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Lexile measure
550L
Language
English
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Up, up, and away! The brave men and women of the United States Air Force are always hard at work protecting their country. Pilots, mechanics, air traffic controllers, and other airmen all have important jobs. They get help from high-tech vehicles such as the MQ-9 Reaper drone and advanced guns and missiles. Beginning readers are sure to enjoy learning about all-things Air Force, from jobs to weapons and equipment.
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Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
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Description
U.S. Marines pride themselves on being the "first to fight" for their country. By sea, by land, and by air, Marines work as a team. They get help from high-tech vehicles such as the F/A Hornet fighter jet and weapons such as M-4 rifles. Beginning readers are sure to enjoy learning about various aspects of the Marine Corps, from jobs to weapons and equipment.
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English
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Samuel Branch can see and wield the energy around him to devastating effect. He makes his way teaching online classes and trying to mind his own business. When a dangerous messenger arrives from the unimaginably powerful Lords and Ladies, he has no choice but to follow the trail of a rising darkness. When an old lover resurfaces, though, he may find a rising darkness is the least of his problems.Bonus: Includes preview chapters of the second Sam Branch...
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English
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Aldo Branch is a homicide detective in Houston, and also an amateur musician who loves playing viola in string quartets. He is called to a Houston park where the members of the Kyoto Quartet have been found murdered and their Stradivarius instruments stolen. Branch and his partner, Chat (for Chatahoochee) Jackson, begin by interviewing the Houston elites who had attended the post-concert party at the home of billionaire oilman Clint Mattingly. Celia...
7) Class pets
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Missy wants to take home the class pets, but another girl, Tiffany, has already asked their teacher so Missy and her friend Oscar need to come up with a plan to make Tiffany change her mind.
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Series
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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Description
Ed, his friends, and even his little sister are eager to go to Dinosaur Discovery, but ever since he found the magic coin called Silver Center, strange things happen around Ed--so he is not surprised to find that a blue dinosaur has followed his sister home.
9) Field trip
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2013]
Lexile measure
540L
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a school field trip to the state Capitol, Missy is dissapointed to learn that there is no gift shop and decides, along with her friend Oscar, to visit the governor to petition one.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
640L
Physical Desc
88 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Kiki and her best friends, Coco and Lulu, all live on Lotus Lane, attend Amber Acres Elementary School, and have their own club, so when a when a Japanese girl named Mika moves in next door and also chooses fashion design for her art project, Kiki is seriously annoyed.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
490L
Physical Desc
89 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alexander has just moved into Stermont, but the elementary school is being torn down, his new classroom is located in the hospital morgue, a notebook he finds is full of information about monsters--and everywhere he turns there are spooky balloon men determined to attack him.
12) Stranger things
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Lexile measure
610L
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When ordinary third-grader Ed finds a coin with the words "strange" and "stranger" on both sides, weird things start happening around him--but when his friends start blaming him for all the weirdness Ed wonders if this coin is not too strange for comfort.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eight-year-old Drake is snatched up by the King's soldiers and taken to the castle, where he is told by the wizard Griffith that he has been chosen to be a Dragon Master like Ana, Rori, and Bo--and his first task will be to discover whether his dragon, Worm, has any special powers.
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Series
Lexile measure
580L
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Drake is a Dragon Master. He and the other Dragon Masters--Ana, Rori, and Bo--train dragons for the king. When Ana's dragon, Kepri, becomes sick, everyone must work together to save her. Did dark magic make her sick? Does Worm have a new secret power that could help her? The Dragon Masters are about to find out!" -- Page [4] cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Lexile measure
570L
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Only a week into his job as hall monitor and class protector, Sam Graves and his friends Lucy and Antonio are trying to uncover the secrets of Eerie Elementary, their living and malevolent school--and then Lucy gets eaten by her locker.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
90 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Clyde is a hyperactive kid, and his twin sister, Claudia, does her best to keep him out of trouble--but after a class field trip to the science museum, and a zapped banana, he suddenly finds that excitement transforms him into a real monkey, which may help him catch the thief who took the golden monkey.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
90 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ever since he ate a zapped banana, hyperactive second-grader Clyde turns into a monkey when he gets excited, so his twin sister Claudia plans to take her "monkey" to the school pet show--but when all the animals are pet-napped Clyde has to use his inner monkey to rescue them.
Author
Publisher
Branches/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2014.
Lexile measure
510L
Physical Desc
72 pages : color illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In her second adventure in the Land of Fake-Believe, Princess Pink meets Scaredy-Pants Wolf, a baker whose business has been robbed by Little Red Quacking Hood--and to save the bakery Princess must figure out why the ducks are suddenly so interested in pies." -- Provided by publisher.