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Accelerated Reader Quiz List - Reading Practice Accelerated Reader Quiz List - Reading Practice Quiz Book Title Author Points No. Level 6201 EN 213 Valentines Cohen, Barbara 4.0 1.0 9001 EN 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins, The Seuss, Dr. 4.0 1.0 8501 EN Addie's Long Summer Lawlor, Laurie 4.0 5.0 302 EN All About Sam Lowry, Lois 4.0 3.0 903719 All About Wolves (HSP Edition) Goldish, Meish 4.0 0.5 EN 453 EN Almost Starring Skinnybones Park, Barbara 4.0 3.0 138780 Anaheim Ducks Kelley, K.C. 4.0 0.5 EN 5204 EN Angel's Mother's Baby Delton, Judy 4.0 3.0 903425 Apollo to the Moon (HSP Edition) Lynch, Patricia Ann 4.0 0.5 EN 14654 B. Bear Scouts and the Humongous Berenstain, Stan 4.0 1.0 EN Pumpkin, The 17552 B. Bear Scouts Save That Backscratcher, Berenstain, Stan 4.0 1.0 EN The 5503 EN B. Bears and Too Much Junk Food, The Berenstain, Stan/Jan 4.0 0.5 7498 EN B. Bears' Trouble with Money, The Berenstain, Stan 4.0 0.5 80238 Basset Hounds Stone, Lynn M. 4.0 0.5 EN 134643 Best of Figure Skating, The Allen, Kathy 4.0 0.5 EN 138781 Boston Bruins Kelley, K.C. 4.0 0.5 EN 72850 Brachiosaurus Matthews, Rupert 4.0 0.5 EN 108004 Bulldogs Stone, Lynn M. 4.0 0.5 EN 903483 Button Time (HSP Edition) O'Brien, Anne 4.0 0.5 EN 18711 Care and Feeding of Dragons, The Seabrooke, Brenda 4.0 3.0 EN 159 EN Case of the Elevator Duck, The Berends, Polly 4.0 1.0 660 EN Celery Stalks at Midnight, The Howe, James 4.0 2.0 5213 EN Certain Small Shepherd, A Caudill, Rebecca 4.0 1.0 5214 EN Championship Game Hughes, Dean 4.0 2.0 903722 Cheyenne Horses (HSP Edition) Livorse, Kay 4.0 0.5 EN 138782 Chicago Blackhawks Adelman, Beth 4.0 0.5 EN 903318 Chinese Silk Traders (HSP Edition), The Gallego, Isabel 4.0 0.5 EN Boyd, Candy 309 EN Circle of Gold 4.0 3.0 Dawson 52859 Clifford's Big Book of Things to Know Bridwell, Norman 4.0 0.5 EN 19559 Cock-a-doodle Dudley Peet, Bill 4.0 0.5 EN 903319 Crater (HSP Edition), The Falstein, Mark 4.0 0.5 EN 9604 EN Curse of the Mummy's Tomb, The Stine, R.L. 4.0 3.0 18714 Day of the Blizzard Moskin, Marietta 4.0 1.0 EN 114624 Deep and Dark and Dangerous: A Ghost Hahn, Mary 4.0 7.0 EN Story Downing 107300 Detective Camp Roy, Ron 4.0 2.0 EN 138783 Detroit Red Wings Zeichner, Craig 4.0 0.5 EN 903605 Dinosaur Times (HSP Edition) Jiménez, Vita 4.0 0.5 EN 216 EN Dirt Bike Racer Christopher, Matt 4.0 4.0 9017 EN Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book Seuss, Dr. 4.0 0.5 119604 Eagles Miller, Sara Swan 4.0 0.5 EN 5563 EN Earth (New True Books) Fradin, Dennis B. 4.0 0.5 11585 Eat Your Poison, Dear Howe, James 4.0 3.0 EN 23330 Enormous Crocodile, The