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Accelerated Reader
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Title | Author | Points |
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| 2 | Horses (Animals Are Not Like Us) | Meadows, Graham | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of horses, pointing out ways in which they differ from people. | 23 | Y |
| 2 | Cats (Animals Are Not Like Us) | Meadows, Graham | 0.5 | Describes the physical characteristics and behavior of cats, pointing out ways in which they differ from people. | 23 | Y |
| 2 | Sleepy and Busy Animals | Behm, Barbara J. | 0.5 | This book contrasts the behavior of a variety of animals. | 24 | Y |
| 2 | Animals in the Water (First Book About) | Various | 0.5 | This book briefly discusses different animals that live near water. | 16 | |
| 2 | Quick and Slow Animals | Behm, Barbara J. | 0.5 | This book introduces ten animals that can be distinguished by how fast they move. | 24 | Y |
| 2 | Tools (Working) | Stickland, Paul | 0.5 | This book presents a group of tools and a situation in which they might be used such as a spade to plant a tree, scissors to cut the fabric for a dress, and a wrench to tighten a nut on a bicycle wheel. | 16 | Y |
| 2 | Nate the Great | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 0.5 | Super-detective Nate tracks down Annie's missing picture and finds a lost cat in the bargain. | 50 | Y |
| 2.1 | First Book About Mixing and Matching, A | Tuxworth, Nicola | 0.5 | Asks the reader to sort objects into different groups, such as same colors, like shapes, and similar patterns or sizes. | 24 | Y |
| 2.1 | Powder Puff Puzzle, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | When Dawn Bosco's cat jumps into a car as it speeds away, there are only a few clues to track it down. | 75 | Y |
| 2.1 | Animals (Working) | Stickland, Paul | 0.5 | This brief text and illustrations enumerate several animals that help humans, including guide dogs, camels, elephants, bees, and donkeys. | 16 | Y |
| 2.1 | First Book About Animal Homes, A | Tuxworth, Nicola | 0.5 | Photographs and simple text describe where such animals as chickens, cows, rabbits, fish, bees, hamsters, and dogs are kept. | 24 | Y |
| 2.1 | Fancy Feet (New Kids at the Polk Street School) | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | When the shoes that Stacey borrowed turn up missing, others accuse her of stealing them. | 77 | |
| 2.2 | Daytime and Nighttime Animals | Behm, Barbara J. | 0.5 | This book introduces ten animals, their behaviors, and whether they are daytime or nighttime animals. | 24 | Y |
| 2.2 | Prickly and Soft Animals | Behm, Barbara J. | 0.5 | This book introduces ten animals that can be distinguished by how they feel to the touch. | 24 | Y |
| 2.2 | Frogs (Animals Are Fun) | Lever et al., E. Melanie | 0.5 | This book briefly describes the frog and its habitat. | 16 | |
| 2.2 | Kangaroos (Animals Are Fun) | Lever et al., E. Melanie | 0.5 | This book briefly describes the kangaroo, its habitat, and some of its relatives. | 16 | |
| 2.2 | Wild Animals (Pictures & Words) | Tuxworth, Nicola | 0.5 | Simple text and photographs present the characteristics and behavior of such wild animals as the lion, chimpanzee, and giraffe. | 24 | Y |
| 2.3 | Planes (On the Move) | Stickland, Paul | 0.5 | This book introduces, in brief text and illustrations, various types of airplanes and their uses. | 16 | Y |
| 2.3 | Secret at the Polk Street School, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | After she gets a threatening message and finds pointy teeth marks in her loaf of bread just before she appears as Little Red Riding Hood in the school play, Dawn gets a terrible case of stage fright. | 72 | |
| 2.3 | Young Cam Jansen and the Baseball Mystery | Adler, David A. | 0.5 | When a baseball game is stopped because of a lost ball, Cam uses her photographic memory to find the ball. | 31 | |
| 2.3 | Sunny-Side Up | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | "Beast" Best knows his summer hasn't been ruined by Summer School because he can still go swimming in the afternoon, but those plans could be changed. | 74 | |
