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Applewhites at Wit's End

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Copies: 7

Jack Semple and E.D. Applewhite are back, in this middle-grade sequel to Stephanie S. Tolan’s Newbery Honor Book Surviving the Applewhites.

Teenager E.D., the not so artistic, not at all eccentric member of the unconventional Applewhite clan, can't believe the plan her father has hatched to save the family from financial disaster. He’s decided to transform their rural North Carolina farm into a summer camp for creative children.

Author:

Stephanie S. Tolan

Lexile:

840L

The World According to Humphrey (Unabridged)

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You can learn a lot about life by observing another species. That's what Humphrey was told when he was first brought to Room 26. And boy is it true! There are always adventures in the classroom and each weekend he gets to sleep over with different students.

Author:

Betty Birney

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

670L

Length:

02:35

The World According to Humphrey (Unabridged)

The White Dragon: Dragonriders of Pern (Unabridged)

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When Jaxom, a rebellious youth, and Ruth, his white dragon, fly into another time to retrieve the queen's stolen egg and avert a dragonrider war, they find their planet threatened once again by a Threadfall.

Author:

Anne McCaffrey

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

920L

Length:

14:40

The White Dragon: Dragonriders of Pern (Unabridged)

Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death (Unabridged)

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Slaughterhouse-Five is one of the world's great anti-war books. Centering on the infamous fire-bombing of Dresden, Billy Pilgrim's odyssey through time reflects the mythic journey of our own fractured lives as we search for meaning in what we are afraid to know.

Author:

Kurt Vonnegut

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

850L

Length:

06:01

Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children's Crusade: A Duty Dance With Death (Unabridged)

Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Unabridged)

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Wayside School was supposed to be built with 30 classrooms all next to each other in a row. Instead, the classrooms were stacked one on top of the other — 30 stories tall! Here are some hilarious and fun stories about the school, the teachers, and the students.

Author:

Louis Sachar

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

460L

Length:

02:27

Sideways Stories from Wayside School (Unabridged)

The Serpent Came to Gloucester

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In this tale told in rhyme, a boy rushes into Gloucester to tell everyone about a serpent in the bay. The people enjoy watching the beast and are sad when it leaves. The next summer the men decide to capture the serpent, but the boy hopes that it stays hidden.

Author:

M.T. Anderson

Grade Level:

Elementary

Length:

16:50

The River

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"We want you to do it again."

These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change his life. Two years earlier, Brian was stranded alone in the wilderness for 54 days with nothing but a small hatchet. Yet he survived.

Author:

Gary Paulsen

Grade Level:

Elementary

Middle

Lexile:

960L

Length:

02:32

The Renegades of Pern: Dragonriders of Pern (Unabridged)

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The inhabitants of Pern are threatened by a band of renegades that attempts to expose them to deadly airborne spores in the atmosphere.

Author:

Anne McCaffrey

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1010L

Length:

13:27

The Renegades of Pern: Dragonriders of Pern (Unabridged)

The Order of Odd Fish

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Jo Larouche has lived her 13 years in the California desert with her Aunt Lily, ever since she was dropped on Lily's doorstep with this note: "This is Jo. Please take care of her. But beware. This is a dangerous baby."

Author:

James Kennedy

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

820L

Length:

13:53

The Metamorphosis

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"When Gregor Samsa woke up one morning from unsettling dreams, he found himself changed in his bed into a monstrous vermin." With this startling, bizarre, yet surprisingly funny first sentence, Kafka begins his masterpiece, The Metamorphosis.

Author:

Franz Kafka

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

1320L

Length:

02:15

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