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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Classics. Mark Twain's tale of a boy's picaresque journey down the Mississippi on a raft conveyed the voice and experience of the American frontier as no other work had done before. When Huck escapes from his drunken father and the 'sivilizing' Widow Douglas with the runaway slave Jim, he embarks on a series of adventures that draw him to feuding families and the trickery of the unscrupulous 'Duke' and 'Dauphin'. Beneath the exploits, however, are...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Three tales from Kipling?s ?Jungle Books?. "Mowgli?s Brothers" tells the story of Mowgli, the young boy raised by wolves and under the protection of Baloo the bear and Bagheera the black panther, as they face the threat of the tiger, Shere Khan. In "The King?s Ankus", Mowgli is led to a vast treasure in a hidden city by the python, Kaa. He does not realize, however that the allure of the treasure leads men to kill... In "Red Dog", Mowgli and his wolfpack...
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The blind man is the wisest man in the village. He asks the hunter to take him hunting everyday, but the hunter doesn't understand how someone who cannot see could possibly be good at hunting. Learn how the blind man is so wise in this story from Western Africa.
19) The Curing Fox
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In this Cree story of compassion, a young girl is very sick. Her parents send for Duck Egg, the old healing woman. Will she be able to save the girl? And why does she hear a tired little she-fox running across the snow when she listens to the girl's chest?
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In this Russian folk tale, the farmer's wife cannot keep a secret. When the farmer finds a box of gold he knows that by the end of the day, the entire village will know, and by the end of the week, the whole country, including the greedy king. How can the farmer keep the king from taking the gold?
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