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1) Kira-kira
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Twelve-year-old Abilene Tucker is the daughter of a drifter who, in the summer of 1936, sends her to stay with an old friend in Manifest, Kansas, where he grew up, and where she hopes to find out some things about his past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.E. Calloway of Grand Rapids.
4) Dicey's song
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Now that the four abandoned Tillerman children are settled in with their grandmother, Dicey finds that their new beginnings require love, trust, humor, and courage.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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By sixth greade, Miranda and her best friend, Sal, know how to navigate their New York City neighborhood. They know where it's safe to go, like the local grocery store, and they know who to avoid. Like the crazy guy on the corner. But things start to unravel. Sal gets punched by a kid ont he street for what seems like no good reason, and he shuts Miranda out of his life. The apartment key that Miranda's mom keeps hidden for emergencies is stolen....
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Crispin volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Falsely accused of theft and murder, an orphaned peasant boy in fourteenth-century England flees his village and meets a larger-than-life juggler who holds a dangerous secret.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Fearing that her legal guardian plans to abandon her to return to France, ten-year-old aspiring scientist Lucky Trimble determines to run away while also continuing to seek the Higher Power that will bring stability to her life.
8) The Giver
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Giver quartet volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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