Tara Sands
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Have you ever wondered how water moves around on Earth? An introduction to the water cycle, including precipitation, evaporation, condensation, and more, is explored through this newest addition to the How Do series. The How Do series is a great introduction to various STEM topics, each presented in a format that encourages audiences to ask questions and guess the answers before exploring the science behind them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
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The Victorian language of flowers was used to convey romantic expressions: honeysuckle for devotion, asters for patience, and red roses for love. But for Victoria Jones, it’s been more useful in communicating mistrust and solitude. After a childhood spent in the foster-care system, she is unable to get close to anybody, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Rescuing a squirrel after an accident involving a vacuum cleaner, comic-reading cynic Flora Belle Buckman is astonished when the squirrel, Ulysses, demonstrates astonishing powers of strength and flight after being revived.
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"More than two decades ago, Ashley Baxter Blake made her most grievous mistake in Paris. New information about that terrible time causes Ashley to see that experience in a new light. Now, Ashley and her husband are about to take a trip to Paris. In Paris, Alice Michel is having dinner with her son Gabe and his new friend, Jessie Taylor. As the dinner conversation goes on, Alice tells the young couple that her life was saved by a conversation with...
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
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"Josh and Amanda just moved into the oldest and weirdest house on the block. It might even be haunted. But their parents don't believe them. You'll get used to it, they say. Go out and make some new friends. So Josh and Amanda do. But these creepy new friends are not exactly what Mom and Dad had in mind.. Because they want to be friends ... forever..." -- P. [4] of cover.
6) Uncaged
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Singular menace volume 1
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
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"When an animal rights action at a research lab goes wrong, a terrible secret is exposed, and Shay must find her brother Odin before the researchers at Singular Corp can silence both of them" --
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The Great War is over. The Robots have won. The humans who survived have two choices--they can submit and serve the vicious rulers they created or be banished to the Reserve, a desolate, unforgiving landscape where it's a crime to be human. And the robots aren't content--following the orders of their soulless leader, they're planning to conquer humanity's last refuge. With nothing left to lose, Six, a feisty, determined young woman whose family was...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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"Trojan princess Cassandra is cursed by Apollo with the gift of prophecy, and must try to find her place in a world that she knows to be perilous; years later, will her friendship with a young Amazon princess named Rin help her to avert a disastrous end to their war?"--
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"Miss Layla Beck, the daughter of a powerful Senator from Delaware refuses to marry the gentleman her father has chosen for her and is forced to get a job working for the FWP to write the first official account of Macedonian History. Her notions of real life--the social whirl of Newport and New York--are totally upended and she despairs in rooming with the overly eccentric Romeyn family in such a small backwater town. The Romeyn family is a fixture...
10) Feed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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In a future where most people have computer implants in their heads to control their environment, a boy meets an unusual girl who is in serious trouble.
11) Rampage
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Singular menace volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
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"Teen activist Shay and her brother Odin are closing in on Singular Corp. and ready to shut down the evil conglomerate once and for all"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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A spooky, funny middle grade adventure with a sassy, memorable heroine and a charming Southern feel, perfect for fans of Kate DiCamillo, Kate Messner, and Natalie Lloyd.
Twelve-year-old haunt huntress apprentice Evangeline Clement spends her days and nights studying the ways of folk magic, honing her monster-hunting skills while pursuing local bayou banshees and Johnny revenants.
With her animal familiar sure to make itself known any day now, the...
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"Rory McGovern is entering the ostensible prime of her life when her husband, Blake, loses his dream job and announces he feels like 'taking a break' from being a husband and father. Rory was already spread thin and now, without warning, she is single-parenting two kids, juggling their science projects, flu season, and pajama days, while coming to terms with her disintegrating marriage. And without Blake, her only hope is to accept a full-time position...
14) Jacky Ha-Ha
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Jacky Ha-Ha volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation--even when she really, really shouldn't--twelve-year-old Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny things in her life, like her mom serving in a dangerous, faraway war, and a dad who's hardly ever home. But no matter how much fun Jacky has, she can't seem to escape her worries. So one starlit night, she makes a promise...
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Thirteen-year-old Sammy's penchant for speaking her mind gets her in trouble when she involves herself in the investigation of a robbery at the "seedy" hotel across the street from the seniors' building where she is living with her grandmother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
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Gabry lives a quiet life in a town trapped between a forest and the ocean, hemmed in by the dead who hunger for the living, but her mother Mary's secrets, a cult of religious zealots who worship the dead, and a stranger from the forest who seems to know Gabry threaten to destroy her world.
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"Seattle, 1933. Vera Ray kisses her three-year-old son, Daniel, good night and reluctantly leaves for work. She hates the night shift, but it's the only way she can earn enough to keep destitution at bay. In the morning--even though it's the second of May--a heavy snow is falling. Vera rushes to wake Daniel, but his bed is empty. His teddy bear lies outside in the snow. Seattle, present day. On the second of May, Seattle Herald reporter Claire Aldridge...
19) Best family ever
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Much-loved storyteller Karen Kingsbury's Baxter Family books have captured the hearts of millions who have come to think of the Baxter family as their own. Now Karen Kingsbury and her son Tyler Russell tell the childhood stories of the beloved Baxter children-Brooke, Kari, Ashley, Erin, and Luke-to inspire and entertain younger readers.
Brooke is the perfect older sister. For that reason, Kari and Ashley work hard to make their parents just as proud...
20) Lemons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
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After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.