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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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"On Friday noon, July the twentieth, 1714, the finest bridge in all Peru broke and precipitated five travelers into the gulf below." With this celebrated sentence, Thornton Wilder begins The Bridge of San Luis Rey, one of the towering achievements in American fiction and a novel read throughout the world. By chance, a monk witnesses the tragedy. Brother Juniper seeks to prove that it was divine intervention rather than chance that led to the deaths...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Jay tries to recover a group of wily monkeys escaped from a circus train in the hopes the reward will buy him the gun and pony he has so long wanted.
Fourteen-year-old Jay Berry Lee spends his summer trying to catch a group of monkeys that have escaped from a circus into Oklahoma's Cherokee Ozarks.
In the late 1800's, a fourteen-year-old Ozark mountain boy spends the summer trying to recapture monkeys escaped from a traveling circus....
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Infinity cycle volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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Emil and Brighton defied the odds. They beat the Blood Casters and escaped with their lives—or so they thought. When Brighton drank the Reaper's Blood, he believed it would make him invincible, but instead the potion is killing him.
In Emil's race to find an antidote that will not only save his brother but also rid him of his own unwanted phoenix powers, he will have to dig deep into the very past lives he's trying to outrun. Though he needs the...
4) Hug it out!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Tired of hearing her son and daughter fight, Mom devises an unusual punishment.
7) Saturday
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A boy tells us all the amazing things that happen on Saturday"--
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English
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Everyone in his family assumes Percy is the Septimum Genus their ancestor Merlyn prophesized, but when he attempts a forbidden spell with his twin Merlynda and vanishes through a portal, it is Merlynda who sets off to rescue her brother and discovers her true powers.
In this riff on Arthurian legend, a wizardess who is still mastering her powers goes on an epic quest to save her brother from an evil wizard in this middle grade magical adventure perfect...
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English
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This daring tale of revenge and exotic intrigue is demonstrative of Stevenson's broad range and unique genius. "The Master of Ballantrae", first published in 1889, follows the conflict between two Scottish brothers of noble origins during the tumultuous Jacobite Risings of 1745. Greed and envy threaten to tear the brothers apart as a race for the family inheritance intensifies. James Durie, the protagonist and Master of Ballantrae, is as charming...
10) Flight
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English
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New novel ... told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate--a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net. It's December 22nd and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their...
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Twelve-year-old Ainsley Galloway and her ten-year-old brother, Tobin, accidentally open a passage between their new town and a magical realm reminiscent of the popular Greyhallow movies and must close the portal to save their new home.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Cooper Klavan and his sister, Anna, are fishing with their parents at a woodland pond when they come across an injured bird. Anna, a huge animal lover, insists on taking it home to rehabilitate. But the bird really does not want to be rescued. It bites Anna. Soon, she is behaving very strangely: perching high up in trees and gathering sticks to hide in her room. Cooper doesn't want to jump to any conclusions, but his sister seems to be going to the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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A short novella based on the beloved characters from the graphic novel Heartstopper and Alice Oseman's debut novel Solitaire, which was praised as 'The Catcher in the Rye for the digital age' by The Times. The festive season isn't always happy for Tori Spring and her brother Charlie. And this year's going to be harder than most. I used to think that difficult was better than boring, but I know better now... I'm not going to think about the past few...
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Junie B. Jones series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Through a misunderstanding, Junie B. thinks that her new baby brother is really a baby monkey, and her report of this news creates excitement and trouble in her kindergarten class.
15) The poet's dog
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A dog with unusual communication talents loses his poet owner before rescuing two children trapped in a snowstorm and leading them to the poet's cabin, where the children explore the memories that the poet has left behind.
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The first in a series of books about the Pepper family, these imaginative children's stories have delighted readers since their original publication in 1881. This first novel introduces Ben, Polly, Joel, Davie, and Phronsie, the children of their widowed Mamsie, Mrs. Pepper. While very poor, the Peppers live in a supportive little town in their beloved Little Brown House. The family faces many challenges, such as sickness and an overflowing generosity...
17) My life begins!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Dubbing his new triplet sisters the Trips, nine-year-old Jacob studies them for a science project by watching them grow and realizes they aren't just the Trips anymore, but individuals he has come to love.
18) The passenger
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Series
Passenger novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God--
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At first, Mira was so excited when her new her baby brother came home with her parents, but her excitement quickly turned to frustration.
Mom and Dad are constantly tired, Mira tells her friends at school. And whenever they aren’t tired, they have something to do: change diapers, feed the baby, put him to bed, dress him, undress him, rock him, cuddle with him, and worry when he cries for a long time. And no one has time left for me. It totally...
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Gus's life is about one thing-swimming. He is determined to make it to the Olympics and he knows that the only coach in town who can get him there is Coach Marks. So it seems like a simple plan: convince Coach Marks to train him. Everything from there on in is just hard work and Gus has never been afraid of hard work. But there are a few complications. For one thing, Coach Marks was Danny's coach. Danny, Gus's older brother, committed suicide after...
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