| 2.3 | Koalas (Animals Are Fun) | Lever et al., E. Melanie | 0.5 | This book briefly discusses the koala and its habitat. | 16 | |
| 2.3 | Boats (On the Move) | Stickland, Paul | 0.5 | Illustrations and brief text present various types of boats: ferries, rowboats, sailing ships, oil tankers, and more. | 16 | Y |
| 2.4 | Young Cam Jansen and the Lost Tooth | Adler, David A. | 0.5 | Cam uses her photographic memory to help a classmate find the tooth she lost at school. | 32 | |
| 2.5 | Show Time at Polk Street School | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | It's time to get out the costumes, makeup, and props and start rehearsing. You can act out your favorite Polk Street characters in these three short plays. | 101 | |
| 2.5 | Young Cam Jansen and the Ice Skate Mystery | Adler, David A. | 0.5 | When her friend Eric loses the key to their locker at the ice skating rink, Cam uses her photographic memory to solve the mystery. | 31 | Y |
| 2.5 | Clue at the Zoo, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | Dawn tries to track down a possibly poisonous notebook that she found in the zoo, while keeping an eye on Arno, "the killer kindergarten kid." | 74 | |
| 2.5 | Young Cam Jansen and the Dinosaur Game | Adler, David A. | 0.5 | When eight-year-old sleuth Cam Jansen and her friend Eric go to a birthday party, she uses her photographic memory to solve the puzzle of the dinosaur count. | 32 | |
| 2.5 | Girl Named Helen Keller, A | Lundell, Margo | 0.5 | The story of Helen Keller, a blind and deaf child of great courage. | 42 | |
| 2.5 | Candy Corn Contest, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | Richard has been dipping into the jar of candy corn that is the object of Ms. Rooney's contest. What is Ms. Rooney going to do when she finds out? | 76 | Y |
| 2.5 | Young Cam Jansen and the Missing Cookie | Adler, David A. | 0.5 | Eight-year-old sleuth Cam Jansen uses her photographic memory to discover what happened to a classmate's missing cookie. | 32 | |
| 2.6 | Dolphins (Animals Are Fun) | Lever et al., E. Melanie | 0.5 | This book briefly describes the dolphin and its habitat. | 16 | |
| 2.6 | Fourth Grade Rats | Spinelli, Jerry | 2 | Suds learns that his best friend is wrong. You don't have to be a tough guy, a 'rat,' to be a grown-up fourth-grader. | 84 | |
| 2.6 | Nate the Great and the Lost List | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 0.5 | Nate the Great interrupts his backyard vacation to find his friend's lost grocery list--before lunch. | 48 | Y |
| 2.6 | Afternoon on the Amazon | Osborne, Mary Pope | 1 | Eight-year-old Jack, his seven-year-old sister Annie, and Peanut the mouse ride in a tree house to the Amazon rain forest, where they encounter flesh-eating piranhas, hungry crocodiles, and wild jaguars. | 67 | Y |
| 2.6 | Trains (On the Move) | Stickland, Paul | 0.5 | This book introduces, in brief text and illustrations, various types of trains and their uses. | 16 | Y |
| 2.6 | Snaggle Doodles | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | Emily is worried that her ''invention group'' will not pull together soon enough to finish an invention. | 68 | |
| 2.6 | Dinosaurs Before Dark | Osborne, Mary Pope | 1 | A time-travel fantasy in which two children encounter dinosaurs in their tree house. | 68 | |
| 2.7 | Beast and the Halloween Horror | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | Beast writes an author telling him how much he liked his book (which he really hadn't read), and the author decides to visit him. | 73 | |
| 2.7 | Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky Fruitcake | Park, Barbara | 1 | Junie, a spunky, sometimes exasperating, kindergartner, looks forward to winning lots of prizes at the school carnival; but a fruitcake was not exactly what she had in mind. | 71 | Y |
| 2.7 | Shoeshine Girl | Bulla, Clyde Robert | 1 | Determined to earn some money, ten-year-old Sarah Ida gets a job at a shoeshine stand and learns a great many things besides shining shoes. | 84 | Y |
