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1) Tex
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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The love between two teenage brothers helps to alleviate the harshness of their usually parentless life as they struggle to grow up.
2) I like me!
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By admiring her finer points and showing that she can take care of herself and have fun even when there's no one else around, a charming pig proves the best friend you can have is yourself.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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When Angel's self-absorbed mother leaves her and her younger brother with their poor great-grandmother, the eleven-year-old girl worries not only about her mother and brother, her imprisoned father, the frail old woman, but also about a mysterious man who begins sharing with her the wonder of the stars.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Twelve-year-old Addie tries to cope with her mother's erratic behavior and being separated from her beloved stepfather and half-sisters when she and her mother go to live in a small trailer by the railroad tracks on the outskirts of Schenectady, New York.
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Pout-pout fish adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Mr. Fish is going on vacation, but what happens when he forgets his favorite toy?"--
8) Salvage
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Salvage volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
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"Ava, a teenage girl living aboard the male-dominated, conservative deep space merchant ship Parastrata, faces betrayal, banishment, and death. Taking her fate into her own hands, she flees to the Gyre, a floating continent of garbage and scrap in the Pacific Ocean. How will she build a future on an Earth ravaged by climate change?"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
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Quiet Emily's sociable and daring best friend, Sloane, has disappeared leaving nothing but a random list of bizarre tasks for her to complete, but with unexpected help from popular classmate Frank Porter, Emily gives them a try.
10) The haymeadow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Fourteen-year-old John comes of age and gains self-reliance during the summer he spends up in the Wyoming mountains tending his father's herd of sheep.
11) Fishbone's song
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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"Deep in the woods, in a rustic cabin, lives an old man and the boy he's raised as his own. This sage old man has taught the boy the power of nature and how to live in it, and more importantly, to respect it. In Fishbone's Song, this boy reminisces about the magic of the man who raised him and the tales that he used to tell--all true, but different each time"--
12) Sisters of glass
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Sisters of Glass volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Halan is a powerless princess. She is heir to the Magi Kingdom, a blazing desert land ruled by ancient magic. But unlike every royal before her, Halan has no magical powers of her own. Nalah is a powerful pauper. The glassblowers daughter, she lives in the land of New Hadar, where magic is strictly outlawed. But Nalah has a powerful force growing within her-one she cant always control. One girl fears magic, one worships it. But when a legendary mirror...
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Aurora County trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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When her quirky grandmother goes to Hawaii for the summer, nine-year-old Ruby learns to survive on her own in Mississippi by writing letters, befriending chickens as well as the new girl in town, and finally coping with her grandfather's death.
14) Lyddie
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Gr 5-9 --In this superb novel, Paterson deftly depicts a Lowell, Massachusetts fabric mill in the 1840s and a factory girl whose life is changed by her experiences there. Readers first meet 13-year-old Lyddie Worthen staring down a bear on her family' debt-ridden farm in the Vermont mountains. With her fierce spirit, she stares down a series of metaphorical bears in her year as a servant girl at an inn and then in her months under grueling conditions...
16) Stranded
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Twelve-year-old Koby, who has lost a foot in an accident, sees a chance to prove her self-reliance to her parents when she tries to rescue two stranded pilot whales near her home in the Florida Keys.
17) Apartment 4A
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Apartment 4A volume Book 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Bree was barely holding it together. Her brother drank. Her boss ws shady. And her aunt was losing it. Then there was the empty apartment next door-- "Who are you?" Bree asked the woman. The woman looked at the living room window. It ws closed. She ran across the room. And jumped through the glass. Apartment 4A follows a struggling teen, Bree, who has to take care of herself in a less than ideal situation. Bree is an orphan living with her aunt who...
19) The river
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Paulsen takes the wilderness adventure beyond self-preservation & makes teen Brian responsible for saving someone else. Because of his success surviving alone in the wilderness for fifty-four days, fifteen-year-old Brian, profoundly changed by his time in the wild, is asked to undergo a similar experience to help scientists learn more about the psychology of survival. "We want you to do it again."
These words, spoken to Brian Robeson, will change...
20) Brian's Return
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 4
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After having survived alone in the wilderness, Brian finds that he can no longer live in the city but must return to the place where he really belongs.