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Country Road chronicles volume 1
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The Worthams and Hammonds are as close as two families could be, sharing almost everything on their Depression-era Illinois farms. So when a raging fire breaks out and threatens to destroy the Hammond farm, both families are affected by the tragedy. But how did the fire start? Several of the kids know the truth, but no one is talking. As the families try to overcome aching loss, misplaced blame, troubled relationships, and an upsetting secret, they...
7) Ask me
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IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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A father and daughter explore their neighborhood, talking and asking questions as they go.
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"When actress and model Allison Langley leaves her former rockstar husband, Christopher, in the middle of the night, it's all her Oak Hill neighbors can talk about. The gossip comes to an abrupt halt when five-year-old Billy Barnes goes missing on his walk home from kindergarten. Billy's mother, Rachel, blames herself for being at work and letting her only child walk alone. Cassidy, Billy's teenage babysitter, was also late to arrive on the afternoon...
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Sam Krupnik volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.
10) Seedfolks
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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One by one, a number of people of varying ages and backgrounds transform a trash-filled inner-city lot into a productive and beautiful garden, and in doing so, the gardeners are themselves transformed. .
12) Grace
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Pub. Date
2001
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1. World War, 1939-1945--Texas, East--fiction. 2. Neighborhood--fiction. 3. Texas, East--fiction.
13) The Creek
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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Around the time of her thirteenth birthday, Penny's suburban Philadelphia neighborhood is terrorized by a psychopath and everyone is sure that the young man just out of a juvenile home is responsible.
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c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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When Rosa and her little brother Benji move to a new neighborhood, they meet Mrs. Mayberry, who has created a clubhouse in her basement so the neighborhood children have a safe place to play. Includes factual information about America's Promise--The Alliance for Youth.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Budding costume designer Lola lives an extraordinary life in San Francisco with her two dads and beloved dog, dating a punk rocker, but when the Bell twins return to the house next door Lola, recalls both the friendship-ending fight with Calliope, a figure skater, and the childhood crush she had on Cricket.