| 2.7 | Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her Bed | Park, Barbara | 1 | After hearing from a classmate at kindergarten that people have monsters under their beds, Junie B. Jones is afraid to go to sleep. | 69 | Y |
| 2.7 | Night of the Ninjas | Osborne, Mary Pope | 1 | Jack and Annie travel back to ancient Japan in search of an enchantress. | 69 | |
| 2.7 | Mummies in the Morning | Osborne, Mary Pope | 1 | Jack and his younger sister take a trip in their tree house back to ancient Egypt, where they help a queen's mummy continue her voyage to the Next Life. | 65 | Y |
| 2.7 | Chalk Box Kid, The | Bulla, Clyde Robert | 1 | Nine-year-old Gregory's house does not have room for a garden, so he creates one in a surprising place. | 56 | Y |
| 2.7 | Lazy Lions, Lucky Lambs | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | For Richard "Beast" Best, March is the worst time of the year, with report cards and the fear of being held back again. | 73 | Y |
| 2.7 | December Secrets | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | Everyone in Ms. Rooney's room has chosen a special person to be kind to. Almost everyone is happy except Emily who must be nice to the fat, class crybaby. Just before Christmas, the secrets are told; and Emily learns what a special friend really means. | 75 | Y |
| 2.7 | Nate the Great and the Sticky Case | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 0.5 | At first even Nate the Great is stumped when Claude's stegosaurus stamp disappears. | 47 | |
| 2.7 | Junie B. Jones Is Almost a Flower Girl | Park, Barbara | 1 | Six-year-old Junie B. is disappointed to find out that her aunt has asked someone else to be the flower girl at her wedding. | 68 | Y |
| 2.7 | Marvin Redpost: Why Pick on Me? | Sachar, Louis | 1 | Marvin is picked on by the class bully--and everyone else as well. | 64 | Y |
| 2.8 | Junie B. Jones Is a Party Animal | Park, Barbara | 1 | Lucille invites Junie B. and her friend Grace to sleep over at her rich nanna's house, where everything is beautiful and breakable. | 71 | Y |
| 2.8 | Young Cam Jansen and the Pizza Shop Mystery | Adler, David A. | 0.5 | Cam, her friend Eric, and her father go shopping at the mall. Cam must rely on her photographic memory to locate her missing jacket. | 32 | |
| 2.8 | No Room for Francie | Macdonald, Maryann | 1 | There are six children in the O'Leary family, and when her Comics Club needs a place to meet, Francie seems to be the only one with no special place of her very own. | 61 | |
| 2.8 | Marvin Redpost: Kidnapped at Birth? | Sachar, Louis | 1 | Marvin believes he's really a lost prince who was kidnapped at birth. | 68 | Y |
| 2.8 | Dog-Gone Hollywood | Sharmat, Marjorie Weinman | 1 | Now a major movie star, Genghis Khan, also known as Duz, finds himself in serious competition for the Oscar in the category of best male actor. | 71 | |
| 2.8 | Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's Birthday | Park, Barbara | 1 | Junie B. is very upset when a boy in her class plans to invite everyone except her to his birthday party, but her grandfather helps her deal with the situation. | 85 | Y |
| 2.8 | Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field Day | Park, Barbara | 1 | As captain of Room Nine's field day team, Junie B. Jones tries to rally her troops after they lose several events. | 66 | Y |
| 2.8 | Horrible Harry and the Drop of Doom | Kline, Suzy | 1 | On the last day of second grade, Song Lee's party at the local amusement park forces Harry to face his fear of elevators when he is expected to ride the Drop of Doom. | 58 | Y |
| 2.8 | Midnight on the Moon | Osborne, Mary Pope | 1 | The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to a moon base in the future where they continue to search for the fourth thing they need to free their friend Morgan from the magic spell. | 70 | |
| 2.8 | Horrible Harry's Secret | Kline, Suzy | 0.5 | Horrible Harry falls in love with Song Lee, and Harry's best friend Doug can't stand all that mush. | 52 | Y |
| 2.8 | Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop Guy | Park, Barbara | 1 | After her first trip to a beauty parlor Junie decides she wants to work there, and she practices on her bunny slippers, her dog, and herself with disastrous results. | 67 | Y |
