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22) Worser
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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William Wyatt Orser's life is turned upside down after his mother has a stroke, but the socially awkward, word-loving twelve-year-old finds glimmers of hope when he discovers friends who share his love of wordplay and books.
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Auntie Claus volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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When Chris expresses doubt about the existence of Santa Claus, his older sister Sophie reveals that their aunt is really Santa's sister and helper and then sends him on a strange journey.
26) Of a feather
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A baby great horned owl, Second, so called because his sister, First, is already out of the nest, is reluctant to hunt for himself, but when his mother is injured he is forced out into the forest; Maureen is a human girl pulled out of her grandmother's violent home and placed with an aunt--but her Aunt Beatrice is involved in falconry and runs a mews where injured raptors can heal, and it is here Maureen and Second (now called Rufus) meet and learn...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Although Aunt Arlene tries to interest her in clothing and growing up, ten-year-old Mildred is entirely focused on growing a pumpkin big enough to win the annual Circleville, Ohio, contest, as her mother dreamed of doing before she died.
31) The collector
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
"Josie always liked visiting her grandmother in the countryside. But when her mother loses her job in the city and they're forced to relocate along with Josie's sister, Annie, she realizes she doesn't like the country that much. Especially because Grandma Jeannie has some strange rules. Soon though, Josie manages to make friends with the most popular girl in the sixth grade, Vanessa. When Vanessa eventually invites Josie back to her house to hang...
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Little blue envelopes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Ginny Blackstone spent last summer traveling around Europe, following the tasks her aunt laid out in a series of letters before she died. When someone stole Ginnys backpack, and the last little blue envelope inside, she resigned herself to never knowing how the adventure was supposed to end. Now a mysterious boy has contacted Ginny from London, saying he has found her bag. Finally Ginny can finish what she started. But instead of ending her journey,...
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Emily Starr trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 22
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When Emily's father dies, leaving her an orphan, she is sent to live with a stern aunt in Prince Edward Island, where her resourcefulness and love of writing help her adjust to a new way of life
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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The Brewster triplets, Dawn, Darby, and Delaney, are spending spring break camping with their Aunt Jane--but when they run into three boys at the campsite the inevitable competition begins, and as the disasters mount up it starts to look like this may be the worst camping trip ever.
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Series
Pub. Date
1985, c1982
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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"JoJo's aunt Kayla is a firefighter. She's teaching Katie's class about her job. Katie keeps trying to ask Kayla questions, but Kayla has lots to say before it's question time. If Katie is patient, will she learn what she really wants to know about firefighters?"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
"Every winter, a young girl flies to Haiti to visit her Auntie Luce, a painter. The moment she steps off the plane, she feels a wall of heat, and familiar sights soon follow - the boys selling water ice by the pink cathedral, the tap tap buses in the busy streets, the fog and steep winding road to her aunt's home in the mountains. The girl has always loved Auntie Luce's paintings - the houses tucked into the hillside, colorful fishing boats by the...