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Two Crafty Criminals: and How They Were Captured by the Daring Detectives of the New Cut Gang

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Criminals, crooks, and swindlers be warned: the kids of the New Cut Gang are on to you! This book details tow of their most cleverly cracked cases.

When someone begins passing counterfeit coins around their neighborhood, Benny and Thunderbolt jump on his trail. Until that trail seems to lead to Thunderbolt's own home...

Then, when some valuable silver is stolen, the only clues at the scene of the crime are a blob of wax and a distinctive match. The police are baffled! But not Benny. Now, if only the Peretti twins can engineer a jailbreak, he'll be able to prove his case...

Author:

Philip Pullman

Lexile:

830L

Two Crafty Criminals: and How They Were Captured by the Daring Detectives of the New Cut Gang

Better Nate Than Ever

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Nate Foster has big dreams. His whole life Nate has wanted to star in a Broadway show. (Heck, he'd settle for seeing a Broadway show.) But how is Nate supposed to make his dreams come true when he's stuck in Jankburg, Pennsylvania, where no one (except his best pal Libby) appreciates a good show tune?

Author:

Tim Federle

Call of the Klonkike: A True Gold Rush Adventure

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When a ship full of gold arrives in Seattle, thousands of men rush to get to the Klondike goldfields-fast. But the journey is risky. Prospectors must haul a year's worth of supplies over steep mountain passes and navigate five hundred miles of treacherous lakes and rivers to reach Dawson City, in Canada. Will Stanley Pearce and Marshall Bond, two young prospectors, survive the dangerous journey? And will they strike gold and find their fortunes?

Author:

David Meissner and Kim Richardson

Lexile:

1100L

Call of the Klonkike: A True Gold Rush Adventure

A Tangled Web

In this math game you control a tiny robotic spider named Itzi, who lives with his family at the top of a strange old grandfather clock.

Battle of the Dinosaur Bones: Othniel Charles Marsh vs Edward Drinker Cope

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n the 1880s, science witnessed a major shift: Charles Darwin proposed his theory of evolution. People dug up the first dinosaur fossils. And the field of paleontology--the study of ancient plants and animals--emerged.

Author:

Rebecca L. Johnson

Battle of the Dinosaur Bones: Othniel Charles Marsh vs Edward Drinker Cope

Draw Out the Story: Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics

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From single-panel jokes to long graphic novels, comics come in endless shapes, sized, and styles. But when you think of it, they all do one thing: tell stories.

Author:

Brian McLachlan

Lexile:

800L

Draw Out the Story: Ten Secrets to Creating Your Own Comics

Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation

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On a sunny day in Dallas, Texas, at the end of a campaign trip, President John Fitzgerald Kennedy is assassinated by an angry, lonely drifter named Lee Harvey Oswald. The former Marine Corps sharpshooter escapes briefly, but is hunted down, captured, and then shot dead while in police custody.

Author:

Bill O'Riley

Lexile:

1050L

Kennedy's Last Days: The Assassination That Defined a Generation

Nanocrafter

Nanocrafter is a recently launched game about building nanoscale devices using small pieces of DNA. In the last decade, synthetic biologists have begun using the DNA mechanism of strand displacement, a predictable reaction occurring between three or more pieces of DNA, to produce everything from nanoscale computational circuits to mobile walkers capable of transporting payloads over DNA tracks

Gate

Shadows are corrupting the land. Restore the balance of nature by exploring place value. Gate guides students in: Lowering intimidation about large numbers and decimals. Understanding the meaning of place value. Realizing that the same mathematical concepts that apply to the "easy" integers apply to every order of magnitude.

Ratio Rumble

The battle is on in this game where you build your own potions! Check your ratios to win this mixture mix-off! Ratio Rumble addresses equivalent ratios, as established by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

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