Realistic Fiction

Ivy & Bean: Doomed to Dance (Unabridged)

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Annie Barrows has won critical acclaim and become fabulously popular among young readers for her enchanting Ivy and Bean books. In Doomed to Dance, Ivy and Bean pester their parents into letting them take ballet lessons - but ballet isn't quite what the girls thought it would be! And now they have to get through the entire ballet course, just like they promised.

Author:

Annie Barrows

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

530L

Length:

01:19

Ivy & Bean: Doomed to Dance (Unabridged)

Ivy and Bean: What's the Big Idea (Unabridged)

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Annie Barrows' Ivy and Bean books star a pair of mismatched best friends who are nevertheless inseparable. The science fair is here, and everyone in Ivy and Bean's second-grade class couldn't be more excited. This year's theme is global warming, and all of the kids are working on their own projects and experiments. But what are Ivy and Bean up to?

Author:

Annie Barrows

Grade Level:

Primary

Elementary

Lexile:

550L

Length:

01:19

Ivy and Bean: What's the Big Idea (Unabridged)

Superfudge (Unabridged)

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He knows a lot of big words, but he doesn't know where babies come from. He's never heard of a stork, but he plans to be a bird when he grows up. He's Superfudge, otherwise known as Farley Drexel Hatcher. And, according to his older brother, Peter, the biggest pain invented. Among other things.

Author:

Judy Blume

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

560L

Length:

03:09

Double Fudge (Unabridged)

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"Money, money, money...I love money, money, money" is Fudge's new theme song. He's drawing dollar signs for breakfast, thumbing through catalogs at bedtime, and making enough "Fudge Bucks" so he can buy the whole world (or at least Toys "R" Us). Fudge's latest obsession is driving his brother, Peter, crazy!

Author:

Judy Blume

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

450L

Length:

04:40

Small Steps (Unabridged)

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Two years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is home in Austin, Texas, trying to turn his life around. But it's hard when you have a record, and everyone expects the worst from you. The only person who believes in him is Ginny, his 10-year-old disabled neighbor. Together, they are learning to take small steps.

Author:

Louis Sachar

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

690L

Length:

05:12

The Bean Trees (Unabridged)

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Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away.

Author:

Barbara Kingsolver

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

900L

Length:

09:21

A Day No Pigs Would Die (Unabridged)

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Originally published in hardcover in 1972, A Day No Pigs Would Die was one of the first young adult books, along with titles like The Outsiders and The Chocolate War. In it, author Robert Newton Peck weaves a story of a Vermont boyhood that is part fiction, part memoir. The result is a moving coming-of-age story that still resonates with teens today.

Author:

Robert Newton Peck

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

690L

Length:

03:01

The Great Gilly Hopkins (Unabridged)

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At age 11, Gilly is nobody's real kid. If only she could find her beautiful mother, Courtney, and live with her instead of in the ugly foster home where she has just been placed! How could she, the great Gilly Hopkins, known throughout the county for her brilliance and unmanageability, be expected to tolerate Maime Trotter, the fat, nearly illiterate widow who is now her guardian?

Author:

Katherine Paterson

Grade Level:

Middle

Lexile:

800L

Length:

04:40

Glass (Unabridged)

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Crank. Glass. Ice. Crystal. Whatever you call it, it's all the same: a monster. And once it's got hold of you, this monster will never let you go.

Author:

Ellen Hopkins

Grade Level:

High

Lexile:

600L

Length:

07:18

How to Eat Fried Worms (Unabridged)

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Because of a bet, Billy is in the uncomfortable position of having to eat 15 worms in 15 days. The worms are supplied by his opponent, whose motto is "The bigger and juicier, the better!" At first Billy's problem is whether or not he can swallow the worm placed before him, even with a choice of condiments from peanut butter to horseradish.

Author:

Thomas Rockwell

Grade Level:

Elementary

Lexile:

650L

Length:

01:54

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