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The Wind in the Willows: The Complete Second Series: Disc 1

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Kenneth Grahame's classic adventure continues with THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS: THE COMPLETE SECOND SERIES.

With amazingly detailed sets that recreate Mole End, Toad Hall, and the Wild Wood, these episodes capture the spellbinding stop-motion genius of Cosgrove Hall Productions. Toad, Mole, Rat, and Badger seek out the simple pleasures in life, even as the pesky weasels lurk nearby. With music and song - and plenty of tea and jam - our gentlemanly quartet always finds a way to traverse life's ups and downs with aplomb.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

04:20

The Wind in the Willows: The Complete Second Series: Disc 1

The Wind in the Willows: The Complete First Series: Disc 2

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Kenneth Grahame's classic adventure continues with THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS: THE COMPLETE FIRST SERIES.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

04:20

The Wind in the Willows: The Complete First Series: Disc 2

The Wind in the Willows: The Complete First Series: Disc 1

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Kenneth Grahame's classic adventure continues with THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS: THE COMPLETE FIRST SERIES.

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Length:

04:20

The Wind in the Willows: The Complete First Series: Disc 1

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"They called her Water Claire."

When the young girl washed up on their shore, no one knew she had been a Vessel. That she had carried a Product. That it had been carved from her belly. Stolen.

Author:

Lois Lowry

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Lexile:

720L

Length:

08:11

It's Kind of a Funny Story

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Ambitious New York City teenager Craig Gilner is determined to succeed at life-which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job. But once Craig aces his way into Manhattan's Executive Pre-Professional High School, the pressure becomes unbearable. He stops eating and sleeping until, one night, he nearly kills himself.

Author:

Ned Vizzini

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

700L

Length:

08:35

The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking, Book 1

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Prentisstown isn't like other towns. Everyone can hear everyone else's thoughts in an overwhelming, never-ending stream of Noise. Just a month away from the birthday that will make him a man, Todd and his dog, Manchee - whose thoughts Todd can hear, too, whether he wants to or not - stumble upon an area of complete silence.

Author:

Patrick Ness

Grade Level:

Middle

High

Lexile:

860L

Length:

11:55

The Knife of Never Letting Go: Chaos Walking, Book 1

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

Eleven: A Mystery

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Sam is almost 11 when he discovers a locked box in the attic above his grandfather Mack's room, and a piece of paper that says he was kidnapped. There are lots of other words, but Sam has always had trouble reading. He's desperate to find out who he is, and if his beloved Mack is really his grandfather. At night he's haunted by dreams of a big castle and a terrifying escape on a boat.

Author:

Patricia Reilly Giff

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

600L

Length:

03:21

Stepping on the Cracks (Unabridged)

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Margaret and her best friend Elizabeth both have brothers fighting the war against Hitler and, like everyone else they know, they are filled with feelings of patriotism. But the girls are also involved in their own personal war at home. Gordy Smith, the worst bully in the sixth grade, teases and torments them, and Margaret is scared to death of him.

Author:

Mary Downing Hahn

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

780L

Length:

05:50

The Dinosaur Who Lived in My Backyard

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Copies: 1

THIS BOOK IS PART OF THE DINOSAURS CURRICULUM KIT

Although they disappeared long ago, dinosaurs live on in children's imaginations. A young boy playfully imagines the "dinosaur who hatched in the backyard and grew to the size of the family car. . . . An appealing combination of fantasy and reality".

Author:

B.G. Hennessy

Lexile:

AD520L

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