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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Memphis, Tennessee, 1936. The five Foss children find their lives changed forever when their parents leave them alone on the family shantyboat one stormy night. Rill Foss, just twelve years old, must protect her four younger siblings as they are wrenched from their home on the Mississippi and thrown into the care of the infamous Georgia Tann, director of the Tennessee Children's Home Society. South Carolina, Present Day. Avery Stafford has lived...
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English
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"In this moving debut novel, two estranged siblings must set aside their differences to deal with their mother's death and her hidden past--a journey of discovery that takes them from the Caribbean to London to California and ends with her famous black cake. In present-day California, Eleanor Bennett's death leaves behind a puzzling inheritance for her two children, Byron and Benny: a traditional Caribbean black cake, made from a family recipe with...
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Amgash novels volume 2
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English
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"Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Themes: Adapted Classics, Low Level Classics, William Shakespeare, Fiction, Tween, Teen, Young Adult, Hi-Lo, Hi-Lo Books, Hi-Lo Solutions, High-Low Books, Hi-Low Books, ELL, EL, ESL, Struggling Learner, Struggling Reader, Special Education, SPED, Newcomers, Reading, Learning, Education, Educational, Educational Books. Timeless Shakespeare-designed for the struggling reader and adapted to retain the integrity of the original play. These classic plays...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"It's fun to be a Baby-sitters Little Sister! We Heart Cats! Karen's best friend Hannie just got a new kitten. Now all her friends have cats. And Karen has a great idea. She can start a club like her big sister Kristy. It will be a Kittycat Club! What will the club do? Karen can't baby-sit like Kristy...but she can cat-sit! Will anyone want Karen as a cat-sitter? They'd better-running a club is hard work!" -- Amazon.
8) 3 days to go
Publisher
Figjam Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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When their father passes away, four grown siblings gather with their collection of husbands, wives, children, and grandchildren. Together, this crazy family needs to survive each other for three days. As the siblings re-examine their shared history and their tattered relationships, they learn how miserable they have become in their lives and how they can no longer blame someone else for their decisions.
11) Witch & wizard
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
A sister and brother, along with thousands of young people, have been kidnapped and either thrown in prison or turned up missing after accusations of witchcraft were made against them, and the ruling regime will do anything in order to suppress life and liberty, music and books.
12) The all of it
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English
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JeannetteHaien's award-winning first novel relates theseemingly simple tale of a parishioner confiding in her priest, but the tangledconfession brings secrets to light that provoke a moral quandary for not onlythe clergyman, but the reader as well. Set in a small town in Ireland, Haien's intimate novel of conversations anddilemmas-perfect for readers of Paul Harding's Tinkers, Marilynne Robinson's Gilead, and Flannery O'Connor'sWise Blood-is "an elegantly...
13) Countdown
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
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With Amy and Dan still in pursuit of Pierce, Amy does something unthinkable that sends shockwaves through her family.
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Written in the stars volume 1
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English
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"A charming rom-com about a free-spirited astrologer who agrees to fake a relationship with an uptight actuary--with results not even the stars could predict!"--Back cover.
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English
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Measure for Measure - William Shakespeare - Measure for Measure is a play by William Shakespeare, believed to have been written in 1603 or 1604. Originally published in the First Folio of 1623, where it was listed as a comedy, the play's first recorded performance occurred in 1604. The play's main themes include justice, "mortality and mercy in Vienna," and the dichotomy between corruption and purity: "some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall." Mercy...
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Pain and the Great One volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
360L
Language
English
Description
First-grader Jake "The Pain" and his sister, third-grader Abigail "The Great One" have more adventures, including visiting their cousins in New York and celebrating their cat Fluzzy's birthday.
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Publisher
Tim Duggan Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Eleven-year-old "Isidore has never skipped a grade or written a dissertation [as his five accomplished siblings have]. But he notices things the others don't, and asks questions they fear to ask. So when tragedy strikes the Mazal family, Isidore is the only one to recognize how everyone is struggling with their grief, and perhaps the only one who can help them--if he doesn't run away from home first"--Amazon.com.
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Ember in the ashes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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After the events of the Fourth Trial, Martial soldiers hunt the two fugitives as they flee the city of Serra and undertake a perilous journey through the heart of the Empire.
Laia is determined to break into Kauf - the Empire's most secure and dangerous prison - to save her brother, who is the key to the Scholars' survival. And Elias is determined to help Laia succeed, even if it means giving up his last chance at freedom.
But dark forces, human...
19) Breakaway
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Dan Cahill and his sister Amy travel from the hottest to the coldest regions of the world in order to stop someone from using their own power against them.
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Boxcar children volume 93
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
520L
Language
English
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The Boxcar Children, suspicious when someone steals the note they found inside the pages of a "Captain Fantastic" comic book, team up with the superhero's creator to find out who is selling fake copies of the comics.
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