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Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Po must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins in order to able to unlock the strength he needs to succeed....
Description
There something funny about Jodie and Mark's grandparents' farm, but nobody's laughing, especially when twelve strange new scarecrows scare more than just the crows. Matt Amsterdam wished his family were different, until he wakes up from a nap in the attic to find things are suddenly very different. Ricky Beamer hopes for revenge when he puts a mean girl's phone number in a personal ad. When he starts getting scary midnight calls, he is the one getting...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Po works in his family's noodle shop while dreaming the day away about becoming a Kung Fu master. His dreams soon become reality when he is unexpectedly chosen to join the world of Kung Fu and study along side his idols. Before they know it, the vengeful and treacherous snow leopard Tai Lung is headed their way. It is now up to Po to defend everyone from the oncoming threat.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The secrets of Po's world are revealed in three awesome adventures. Find out how Tigress, Viper, Monkey, Crane, and Mantis become the legendary Furious Five warriors in Secrets of the Scroll. Join Po and the Furious Five as they discover the legend of kung fu's greatest heroes, Thundering Rhino, Storming Ox, and Croc, in Secrets of the Masters. Then, uncover the Secrets of the Furious Five and see what it takes to become a true kung fu master.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
It's Twice The Awesomeness! The secrets of Po's world are revealed in two awesome Kung Fu Panda adventures, available together for the very first time. Join Po and The Furious Five as they discover the legend of kung fu's greatest heroes: Master Thundering Rhino, Master Storming Ox and Master Croc in Secrets Of The Masters. Then, uncover the Secrets of the Furious Five and see Tigress, Viper, Monkey, Crane, and Mantis show what it takes to become...
Pub. Date
c2010
Description
A boy who considers himself an expert on worms discovers worms everywhere he goes, including in a rival classmate's science project; an amateur magician steals a real magician's bag of tricks and must find a way to save his sister after she is turned into a rabbit; after a man brings home a pair of garden gnomes, strange activities start occurring in the yard during the night.
8) Matilda
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Five-year old Matilda longs for her parents to be good and loving and understanding, but they are none of these things. They are perfectly horrid to her. Matilda invents a game of punishing them each time they treat her badly and she soon discovers she has supernatural powers.
10) Peter Pan
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 8
Formats
Description
Peter Pan, J.M. Barrie's tale of the boy who wouldn't grow up, remains one of the most beloved children's books ever written. For nearly a hundred years, kids across the world have drifted off to sleep dreaming about Tinker Bell and the Lost Boys, pixie dust and ticking clocks, crocodiles and Captain Hook. But in spite of the story's visual richness, it has never been illustrated photographically until now. In this lavishly produced edition of the...
11) Seraphim Falls
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
The American Civil War has ended, but Colonel Morsman Carver accepts one final mission. He has to kill Gideon no matter what it takes. Launched by a gunshot and propelled by rage, the relentless pursuit takes them both far from the comforts and codes of civilization, into the bloodiest recesses of their own souls.
12) Maleficent
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A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with the invading king's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to peace in the kingdom, and perhaps to Maleficent's true happiness...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Appears on list
Description
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...
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Everyone said Cassie was a promising young woman, until a mysterious event abruptly derailed her future. But nothing in Cassie's life is what it appears to be. She's wickedly smart, tantalisingly cunning, and she's living with a secret double life by night. Now, an unexpected encounter is about to give Cassie a chance to right the wrongs of the past in this thrilling and wildly entertaining story.
A young woman who has been traumatized by past events...
15) Kung fu panda
Pub. Date
2008.
Description
Po is a fuzzy and clumsy panda who dreams of joining the world of martial arts. When he is trained to be the next Dragon Master by his idols, will he fail...or become an unlikely hero? Bonus features include commentary, featurettes, and more.
16) Moby-Dick
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"Herman Melville's Moby-Dick is considered by many readers to be the Great American Novel. But most don't know that since its appearance in 1851, it has been revised in substantial ways that alter its original meaning. Melville's masterpiece is described as a "fluid text": it exists in multiple versions, each revealing shifting intentions. The new Longman Critical Edition offers unprecedented access to the revisions that Melville made, the further...
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
In the eternal battle between cats and dogs, one crazed feline has taken things a paw too far. Former elite agent Kitty Galore has gone rogue and plans to unleash a diabolical device designed to not only bring her canine enemies to heel but also to take down her former kitty comrades and make the world her scratching post. Faced with this dire threat, cats and dogs must work together for the first time ever to save themselves and their beloved humans...
18) Broken city
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Description
Seven years after being forced to resign as a New York City police officer, private detective Billy Taggart takes on his toughest case yet: when he's hired to follow the mayor's wife. By the time the mayor reveals his true intentions, Taggart's already in too deep, with his freedom and possibly his life, on the line. Taggart will risk it all in a desperate bid to expose the truth and seek redemption...
19) The lonely men
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In order to seek revenge on the Sackett family whom she believes destroyed her father, Laura Pritts Sackett dupes her brother-in-law Tell into undertaking a deadly mission through Apache territory to search for her kidnapped son.
20) Need for speed
Pub. Date
2014
Description
Tobey Marshall a mechanic who moonlights as an underground race-car driver strives to take the top prize in America's most prominent street race in order to have his revenge against the ambitious ex-NASCAR champ who had him framed and sent to prison.