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Go Away Monster

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Reach in the bag to find the puzzle pieces that fit your bedroom game board. Try to distinguish between the different puzzle pieces and decide which one feels like the size and shape of a piece you need. If you pull out a monster, don't be scared...

Grade Level:

Primary

Content Area:

Other

Play Time:

15 min.

Beautiful Blue World

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Copies: 6

Sofarende is at war. For twelve-year-old Mathilde, it means food shortages, feuding neighbors, and bombings. Even so, as long as she and her best friend, Megs, are together, they’ll be all right.

But the army is recruiting children, and paying families well for their service. If Megs takes the test, Mathilde knows she will pass. Megs hopes the army is the way to save her family. Mathilde fears it might separate them forever.

Author:

Suzanne LaFleur

Lexile:

540L

Un grand-papa en or (French)

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Jüll voue une admiration et une confiance sans bornes à son grand-papa, dont il voudrait tant avoir le courage. Lors d'une balade en montagne, la nuit tombe et le garçonnet apeuré éclate en sanglots. Rassurant, son grand-papa le porte jusqu'à la maison et lui confie que lui aussi avait peur lorsqu'il avait son âge. Devant le scepticisme de son petit-fils, qui a peine à croire que son héros a déjà été un enfant, il partage avec lui les souvenirs que renferme son album de photos et lui explique qu'avec le temps, les personnes âgées perdent des forces alors que les enfants en gagnent.

Monster

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Sometimes I feel like I have walked into the middle of a movie. Maybe I can make my own movie. The film will be the story of my life. No, not my life, but of this experience. I'll call it what the lady who is the prosecutor called me: Monster.

Author:

Walter Dean Myers

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

670L

Length:

02:35

Toliver's Secret

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Copies: 28

Ellen Toliver is shocked to learn that her grandfather is a patriot spy. Then he's injured on the day of an important mission - and she's the only one who can take his place. It's the last thing shy, timid Ellen wants to do, but her grandfather, and her country, are depending on her.

Author:

Esther Wood Brady

Lexile:

740L

Kidnapped Book Two: The Search (Unabridged)

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MISSING!

Author:

Gordon Korman

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

750L

Length:

02:43

Kidnapped Book Two: The Search (Unabridged)

Tut, Tut: Time Warp Trio, Book 6 (Unabridged)

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This Time Warp Trio adventure finds the kids in ancient Egypt, where they square off against a pharoah's evil priest on a quest for the Book, a sister, and a cat.

Author:

Jon Scieszka

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

690L

Length:

01:35

Tut, Tut: Time Warp Trio, Book 6 (Unabridged)

Tumbleweed (Unabridged)

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Sir Tumbleweed is an unlikely knight, afraid of horses, jousting and dragons. But with help from Arthur the Lion and Spearhead the Unicorn, he floors Sir Basil the Beastly in a jousting match.

Author:

Dick King-Smith

Grade Level:

Elementary

Length:

01:45

Penny from Heaven (Unabridged)

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It's 1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that easy in Penny's family. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother's afraid she'll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living in a car. Her Nonny cries every time her father's name is mentioned.

Author:

Jennifer L. Holm

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

730L

Length:

05:35

I Am Legend (Unabridged)

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In I Am Legend, a plague has decimated the world, and those unfortunate enough to survive are transformed into blood-thirsty creatures of the night. Robert Neville is the last living man on earth. Every other man, woman, and child has become a vampire, and they are all hungry for Neville's blood.

Author:

Richard Matheson

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

760L

Length:

05:20

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