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IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
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"1992: After a confrontation at a riot grrl concert, seventeen-year-old Beth finds herself in a car with her friend's abusive boyfriend dead in the backseat, agreeing to help her friends hide the body. This murder sets Beth and her friends on a path of escalating violence and vengeance as they realize many other young women in the world need protecting too. 2022: Determined to use time travel to create a safer future, Tess has dedicated her life to...
4) The ghostway
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Don't miss the TV series, Dark Winds, based on the Leaphorn, Chee, & Manuelito novels, now on AMC and AMC+!
The sixth installment in New York Times bestselling author Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn and Chee series—an electrifying thriller of revenge, secrets, and murder.
"One of the best of the series."—New York Times Book Review
Old Joseph Joe sees it all. Two strangers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
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This biography introduces readers to Grover Cleveland including his early political career and key events from Cleveland's administration including the Presidential Succession Act and the Sherman Silver Purchase Act. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Checkerboard...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Explore Washington, DC in this comprehensive title! Informative, easy-to-read text and oversized photos showcase the beauty and diversity of this state. Readers learn about the state's history, cities, land features, animals, industries, sports, famous people, and more! A Tour Book spread highlights kid-friendly things to do in Washington, DC. Other features include a table of contents, fun facts, a timeline, regional and state maps, a facts page...
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In this story with alternate scenarios, a simple flip of a coin changes the destinies of three musical prodigies involved in a love triangle and dealing with absentee fathers.
Moved from city to city by her father's job, Stevie Rosenstein finds it too hard in trust in anyone or anything. The pain of leaving always hurts too much. Drew and Shane have been best friends through everything. The painful death of Shane's dad; the bitter separation of Drew's...
9) Kansas
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Presents basic information about Kansas, including important cities, fun facts, and places of interest.
10) The sky above us
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Told in alternating timelines and points of view, three boys prepare and execute a bold plan that results in a deadly plane crash, and in the the aftermath, three girls--a twin sister, a best friend, and an ex-girlfriend--try to piece together the truth about the boys they loved and thought they knew.
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"Told in the intimate voices of complex, endearing characters, Five Tuesdays in Winter intriguingly subverts expectations as it explores desire, loss, jolting violence, and the inexorable tug toward love at all costs."--Dust jacket flap.
"With Writers & Lovers and Euphoria, Lily King's books catapulted onto bestseller and best-of-the-year lists across the country, further cementing her reputation as one of the most "brilliant" (NYTBR), "wildly talented"...
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"CHICAGO, SOMETIME-- Two people meet in the Art Institute by chance. Prior to their encounter, he is a doctoral student who manages his destructive thoughts with compulsive calculations about time travel; she is a bipolar counterfeit artist, undergoing court-ordered psychotherapy. By the end of the story, these things will still be true. But this is not a story about endings. For Regan, people are predictable and tedious, including and perhaps especially...
13) Amelia Bedelia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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A literal-minded housekeeper causes chaos in the Rogers household when she attempts to make sense of some instructions.
15) The dark wind
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Navajo tribal policeman Jim Chee, barred from following up on a multi-million-dollar drug case, investigates a murder and vandalism incident and finds that perhaps all three cases are part of the same pattern.
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"An account of the unsolved murder of two women in Shenandoah National Park, by a journalist with unprecedented access to all key elements of the case, and a story that reveals the challenges of wilderness forensics and the failures of our justice system"--
May 1996. Lollie Winans and Julie Williams entered Virginia's Shenandoah National Park for a week-long backcountry camping trip. The couple had met and fallen in love the previous summer while...
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2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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After accidentally traveling back in time and rewriting the future, twelve-year-old best friends Rahim and Kasia must work together to restore their timeline.
Seventh grader Rahim Reynolds loves testing out the gadgets invented by his brilliant friend Kasia Collins. First there were the X-ray glasses and all the trouble they caused. Now there's the new cell phone she built for his birthday, even though his parents won't let him have one. But Rahim...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 5
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What happens when a person's reputation has been forever damaged? With archival photographs and text among other primary sources, this riveting biography of Mary Mallon by the Sibert medalist and Newbery Honor winner Susan Bartoletti looks beyond the tabloid scandal of Mary's controversial life. How she was treated by medical and legal officials reveals a lesser-known story of human and constitutional rights, entangled with the science of pathology...
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"Don't panic at the prospect of home repair and maintenance! With this informative and well-organized guide you'll have the knowledge and instruction you need to deal with or prevent scores of the most common problems in your home. Its 460 full-color photographs and step-by-step instructions show how things work, what can go wrong, and whether there is a quick fix. You'll know when to call repair service and when you can fix the issue yourself. From...
20) Christianity
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Today Christianity is considered the world s largest religious faith, with around 2.2 billion followers. But Christianity is by no means a monolithic faith. Instead Christians are divided into a variety of denominations and sects Roman or orthodox, Catholic or Protestant, Evangelical or Pentecostal, to name a few examples. All Christian sects share a belief in the divinity of Jesus Christ, who Christians believe came to Earth to redeem humanity. This...
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