Jane Yolen
4) Owl moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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On a winter's night under a full moon, a father and daughter trek into the woods to see the Great Horned Owl.
Author
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 31 cm.
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English
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Illustrations and rhyming text present some of the different ways dinosaurs can express their love, from cleaning up after making a mess to smiling sweetly instead of roaring.
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Told in rhyming text young dinosaurs learn to read, but only after many mishaps, like chewing their books and throwing them at the cat--but eventually they learn to respect their books, and treat them properly.
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
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English
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The unicorns flee from the noise, violence, and destruction of civilization and find refuge in the sea.
11) Dragon's blood
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Series
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Jakkin, a bond boy who works as a Keeper in a dragon nursery on the planet Austar IV, secretly trains a fighting pit dragon of his own in hopes of winning his freedom.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"A triumphantly moving book." —Kirkus Reviews, starred review
Hannah dreads going to her family's Passover Seder—she's tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past. But when she opens the front door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she's transported to a Polish village in the year 1942. Why is she there, and who is this "Chaya" that everyone seems to think she is? Just as she begins to unravel...
Hannah dreads going to her family's Passover Seder—she's tired of hearing her relatives talk about the past. But when she opens the front door to symbolically welcome the prophet Elijah, she's transported to a Polish village in the year 1942. Why is she there, and who is this "Chaya" that everyone seems to think she is? Just as she begins to unravel...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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From the best-selling and award-winning author of The Devil's Arithmetic, Jane Yolen, comes her first Holocaust novel in nearly thirty years. Influenced by Dr. Mengele's sadistic experimentations, this story follows twins as they travel from the Lodz ghetto, to the partisans in the forest, to a horrific concentration camp where they lose everything but each other.
It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's...
It's 1942 in Poland, and the world is coming to pieces. At least that's...
14) Waking dragons
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the morning, dragons wake up, tumble out of bed, and get ready to fly into the sky.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers Group
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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An unforgettable take on a favorite fairy tale by multi-award-winning author Jane Yolen
Summer's life in the mountains of West Virginia feels like a fairy tale—her parents dote on her, and she's about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby dies soon after he's born, taking their mother with him, Summer's life turns grim. Things get even worse when her father marries a woman who brings poisons and magical mirrors into Summer's world. Stepmama...
Summer's life in the mountains of West Virginia feels like a fairy tale—her parents dote on her, and she's about to get a new baby brother. But when the baby dies soon after he's born, taking their mother with him, Summer's life turns grim. Things get even worse when her father marries a woman who brings poisons and magical mirrors into Summer's world. Stepmama...
Author
Series
Young Merlin trilogy volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1996
Language
English
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The story of the young Merlin's coming-of-age continues in this thrilling sequel to Passager. "An enjoyable introduction to Arthurian fantasy."—The Horn Book
18) Passager
Author
Series
Young Merlin trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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The legendary wizard's early years are explored in this magical adventure by the acclaimed author of the Pit Dragon Chronicles.
A boy is abandoned in the woods of medieval England. A year passes—a year of terror and hunger, of sleeping in trees and foraging for food, of outrunning packs of wild dogs—until one day a falconer captures and tames the boy as he would any passager, a young bird caught in the wild and trained. The...
A boy is abandoned in the woods of medieval England. A year passes—a year of terror and hunger, of sleeping in trees and foraging for food, of outrunning packs of wild dogs—until one day a falconer captures and tames the boy as he would any passager, a young bird caught in the wild and trained. The...
20) Dragon's Heart
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
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Austar IV isn't the planet it once was, and when Jakkin and Akki finally return to the dragon nursery, their homecoming arouses mixed emotions. Together they've survived the insurmountable, and now they can weather the brutal conditions of Dark After and communicate with the dragons they love. But with this knowledge comes responsibility. What they've learned about survival could transform the planet—or, if entrusted to the wrong hands, bring
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