Kate DiCamillo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When ten-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, with her preacher father, she doesn't know what to expect, least of all, that she'll adopt Winn-Dixie, a dog she names after the supermarket where they met. Opal is lonely at first, but with such an unusually friendly dog at her side, she makes some unusual friends and discovers she has a whole lot to be thankful for.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When ten-year-old orphan Peter Augustus Duchene encounters a fortune teller in the marketplace one day and she tells him that his sister, who is presumed dead, is in fact alive, he embarks on a remarkable series of adventures as he desperately tries to find her.
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Series
Mercy Watson volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Mr. Watson's usual Saturday drive in his Cadillac with his favorite pig, Mercy, turns into an adventure when an unexpected passenger shows up in the back seat and Mercy finds herself behind the wheel.
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Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Saddle up for this first volume in a spin-off series starring favorite characters from DiCamillo's "New York Times"-bestselling Mercy Watson books. Leroy Ninker has a hat, a lasso, and boots. What he doesn't have is a horse--until he meets Maybelline, and then it's love at first sight.
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Series
Three rancheros volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Hoping that if she wins a local beauty pageant her father will come home, Raymie practices twirling a baton and performing good deeds as she is drawn into an unlikely friendship with a drama queen and a saboteur.
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Series
Mercy Watson volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Mercy the pig's love of buttered toast leads to the capture of a small thief who would rather be a cowboy.
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Series
Mercy Watson volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Can Mercy Watson outwit Animal Control? The porcine wonder's on the lam in her latest tongue-in-snout adventure!
Mercy's appetite has got her into trouble again. When Eugenia Lincoln's pansies go missing, Animal Control Officer Francine Poulet arrives on the scene. But as she soon discovers, not just anyone can think like a pig. Especially when that pig is porcine wonder Mercy Watson! --Publisher Marketing
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Series
Three rancheros volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, twelve-year-old Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and her eccentric grandmother) and find a way home.
When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana figures that it is only a matter of time before Granny changes her mind and they come back home. After all,...
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Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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"Baby Lincoln is tired of listening to her older sister telling her what to do, so she decides to set out on an impulsive adventure on her own"--
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Series
Mercy Watson volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Persuaded by the word "treating" to dress up as a princess for Halloween, Mercy the pig's trick-or-treat outing has some very unexpected results.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
"We shall all, in the end, be led to where we belong. We shall all, in the end, find our way home. In a time of war, a mysterious child appears at the monastery of the Order of the Chronicles of Sorrowing. Gentle Brother Edik finds the girl, Beatryce, curled in a stall, wracked with fever, coated in dirt and blood, and holding fast to the ear of Answelica the goat. As the monk nurses Beatryce to health, he uncovers her dangerous secret, one that imperils...
16) Great joy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Francine Poulet is the greatest animal control officer in Gizzford County. She hails from a long line of Animal Control Officers. Shes battled snakes, outwitted squirrels, and stared down a bear. "The genuine article," Francines dad always called her. She is never scared-until, that is, shes faced with a screaming raccoon that may or may not be a ghost. Maybe Francine isnt cut out to be an animal control officer after all! But the raccoon is still...
18) Bink & Gollie
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
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Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Five puppets confront circumstances beyond their control with patience, cunning, and high spirits ... Shut up in a trunk by a taciturn old sea captain with a secret, five friends--a king, a wolf, a girl, a boy, and an owl--bicker, boast, and comfort one another in the dark. Individually, they dream of song and light, freedom and flight, purpose and glory, but they all agree they are part of a larger story, bound each to each by chance, bonded by...
Author
Series
Tales from Deckawoo Drive volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
What will it take for a cynical older sister to realize she's a born accordion player -- with music in her heart? Eugenia Lincoln is a practical person with no time for gee-gaws, whoop-de-whoops, or frivolity. When an unexpected package containing an accordion arrives at her house, she is determined to have nothing to do with it. But her plans to sell the accordion, destroy the accordion, and give the accordion away all end in frustration. How can...