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Novel
Vote for which novel you want to read in class. Rank each novel on a scale of 1-6 with 1 being your 1st choice.
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- "THE VIEW FROM SATURDAY" Four students, with their own individual stories, develop a special bond and attract the attention of their teacher, a paraplegic, who chooses them to represent their sixth-grade class in the Academic Bowl competition. Book level 5.9
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- "HOLES" A further evidence of his family's bad fortune that they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself. Book level 4.6
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- "WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS" A boy receives two coon dogs during his childhood in the Ozarks. Book level 4.9
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- "SIXTH GRADE SECRETS" When Laura Sibbie starts a club called Pig City, she incites a near-war among her sixth-grade classmates and generates the creation of a rival club that has designs on Pig City's precious box of secrets. Book level 3.7
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- "THE CAY" When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow to the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion. Book level 5.3
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- "HATCHET" After a plane crash, thirteen-year-old Brian spends fifty-four days in the wilderness, learning to survive initially with only the aid of a hatchet given to him by his mother, and learning also to survive his parents' divorce. Book level 5.7
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