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121) Flip-flop girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Uprooted following the death of their father, nine-year-old Vinnie and her five-year-old brother, Mason, cope in different ways--one in silence--but both with the help of Lupe, the flip-flop girl.
122) You're a big brother
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Rhyming text introduces little ones to all the good things about being a big brother.
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When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
124) Fallout
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Written in free verse, explores how three teenagers try to cope with the consequences of their mother's addiction to crystal meth and its effects on their lives.
125) Abduction!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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Thirteen-year-old Bonnie has a feeling of foreboding on the very day that her six-year-old brother Matt and their dog Pookie are abducted, and she becomes involved in a major search effort as well as a frightening adventure.
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Judy Moody volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
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Judy's big plans for the summer seem ruined when two of her best friends go away, and then her parents leave her and Stink with Aunt Opal, but a new "thrill-a-delic" plan has her racing toward fun.
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Boxcar children volume 64
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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While visiting their cousin's pineapple plantation in Hawaii, the Aldens hear a local legend about a black pearl with a curse on it and investigate mysterious incidents on and around the plantation.
129) Metro Girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
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A thrilling, high-octane misadventure with high stakes, hot nights, cold-blodded murder, sunken treasure, a woman with a chassis built for speed, and one very good, very sexy NASCAR driver who's along for the ride.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Hana decides to play violin in the school talent show, but when the show day arrives, Hana is overcome with nerves until she recalls her grandfather's encouraging words, and shows the audience how beautiful music can take many forms.
131) Prism
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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California high school students Kaida, Zeke, and Joy fall into a parallel universe in which all resembles their normal lives except that there is no medicine nor health care, which could mean big trouble for Joy, whose arm was injured in the accident that started their troubles.
133) Finding home
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 7
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For Ashley, moving to Bloomington, Indiana, is especially hard but with time, prayer, a few surprises, and especially the love of her family, she finally feels at home.
135) Thin ice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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Seventeen-year-old Arden has been raised by her older brother, Scott, since their parents died when she was just six years old, so when Scott is presumed drowned in a snowmobile accident, Arden is convinced he's really run away.
136) Like spilled water
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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"Na has always been in the shadow of her younger brother, Bao-bao, her parents' cherished son. But when Bao-bao dies suddenly, Na realizes how little she knew him. And he wasn't the only one with secrets"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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During a thirteen hundred mile journey from Kansas to the Bitterroot Mountains, Caleb O'Toole faces deserts, tornadoes, wolves, and the infamous Blackstone Gang as he tries to honor his promise to his dying mother and keep his sisters safe.
138) Dragon pearl
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Thousand worlds volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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"Min, a thirteen-year-old girl with fox-magic, stows away on a battle cruiser and impersonates a cadet in order to solve the mystery of what happened to her older brother in the Thousand World Space Forces."--
139) The silent boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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Young Katy Thatcher, the daughter of the town doctor, becomes friends with Jacob, a teenager who is "touched in the head," which allows her to understand what really happened when the unwanted infant of Jacob's sister is found dead.
140) The woodshed mystery
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Boxcar children volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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The Boxcar Children are spending the summer in an enormous New England farmhouse and the old woodshed holds a surprising secret that dates from the Revolutionary War.