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1) The retreat
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From the author of The Battle: A novel that brings French history to life as Napoleon moves in on Russia-where the ultimate test awaits. The French army stands at the gates of Moscow. Exhausted and demoralized, Napoleon's men are a mere fraction of the four-hundred-thousand-strong force that crossed the river Niemen in the summer, just three months earlier. Still, the sight of this famous city feels like a triumph and a chance, at last, to enjoy a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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How are crayons made? Clear wax is melted in a factory. Once it's melted, color is added to it, it is poured into crayon-shaped molds, cooled, and wrapped in a paper label. Sorted into sets, the brightly colored crayons are boxed and sent in trucks to stores to be sold to you.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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How is a book made? A writer thinks of a story and writes it down. After a publishing company edits it, an artist will illustrate the story and a designer will put the two together on a computer. Then, the computer pages are turned into film that is sent to a printer to be turned into printed pages. The pages are cut and sewn together to make finished books that are shipped on trucks to stores for people to buy and read.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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How is a bridge built? Cement is mixed with water and rocks to make concrete. The concrete is poured into holes and into blocks that are stacked to make a bridge. Once fences and lights are added to the bridge, cars can drive across it.
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It is 1814, and Napoleon Bonaparte retreats to Paris following the debacle of his Russian invasion. Once there, the leader is met with more resistance-a plot to restore a royal to the throne of France succeeds and a humiliated Napoleon is forced to abdicate and go into exile. Octave Senecal, Napoleon's loyal aide and savior, tells the tale of their journey south through the angry, mob-filled countryside to Elba, a tiny island off the coast of Tuscany....
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HarperCollins
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[2010]
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Lily Sanderson has a secret, and it's not that she has a huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Unrequited love is hard enough when you're a normal teenage girl, but when you're half human, half mermaid, like Lily, there's no such thing as a simple crush. Lily's mermaid identity is a secret that can't get out, since she's not just any mermaid-she's a Thalassinian princess. When Lily found out three...
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HarperCollins
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[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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On Lily Sanderson's eighteenth birthday she'll become just a girl-still a mergirl, true, but signing the renunciation will ink Princess Waterlily of Thalassinia out of existence. That leaves plain old Lily living on land, dating the boy she loves, and trying to master this being-human thing once and for all. Now that Lily and Quince are together, mer bond or not, she's almost content to give up her place in the royal succession of Thalassinia. But...
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On his eleventh birthday, schoolboy Magnus Fin found out that he was half selkie - part human, part seal. Although he looks like a boy and lives on land, he can breathe underwater. When Magnus Fin discovers his initials scratched into the rocks by the shore and finds dead seals washed up on the beach, he knows his selkie family needs his help, and he dives down beneath the waves to find out more. The great seal sickness has struck and his grandmother...
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There has always been something unusual about Magnus Fin, a school misfit. On his eleventh birthday Magnus throws a message in a bottle out to sea, wishing for a best friend and to be more brave -- and he gets a lot more than he bargained for. Magnus discovers that he is half selkie -- part seal, part human -- and his selkie family urgently need his help. Can Magnus save his new-found family from the evil force threatening all the ocean's creatures?...
10) Just for Fins
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HarperCollins
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[2012]
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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Tera Lynn Childs brings a delightful mix of wit, romance, and fantasy to her books. Fins, her YA mermaid series, is a great pick for fans of Meg Cabot's humorous love stories. In Just for Fins, third in the series, half-human, half-mermaid Lily Sanderson has decided to remain Crown Princess Waterlily of the mermaid kingdom Thalassinia. She's made a promise to help to help Prince Tellin. Climate change and human pollution are causing suffering in his...
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On his eleventh birthday, schoolboy Magnus Fin found out that he is half selkie, part human, part seal. Although he looks like a boy and lives on land, he can breathe underwater. When a rusty metal chest is flung ashore in a storm, Magnus Fin decides to investigate. But he injures his hand on the strange box, and his sealskin starts to show through. His teacher realizes that there's something very unusual about Magnus Fin, and rumors start to spread....