Dahl, Roald 4.0 0.5 EN 11761 George, Jean Everglades 4.0 0.5 EN Craighead 903430 Exploring the Everglades (HSP Edition) Shepard, Ann 4.0 0.5 EN 7720 EN Eyeballs for Breakfast Ragz, M.M. 4.0 4.0 131522 Fancy Nancy: Tea Parties O'Connor, Jane 4.0 0.5 EN 13392 Flat Stanley Brown, Jeff 4.0 1.0 EN 35401 Frankenstein Doesn't Slam Hockey Dadey/Jones 4.0 1.0 EN Pucks 75644 Frankenstein Doesn't Start Food Fights Dadey/Jones 4.0 1.0 EN 10776 George's Marvelous Medicine Dahl, Roald 4.0 2.0 EN 662 EN Golden Bird, The Stolp, Hans 4.0 1.0 5016 EN Happy Birthday, Kirsten! Shaw, Janet 4.0 1.0 416 EN Harry Kitten and Tucker Mouse Selden, George 4.0 1.0 Warner, Gertrude 5320 EN Haunted Cabin Mystery, The 4.0 2.0 Chandler 265 EN Hello, My Name Is Scrambled Eggs Gilson, Jamie 4.0 4.0 472 EN Help! I'm a Prisoner in the Library Clifford, Eth 4.0 2.0 62187 Help! I'm Trapped in an Alien's Body Strasser, Todd 4.0 3.0 EN 903354 Hideout Champs (HSP Edition), The Coulon, Edward 4.0 0.5 EN 40630 Anderson, Laurie Homeless 4.0 3.0 EN Halse 73503 Iron Insects Invade Indiana Rand, Johnathan 4.0 3.0 EN 477 EN Johnny Long Legs Christopher, Matt 4.0 2.0 422 EN Joke War, The Namovicz, Gene 4.0 3.0 479 EN Kirsten Learns a Lesson Shaw, Janet 4.0 1.0 34684 Kirsten on the Trail Shaw, Janet 4.0 0.5 EN 35289 Kitten in the Cold Baglio, Ben M. 4.0 3.0 EN 5576 EN Koalas (New True Books) Lepthien, Emilie U. 4.0 0.5 55732 Kreepy Klowns of Kalamazoo Rand, Johnathan 4.0 3.0 EN 62316 Labrador Retrievers Stone, Lynn M. 4.0 0.5 EN 47487 Last Summer with Maizon Woodson, Jacqueline 4.0 3.0 EN 14596 Later, Gator Yep, Laurence 4.0 3.0 EN 18636 Library Lil Williams, Suzanne 4.0 0.5 EN 35045 Luba and the Wren Polacco, Patricia 4.0 0.5 EN 57363 Mackinaw City Mummies Rand, Johnathan 4.0 2.0 EN Magic School Bus on the Ocean Floor, 6076 EN Cole, Joanna 4.0 0.5 The 16872 Message from the Match Girl, A Lisle, Janet Taylor 4.0 3.0 EN 110169 Miss Holly Is Too Jolly! Gutman, Dan 4.0 1.0 EN 46482 Missing Mummy, The Roy, Ron 4.0 1.0 EN 279 EN Mitzi's Honeymoon with Nana Potts Williams, Barbara 4.0 3.0 138900 Montreal Canadiens Zeichner, Craig 4.0 0.5 EN 35624 Mrs. Jeepers' Secret Cave Dadey/Jones 4.0 1.0 EN 25861 Mrs. Mack Polacco, Patricia 4.0 1.0 EN 6133 EN My Great-Aunt Arizona Houston, Gloria 4.0 0.5 135404 New York Yankees Kelley, K.C. 4.0 0.5 EN 6283 EN No Dogs Allowed Cutler, Jane 4.0 2.0 9038 EN Oh Say Can You Say? Seuss, Dr. 4.0 0.5 127751 Oklahoma Outbreak Rand, Johnathan 4.0 3.0 EN Warner, Gertrude 5323 EN Old Motel Mystery, The 4.0 2.0 Chandler 284 EN Oliver Dibbs to the Rescue! Steiner, Barbara 4.0 4.0 6234 EN One Small Blue Bead Baylor, Byrd 4.0 0.5 6286 EN Oscar, Cat-About-Town