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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Upon learning that her deceased mother, an artist, went through a "Purple Period," ten-year-old Noonie decides to do the same, hoping that this will bring her archaeologist father home to see her win a school art contest and that the aunt, uncle, and cousin she lives with will come to understand her just a little.
Author
Series
Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 43
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
The pressure's really on Stacey and she hasn't been feeling well. Then she ends up in the hospital because of her diabetes.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Ben's mother would like him to follow his best friend, Tanner, and join Chief Master Lisa Kleisch's tae kwon do studio, but Ben is loyal to his long-time instructor, Mr. Ronson; besides he really does not like what he sees of Lisa Kleisch's joyless technique--and when Tanner admits that he hates it at the new dojang, Ben is more determined than ever to prove that he can win with Mr. Ronson.
Author
Series
Addie Mills stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
In 1946 a ten-year-old girl tries to understand and overcome her stern father's objections to having a Christmas tree in the house.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Jack's diary helps him deal with his problems which include dog-eating alligators, a terror for an older sister, a younger brother who keeps breaking parts of himself, and next-door neighbors who are really weird.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Eleven-year-old aspiring basketball star and interior designer Lucy Wu is excited about finally having her own bedroom, until she learns that her great-aunt is coming to visit and Lucy will have to share a room with her for several months, shattering her plans for a perfect sixth-grade year.
11) Lucky beans
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
During the Great Depression, Marshall, an African American boy, uses lessons learned in arithmetic class and guidance from his mother to figure out how many beans are in a jar in order to win her a new sewing machine in a contest.
13) Bubble world
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
After sixteen-year-old Fresia learns--and tells her friends--that their perfect life on a luxurious tropical island is not real, she is banished from her virtual world to the "mainland," where people are ugly, school is hard, and families are dysfunctional.
14) Toning the sweep
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Description
On a visit to her grandmother Ola, who is dying of cancer in her house in the desert, fourteen-year-old Emmie hears many stories about the past and her family history and comes to a better understanding of relatives both dead and living.
Author
Series
Fly Guy volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Fly Guy misses his family, so Buzz invites them to a surprise party and his mother, father, and thousands of brothers and cousins show up--Fly Guy is delighted but Buzz's parents are not pleased.
16) Starlings
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Kit visits her father's hometown for the first time following his death, she not only discovers that her family is strangely revered among the locals, but that she also has an important role in the town's future.
18) Cat running
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
When eleven-year-old Cat Kinsey builds a secret hideout to escape her unhappy homelife, she slowly gets to know a poor family who have come to California after losing their Texas home to the dust storms of the 1930s.
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Language
English
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Description
Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still not quite at the top. When the new owners of the penthouse above them begin construction, an unstable stranger penetrates the security of their comfortable lives and threatens to destroy everything they've created.
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