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702) Day: a novel
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"April 5th, 2019: In a cozy brownstone in Brooklyn, the veneer of domestic bliss is beginning to crack. Dan and Isabel, troubled husband and wife, are both a little bit in love with Isabel's younger brother, Robbie. Robbie, wayward soul of the family, who still lives in the attic loft; Robbie, who, trying to get over his most recent boyfriend, has created a glamorous avatar online; Robbie, who now has to move out of the house - and whose departure...
703) Leopard at the door
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"Set in Kenya against the fading backdrop of the British Empire, a story of self-discovery, betrayal, and an impossible love. After six years in England, Rachel has returned to Kenya and the farm where she spent her childhood, but the beloved home she'd longed for is much changed. Her father's new companion--a strange, intolerant woman--has taken over the household. The political climate in the country grows more unsettled by the day and is approaching...
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
On the eve of her sixteenth birthday, Erin receives her long-dead mother's diary, which reveals that she too revered Harper Lee's "To Kill a Mockingbird" and wanted to be a writer, and Erin impulsively decides to take the Greyhound bus from St. Paul, Minnesota to Monroeville, Alabama, to visit the reclusive author.
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"Nisrin is a 13-year-old Bangladeshi-American girl living in Milwaukie, Oregon, in 2002. As she nears the end of eighth grade, she gives a presentation for World Culture Day about Bangladesh while wearing a traditional cultural dress. On her way home, she is the victim of a hate crime when a man violently attacks her for wearing a headscarf. Deeply traumatized by the experience, Nisrin spends the summer depressed and isolated. Other than weekly therapy,...
706) I'm with Cupid
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Series
Switched at first kiss volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"When thirteen-year-olds Marcus, a supernatural matchmaker, and Lena Perris, a soul collector, kiss at a party on a dare, they soon realize their powers have swapped. Now logical-minded Lena finds herself with the love touch, and ultra-emotional Marcus has death at his fingertips--and setting things right has become a matter of love and death"--Provided by publisher.
707) Stacey's emergency
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Stacey needs the support of the Baby-sitters Club when the pressures of school, work, and home pile up and her diabetes puts her in the hospital.
708) Keeper
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Series
Paul Faustino novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Description
In an interview with a young journalist, World Cup hero, El Gato, describes his youth in the Brazilian rain forest and the events, experiences, and people that helped make him a great goalkeeper and renowned soccer star.
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After fifteen years of growing up in the Ozark hills with his widowed mother, high-school freshman Boady Sanden is beyond ready to move on. He dreams of glass towers and cityscapes, driven by his desire to be anywhere other than Jessup, Missouri. The new kid at St. Ignatius High School, if he isn't being pushed around, he is being completely ignored. Even his beloved woods, his playground as a child and his sanctuary as he grew older, seem to be closing...
Author
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 15
Description
As Lucy Diamond begins the changes from adolescence to womanhood, her mother's youth fades, offering an emotional juxtaposition of tension and love that reveals both women's similiarities, differences, vulnerablities, and needs.
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Pub. Date
[1978], c1923
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Powerful and poignant, a masterpiece. 'Through the Wheat' depicts the horrors of World War 1: the first modern war fought in trenches with mustard gas, artillery, and tanks. Thomas Boyd brings home the psychological damage done to men under extreme pressure fighting for their livers thousands of miles from home. Unforgettable!
712) A farewell to charms
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Desi Bascomb is the youngest ever to be a full-time princess substitute and the fastest ever to advance to level three, but she detects more than a few cracks in Facade's perfect appearance that hint at the agency's dark past.
713) Leave myself behind
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Description
Seventeen-year-old Noah York tries to adjust to life in a new town, but as he helps his mother renovate their home, he finds himself becoming immersed in the past of a mysterious woman who disappeared decades earlier.
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Description
Harvey is the son of a wealthy railroad tycoon, and is spoiled and largely unaware of the ways of the world. When he is stranded on the shore of the Grand Banks after having been washed overboard from his transatlantic steamship, he meets the Captain of "We're Here" and has to accept a position on his ship. Harvey's adventures on the ship teach him about industry and consideration for others while Kipling weaves in themes of class differences and...
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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Description
Each member of the Baby-sitters Club sponsors a different girl in the Little Miss Stoneybrook competition, as Dawn also tries to cope with the break-up of her family after her parents are divorced.
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Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When a cyberbully posts embarrassing rumors about other students at school, Drew, to protect her own secret, puts her sleuthing skills to good use to find the culprit, who just might be one of her closest friends.
717) The Bunker diary
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Sixteen-year-old Linus Weems, a street person since leaving his wealthy father's home, is kidnapped and taken to an underground bunker where he is soon joined by five others, ranging in age from nine to seventy, who are alternately cared for and tortured by their unseen captor.
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Discover a wonderful world of celebrations from around the world. Featuring the world's main religions as well as some little-known ceremonies and festivals, this book takes an intriguing and colorful look at how growing up and coming of age are celebrated in many different places.
719) The Lost Sentinel
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Description
They say the country of Zeuten no longer has any need for heroes.
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