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Lily a un secret, et ce n'est pas qu'elle rêve jour et nuit du beau Brody Bennett, un dieu de la natation qui fait chavirer son coeur. L'identité de sirène de Lily est un secret qui ne peut être découvert, puisqu'elle n'est pas qu'une simple sirène; elle est une princesse thalassinienne. Il y a trois ans, lorsque Lily a appris que sa mère était humaine, et non sirène, elle a finalement réalisé pourquoi elle ne se sentait pas tout à fait...
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À son dix-huitième anniversaire, Lily Sanderson deviendra une simple fille. Elle sera toujours une fille de la mer, il va sans dire, mais elle devra signer la renonciation
qui scellera le départ de princesse Waterlily de Thalassinie. Il ne restera plus que Lily qui vit sur terre, fréquentant le garçon qu'elle aime, et tentant de maîtriser l'art d'être humaine une fois pour toutes. Maintenant que Lily et Quince sont ensemble, liés ou non par...
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On his eleventh birthday, schoolboy Magnus Fin finds out that he is half selkie - part human, part seal. Although he looks like a boy and lives on land, he can breathe underwater. In Magnus Fin and the Ocean Quest, Magnus Fin must save his new-foound family from the evil force threatening all the ocean's creatures. In Magnus Fin and the Moonlight Mission, Magnus Fin discovers his initials scratched into rocks by the shore and must find the cause of...
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En décidant de conserver son titre de princesse héritière du royaume océanien de la Thalassinie, Lily Sanderson savait que sa nouvelle vie ne se résumerait pas à voguer paisiblement sur les flots marins. Mais comme elle a passé quelques années sur terre, la sirène n'est pas certaine d'avoir les nageoires assez solides pour diriger un royaume. Même sa cousine insupportablement prétentieuse semble en savoir plus qu'elle sur le rle et les...
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Flip and Fin, the irrepressible sand shark twins, want to save the day-just like their favorite TV superheroes. So off to the beach they go, for a bright, funny adventure that will tickle fans of Finding Nemo and SpongeBob SquarePants. Faster than a sailfish! Tougher than a clamshell! Inspired by their favorite TV characters, Flip and Fin are determined to save someone's day. But whose? They swim right to the shoreline with their two best friends,...
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It's Joke Day at school for Flip and Fin, the sand shark twins! What sits on the bottom of the sea and shakes? A nervous wreck! What do sea monsters eat? Fish and ships! Laugh-out-loud funny, Flip & Fin: We Rule the School! is a perfectly silly-and perfectly lovable-deep-sea story about brothers and best friends. It's almost Joke Day, and Flip is practicing his best jokes. Flip's twin brother Fin thinks Flip's pretty chomping good. But Flip doesn't...
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Fin Butler and the Clockwork Phoenix: A Children's Fantasy Adventure. Do you love Children's Fantasy Books? Then Fin Butler is here in this new and exciting first adventure in the series by Philip Janvier. Fin Butler and the Clockwork Phoenix is a fantasy adventure for children aged 10-12 and older. This first in a series opens with the trial of Fenix (Fin) Butler for arson. Accused of being 'The Firebird,' Fin is sent to Ravenswood House where he...
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Winter comes early to Ravenswood House for Fin Butler and his friends Jenny, Eiry and Sed. Locked into a winter of discontent, they are thrown into an adventure where they have to protect their new friend Chloe from those who would exploit her powers. Forced to make difficult choices, Fin and his friends face fire and ice as they seek to discover what the evil shadow that lurks under Ravenswood House is. But there are Dragons outside intent on taking...
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Fin Butler and the Reluctant Mermaid: A Children's Fantasy Adventure. Do you love Children's Fantasy Books? Then Fin Butler is here in this new and exciting third adventure in the series by Philip Janvier.'I could not put it down!' 'Well written, full of action and it captures you from the first page.'Fin Butler and the Reluctant Mermaid is a fantasy adventure for children aged 10-12 and older. Ravenswood House is no longer safe for Fin Butler and...
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