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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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In 1942, Robert and his cousin Elliot uncover long-hidden family secrets while staying in their grandparents' Rhode Island town, where they also become involved with a German artist who is suspected of being a spy. Soon after Robert arrives at his grandfather's home in Rhode Island in 1942, just after the U.S. enters World War II, he learns of a German painter living in the woods who raises the community's suspicions, and of the mystery his RAF pilot...
62) The Warm Place
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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When Ruva, a young giraffe, is captured and sent to a zoo in San Francisco, she calls upon two rats, a street-smart chamelion, a runaway boy, and all the magical powers of the animal world to return to "the warm place" that is home.
63) Steal away
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1855 two thirteen-year-old girls, one white and one black, run away from a southern farm and make the difficult journey north to freedom, living to recount their story forty-one years later to two similar young girls.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
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Career-driven assistant district attorney Nina Frost knows the guilt familiar to all parents torn by the demands of home and office. But whereas most parents imagine the dangers that can befall their children. Nina witnesses them firsthand. She prosecutes child molesters and she has seen too many criminals slip through the system and walk free. Nina's husband, Caleb, is a stonemason, a methodical man who glories in his ability to construct physical...
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Clementine volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Clementine faces changes at the end of her third grade year and anticipates the birth of her family's new baby.
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Nancy Clancy volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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Nancy Clancy is working to be the star reporter of the Third Grade Gazette -- that's a fancy word for newspaper. When the latest issue comes out, Nancy and Bree decide the articles just aren't interesting enough and they set out to find some really exciting news to report on. But when Nancy overhears something she shouldn't and the news gets out, she learns that a good reporter knows when to keep things confidential. She may even get some surprising...
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Chester Cricket volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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The adventures of a country cricket who unintentionally arrives in New York and is befriended by Tucker Mouse and Harry Cat.
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Billy and Blaze books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Blaze and Billy ride deep into the woods, get off the road and realize they are lost.
70) Haunted
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Detective Michael Bennett and his family are about to be haunted by a father's worst nightmare--the signs he should have seen and a son's desperate cry for help. Reeling from a crisis that would destroy lesser families, the Bennetts escape New York for a much-needed vacation. An idyllic country town in the Maine woods is haunted by an epidemic emptying its streets and preying on its youth. Turns out the vacation brochures don't tell the full story-the...
71) The girls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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Each of the girls in a middle-school clique reveals the strong, manipulative hold one of the group exerts on the others, and the hurt and self-doubt that it causes them.
72) The thief
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Queen's thief volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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Gen flaunts his ingenuity as a thief and relishes the adventure which takes him to a remote temple of the gods where he will attempt to steal a precious stone.
74) Hope was here
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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When sixteen-year-old Hope and the aunt who has raised her move from Brooklyn to Mulhoney, Wisconsin, to work as waitress and cook in the Welcome Stairways diner, they become involved with the diner owner's political campaign to oust the town's corrupt mayor.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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A young boy relates his adventures during the year he spends living alone in the Catskill Mountains including his struggle for survival, his dependence on nature, his animal friends, and his ultimate realization that he needs human companionship.
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Nancy Clancy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Nancy's Magic 8 Ball doesn't work ever since JoJo dropped it. And the paper fortune-tellers that Nancy and Bree love making never give answers you can count on. Then all of a sudden Nancy starts predicting things that do come true! Can she really see the future? All signs seems to point to yes! So Nancy tries her hand at fortune-telling during recess. What she sees, however, isn't the future; she sees that she's gotten herself into a big, BIG problem....
77) Preacher's boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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In 1899, ten-year-old Robbie, son of a preacher in a small Vermont town, gets himself into all kinds of trouble when he decides to give up being Christian in order to make the most of his life before the end of the world.
78) Someone new
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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When three children, Jesse, Jason, and Emma, are confronted with new classmates from different ethnic backgrounds, they strive to overcome their initial reactions, and to understand, accept, and welcome Maria, Jin, and Fatima.
79) The reptile room
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A series of unfortunate events volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
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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.
80) The cay
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
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When the freighter on which they are traveling is torpedoed by a German submarine during World War II, a twelve-year-old white boy, blinded by a blow on the head, and an old Negro are stranded on a small desert island in the Caribbean where the boy acquires a new kind of vision, courage, and love from his old companion.