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21) Grave secrets
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Deadtime stories (Reissued) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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When Amanda and her friends try to bury a dead squirrel in the pet cemetery, they accidentally dig up a mysterious doll and think their creepy old neighbor lady might know something about it.
22) Verdi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A young python does not want to grow slow and boring like the older snakes he sees in the tropical jungle where he lives.
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Cul-de-sac kids volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Eric wants to find out about the old man who has moved in next door, so he and the other Cul-de-sac Kids decide to pay him a Christmas visit.
29) Old heart
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"Tom Johnson has just turned eighty-five. When faced with a nursing home, he escapes to the Netherlands to find the woman he fell in love with during World War II. His children want him back, but Tom fights to stay in the Netherlands for love, family and all the remaining rights of an old man"--
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In a dusty attic, on Christmas Day 1929, four teenage girls write their plans for the future on slips of paper and then hide them in a cobalt blue bottle. Sixty-five years later, a television news reporter discovers the forgotten bottle and traces the wherabouts of the now elderly women.
33) When all is said
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"If you had to pick five people to sum up your life, who would they be? If you were to raise a glass to each of them, what would you say? And what would you learn about yourself, when all is said? At the bar of a grand hotel in a small Irish town sits 84-year-old Maurice Hannigan. He's alone, as usual -- though tonight is anything but. Pull up a stool and charge your glass, because Maurice is finally ready to tell his story. Over the course of this...
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"From New York Times and internationally bestselling author Isabel Allende, an exquisitely crafted love story and multigenerational epic that sweeps from San Francisco in the present-day to Poland and the United States during the Second World War. In 1939, as Poland falls under the shadow of the Nazis, young Alma Belasco's parents send her away to live in safety with an aunt and uncle in their opulent mansion in San Francisco. There, as the rest...
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Determined to leave a mark on the world even though they are in the hospital and their days are dwindling, unlikely friends, seventeen-year-old Lenni and eighty-three-year-old Margot, devise a plan to create one hundred paintings showcasing the stories of the century they have lived.
38) Miss Rumphius
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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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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Those darn squirrels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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As Old Man Fookwire's birds prepare to migrate south for the winter, those darn squirrels decide to follow.
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Norvelt books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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In the historic town of Norvelt, Pennsylvania, twelve-year-old Jack Gantos spends the summer of 1962 grounded for various offenses until he is assigned to help an elderly neighbor with a most unusual chore involving the newly dead, molten wax, twisted promises, Girl Scout cookies, underage driving, lessons from history, typewriting, and countless bloody noses.