in Overdrive.Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that theIr new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.

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A photo of Escape! : the story of the great Houdini

Escape! : the story of the great Houdini

Also available in Overdrive. A biography of the magician, ghost chaser, aviator, and king of escape artists whose amazing feats are remembered long after his death in 1926. Profiling his early years, personal life, and great accomplishments in show business, the story of the famous magician, Harry Houdini, comes to life through a review of his greatest tricks and most amazing feats, complete with index, photos, and author's notes.

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