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"Cal has always lived in the shadow of his brother, Frank, a complicated narcissist who was doted upon by their mother and beloved by the girls in their hometown-including Cal's own girlfriends. In an attempt to escape Frank's insidious presence, Cal pursues a different kind of freedom in the world's wild spaces, prospecting for gold and precious minerals everywhere from the heat of the desert at the Mexican border to the Alaskan chill to the suffocating...
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"Jane has lost her job at the laundry due to a ketchup package she forgot to remove from an expensive item, and her prospects look dim. To top off matters, her younger sister, who lives up north, and who Jane has problems with, is getting married and has mailed her an invitation that Jane believes was sent due to her sister not expecting her to be able to come. A long bout of sibling rivalry makes Jane all the more determined to go, even if her car...
3) Juggernaut
Publisher
Level 33 Entertainment
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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After discovering the news that his Mother has taken her life, Saxon Gamble returns home, irrationally plagued by the notion that her death was not a suicide. Saxon, a man of violence, embarks on a revenge mission that shakes up the quiet town of his birth. His quest also awakens a dormant sibling rivalry that puts himself and his brother (Dean) on a collision course with bloody consequences. Caught in the middle is their Father (Leonard), now a Minister,...
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Mermaid tales volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Echo Reef is tail-flipping with excitement when she find a human object. But when her older sister claims the object for her own, how far will Echo go to reclaim it?
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Pendergast novels volume 6
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English
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Stalked throughout his life by his diabolical brother Diogenes, FBI special agent Pendergast finds himself framed for several murders, a situation that forces him to flee while he works alongside a friend from the NYPD to prove his innocence.
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Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
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English
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The eldest daughter of show-biz parents, Hannah is a devoted wife, loving mother, and successful actress. A loyal supporter of her two aimless sisters Lee and Holly, she's also the emotional backbone of a family that seems to resent her stability almost as much as they depend on it. But when Hannah's perfect world is quietly sabotaged by sibling rivalry, she finally begins to see that she's as lost as everyone else.
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Mallory McDonald books volume 3
Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
620L
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English
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Eight-year-old Mallory feels left out when her older brother, Max, gets a dog that becomes the center of attention.
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English
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"After fifty years of marriage, Stan and Joy Delaney are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy's door. She says she chose their house because it looked the friendliest. And since Savannah is bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend, the Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she wanted. Later, everyone will...
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2017.
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Nantucket is only two and a half hours away from Martha's Vineyard by ferry. But the two islands might as well be worlds apart for a set of identical twin sisters who have been at odds for years. Just because twins look exactly the same doesn't mean they're anything alike - and Tabitha and Harper Frost have spent their whole lives trying to prove this point. When a family crisis forces them to band together - or at least appear to - the twins come...
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Rotten Richie tales volume 1
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After losing running, climbing, throwing, and burping competitions to her obnoxious older brother, a young girl makes a wish on a falling star.
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Clementine volume 5
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
630L
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English
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Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister.
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Pain and the Great One volume 1
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
420L
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English
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Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting.
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Chester Raccoon (Picture books) volume 2
Publisher
Child & Family Press
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Chester Raccoon is worried that his mother does not have enough love for both him and his new baby brother. A tender sequel to the bestseller and children's classic The Kissing Hand, Audrey Penn provides a heartwarming story perfect for families who are adjusting to all the changes new members can bring!
15) Good as Goldie
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Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2000.
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IL: LG - BL: 0.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Goldie the big sister lists all the things that she can do that Nicholas her baby brother cannot.
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Ba dies in the night; Ma is already gone. Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and...
17) Dangerous boys
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Children's
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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Three teens venture into an abandoned lake house one night. Hours later, only two emerge from the burning wreckage. Chloe drags one Reznick brother to safety, unconscious and bleeding. The other is left to burn, dead in the fire. But which brother survives? And is his death a tragic accident? Desperate self-defense? Or murder . . .? Chloe is the only one with the answers. As the fire rages, and police and parents demand the truth, she struggles to...
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Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
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Senior year. A time to grow up, to forget, to forgive, to dream, to learn to love all over again. People come together, except Dan, consumed by anger as he tracks down whoever started the fire that almost took his life. Tree Hill is rocked by powerful new events - the good, the bad and the catastrophic. The good: Haley fights to save her marriage, Peyton comes to terms with her birth mother, Brooke creates a hot clothing line, and Keith comes home....
20) Dear brother
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2023]
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Sister, who constantly feels overlooked, especially when the family gets a pet of Brother's choice, decides to send him letters expressing how she feels, and to her surprise, he thoughtfully responds.
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