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21) Pollyanna
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
An abridged version of the tale of orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna, who comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, bringing happiness to her aunt and other members of the community through her philosophy of gladness. Pollyanna knows the secret to finding a smile -- even when really bad things happen. From the moment she arrives in Beldingsville, she shares her Glad Game with everyone around her. But the person who needs Pollyanna's help...
23) Faking Faith
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
After a humiliating incident involving some bad decisions on her part, seventeen-year-old Dylan discovers the blogs of fundamentalist Christian girls and starts passing herself off as one of them in her own blog, leading her to some unexpected insights about herself and her values.
24) Pig the winner
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Series
Pig the pug volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Told in rhyming text, Pig is a greedy pug, who insists on always winning, and throws a tantrum if anything thwarts him--until one day he swallows not only all his food, but his bowl as well and when his friend Trevor saves him he learns a valuable lesson on sharing.
25) House party
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Casey just wanted to have a party not a riot. (RL 3.1)
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Description
In a dark future America that has devolved into unending civil wars, orphans Mahlia and Mouse barely escape the war-torn lands of the Drowned Cities, but their fragile safety is soon threatened and Mahlia will have to risk everything if she is to save Mouse, as he once saved her.
28) The hit-away kid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Barry McGee, hit-away batter for the Peach Street Mudders, enjoys winning so much that he has a tendency to bend the rules; then the dirty tactics of the pitcher on a rival team give him a new perspective on sports ethics.
29) The Bunker diary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and tortured by their unseen captor.
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Series
Fudge books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Spending the summer in Tarrytown, New York, is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she does not want to admit.
31) First Love
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
Axi Moore is a "good girl": she studies hard, stays out of the spotlight, and doesn't tell anyone that what she really wants is to run away from it all. The only person she can confide in is her best friend, Robinson--who she also happens to be madly in love. When Axi impulsively invites Robinson to come with her on an unplanned cross-country road trip, she breaks the rules for the first time in her life. But the adventure quickly turns from carefree...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A country truck feels out of place in the speedy, noisy city until he comes to the rescue during a giant traffic jam. On board pages.
A country truck feels out of place in the speedy, noisy city until he comes to the rescue during a giant traffic jam.
34) Sartor resartus
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Literally meaning "The tailor re-tailored," "Sartor Resartus" is Thomas Carlyle's 1836 novel which was first serialized in "Fraser's Magazine" in 1833-1834. The novel poses as a review for the work "Clothes, Their Origin and Influence" by the fictional philosopher Diogenes Teufelsdrockh, Professor of "Things in General" at Weissnichtwo University. Intended by Carlyle as a new kind of book, "Sartor Resartus" is at once a work of fiction and social...
35) Kick
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Told in their separate voices, thirteen-year-old soccer star Kevin and police sergeant Brown, who knew his father, try to keep Kevin out of juvenile hall after he is arrested on very serious charges.
36) Flipped
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years. You never forget your first love.
37) Ask the dark
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Description
"A thriller about Billy Zeets, a 14-year-old semi-delinquent in a deadly tango with a killer"--
39) Crazy dangerous
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Sam Hopkins fights back when he sees bullies harrassing Jennifer, an eccentric schoolmate who, he learns, is having terrifying hallucinations about demons, death, and destruction which may just come true unless Sam can stop them.
40) Pants on fire
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Having become a proficient liar in order to keep everyone happy, rising high school senior Katie Ellison is stunned when her old middle school friend and local pariah Tommy Sullivan returns to town, and suddenly things start looking a lot different to her.