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Winter Room (Paulsen)
Lexile:1170
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A young boy growing up on a northern Minnesota farm describe the scenes around him and recounts his old Norwegian uncle's tales of an almost mythological logging past.
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The Family Under the Bridge (Savage) Lexile:680
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An old hobo in Paris finds his life changed when he discovers three children under a bridge.
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Planet of Junior Brown (Hamilton_)
Lexile:730
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Already a leader in New York's underground world of homeless children, Buddy Clark takes on the responsibility of protecting the overweight, emotionally disturbed friend with whom he has been playing hooky from eighth grade all semester.
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What Jamie Saw (Coman)
Lexile:1010
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Having fled to a family friend's hillside trailer after his mother's boyfriend tried to throw his baby sister against a wall, nine-year-old Jamie finds himself living an existence full of uncertainty and fear.
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There's a Boy in the Girls Bathroom (Sachar)
Lexile:490
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An unmanageable, but lovable, eleven-year-old misfit learns to believe in himself when he gets to know the new school counselor, who is a sort of misfit too.
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The BFG (or any children's book by the author) (Dahl)
Lexile:720
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Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybul giants.
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And Then What Happened, Paul Revere? (Fritz)
Lexile:830
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Describes some of the well-known as well as the lesser-known details of Paul Revere's life and exciting ride.
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Walking the Road to Freedom: A Story About Sojourner Truth (Ferris) Lexile:820
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Traces the life of the Black woman orator who spoke out against slavery throughout New England and the Midwest.
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Meet Felicity: an American Girl (Porter)
Lexile:600
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In Williamsburg in 1774, nine-year-old Felicity rescues a beautiful horse who is being beaten and starved by her cruel owner.
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Meet Addy: an American girl (Porter) Lexile:700
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Nine-year-old Addy Walker escapes from a cruel life of slavery to freedom during the Civil War.
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Walk Two Moons (Creech)
Lexile:770
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After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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Not for a Billion Gazillion Dollars (Danziger)
Lexile:820
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Eleven-year-old Matthew, trying desperately to earn enough to buy a coveted computer program, learns the importance of money and eventually starts his own business.
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Soup (Peck)
Lexile:740
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The adventures and misadventures of two boys growing up in a small Vermont town.
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The Hundred Dresses (Estes)
Lexile:870
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In winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe (Lewis)
Lexile:940
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Four English schoolchildren find their way through the back of a wardrobe into the magic land of Narnia and assist Aslan, the golden lion, to triumph over the White Witch, who has cursed the land with eternal winter.
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The Mysteries of Harris Burdick (Van Allsburg)
Lexile:760
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Presents a series of loosely related drawings each accompanied by a title and a caption which the reader may use to make up his or her own story.
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The People Could Fly: American Black Folktales (Hamilton)
Lexile:660
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Retold Afro-American folktales of animals, fantasy, the supernatural, and desire for freedom, born of the sorrow of the slaves, but passed on in hope.
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Where Was Patrick Henry on the 29th of May? (Fritz)
Lexile:1000
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A brief biography of Patrick Henry tracing his progress from planter to statesman.
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