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Twelve-year-old Katie, living with her father, aunt, and five siblings in a small town in the 1870's, constantly makes and breaks resolutions to be a kind and generous person like her invalid Cousin Helen, but when she herself is bedridden after an accident, Katie finds her cousin's example very hard to follow.
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Morrie Morgan novels (Ivan Doig) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so, begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a stampede of homesteaders drawn by the...
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The children of a once-brilliant playwright and a struggling actress, the four Haas siblings grew up in chaos-raised in an environment composed of neglect and glamour in equal measure. When their father dies, they must depend on their intense but fragile bond to remember what it means to be family despite years of anger and hurt. These brothers and sisters are painfully human, sometimes selfish, and almost always making the wrong decisions, but their...
7) Immortal war
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Vampirates volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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When the Pirate Federation and Nocturnals form an alliance to battle the renegade Vampirates, twins Connor and Grace Tempest each have important roles to play in the war--he as a pirate warrior and she as a powerful healer working with the war-wounded.
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"Frank…writes with genuine adoration for and authority on the South Carolina Lowcountry from which she sprang….{Her} stuff is never escapist fluff-it's the real deal."
-Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Return to Tall Pines in the long-awaited sequel to Dorothea Benton Frank's beloved bestseller Plantation. Lowcountry Summer is the story of the changing anatomy of a family after the loss of its matriarch, sparkling with the inimitable Dot Frank's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Q and fifteen-year-old Angela expect their lives to become complicated when his mother and her father, wildly popular musicians, marry, but not that they will face spies and terrorists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Another adventure begins in this book in the Stella and Sam series as the pair explores the wonders of the natural world. A vast luminous sky, the sun, the stars and the rising moon form the backdrop for their nocturnal expedition. As they encounter raccoons, fireflies, tree frogs and bats, Sam wonders if the moon can swim, if the sun wears pajamas or if he can catch shooting stars with his butterfly net. Stella, as always, has an answer for every...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Smuggled out of Nigeria after their mother's murder, Sade and her younger brother are abandoned in London when their uncle fails to meet them at the airport and they are fearful of their new surroundings and of what may have happened to their journal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Connecticut middle-schooler Jake and his older sister Kady are transported by a Mayan artifact to a strange world inhabited by a mix of people from long-lost civilizations who are threatened by prehistoric creatures and an evil alchemist, the Skull K
14) Caddie Woodlawn
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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The adventures of an eleven-year-old tomboy growing up on the Wisconsin frontier in the mid-nineteenth century.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Stella's little brother Sam wonders whether fairies are invisible. Stella assures him that she has seen hundreds of them and that if she and Sam venture across the meadow and into the forest, they are likely to find some.
So begins another adventure in the Stella and Sam series about the irrepressible red-head, and her slightly apprehensive little brother.
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English
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Shortly after Judd's wife leaves him for his boss, Judd's father Mort passes away, bringing the entire family together in mourning. During this week of “sitting shiva,” Judd realizes his siblings are even more dysfunctional than he is, and the confrontations that ensue are full of raw emotion and humorous consequences.
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Judy Moody volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Judy Moody gets serious about protecting the environment, her little brother Stink thinks she is overdoing it, but she manages to inspire her third grade class to undertake an award-winning, environment-saving project.
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The Uncommoners volume 1
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Ivy Sparrow and her big brother Seb discover a city beneath London where ordinary objects have magical powers.
19) Bad guy
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
A little boy whose mother calls him "Sweetie Pie" and "Honey Bear" proves he is a bad guy, especially where his little sister is concerned.
20) Butterfingers
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Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1991
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English
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Benjamin Butters is called Butterfingers because he always drops everything, but when he is given his new baby sister to hold, he knows he won't drop her because she's his sister.
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