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List: Lexile Levels 1000-1400
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Also available on OverDrive, Hoopla, and RB Digital. Professor Arronax and his two companions, trapped aboard a fantastic submarine as prisoners of the deranged Captain Nemo, come face to face with exotic ocean creatures and strange sights hidden from the world above.
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Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl
Also available on OverDrive and Hoopla. Discovered in the attic in which she spent the last years of her life, Anne Frank's remarkable diary has since become a world classic -- a powerful reminder of the horrors of war and an eloquent testament to the human spirit. In 1942, with Nazis occupying Holland, a thirteen-year-old Jewish girl and her family fled their home in Amsterdam and went into hiding. For the next two years, until their whereabouts were betrayed to the Gestapo, they and another family lived cloistered in the "Secret Annex" of an old office building. Cut off from the outside world, they faced hunger, boredom, the constant cruelties of living in confined quarters, and the ever-present threat of discovery and death. In her diary Anne Frank recorded vivid impressions of her experiences during this period. By turns thoughtful, moving, and amusing, her account offers a fascinating commentary on human courage and frailty and a compelling self-portrait of a sensitive and spirited young woman whose promise was tragically cut short.
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The Best School Year Ever
Also available on Hoopla. The six horrible Herdmans, the worst kids in the history of the world, cause mayhem throughout the school year.
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Boy: Tales of Childhood
Presents humorous anecdotes from the author's childhood which includes summer vacations in Norway and an English boarding school.
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The Boy on the Wooden Box: How the Impossible Became Possible on Schindler
Also available on OverDrive. The biography of Leon Leyson, the only memoir published by a former Schindler's List child.
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Brian's Winter
Also available on OverDrive. Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
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Clarice Bean Spells Trouble
Clarice Bean, aspiring actress and author, unsuccessfully tries to avoid getting into trouble as she attempts to help a friend in need by following the rules of the fictional, "exception-ordinarily" spy, Ruby Redfort.
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Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice
Based on extensive interviews with Claudette Colvin and many others, Phillip Hoose presents the first in-depth account of an important yet largely unknown civil rights figure, skillfully weaving her dramatic story into the fabric of the historic Montgomery bus boycott and court case that would change the course of American history.
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The Egypt Game
A group of children, entranced with the study of Egypt, play their own Egypt game, are visited by a secret oracle, become involved in a murder, and befriend the Professor before they move on to new interests, such as Gypsies.
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Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them : Character Guide
"Meet Newt, Tina, Queenie, Jacob, and many more in this comprehensive character guide..."--Page [4] of cover.
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Hidden Figures : The Untold True Story of Four African-American Women Who Helped Launch our Nation into Space
Explores the previously uncelebrated but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program, describing how Jim Crow laws segregated them from their white counterparts despite their groundbreaking successes.
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H.I.V.E: Higher-Institute-of-Villainous-Education
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The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again
Also available on OverDrive and Hoopla. Bilbo Baggins, a respectable, well-to-do hobbit, lives comfortably in his hobbit-hole until the day the wandering wizard Gandalf chooses him to take part in an adventure from which he may never return.
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The Incredible Journey
Also available on OverDrive and Hoopla. A doughty young Labrador retriever, a roguish bull terrier, and an indomitable Siamese cat set out through the Canadian wilderness to make their way home to the family they love.
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Island of the Blue Dolphins
Also available on OverDrive. Left alone on a beautiful but isolated island off the coast of California, a young Indian girl spends eighteen years, not only merely surviving through her enormous courage and self-reliance, but also finding a measure of happiness in her solitary life.
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The Journal of James Edmond Pease, A Civil War Union Soldier
James Edmond, a sixteen-year-old orphan, keeps a journal of his experiences and those of "G" Company which he joined as a volunteer in the Union Army during the Civil War.
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The Journal of Joshua Loper: A Black Cowboy
In 1871 Joshua Loper, a sixteen-year-old black cowboy, records in his journal his experiences while making his first cattle drive under an unsympathetic trail boss.
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The Journal of Sean Sullivan: A Transcontinental Railroad Worker
In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the transcontinental railroad.
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Let's Pretend this Never Happened
In her diary, middle school student Jamie Kelly describes her life at home and at school, including her attempts to triumph over her nemesis, the beautiful and popular Angeline.
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Love that Dog
Also available on OverDrive and Hoopla. A young student, who comes to love poetry through a personal understanding of what different famous poems mean to him, surprises himself by writing his own inspired poem.
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Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle
Also available on OverDrive, From her upside-down house, the eccentric Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle issues to parents her marvelous cures for such common children's diseases as Won't-Put-Away-Toys-itis, Answerbackism, and Fighter-Quarrelitis.
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My Life in Dog Years
Also available on OverDrive. The author describes some of the dogs that have had special places in his life, including his first dog, Snowball, in the Phillippines; Dirk, who protected him from bullies; and Cookie, who saved his life.
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The Phantom Tollbooth
Also available on OverDrive, A journey through a land where Milo learns the importance of words and numbers provides a cure for his boredom.
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Saving Shiloh
Also available on OverDrive. Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
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Savvy
Also available on OverDrive. Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
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Titanic: Voices From the Disaster
Also available on OverDrive. On April 15, 1912, the magnificent ocean liner the RMS Titanic struck an iceberg and sank beneath the icy North Atlantic seas. Hopkinson weaves together archival photographs and the voices of real Titanic survivors and witnesses to the disaster to bring the horrors of that terrible night to life. There's nine-year-old Frankie Goldsmith; Violet Jessop, a young stewardess; Archibald Gracie, a well-to-do gentleman; Charlotte Collyer, a young mother on her way to start a new life; and others.
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