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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a belief that unites the left and right, psychologists and philosophers, writers and historians. It drives the headlines that surround us and the laws that touch our lives. From Machiavelli to Hobbes, Freud to Dawkins, the roots of this belief have sunk deep into Western thought. Human beings, we're taught, are by nature selfish and governed by self-interest. Humankind makes a new argument: that it is realistic, as well as revolutionary, to assume...
Author
Series
Doll people volume 2
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Annabelle and Tiffany, dolls who are best friends living in the Palmer house, have an adventure when they hide in Kate Palmer's backpack, are carried to school, mistakenly go to another house, and try to stop Princess Mimi, a doll who threatens all dollkind.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Charlie Bucket can't believe his luck when he finds a Golden Ticket and wins the chance of a lifetime: a magical day witnessing the miraculous creation of the most delectable eatables ever made. Join Charlie in this world-famous story.
Author
Publisher
Andrews McMeel Pub., LLC
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Nate Wright is known to his pals and teachers for many things, his penchant for mischief and his school record for detentions being the foremost. But beating out brainiac Gina's grades is not one of those things! In Big Nate Makes the Grade, the school life goings-on of Nate, his pals, and his long-suffering teachers are recounted in hilarious detail. Now in full-color!
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
We have long attributed man's violent, aggressive, competitive nature to his animal ancestry. But what if we are just as given to cooperation, empathy, and morality by virtue of our genes? What if our behavior actually makes us apes? What kind of apes are we? From a scientist and writer E. O. Wilson has called "the world authority on primate social behavior" comes a fascinating look at the most provocative aspects of human nature-power, sex, violence,...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
Description
America's favorite home humorist, Erma Bombeck, has the uncanny ability to transform the trivialities of everyday American life into rich, witty stories that capture the imagination and tickle the funnybone. In this best-selling collection of hilarious tidbits, she turns her talents to the animal kingdom: the behavioral patterns of the creatures in the wild and the couple in the duplex next door.
11) Grow up, David!
Author
Series
David (David Shannon) volume 5
Publisher
The Blue Sky Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
David follows his older brother around, annoying him and doing everything he can to make sure his brother notices him--but when David gets hurt playing, his brother is there to make sure he is okay.
12) The twits
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Phizz-whizzing new branding for the world's No.1 storyteller, Roald Dahl! Exciting, bold and instantly recognisable with Quentin Blake's inimitable artwork. Mr Twit is a foul and smelly man with bits of cornflake and sardine in his beard. Mrs Twit is a horrible old hag with a glass eye. Together they make the nastiest couple you could ever hope not to meet. Down in their garden, the Twits keep Muggle-Wump the monkey and his family locked in a cage....
14) Moving day
Author
Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 1
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Nine-year-old Allie Finkle has rules for everything and is even writing her own rule book, but her world is turned upside-down when she learns that her family is moving across town, which will mean a new house, school, best friend, and plenty of new rules.
15) Bad hare day
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Uncle Herbert the Hare, the best hairdresser in town, has his hands full when his niece Holly spends time at his salon.
Author
Series
Horrible Harry volume 34
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"It's Mary's birthday party. When things go horribly wrong will Harry be able to save the day?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Bad Seed cannot find an amazing costume for Halloween night, he postpones trick-or-treating for everyone else until he finds the perfect one.
18) Reality tour
Author
Series
Chosen Girls volume 8
Publisher
Zonderkidz
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Chosen Girls go on tour, but when Harmony's rebellious cousin Lucinda joins them, Harmony temporarily forgets the word of God in an effort to have fun and look cool.
19) Little good wolf
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Sent by his parents to Bad School to learn to be a big, bad wolf, Little Good Wolf, unable to be selfish or rude, discovers a way to be a wolf while being GOOD!"--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Best friends Randolph, a beaver, and Ivy, a goose, do everything together until Ivy is invited to a girls-only birthday sleepover party and Randolph, full of bad feelings, tries to spoil her fun.
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