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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a Golden Ticket and wins the chance of a lifetime: a magical day witnessing the miraculous creation of the most delectable eatables ever made. Join Charlie in this world-famous story.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Self-proclaimed genius Nate Wright blazes a haphazard trail through the sixth grade at P.S. 38, where between endless misadventures, marked by complaining observations, he earns straight As and numerous detentions.
7) No talking
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Pub., LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nate Wright is known to his pals and teachers for many things, his penchant for mischief and his school record for detentions being the foremost. But beating out brainiac Gina's grades is not one of those things! In Big Nate Makes the Grade, the school life goings-on of Nate, his pals, and his long-suffering teachers are recounted in hilarious detail. Now in full-color!
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Melvin likes to throw a tantrum when he does not get what he wants, but he learns that the classroom rule, "you get what you get and you don't throw a fit" applies at home as well.
11) Grow up, David!
Author
Series
David (David Shannon) volume 5
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
David follows his older brother around, annoying him and doing everything he can to make sure his brother notices him--but when David gets hurt playing, his brother is there to make sure he is okay.
12) One way
Author
Series
Publisher
Orca Book Publishers
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When Kenzie accidentally runs down his ex-girlfriend in a bicycle accident, he finds that everyone suspects him of injuring her on purpose and must fight to prove his innocence.
13) Moving day
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
14) The twits
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard. Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not to meet. Down in their garden, the Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage....
15) The little bully
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Fred makes fun of Billy at school, Billy has to learn how to deal with his friend's bullying.
Author
Series
Big Nate comix volume 3
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Nate Wright is an eleven years old sixth grader who has the distinction of setting the record for school detentions.
Author
Series
Doll people volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, are carried to school, mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess Mimi, a doll who threatens all dollkind.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
America's favorite home humorist, Erma Bombeck, has the uncanny ability to transform the trivialities of everyday American life into rich, witty stories that capture the imagination and tickle the funnybone. In this best-selling collection of hilarious tidbits, she turns her talents to the animal kingdom: the behavioral patterns of the creatures in the wild and the couple in the duplex next door.
19) Noisy Nora
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Feeling neglected, Nora makes more and more noise to attract her parents' attention.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Nate Wright is born to be wild! And when Enslave the Mollusk is invited to play at the P.S. 38 annual open house, he and his bandmates are on the stairway to heaven. While the kids rock, the school year rolls on. Mrs. Godfrey is back in black, Gina thinks she's hot stuff, and Coach John is dazed and confused. The good news: Nate's finally reunited with Trudy, his summer crush. But when he finds out she's a--gulp--seventh grader, will Nate lose that...
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