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What's so perfect about the past for Sybil and Blake Gregory, a successful Manhattan couple with three children who land in San Francisco when Blake impulsively accepts the job of a lifetime as CEO of a start-up? The family moves into a grand, surprisingly affordable Pacific Heights mansion and soon meets the affable Butterfield family, who lived there a century ago. Of course the Butterfields are ghosts, and only the Gregorys can see them, but that...
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Alexander (Judith Viorst) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Angry Alexander refuses to move away if it means having to leave his favorite friends and special places.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"They say that a ghost witch lives in the woods, up on Brewster's Hill. They say her companion, Bloody Bones, has a pig skull for a face and stands taller than a man, his skeleton gleaming white in the moonlight. They say that the witch takes young girls, and no one ever sees them again. Daniel doesn't believe the stories about the witch or her beast. He figures the kids on the bus are just trying to scare him, since he's new. But when his sister,...
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The Indian in the Cupboard series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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After the family moves to the country to a house recently inherited by his mother, Omri finds many secrets revealed to him when he accidentally discovers the link between the house and the magic cupboard. Sequel to "The Secret of the Indian."
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English
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Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Marly had been waiting a long time for this special momwnt. She sat alone in the car and stared at the lonely countryside and the small dilapidated house. It had to be the right place. All outdoors. With miracles. Not crowded and people being cross and mean. Daddy not tired all the time. Mothernot worried. She whispered, "Please let there be miracles."
7) The struggle
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Kentucky brothers volume 3
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English
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When Timothy Fisher decides to move his wife, Hannah, and daughter, Mindy, to Christian County, Kentucky, where two of his brothers now reside, Hannah is very reluctant to leave her Amish home in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
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Amber Brown volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The year she is in the third grade is a sad time for Amber because her best friend Justin is getting ready to move to a distant state.
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Moffats volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Follows the adventures and misadventures of ten-year-old Jane Moffat living with her widowed mother and three siblings in their new home in Cranbury, