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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Little Mary is an orphan, come from India to her relatives in England. Her cousin Colin is a sickly lad, living in the same large cold house that Mary has been sent to. Both children are self-centered and lonely, unhappy in different ways. It is only when Mary finds a rusty old key that opens the long-hidden garden that the two learn to find love and happiness. In the mystery and beauty of nature and living things, Mary and Colin overcome their problems...
3) Small steps
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Three years after being released from Camp Green Lake, Armpit is trying hard to keep his life on track, but when his old pal X-Ray shows up with a tempting plan to make some easy money scalping concert tickets, Armpit reluctantly goes along.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition.
Author
Publisher
Courage Books
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Young reader's ed.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated retelling of Frances Hodgson Burnett's classic children's story in which a spoiled young girl named Mary is sent to live with her uncle and discovers a magical world in the estate's mysterious garden.
9) Louis Braille, the boy who invented books for the blind: The Boy Who Invented Books for the Blind
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1991], c1971
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
The life of the 19th-century Frenchman who invented an alphabet enabling the blind to read.
13) Apt. 3
Author
Series
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On a rainy day two brothers try to discover who is playing the harmonica they hear in their apartment building.
14) A tree for Peter
Author
Publisher
Purple House Press
Pub. Date
2004, c1941
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
When Peter, a fatherless lame boy living in Shantytown, meets Peter King, a mysterious, wandering stranger, his lonely life becomes filled with hope, friendship, and even miracles.
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