| 2.8 | First Book About Bodies, A | Tuxworth, Nicola | 0.5 | Photographs and simple text introduce different parts of the body, how they work, and how they are used. | 24 | Y |
| 2.8 | Postcard Pest, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | In honor of Polk Street School's Postcard Day, Ms. Rooney's class plans a special tour of the post office to mail postcards to children all over the U.S. | 73 | |
| 2.9 | Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her Pocket | Park, Barbara | 1 | When Junie B. learns that her kindergarten class is going on a field trip to a farm, she worries about being attacked by a rooster. | 67 | Y |
| 2.9 | Horrible Harry and the Christmas Surprise | Kline, Suzy | 0.5 | When their teacher ends up in the hospital, the members of class 2B find a way to include her in their holiday celebration. | 54 | Y |
| 2.9 | Knight at Dawn, The | Osborne, Mary Pope | 1 | Jack and Annie time travel back to medieval England via a magic tree house. | 65 | Y |
| 2.9 | Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey Business | Park, Barbara | 1 | Junie is pretty upset about her new baby brother; but when she finally sees him, she goes ape. | 68 | Y |
| 2.9 | Cory Coleman, Grade 2 | Brimner, Larry Dane | 1 | Seven-year-old Cory Coleman's birthday party is ruined by the class bully, who turns out not to be such a bully in the end. | 66 | |
| 2.9 | Monsters of Marble Avenue, The | Gondosch, Linda | 1 | One mishap after another dogs Luke's attempts to put on a puppet show. | 60 | |
| 2.9 | Junie B. Jones and the Stupid Smelly Bus | Park, Barbara | 1 | Junie goes off to kindergarten and gets locked in the school. | 69 | Y |
| 2.9 | Horrible Harry and the Purple People | Kline, Suzy | 0.5 | Horrible Harry returns to the spotlight with the purple people, mysterious beings that only he can see. | 53 | Y |
| 2.9 | Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy Valentime | Park, Barbara | 1 | When Junie B. Jones receives a mushy gushy "valentime" on Valentine's Day, she tries to find out who her secret admirer is. | 69 | Y |
| 2.9 | Beast in Ms. Rooney's Room, The | Giff, Patricia Reilly | 1 | Richard "Beast" Best has been held back in school and even had to take a special reading class with the "babies." But with the help of a reading teacher, Beast starts to enjoy reading and may even be able to help the second grade win a reading prize. | 76 | Y |
| 2.9 | Song Lee and the Hamster Hunt | Kline, Suzy | 0.5 | When Song Lee's hamster escapes from its cage in Room 2B, the class members and other students in South School become involved in the search for him. | 52 | |
| 2.9 | Boy Named Boomer, A | Esiason, Boomer | 0.5 | The author describes some childhood memories: Valentine's Day at school, fishing with his father, building a fort, letting frogs loose in his class, and Thanksgiving with his grandmother. | 44 | |
| 2.9 | Blue Bay Mystery | Warner, Gertrude Chandler | 2 | The Aldens find a castaway on a South Sea Island. | 157 | Y |
| 2.9 | Young Cam Jansen and the Library Mystery | Adler, David A. | 0.5 | Cam uses her photographic memory to find a shopping list that her dad lost at the library. | 30 | Y |
| 2.9 | Marvin Redpost: Alone in His Teacher's House | Sachar, Louis | 1 | Marvin dog-sits his teacher's pet. | 83 | Y |
| 2.9 | Like Jake and Me | Jukes, Mavis | 0.5 | Alex feels that he does not have much in common with his stepfather Jake until a fuzzy spider brings them together. | 36 | |
| 2.9 | Snack Attack Mystery, The | Levy, Elizabeth | 0.5 | Chip, an invisible boy, and his friends investigate the mysterious disappearance of yogurt-covered raisins, mixed nuts, and gingersnaps from their classroom. | 44 | |
| 2.9 | Jennifer, Too | Havill, Juanita | 1 | Jennifer discovers ways to be included in the games of her older brother Matt and his friends. | 58 | |
| 2.9 | Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky Spying | Park, Barbara | 1 | Junie spies on her teacher and gets into real trouble. | 66 | Y |