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1) Wonderstruck
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Having lost his mother and his hearing in a short time, twelve-year-old Ben leaves his Minnesota home in 1977 to seek the father he never knew in New York City, and meets there Rose, who is also longing for something missing from her life. Ben's story is told in words; Rose's in pictures.
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Language
English
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Margret Snow is the quintessential New York woman. She dresses the windows of Saks Fifth Avenue by day and mingles in the downtown art world by night, always searching for her niche in a city intent on capturing The Next Big Thing as it flies into view. Married to Charles, a professor at Columbia, and living on the Upper West Side, the backdrop to Margret's life is made up of the poetic rhythms and colors of the Manhattan day: slow-running buses,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Afraid he will always be an outsider like ex-planet Pluto, nine-year-old Oliver finally shows his extremely overprotective parents that he is capable of doing great things without their help while his class is studying the solar system.
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Language
English
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"In a city far in the future, retired lecturer Wiggins moves from window to window in a museum, intricately describing each scene. Whales gliding above a shipwreck and a lost cup and saucer. An animatronic forest twenty stories tall. A line of mosquitos in uniforms and reglia, honored as heroes of the last great war. Bit by bit, Wiggins unspools the secrets of his world - the conflict that brought it to the brink, and the great thinker, Michaux, who...
Author
Series
Who shrunk Daniel Funk? volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Still in shock after discovering that he has the ability, although uncontrollable, to miniaturize himself, and that he has a twin brother who is the size of a toe, sixth-grader Daniel Funk tries to focus on completing a diorama about ancient Egypt for his history class.
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