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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
2) Metro girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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Alexandra (Barney) Barnaby roars onto the Miami Beach scene in hot pursuit of her missing baby brother, "Wild" Bill. Leave it to the maverick of the family to get Barney involved with high-speed car chases, a search for sunken treasure, and Sam Hooker, a NASCAR driver who's good at revving a woman's engine. Engaged in a deadly race, Bill has "borrowed" Hooker's sixty-five-foot Hatteras and sailed off into the sunset...just when Hooker has plans for...
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Series
New beginnings volume 4
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Shay Benson adored her younger brother, Caden, and that got her into trouble. When he owed money, Shay realized she would do anything to help him avoid the men who were threatening him and she crossed lines she never should have crossed. Now, determined to start fresh, she finds herself in search of a place to stay and wanders into a church to escape from the cold. Pastor Drew Douglas adored his wife. But when he lost her, it was all he could do to...
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.
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"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
7) Ginger Pye
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Series
Publisher
Harcourt
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
The disappearance of a new puppy named Ginger and the appearance of a mysterious man in a mustard yellow hat bring excitement into the lives of the Pye children.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Evan and his younger sister, Jessie, react very differently to the news that they will be in the same class for fourth grade and as the end of summer approaches, they battle it out through lemonade stands, each trying to be the first to earn 100 dollars. Includes mathematical calculations and tips for running a successful lemonade stand.
9) Dicey's song
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
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Series of Unfortunate Events volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
12) All adults here
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Description
"When Astrid Strick witnesses a school bus accident in the center of town, it jostles loose a repressed memory from her young parenting days, decades years earlier. Suddenly, Astrid realizes she was not quite the parent she thought she'd been to her three, now-grown children. But to what consequence? Astrid's youngest son is drifting and unfocused, making parenting mistakes of his own. Her daughter is intentionally pregnant yet struggling to give...
13) Beyond the grave
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Series
39 clues volume 4
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
14) Dark places
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Description
For a price Libby Day will reconnect with the players that murdered her mother and two sisters in "The Satan Sacrifice of Kinnakee, Kansas." Having testified that her brother Ben was the murderer on that fateful night twenty-five years ago, now she is not so sure as, piece by piece, the unimaginable truth emerges, and Libby finds herself right back where she started--on the run from a killer.
16) Sweet memories
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Publisher
MIRA Books
Pub. Date
[2002], c1984
Description
Innocent and unsure, Theresa Brubaker has lived much of her 25 years trapped in a body she loathed. Never becoming used to the unwanted attention from the opposite sex, her precious beauty was treasured by everyone but herself- that is, until an extraordinary man opens her heart to the wonderful possibilities of love. Sensitive and caring, Brian Scanlon seeks to unleash the butterfly wrapped in Theresa's cocoon of inhibitions. But trust...
18) Ish
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Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Ramon loses confidence in his ability to draw, but his sister gives him a new perspective on things.
19) Barkis
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Publisher
Smithmark Publishers
Pub. Date
1998
Description
James doesn't want to share his birthday puppy with his sister until she does him a very big favor.
20) The reptile room
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Series
Series of Unfortunate Events volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
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