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IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Milo, a young boy with little interest in anything, takes a trip through the Phantom Tollbooth to the Lands Beyond where he meets an enchanting cast of characters that teaches him the importance of words, numbers, ideas, creativity, and enthusiasm for life.
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The Phantom Tollbooth (SparkNotes Literature Guide) by Norton Juster
Making the reading experience fun!
Created by Harvard students for students everywhere, SparkNotes is a new breed of study guide: smarter, better, faster. Geared to what today's students need to know, SparkNotes provides: *Chapter-by-chapter analysis
*Explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols
*A review quiz and essay topicsLively and accessible, these guides are perfect...
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She wasn't that big really. Well, not on the outside.
Anabelle wondered if someone might be living at the top of the Columbia Theater, so she got herself a job inside to investigate. What she found out started her journey into the forever and ever. It also took her from Longview all the way to New York.
Sometimes, when you follow your dreams, you find out that the best way to make your dreams come true is to help someone else make their dreams come...
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"Fred and her math-teacher mom are always on the move, and Fred is getting sick of it. She's about to have yet another birthday in a new place without friends. On the eve of turning thirteen, Fred sees something strange in the living room: her mother, dressed for a party, standing in front of an enormous paper lantern--which she steps into and disappears. Fred follows her and finds herself in the Land of Impossibility--a loopily illogical place where...
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"In Bookends, Pulitzer Prize winning author Michael Chabon offers a compilation of pieces about literature--age-old classics as well as his own--that presents a unique look into his literary origins and influences, the books that shaped his taste and formed his ideas about writing and reading"--
10) Pencilvania
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Twelve-year-old Zora finds herself transported into a fantastic world where all of her drawings have come to life.
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The Giant Chinchilla of Oz is an exciting, funny, thought-provoking and clever mixture of L. Frank Baum, Norton Juster (The Phantom Tollbooth), and Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland. Eleven-year old Jason Brandt meets Harvey the Squid (a retired cab driver), and Button-Bright (who can't remember his real name), and acquires a pet Expanding Giant Chinchilla (for use in emergencies). Together this foursome must overcome The Two Weevils (Less and Greater,...
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Cursed at birth by the devious Fate Spinner, Annalise has always lived a solitary life with her loving parents. She does her best to ignore the cruel townsfolk of her desolate town--but the black mark on her hand wont be ignored. Theres only one way for Annalise to rid herself of her curse: to enter the Labyrinth of Fate and Dreams and defeat the Fate Spinner.
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The essential retrospective of the Pulitzer Prize-winning cartoonist and writer whose signature brand of satire inspired generations.
Everyone knows a Jules Feiffer illustration when they see one. His characters leap across the page, each line resonating with humor and psychological insight. Over Feiffer's prolific seventy-year career, his nimble and singular imagination has given us new perspectives as well as biting satires on politics, love, marriage,...
14) The escapement
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"Into the reality called the Escapement rides the Stranger, a lone gunman on a quest to rescue his son from a parallel world. But it is too easy to get lost on a shifting landscape full of dangerous versions of his son's most beloved things: cowboys gone lawless, giants made of stone, downtrodden clowns, ancient battles, symbol storms, and shadowy forces at play. But the flower the Stranger seeks still lies beyond the Mountains of Darkness. Time...
15) The Dreamway
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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After her twin brother is attacked, Stella Clay senses there is something different about him, but a talking mouse tells her that her brother has been kidnapped and taken prisoner in the Dreamway and it is up to her to rescue him.
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The Mythology Class follows Nicole Lacson, an anthropology student at the University of the Philippines. When she is summoned to a secret meeting by the mysterious Madame Enkanta, Nicole finds herself face-to-face with living creatures from mythology and folklore that she never imagined existed in real life! Tikblangs, kapres and a range of engkantos--fantasy figures from her grandfather's bedtime stories--challenge her previously held notions of...
17) Going bovine
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IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
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Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen year-old who, after being diagnosed with Creutzfeld Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital in an attempt to find a cure.