Kate DiCamillo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Once, in a house on Egypt Street there lived a china rabbit named Edward Tulane. The rabbit was very pleased with himself, and for good reason: he was owned by a girl named Abilene, who treated him with the utmost care and adored him completely. And then, one day, he was lost. Kate DiCamillo takes us on an extraordinary journey, from the depths of the ocean to the net of a fisherman, from the top of a garbage heap to the fireside of a hoboes' camp,...
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Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When Raymie enters the Little Miss Central Florida Tire competition in hopes of catching her father?s attention, she doesn?t expect to become friends with her sassy and eccentric fellow contestants, Louisiana and Beverly. But as time goes by, these three girls become allies and soon learn that even your biggest rivals can turn out to be your closest friends. 272pp.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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One summer's day, ten-year-old India Opal Buloni goes down to the local supermarket for some groceries - and comes home with a dog. But Winn-Dixie is no ordinary dog. It's because of Winn-Dixie that Opal begins to make friends. And it's because of Winn-Dixie that she finally dares to ask her father about her mother, who left when Opal was three. In fact, as Opal admits, just about everything that happens that summer is because of Winn-Dixie.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 3
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 1
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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After Mercy the pig snuggles to sleep with the Watsons, all three awaken with the bed teetering on the edge of a big hole in the floor.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night and tells her they need to leave home immediately, and this time Granny intends for them never to return.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.
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Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Francine Poulet is the greatest animal control officer in Gizzford County. She hails from a long line of Animal Control Officers. She's battled snakes, outwitted squirrels, and stared down a bear. "The genuine article," Francine's dad always called her. She is never scared--until, that is, she's faced with a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost. Maybe Francine isn't cut out to be an animal control officer after all! But the raccoon is...
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Beverly put her foot down on the gas. They went faster still. This was what Beverly wanted -- what she always wanted. To get away. To get away as fast as she could. To stay away. Beverly Tapinski has run away from home plenty of times, but that was when she was just a kid. By now, she figures, it's not running away. It's leaving. Determined to make it on her own, Beverly finds a job and a place to live and tries to forget about her dog, Buddy, now...
Author
Series
Norendy tales volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by the heart's mysteries. When at last their shared fate arrives, landing them on a mantel in a blue room...
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume 5
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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After Mercy Watson follows the delightful scent and delicious taste of the pansies her thoughtful neighbors plant to beautify their yard, Animal Control Officer Francine Poulet is called out to handle the case, which brings unexpected results.
17) Bink & Gollie
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Yippie-i-oh! Saddle up for the first in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from Kate DiCamillo's New York Times best-selling Mercy Watson books.
Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse – until he meets Maybelline, that is, and then it's love at first sight. Maybelline loves spaghetti and sweet nothings, and she loves Leroy, too. But when Leroy forgets the third and final rule
19) Ferris
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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During the summer before fifth grade, Ferris Wilkey has her hands full with her little sister terrorizing the town, her Aunt Shirley moving into their basement and her grandmother seeing a ghost--one who has wild, impractical and illuminating plans.
Author
Series
Mercy Watson volume Prequel
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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When a pig named Mercy arrives at the Watsons' front door, she brings love and chaos to their lives.