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The Landry News

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Copies: 5

NEW STUDENT GETS OLD TEACHER The bad news is that Cara Landry is the new kid at Denton Elementary School. The worse news is that her teacher, Mr. Larson, would rather read the paper and drink coffee than teach his students anything. So Cara decides to give Mr. Larson something else to read -- her own newspaper, The Landry News. Before she knows it, the whole fifth-grade class is in on the project. But then the principal finds a copy of The Landry News, with unexpected results. Tomorrow's headline: Will Cara's newspaper cost Mr. Larson his job?

Spanish edition available.

Author:

Andrew Clements

Lexile:

950L

The Summer of Riley

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Copies: 25

William's new dog, Riley, is in trouble. He chased a neighbor's horse, and local law punishes any animal that chases livestock. William will do anything to save his dog's life. Riley has become the friend he's needed after his grandfather's sudden death and his parents' separation.

Will William and his friend Grace be able to save Riley—even if several citizens and the bully Ellis Porter think Riley deserves the most severe punishment possible?

Author:

Eve Bunting

Lexile:

540L

Here Today (Unabridged)

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In 1963, Eleanor Roosevelt Dingman's mother was crowned the Bosetti Beauty of Spectacle, New York, Ellie's classmates decided she was invisible, and President John F. Kennedy was assassinated.

It was the year Ellie discovered that in trying to keep her life together, she had to let pieces of it go.

Author:

Ann M. Martin

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

790L

Length:

06:40

What Would Joey Do? (Unabridged)

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Are they flirting or fighting? This is Joey Pigza's question when the fireworks suddenly start to explode between his long-separated mom and dad, whom he's never really had a chance to see together. The more out of control his parents get, the less in control Joey feels and the more he wants to help make things better.

Author:

Jack Gantos

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Lexile:

860L

Length:

04:48

Dear Mr. Henshaw (Unabridged)

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Dear Mr. Henshaw,

I wish somebody would stop stealing the good stuff out of my lunchbag. I guess I wish a lot of other things, too. I wish someday Dad and Bandit would pull up in front in the rig ... Dad would yell out of the cab, "Come on, Leigh. Hop in and I'll give you a lift to school."

Author:

Beverly Cleary

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

910L

Length:

01:45

Hatchet (Unabridged)

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Newbery Award-winner Gary Paulsen's best-known book comes to audio in this breathless, heart-gripping drama about a boy pitted against the wilderness with only a hatchet and a will to live.

Author:

Gary Paulsen

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

1020L

Length:

07:30

Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue (Unabridged)

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Nine-year-old Amber Brown faces further complications because of her parents' divorce when her father plans to move back from Paris and she must decide which parent she will be with on Thanksgiving.

Author:

Paula Danziger

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

760L

Length:

01:45

Amber Brown Is Feeling Blue (Unabridged)

Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit (Unabridged)

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Amber Brown is in deep trouble. Lately, no matter what she does, it isn't enough. She straightens up her room - sort of. She does her homework - well, most of it. And she agrees to meet Max, her mother's new boyfriend - but she doesn't agree to like him. Now her mother is angry, her teacher wants all of her homework, and Max keeps trying to make her laugh. What's Amber to do?

Author:

Paula Danziger

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

710L

Length:

01:20

Amber Brown Wants Extra Credit (Unabridged)

Forever Amber Brown (Unabridged)

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Amber's life has changed dramatically: her parents are divorced, her father lives in France, her best friend has moved to another state, and now her mother must decide whether to remarry.

Author:

Paula Danziger

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

660L

Length:

01:06

I, Amber Brown (Unabridged)

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Amber Brown loves the holidays. The shopping, the wrapping, the unwrapping. She isn't having any trouble with gifts, but life is another story. She's so happy her dad has moved back to New Jersey, but her mom isn't. It means the beginning of shared custody, and that means more fighting.

Author:

Paula Danziger

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

600L

Length:

01:53

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