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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is a variation on a familiar folktale. In this version a pair of tricksters make a suit of invisable cloth for the principal telling him that only people who are good at their jobs and intelligent can see the new suit, He ends up wearing it to school and a kindergarten girl tells everyone he is not wearing any clothes.
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
Allergic to group activities of any kind, all her life Serenata has run, swum, and cycled on her lonesome. But now that she's hit 60, all that physical activity has destroyed her knees. As she contemplates surgery with dread, her previously sedentary husband Remington, recently and ignominiously redundant, chooses this precise moment to discover exercise. Which should be good for his health, right? Yet as he joins the cult of fitness that seems increasingly...
6) Green rider
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
Description
A fantasy in which, after being expelled from school, spoilt Karigan G'ladheon meets a rider dying from an arrow wound who gives her a magic brooch and a message for his king. So begins a life of adventure which transforms Karigan into an exemplary heroine. A first novel.
7) Dandelion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Dandelion overdresses for a come-as-you-are party and is turned away because the hostess does not recognize him.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
This is a story of moral corruption. A gothic melodrama, it is full of subtle impression and epigram. It touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticism and the dangers inherent in it.In the wealthy and vain hedonist Dorian Gray, London painter Basil Hallward has found his muse. Only when the portrait of Dorian begins to age, while the man himself remains untouched by time, do they realize they may have...
11) Better than you
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Tyler's friend Jake continually boasts about his abilities, making Tyler feel bad about himself until his Uncle Kevin and new neighbor Niko help him see that Jake is the one with the problem.
12) Nitter pitter
Author
Series
Serendipity volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Vanity can cost you friends.
13) I'm terrific
Author
Pub. Date
c1977
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Jason Bear thinks he's terrific and even awards himself gold stars for superior performance in his chores. His friends don't like to be around him.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
In 1764, when Kaya and her family reunite with other Nez Percé Indians to fish for the red salmon, she learns that bragging, even about her swift horse, can lead to trouble. Includes historical notes on the Nez Percé Indians.
17) I'm the best
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Dog's constant boasting makes his friends sad, they find a way to teach him what it means to be a good friend.
19) Athena the proud
Author
Series
Goddess girls. Main series volume 13
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Athena's arrogance throws a wrench into her plans to improve King Minos's labyrinth.
20) Pride
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Zuri Benitez has pride. Brooklyn pride, family pride, and pride in her Afro-Latino roots. But pride might not be enough to save her rapidly gentrifying neighborhood from becoming unrecognizable. When the wealthy Darcy family moves in across the street, Zuri wants nothing to do with their two teenage sons, even as her older sister, Janae, starts to fall for the charming Ainsley. She especially can't stand the judgmental and arrogant Darius. Yet as...
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