Herriot, James 4.0 0.5 5587 EN Penguins (New True Books) Lepthien, Emilie U. 4.0 0.5 903527 Pet Lizard (HSP Edition) Schumacher, Stef 4.0 0.5 EN 31075 Phantoms Don't Drive Sports Cars Dadey, Debbie 4.0 1.0 EN 83173 Picnic at Mudsock Meadow Polacco, Patricia 4.0 0.5 EN 6086 EN Pish, Posh, said Hieronymus Bosch Willard, Nancy 4.0 0.5 7237 EN Poky Little Puppy, The Lowrey, Janette 4.0 0.5 121312 Postcard, The Abbott, Tony 4.0 9.0 EN 5535 EN Promise Is a Promise, A Munsch, Robert N. 4.0 0.5 131676 Pulleys Manolis, Kay 4.0 0.5 EN 9790 EN Rechenka's Eggs Polacco, Patricia 4.0 0.5 6090 EN Riptide Weller, Frances 4.0 0.5 47731 Rooster Who Went to His Uncle's Ada, Alma Flor 4.0 0.5 EN Wedding, The 107357 Rotten Richie and the Ultimate Dare Polacco, Patricia 4.0 0.5 EN 6140 EN Rough-Face Girl, The Martin, Rafe 4.0 0.5 5539 EN Roxaboxen McLerran, Alice 4.0 0.5 6141 EN Rumpelstiltskin Zelinsky, Paul 4.0 0.5 41398 Sea Monsters Don't Ride Motorcycles Dadey, Debbie 4.0 1.0 EN 903348 Season of the Spider (HSP Edition) Capek, Michael 4.0 0.5 EN 105859 Sheep Hobbs, Valerie 4.0 4.0 EN 26924 Sister Anne's Hands Lorbiecki, Marybeth 4.0 0.5 EN 5490 EN Song and Dance Man Ackerman, Karen 4.0 0.5 5045 EN Soup for President Peck, Robert Newton 4.0 3.0 72858 Stegosaurus Matthews, Rupert 4.0 0.5 EN Gardiner, John 293 EN Stone Fox 4.0 1.0 Reynolds 55739 Strange Spirits of St. Ignace Rand, Johnathan 4.0 3.0 EN 5494 EN Sylvester and the Magic Pebble Steig, William 4.0 0.5 903441 Taming the Land (HSP Edition) Dee, Daniel 4.0 0.5 EN 903676 Tara Lipinski: Olympic Champion (HSP Benjamin, Cynthia 4.0 0.5 EN Edition) Smith, Doris 295 EN Taste of Blackberries, A 4.0 2.0 Buchanan 903539 Thousand Words (HSP Edition), A Phillips, Carlin 4.0 0.5 EN Gardiner, John 196 EN Top Secret 4.0 2.0 Reynolds 11398 Town Mouse, Country Mouse Brett, Jan 4.0 0.5 EN 903743 Trading Days (HSP Edition) Kranz, Rachel 4.0 0.5 EN 903536 Treasure Hunt (HSP Edition) Goldish, Meish 4.0 0.5 EN Bishop, Claire 200 EN Twenty and Ten 4.0 2.0 Huchet 7596 EN Umbrella Yashima, Taro 4.0 0.5 72859 Velociraptor Matthews, Rupert 4.0 0.5 EN 903746 What Is a Desert? (HSP Edition) Evans, Mary 4.0 0.5 EN 59932 When Lightning Comes in a Jar Polacco, Patricia 4.0 0.5 EN 5550 EN Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People's Ears Aardema, Verna 4.0 0.5 Wonder Kid Meets the Evil Lunch 5250 EN Duncan, Lois 4.0 1.0 Snatcher 447 EN Year Mom Won the Pennant, The Christopher, Matt 4.0 2.0 903300 Roche-Tombee, All-Americans (HSP Edition) 4.1 0.5 EN Elaine 19551 Ant and the Elephant, The Peet, Bill 4.1 0.5 EN 135399 Atlanta Braves Kelley, K.C.
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