Marissa Moss
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English
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As a boy, Kenichi 'Zeni' Zenimura dreams of playing professional baseball, but everyone tells him he is too small. Yet he grows up to be a successful player, playing with Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig! When the Japanese attack Pearl Harbor in 1941, Zeni and his family are sent to one of ten internment camps where more than 110,000 people of Japanese ancestry are imprisoned without trials. Zeni brings the game of baseball to the camp, along with a sense...
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English
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Bestselling and award-winning author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of America's first female cryptanalyst, Elizebeth Smith Friedman, who busted Nazi spy rings.
Praised for her accessible blend of narrative nonfiction with graphic novel-style chapter openers in The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner, Marissa Moss's Spying on Spies: How Elizebeth Smith Friedman Broke the Nazis' Secret Codes is another fascinating...
66) Who was it?
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English
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After Isabelle breaks the cookie jar, she and her brother Jerome invent a variety of wild stories to explain the damage to their mother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Daphne discovers the magical appeal of vampires and decides to dress up as "the best vampire ever" for her school's costume day, but to plan her costume she will first need to learn what is cool and what is nerdy in the world of vampires.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Amelia had expected to have a quiet summer, but instead she makes friends with a deaf boy who moves in next door, deals with her grouchy older sister, has an asthma attack, and goes to a family reunion. Features hand-printed text and drawings and thirty-two sign language flash cards.
71) Amelia tells all
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Amelia creates a handwritten book about palm reading, fortune telling, and handwriting analysis, with games and quizzes included.
72) Max's logbook
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Max's log book of observations, drawings, experiments, and inventions reveals the rich world of his imagination and his feelings about his parents' divorce.
76) Mel's Diner
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English
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Mabel enjoys helping her father and mother run their diner, a friendly and comfortable place where she loves to spend time.
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An ancient Rome journal volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Twelve-year-old Galen describes his life as a slave in Rome under the Emperor Augustus. Features hand-printed text, drawings, and marginal notes.
79) In America
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English
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While Walter and his grandfather walk to the Post Office, Grandfather recounts how he decided to come to America, while his brother Herschel stayed in Lithuania.
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Folio cadet volume 423
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Français
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The hand-lettered contents of a nine-year-old girl's notebook, in which she records her thoughts and feelings about moving, starting school, and dealing with her older sister, as well as keeping her old best friend and making a new one.