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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by...
Author
Series
(Lucy Maud),Anne of Green Gables volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Anne's children make friends with the unusual Meredith children. Their minister father is looking for a wife and the town bubbles with interest at his efforts.
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the olympians volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Percy and his friends set out to find his best friend, Grover, who is held prisoner on an island somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, before heading out to save Camp Half-Blood from mythological monsters.
7) Eli
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1978
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A proud but decrepit lion learns a lesson about friendship from the vultures he despises.
11) My friend is sad
Author
Series
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Gerald the Elephant is sad, Piggie is determined to cheer him up, but finds after many tries that it only takes the simplest thing to change Gerald's mood.
14) Islands
Author
Language
English
Description
Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny. When they marry, she finds her family-not a traditional one, but a group of Charleston childhood friends who are inseparable, who are one another's surrogate...
15) Second chance
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A group of friends rediscovers the power of friendship when they gather to mourn Tom's death in a terrorist attack, and to work out the mid-life crises that seem to be hitting them all at once.
Author
Language
English
Description
Visiting Nantucket for the summer, three women seek peace and comfort as they cope with the challenges in their lives--from marriage, infidelity, and the mayhem of motherhood to scandal, tragedy, and illness.
Three women--burdened with small children, unwieldy straw hats, and some obvious emotional issues--tumble onto the Nantucket airport tarmac one hot June day. Vicki is trying to sort through the news that she has a serious illness. Her sister,...
19) The last girls
Author
Language
English
Description
Four women, part of a group of classmates from Blue Ridge women's college who traveled down the Mississippi on a homemade raft in 1965, reunite thirty-five years later to share their memories, examine how their lives have turned out, and sprinkle the ashes of a fifth friend in the waters off New Orleans.
20) Olive, my love
Author
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Olive the dog goes to great lengths to return the giant heart that her friend Dexter left on her doorstep.
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