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How to Eat Fried Worms (Rockwell) Lexile:450
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Two boys set out to prove that worms can make a delicious meal.
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Fourth Grade Rats (Spinelli)
Lexile:340
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Suds learns that his best friend is wrong. You don't have to be a tough guy, a "rat," to be a grown up fourth grader.
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Babe: the Gallant Pig (King-Smith) Lexile:1040
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A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
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Julian, Dream Doctor (Cameron) Lexile:480
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Julian and Huey try to find the perfect birthday gift for Dad with amusing results.
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Helen Keller (Davidson)
Lexile:520
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A brief biography of Helen Keller who was both blind and deaf, yet inspired many with her spirit and achievements.
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Thomas Edison: young inventor (Guthridge)
Lexile:620
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A biography focusing on the childhood of the inventor who patented more than 1,100 inventions in sixty years, among them the electric light and the phonograph.
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The Haunted Mask, Goosebumps (Stine)
Lexile:580
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Carly Beth's Halloween mask is ugly and terrifying and everything she hoped it would be, and more. Maybe too much more because Halloween is almost over and Carly Beth is still wearing that mask.
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Ramona Quimby (Cleary)
Lexile:860
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The further adventures of the Quimby family as Ramona enters the third grade.
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Good Grief, Third Grade (McKenna)
Lexile:570
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Marsha Cessano, Collette Murphy's neighbor, is determined to be good in third grade -- no messy desk, no temper, no tricks -- but Roger Friday is making it difficult.
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Rent a Third Grader (Hiller)
Lexile:670
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Third grade students need to make some money. Unless they can come up with enough money to save Partner, the police horse will be pet food.
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Freckle Juice (Blume)
Lexile:370
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Andrew wants freckles so badly that he buys Sharon's freckle recipe for fifty cents.
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Justin and the Best Biscuits in the World (Walter)
Lexile:620
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Suffering in a family full of females, ten-year-old Justin feels that cleaning and keeping house are women's work until he spends time on his beloved grandfather's ranch.
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Don't Read This Book Whatever You Do! (Dakos)
Lexile:NP
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Poems reflect life in lively classrooms and are based on the author's experiences as an elementary school teacher.
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Where the Sidewalk Ends (Silverstein)
Lexile:NP
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A boy who turns into a television set and a girl who eats a whale are only two of the characters in a collection of humorous poetry illustrated with the author's own drawings.
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Amazing Grace (Hoffman)
Lexile:680
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Although a classmate says that she cannot play Peter Pan in the school play because she is black, Grace discovers that she can do anything she sets her mind to do.
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The Shoeshine Girl (Bulla)
Lexile:330
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Determined to earn some money, ten-year-old Sarah Ida gets a job at a shoeshine stand and learns a great many things besides shining shoes.
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Nasty Stinky Sneakers (Bunting) Lexile:510
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Will ten-year-old Colin find his missing stinky sneakers in time to enter The Stinkiest Sneakers in the World contest?
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Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor (Cole)
Lexile:490
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On a special field trip aboard the magic school bus, Ms. Frizzle's class learns about the ocean and the different creatures that live there.
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Can Jansen and the Mystery of the Stolen Diamonds (Adler) Lexile:420
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A fifth-grader with a photographic memory and her friend Eric help solve the mystery of the stolen diamonds.
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Beast in Miss Rooney's Room (Giff)
Lexile:340
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Held back for a year in second grade, Richard can't seem to help getting into trouble, until he gets really interested in reading and helps his class in a special way.
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The Littles Go to School (Peterson)
Lexile:610
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Tom and Lucy Little, two very tiny children, attend school with Henry Bigg where they encounter problems due to their size.
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Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes (Coerr)
Lexile:630
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Hospitalized with the dreaded atom bomb disease, leukemia, a child in Hiroshima races against time to fold one thousand paper cranes to verify the legend that by doing so a sick person will become healthy.
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George's Marvelous Medicine (Dahl)
Lexile:640
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George decides that his grumpy, selfish old grandmother must be a witch and concocts some marvelous medicine to take care of her.
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Bud, Not Buddy (Curtis)
Lexile:950
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father -- the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
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Tambourine Moon (Jones)
Lexile:Not Available
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Noni gets a creepy feeling as she and Grandaddy make their way through the city streets on a dark night. Sensing her fears, Grandaddy points out the "Alabama" moon and launches into one of his delightful tales of his youth in Alabama. ake his way home.
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