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English
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Gianna has less than one week to complete her leaf project if she wants to compete in the upcoming cross-country sectionals, but issues like procrastination, disorganization--and her grandmother's declining health--seem destined to keep her from finishing.
4) Chirp
Author
Series
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
227 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Moving to Vermont the summer after seventh grade, a young gymnast hides a secret as she makes new friends and investigates her grandmother's claim that someone is trying to destroy her cricket farm.
5) Breakout
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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From multiple perspectives, tells of a time capsule project and the middle schoolers who contribute, including future journalist Nora Tucker and newcomer Elidee Jones, whose brother is in the local prison.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
124 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Ranger, the time-traveling golden retriever, has landed in Viking age Iceland, where he helps a girl named Helga journey through the ash and smoke of an erupting volcano to find her father and bring him home.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
138 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Once again the mysterious box takes the golden retriever Ranger back in time, and he finds himself on Robert Falcon Scott's ship, the Terra Nova, headed for Antarctica, where his mission is to save Jack Nin, a Chinese-Maori stowaway from New Zealand, from the blizzards, unstable ice, and the other hazards that lie ahead for the doomed expedition.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
131 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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This time Ranger, the time-traveling Golden retriever, finds himself in San Francisco in the middle of the great 1906 earthquake, and his mission is obviously to get a young Chinese immigrant, Lily Chen, to safety, but as they make their way through the ruined and burning city Ranger finds that he must also accomplish something else--finding Lily, who was sold as a servant by her parents, a new family who will care for her.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
127 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
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When the mysterious first aid kit takes golden retriever Ranger to New Orleans shortly before Hurricane Katrina hits, he finds himself helping Clare Porter and her grandmother, who are waiting for Clare's father at their home in the Lower Ninth Ward--and when the levees break and Clare is separated from Nana, Ranger must somehow get her to the relative safety of the Superdome, and reunite her with her family.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Fountas & Pinnell
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Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 32 cm
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English
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Celebrates the forms of life that live above and under a pond, including turtles, red-winged blackbirds, blue herons, minnows, frogs, and catfish.
13) Eye of the storm
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Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Jaden's summer visit with her meteorologist father, who has just returned from spending four years in Russia conducting weather experiments not permitted in the United States, fills her with apprehension and fear as she discovers that living at her father's planned community, Placid Meadows, is anything but placid.
14) All the answers
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Ava finds an old pencil in her family's junk drawer and discovers, during a math test, that it will answer factual questions, so she and her best friend Sophie have a great time--and Ava grows in self-confidence--until the pencil reveals a truth about her family that Ava would rather not know.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
131, [23] pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
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This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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"Up in the garden, the world is full of green--leaves and sprouts, growing vegetables, ripening fruit. But down in the dirt there is a busy world of earthworms digging, snakes hunting, skunks burrowing, and all the other animals that make a garden their home. In this exuberant book, discover the wonder and activity that lie hidden between the stalks, under the shade of leaves . . . and down in the dirt."--
17) Rolling Thunder
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm.
Language
English
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Told in rhyming text, a boy accompanies his grandfather on the Rolling Thunder Ride for Freedom, a demonstration in Washington, DC, on Memorial Day that pays tribute to American veterans.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
129 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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The mysterious box that Ranger the golden retriever found in the garden transports him back to first century Rome, where he must rescue Marcus, a young servant boy, and Quintus, a volunteer gladiator, from the brutal world of the Colosseum.
Author
Series
Ranger in time volume 7
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
118 pages, 36 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
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Ranger, a time-traveling golden retriever with search-and-rescue training, heads to Normandy on the morning of the D-Day invasion where he meets Leo, a Jewish boy who is hiding with a local farmer, and Walt, a young American soldier fighting to free France from the Nazis.
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