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The Wednesday Wars

Written by Gray D Schmidt

Seventh grader Holling Hoodhood isn't happy. He is sure his new teacher, Mrs. Baker, hates his guts...

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When Mischief Came to Town

When Inge Maria Jensen’s mother dies, the ten-year-old girl in braids is sent from Copenhagen to...

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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball

Written by Jeff Kinney

Once the walls come down, all sorts of problems start to crop up. Rotten wood, toxic mold, unwelcome...

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What Linnaeus Saw

Written by Karen Magnuson Beil

In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus’s life and career in readable...

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Rising Water: The Story of the Thai Cave Rescue

Written by Marc Aronson

On June 23rd, 2018, twelve members of the Wild Boars soccer team and their coach were exploring the...

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Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary

Written by Rachel Swaby

In 1967, a girl known as Mighty Moe broke the women’s world marathon record at a small race in...

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Rowley Jeffersons Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories

Written by Jeff Kinney

Scare yourself silly with Rowley Jefferson’s Awesome Friendly Spooky Stories by Jeff Kinney, the #1...

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The Eighty-Dollar Champion

On a bleak winter afternoon, Harry de Leyer first saw the horse he would name Snowman between the...

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Black Hole Chasers

In Black Hole Chasers, award-winning investigative journalist Anna Crowley Redding presents the...

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Cy Young

Cy Young was one of the hardest-throwing pitchers of all time. He recorded three no-hitters...

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Magellan

On September 6, 1522, a horribly battered ship manned by eighteen malnourished, scurvy-ridden...

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Sports Illustrated Kids STATS!: The Greatest Number in Sports

Count up the most fascinating numbers behind sports' greatest moments in STATS! The Biggest Numbers...

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Proud

The inspiring and critically acclaimed all-American story of faith, family, hard work, and...

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Fighting for the Forest: How FDR's Civilian Conservation Corps Helped Save America

In an inspiring middle grade nonfiction work, P. O’Connell Pearson tells the story of the Civilian...

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Wolfpack (Young Readers Edition)

In this young readers adaptation of her #1 New York Times bestselling book, two-time Olympic gold...

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Life on Surtsey: Iceland's Upstart Island (Scientists in the Field)

Written by Loree Griffin Burns

On November 14, 1963, a volcano fifteen miles off the shore of Iceland exploded under the sea...

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Shining Star: The Anna May Wong Story

Written by Paula Yoo and Illustrated by Lin Wang

Born in 1905, Anna May Wong spent her childhood working in her family's laundry in Los Angeles s...

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Great Bear Rescue: Saving Gobi Bears

Written by Sandra Markle

Acclaimed science author Sandra Markle offers a fascinating look at Gobi bears―the rarest bears on...

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Freak The Mighty: Discussion Guide

Use this Discussion Guide before, during, and after reading.

Freak The Mighty: Vocabulary Guide

Use this Vocabulary Guide to identify Tier 2 vocabulary words for each chapter in the book.

Freak The Mighty: Frayer Model

Use this graphic organizer to deepen vocabulary knowledge.

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Imperfect II: poems about perspective: an anthology for middle schoolers

Written by Tabatha Yeatts (Editor) and Laura Shovan & Liz Garton Scanlon (Contributors)
Being human means to sometimes lose perspective. We focus on the one negative comment we received...
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Dust of Eden

Written by Mariko Nagai

We lived under a sky so blue in Idaho right near the towns of Hunt and Eden but we were not welcomed...

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The Moon Within

Written by Aida Salazar

Celi Rivera's life swirls with questions. About her changing body. Her first attraction to a boy...

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