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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Time is running out for the Peculiar Children. With a dangerous madman on the loose and their beloved Miss Peregrine still in danger, Jacob Portman and Emma Bloom are forced to stage the most daring of rescue missions. They'll travel through a war-torn landscape, meet new allies, and face greater dangers than ever. Will Jacob come into his own as the hero his fellow Peculiars know him to be? (Features more than 50 all-new Peculiar photographs.).
2) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Description
August Pullman was born with a facial deformity that, up until now, prevented him from going to a mainstream school. Starting 5th grade at Beecher Prep, he wants nothing more than to be treated as an ordinary kid -- but his classmates can't get past Auggie's extraordinary face. Wonder begins from Auggie's point of view, but soon switches to include his classmates, his sister, her boyfriend, and others. These perspectives converge in a portrait of...
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
"These stories are an extra peek at Auggie, a boy born with extreme facial abnormalities, before he started at Beecher Prep and during his first year there. Readers get to see him through the eyes of Julian, the bully; Christopher, Auggie's oldest friend; and Charlotte, Auggie's new friend at school"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 370L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Augie enjoys the company of his dog, Daisy, and using his imagination, but painfully endures the taunts of his peers because of his facial deformity.
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
After leaving home in search of adventure, romance, and riches, seventeen-year-old Abel, the "normal" son of freak show entertainers, is haunted by a mysterious spirit.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
WONDER IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JULIA ROBERTS AND JACOB TREMBLAY!
Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Last year readers were given a special look at another side of his story with The Julian Chapter,...
Over 3 million people have read the #1 New York Times bestseller Wonder—the book that inspired the Choose Kind movement—and have fallen in love with Auggie Pullman, an ordinary boy with an extraordinary face. Last year readers were given a special look at another side of his story with The Julian Chapter,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In 1145 A.D., as foretold by Merlin, fourteen-year-old Rosalind, who will be the twenty-first Pendragon Queen of Wilde Island, has much to accomplish to fulfill her destiny, while hiding from her people the dragon's claw she was born with that reflects only one of her mother's dark secrets.
Author
Series
Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 6th
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop, but he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones, if they can decipher...
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
"'Hummingbirds and angels don't need two good feet. They have wings.' That's what Alba's mother always says. Of course, Alba doesn't have wings or two good feet: she has Cleo. Cleo is the name Alba has given to her left foot, which was born twisted in the wrong direction. When she points this out, though, her mother just smiles like the world has some surprise in store she doesn't know about yet"--Dust jacket flap.
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Wonder: "August (Auggie) Pullman was born with a facial deformity that prevented him from going to a mainstream school--until now. He's about to enter fifth grade at Beecher Prep, and if you've ever been the new kid, then you know how hard that can be. The thing is Auggie's just an ordinary kid, with an extraordinary face. But can he convince his new classmates that he's just like them, despite appearances?"--Container.
The Julian Chapter: "From...
Author
Publisher
Nube de Tinta
Pub. Date
2019.
Lexile measure
790L
Language
Español
Description
Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates.
Aunque siempre trata de esconder su rostro, es objeto de miradas, susurros y reacciones de asombro. August sale poco, su vida transcurre entre las acogedoras paredes de su casa, en compañía de su familia, su perra Daisy y las...
12) Freaks
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
In Victorian London, a lonely band of misfits trapped in a sideshow decides to put their extraordinary talents to use to solve the mysteries that no one else cares about, starting with the stealing of poor children from the banks of the Thames.
13) Pighearted
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
In alternate chapters, twelve-year-old Jeremiah, who has a fatal heart condition, and J6, the pig growing the heart that could save his life, give their own perspectives on being a transplant donor and donee. Includes facts about the research project on which the story is based.
14) The wrong hands
Author
Publisher
Laurel-Leaf Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Graham Sinclair, born with mysterious hands and a strange secret, finds his life further complicated when he saves a baby after a plane crash and meets a beautiful girl.
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Snow White: Snow White finds refuge with seven friendly dwarves as she flees her jealous step-mother.
Hunchback of Notre Dame: A drama about a hunchback bellringer in the Cathedral of Notre Dame during the reign of Louis XI, who falls in love with a beautiful gypsy girl.
Jungle book: Adventures of Mowgli, an orphan boy raised by wolves, who is encouraged to leave the jungle before the return of the fearsome man-eating tiger. With his loyal panther-friend...