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1) The giver
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Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jonas' life assignment is as the Receiver of Memory, where he will apprentice the Giver and become a storehouse of all the things humanity left behind when it entered utopia: color, emotion, and even more complicated secrets.
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Lame and suddenly orphaned, Kira is mysteriously removed from her squalid village to live in the palatial Council Edifice, where she is expected to use her gifts as a weaver to do the bidding of the all-powerful Guardians.
4) Messenger
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
5) Son
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 4
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
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Description
The unforgettable Newbery Medal–winning novel from Lois Lowry. As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen's family takes in Annemarie's best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family.
Through the eyes of ten-year-old Annemarie, we watch as the Danish Resistance smuggles almost the entire Jewish population of Denmark, nearly seven thousand people,
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In this novel, a plane crashes on an uncharted island, stranding a group of schoolboys. At first, with no adult supervision, their freedom is something to celebrate. This far from civiization they can do anything they want. Anything. But as order collapses, as strange howls echo in the night, as terror begins its reign, the hope of adventure seems as far removed from reality as the hope of being rescued, and these schoolboys marooned on this tropical...
Author
Series
Willoughbys volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this tongue-in-cheek take on classic themes in children's literature, the four Willoughby children set about to become "deserving orphans" after their neglectful parents embark on a treacherous around-the-world adventure, leaving them in the care of an odious nanny.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 1
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A most unusual new student who loves to be the center of attention entertains her teacher and fellow second graders by telling absolutely true stories about herself, including how she got her name.
Author
Series
Giver quartet volume 1
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Lois Lowry's Newbery Medal–winning classic, twelve-year-old Jonas lives in a seemingly ideal world. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver does he begin to understand the dark secrets behind his fragile community.
Life in the community where Jonas lives is idyllic. Designated birthmothers produce newchildren, who are assigned to appropriate family units. Citizens are assigned their partners and
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Series
Willoughbys volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Thirty years after their disappearance, the previously frozen Willoughbys have thawed out and returned from the Alps, to the consternation of their children and grandchildren.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Co
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class studies poetry and her students write haiku, couplets, free verse, and finally, a tribute to Mrs. Pidgeon's mother organized by the irrepressible Gooney Bird Greene.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 3
Publisher
Yearling
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 6
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird's Great Uncle Walter lends her second grade class a skeleton while they study human anatomy, and at the end of the month the students use Gooney Bird's charm bracelet to present all they have learned.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 2
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Gooney Bird Greene, an entertaining second grader who introduces challenging vocabulary words and tells "absolutely true" stories, finds a surprise room mother to bring cupcakes for the Thanksgiving pageant.
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 5
Publisher
Sandpiper, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When her second-grade classmates are envious of the three students who are going away on winter vacation, the creative and ingenious Gooney Bird Greene thinks of a geography activity to cheer them all up.
17) The silent boy
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Katy, the precocious ten-year-old daughter of the town doctor, befriends a retarded boy.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, eleven-year-old Lydia Pierce and her fourteen-year-old brother are taken by their grieving uncle to be raised in the Shaker community at Sabbathday Lake. Includes author's note about the Shakers.
19) The Giver
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
The story centers on Jonas, young man who lives in a supposedly ideal world of conformity and contentment. Yet as he begins to spend time with the elder, who is the sole keeper of all the community's memories, Jonas quickly begins to discover the dark and deadly truths of his community's secret past. At extreme odds, Jonas knows that he must escape their world to protect them all; a challenge that no one has ever succeeded at before.