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"This summer, Elsie is finally going to confess her feelings to her longtime--and long-distance--crush. They may be separated by an ocean, but Elsie feels fluttery every time Ada's name pops up on her phone. Ada gets her like no one else. That is, until Joan, Elsie's childhood best friend, literally walks back ito her life. Joan, who disappeared into radio silence after moving away to Hong Kong years ago, and never replied to any of Elsie's letters...
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"Seventeen-year-old Laurel Graham has a singular, all-consuming ambition in this life: become the most renowned nature photographer and birder in the world. The first step to birding domination is to win the junior nature photographer contest run by prominent Fauna magazine. Winning runs in her blood -- her beloved activist and nature-loving grandmother placed when she was a girl. One day Gran drags Laurel out on a birding expedition where the pair...
203) Shine until tomorrow
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Seventeen-year-old Mari, a self-proclaimed photography nerd yearning to attend Yale, finds herself, and her relationship with her parents, transformed when she time travels to 1967 and falls in love.
204) Ghost squad
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"For Lucely Luna, ghosts are more than just the family business. Shortly before Halloween, Lucely and her best friend, Syd, cast a spell that accidentally awakens malicious spirits, wreaking havoc throughout St. Augustine. Together, they must join forces with Syd's witch grandmother, Babette, and her tubby tabby, Chunk, to fight the haunting head-on and reverse the curse to save the town and Lucely's firefly spirits before it's too late."--Jacket...
205) Rebound
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
207) Soul food Sunday
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Granny teaches her young grandson how to cook the family meal, in this celebration of food, traditions, and gathering together at the table. Includes recipe for baked macaroni and cheese.
208) Town is by the sea
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Throughout his day, a young boy thinks of his father who is working in the coal mine that is located underneath the ocean.
"A young boy wakes up to the sound of the sea, visits his grandfather's grave after lunch and comes home to a simple family dinner, but all the while his mind strays to his father digging for coal deep down under the sea."--
209) More to the story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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As features editor of her school newspaper, thirteen-year-old Jameela Pervaiz wants to impress her father by writing a spectacular story about the new student, but a misunderstanding and family illness complicate matters.
210) The samosa rebellion
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A twelve-year-old boy's life changes when his grandmother comes from India to live with the family in Mariposa, an island country known for its butterflies, that is becoming hostile to immigrants.
211) Saving Cody
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Wilder boys volume 3
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English
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Faced with the loss of their beloved dog, Cody, brothers Jake, fourteen, and Taylor, twelve, set out to find their grandmother living off the grid in the Sierra Nevada mountains, and discover a lumber company trying to harass her off her property.
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Legendary Alston Boys adventure volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"In this third Legendary Alston Boys adventure from Edgar Award nominated author Lamar Giles, Otto and Sheed have to team up with the Ellison twins to take down a corporation obsessed with the weirdness of Logan County and that's turning its residents into Money-Zombies. Otto and Sheed are back in yet another legendary adventure that just might take all their deduction skills, and a good bit of help from friends and family, to solve. With the Rorrim...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Clara spends her summer visiting her grandma and cousin on Standing Rock reservation, where Clara and her family set up the ancestral tipi and grow closer together as they tell stories, sing songs, and learn about their Lakota roots.
214) Boomi's boombox
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Twelve-year-old Boomi accidentally travels back in time to 1986 Thumpton-on-Soar, England, where she meets her late father as a child, changing her life forever.
215) Erik vs. everything
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"Each member of Erik Sheepflattener's modern-day Viking-heritage family has a motto to live by. Erik is developing a motto he can truly believe in : avoid stuff. But when he and his older sister Brunhilde spend the summer with their rough-and-tumble cousins in Minnesota, axe-wielding Bru gets the idea to name and conquer all of Erik's fears."
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Logan family (Mildred D. Taylor) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Cassie, no longer a feisty eight-year-old, is a young woman now, searching for her place in the world. This journey takes fer from the Logan family home in Toledo to California and Colorado, to law school in Boston, and, ultimately, home to Mississippi to be part of the voter registration drive of the 1960s. She is witness to the no-historic events of the century: the Great Migration north, the relentless racism of postwar America, and the rise...
217) Love times infinity
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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As high school junior Michie plans for her future and explores a new relationship, she tries to reconcile with some uncomfortable truths about her life which becomes more complicated when she is contacted by her estranged mother.
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