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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Pete the Cat is learning a new dance -- the Cool Cat Boogie! When he hears a groovy beat, he's full of happy feet. But when Grumpy toad tells him, 'Pete, you dance all wrong!' Pete is determined to become a better dancer. With the help of his friends and some wise words from Owl, Pete learns that he's the grooviest when he's being himself"--
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Series
Whistle Stop AL volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Folksy and fresh, endearing and affecting, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe is the now-classic novel of two women in the 1980s; of gray-headed Mrs. Threadgoode telling her life story to Evelyn, who is in the sad slump of middle age. The tale she tells is also of two women-of the irrepressibly daredevilish tomboy Idgie and her friend Ruth-who back in the thirties ran a little place in Whistle Stop, Alabama, a Southern kind of Cafe Wobegon...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Set at a boys' boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world. A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is...
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Applewhites volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Jake Semple is a scary kid. Word has it that he burned down his old school and then was kicked out of every other school in his home state. Only weeks into September, the middle school in Traybridge, North Carolina, has thrown him out too.
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Series
Junie B. Jones series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
There’s a new boy in kindergarten, and guess what? He’s the handsomest guy Junie B. has ever seen. She and Lucille and that Grace all want him for a boyfriend. Only, he thinks Junie B. is a nutball. Just ’cause she couldn’t stop laughing and rolling. So how is she supposed to get that boy to love her?
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Series
Lorien Legacies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Friendships and a beautiful girl are distracting to a teenager who is hiding on Earth while he waits to develop the powers he will need to rejoin the other six...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
It was the time of the French Revolution - a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds.Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported...
8) Uglies
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Series
Uglies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Tally is about to turn sixteen, and she can't wait. In Tally's world, your sixteenth birthday brings an operation that turns you from a repellent ugly into a stunningly attractive pretty and catapults you into a high-tech paradise where your only job is to have a really great time. But Tally's new friend Shay isn't sure she wants to be pretty. When Shay runs away, authorities offer Tally the worst choice she can imagine: find her friend and turn her...
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Series
Diary of an awesome friendly kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"In his first journal, middle schooler Rowley Jefferson, Greg Heffley's sidekick, records his experiences and misguided decision to write a biography of Greg, who, in his own mind, is destined to become rich and famous."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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Series
I survived volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A young boy in the middle of one of the deadliest tornado to strike the United States since 1947.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Aven Green loves to tell people that she lost her arms in an alligator wrestling match, or a wildfire in Tanzania, but the truth is she was born without them. And when her parents take a job running Stagecoach Pass, a rundown western theme park in Arizona, Aven moves with them across the country knowing that she'll have to answer the question over and over again. Her new life takes an unexpected turn when she bonds with Connor, a classmate who also...
13) Walk two moons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In a near-future New York City where a service alerts people on the day they will die, teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
16) Catlow
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"Ben Cowan and Bijah Catlow had been friends since they were boys. By the time they grew to manhood, Catlow had become an outlaw and Cowan a U.S. marshal. So when his old friend rode to Mexico to pull the biggest robbery of his career, it became Ben Cowan's job to hunt him down. While trailing Catlow south of the border, Ben meets Rosita Calderon. Intelligent and beautiful, her presence further complicates what is already a dangerous situation. While...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When ten-year-old India Opal Buloni moves to Naomi, Florida, with her preacher father, she doesn't know what to expect, least of all, that she'll adopt Winn-Dixie, a dog she names after the supermarket where they met. Opal is lonely at first, but with such an unusually friendly dog at her side, she makes some unusual friends and discovers she has a whole lot to be thankful for.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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The life of a ten-year-old boy in rural Virginia expands when he becomes friends with a newcomer who subsequently meets an untimely death trying to reach their hideaway, Terabithia, during a storm.
This Newbery Medal-winning novel by bestselling author Katherine Paterson is a modern classic of friendship and loss.Jess Aarons has been practicing all summer so he can be the fastest runner in the fifth grade. And he almost is, until the new girl in...
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Series
I survived volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In a Polish ghetto, Max Rosen and his sister, Zena, struggle to live after their father is taken away by Nazis. With barely enough food to survive, the siblings make a daring escape from Nazi soldiers into the nearby forest. Max and Zena are brought to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. But soon, bombs are falling all around them. Can Max and Zena survive the fallout of the Nazi invasion?
20) Hoot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Roy, who is new to his small Florida community, becomes involved in another boy's attempt to save a colony of burrowing owls from a proposed construction site.