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Classroom Set: Grades 2-5
We have a large collection of classroom sets each including twelve copies of a book that can be used in reading groups or book discussions. To check out a set, please fill out the request form.
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Benjamin Franklinstein Lives! : wherein is contained an accounting of the preparation, suspension, and eventual reawakening of the subject in modern day, and his quest to discover the great emergency
2010 by Matthew McElligottWhile working on a science fair project, a Philadelphia school boy discovers both a secret laboratory in his basement and Benjamin Franklin, who comes to life after receiving a jolt of electricity.
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Flight of the Phoenix
2009 by R. L. LaFeversIn 1928, when timid ten-year-old Nate learns that his parents have been lost at sea, he joins his father's cousin on a flight to Arabia where they must oversee the death and rebirth of the phoenix, thus beginning his training as a "beastologist."
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Flora & Ulysses : The Illuminated Adventures
2013 by Kate DiCamilloRescuing 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.
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Frindle
1996 by Andrew ClementsWhen he decides to turn his fifth grade teacher's love of the dictionary around on her, clever Nick Allen invents a new word and begins a chain of events that quickly moves beyond his control.
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Future Knight
2007 by Tony DavisIn 1409, skinny, clumsy Roland, the ten-year-old son of a blacksmith, pursues his dream of becoming a knight.
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The Hundred Dresses.
1944 by Eleanor EstesIn winning a medal she is no longer there to receive, a tight-lipped little Polish girl teaches her classmates a lesson.
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Invisible Inkling
2011 by Emily JenkinsWhen Hank Wolowitz runs into trouble in the form a of lunch-stealing bully, he finds an unlikely ally in an invisible refugee pumpkin-loving bandapat named Inkling.
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Lady Liberty : A Biography
2008 by Doreen RappaportTells the story of the Statue of Liberty, the sculptor, the engineer, the newspaper publisher, the poet and many others who had a part in the erection of this monument.
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The Lemonade War
2007 by Jacqueline DaviesEvan and his younger sister, Jesse, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.
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Make Way for Dyamonde Daniel
2009 by Nikki GrimesSpunky third-grader Dyamonde Daniel misses her old neighborhood, but when she befriends a boy named Free, another new student at school, she finally starts to feel at home.
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My Father's Dragon
1948 by Ruth Stiles GannettA young boy determines to rescue a poor baby dragon who is being used by a group of lazy wild animals to ferry them across the river on Wild Island.
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The One and Only Ivan
2012 by Katherine ApplegateWhen Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.
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Secrets at Sea : A Novel
2011 by Richard PeckIn 1887, the social-climbing Cranstons voyage from New York to London, where they hope to find a husband for their awkward older daughter, secretly accompanied by Helena and her mouse siblings, for whom the journey is both terrifying and wondrous as they meet an array of titled humans despite their best efforts at remaining hidden.
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Sophie Simon Solves Them All
2010 by Graff, Lisa (Lisa Colleen), 1981-Sophie Simon, a third-grade genius, wants a graphing calculator so she can continue to study calculus while she rides the bus to school, but her parents are more concerned that she does not have any friends.
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Spaceheadz
2010 by Jon ScieszkaWith only one hundred more Spaceheadz to sign up, Michael K.'s friends start planning an Earth-saving party but Michael fears the Brainwave might be used for a much more sinister purpose.
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Stone Fox
1980 by John Reynolds GardinerLittle Willie hopes to pay the back taxes on his grandfather's farm with the purse from a dog sled race he enters.
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Waiting for the Magic
2011 by Patricia MacLachlanWhen Papa goes away for a little while, his family tries to cope with the separation by adopting four dogs and a cat.
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