Alfred A. Knopf

The Good Fight: The Feuds of the Founding Fathers (and How They Shaped the Nation)

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Copies: 6

The founding fathers argued about when to fight the English. They argued about how to fight the English. They tussled over taxes. They disagreed about foreign affairs. They fought each other in private. They fought each other in public. They used essays. They used whispers. One of them even used a pistol.

Some of the fights were settled in their own time. Some of them are still being fought in ours.

Author:

Anne Quirk

Lexile:

920L

The Good Fight: The Feuds of the Founding Fathers (and How They Shaped the Nation)

The Penderwicks in Spring

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Copies: 6

Springtime is finally arriving on Gardam Street, and with it comes all the joyful chaos of the Penderwicks. The brood has grown to six with the addition of Lydia, the new youngest sibling, and there are surprises in store for all.

Author:

Jeanne Birdsall

Lexile:

880L

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

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Copies: 7

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

Sports Camp, A Novel

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Copies: 7

He'd been swimming laps for a half hour every day, mostly with Tony and sometimes with Eldon. A few times he'd seen other kids practicing, but nobody had done as much swimming as he had.

He stopped by the water and looked across the lake, all the way down to the totem pole.

Could he win it? He could dream about it, but it seemed impossible. He'd studied the results of the trials in the Bulletin, and a top-ten finish seemed within his reach. But the best swimmers were just too far out there.

Author:

Rich Wallace

Lexile:

730L