Jerdine Nolen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Mr. Perkins has a big surprise for the annual block party, but when the truck carrying it there breaks down, twins Jada and Jamal and their best friends, Josh and Carlita, propose a different form of transportation.
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English
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"Born Chloe Ardelia Wofford, she grew up listening to stories and loved reading. As a teenager she worked at the Lorain town library and later attended Howard University. As an editor at a New York publisher, she found time early in the morning and late at night after her children were asleep to write. When she looked about over her life and all what she had seen and learned, she knew she wanted to write about her people, Black people. Today and always...
5) Thunder Rose
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Unusual from the day she is born, Thunder Rose performs all sorts of amazing feats, including building metal structures, taming a stampeding herd of steers, capturing a gang of rustlers, and turning aside a tornado.
6) Plantzilla
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In a series of letters a boy, his science teacher, and his parents discuss the progress of a very unusual, sometimes frightening, plant that becomes more human as the summer progresses.
9) Calico Girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Callie struggles to understand slavery when her stepbrother is sold away at the start of the Civil War, but is determined her whole family will be free one day. Includes historical notes.
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Bradford Street buddies volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
It's springtime on Bradford Street and twins Jada and Jamal Perkins are helping their parents with yardwork as they look for signs of spring, When their teacher tells them about the town's plans to plant new trees at school in celebration of Earth Day, Jada and Jamal and their best friends, Carlita and Josh, come up with a school beautification project of their own"--
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English
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In Alexandria, Virginia, in the mid-19th century, a slave-owning family is facing financial trouble. The eldest son, Jason, thinks going to California to mine for gold might be the best way to protect his father's legacy. He'll need a cook, a laundress, and a hostler for the journey, and one of them is twelve-year-old Clementine, whose mother calls her Hope. From Independence, Missouri-the "Gateway to the West"-she and the others join a wagon train...
13) Irene's wish
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English
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"A little girl ... wishes for her father to be home more, but she never expects her wish to come true the way it does"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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It's not easy to fit in when you stand out. When Layla arrives for her first day of school at Unicornia, the school for unicorns, she realizes that she's not like the other kids there. They're all pastel colors and know the rules to Horn Ball and none of them come from the Woods like Layla does. Try as she might to make friends, Layla's just . . . different. But when her class gets lost during a field trip to the Fiddle Dee Deep Forest, it's up to...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The backyard camp-out is tonight. Jada and Jamal Perkins have never slept in a tent before. Neither have their best friends, Carlita Garcia and Josh Cornell. Camping is going to be so much fun. Or is it? It's really dark in the backyard. And what's that noise? It's coming from the bushes.
CRUNCH! CRUNCH! CRUNCH! SCRUNCH! SCRUNCH! SCRUNCH!
Will an unexpected visitor ruin the Bradford Street Buddies camp-out under the stars? Grab a flashlight and...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
CHIRP! CHIRP! CHIRP! It's springtime on Bradford Street. Jada and Jamal are searching for signs of spring. So are their best friends, Carlita Garcia and Josh Cornell. But the most surprising sign of spring awaits them at school the next day... a surprise that blossoms into a colorful plan to beautify the schoolyard just in time for Earth Day. Get set to dig in and join the neighborhood fun with the Bradford Street Buddies!