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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Vic Brown did not want to go to camp this summer. Even though its nice being back with her friends at Meadow Wood, Vic still cant forget about the secret reason her mom wanted her and her brother out of the house - or how much her family is going to change. When her home life is blowing up, it can be hard to focus on campfires and canoeing."--Provided by publisher.
3) Hold hands
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A rhyming story of friendship, connection, and the power of holding hands.
7) What I carry
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Growing up in foster care, Muir has lived in many houses. And if she's learned one thing, it is to Pack. Light. Carry only what fits in a suitcase. Toothbrush? Yes. Socks? Yes. Emotional attachment to friends? foster families? a boyfriend? Nope! There's no room for any additional baggage. Muir has just one year left before she ages out of the system. One year before she's free. One year to avoid anything--or anyone--that could get in her way. Then...
8) In the woods
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Chrystal's plans for the summer are upended when she joins her journalist father in Oklahoma to investigate a grisly attack, discovering that the only witness is a surprisingly good-looking farm boy named Logan.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them together, because of the rabbit.
11) Words on fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
In 1893 twelve-year-old Audra lives on a farm in Lithuania, and tries to avoid the Cossack soldiers who enforce the Russian decrees that ban Lithuanian books, religion, culture, and even the language; but when the soldiers invade the farm Audra is the only one who escapes and, unsure of what has happened to her parents, she embarks on a dangerous journey, carrying the smuggled Lithuanian books that fuel the growing resistance movement, unsure of who...
12) Maybe this time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Sophie Evans works for the local florist and party planner in her small southern town, so she attends all of the big "events," all the time sketching and dreaming of applying to design school; but this year there is a fly-in-the-ointment of her life--Andrew Hart, son of the fancy new chef in town, who is also at all the local events, and keeps getting in her way, making her life more complicated.
13) Mister Monday
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Series
Keys to the kingdom volume 1
Description
Seven days. Seven keys. Seven virtues. Seven sins. One mysterious house is the doorway to a very mysterious world-- where one boy is about to venture and unlock a number of fantastical secrets.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Grumpy Gus is one pirate that complains about everything, even about seeking treasure, an attitude that annoys his fellow pirates--so the Pirate Queen gives Gus an equally grumpy parrot in hopes that it will teach Gus a lesson and make him change his grumpy ways.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
High-school seniors Kimberly Landis-Lilley and Teddy Lin have been together since kindergarten, but then someone starts a rumor that they have broken up, and suddenly the whole William Henry Harrison High School is taking sides, somebody is putting up posters supporting Kim and criticizing Teddy, there are incidents of artistic vandalism, people are talking about having separate proms, and even teachers and parents are getting involved--and nobody...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Dreaming of landing the lead in Cinderella and dancing with her boyfriend onstage, Malie makes a deal with Alonzo, the cute new boy from Italy to study under his ballerina mother if he is allowed to help out in her mom's ice cream parlor, but Malie's feelings soon shift.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
This is a sensitive book, a classic in many countries, about a friendship between two boys and an old man. There are plenty of old men who would do as a grandfather at the retirement home, Ulf suggests, when Berra wonders why he doesn't have one. They go there together to find one - ideally one who eats pig's trotters, invites you to tea and who can teach you to whistle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Unless eleven-year-old Parker can find a way to remove the sinister puppet that refuses to leave his hand, he will wind up in military school or worse but first he must stand up for himself to his best friend Wren, his mother, and his nearly-absent father.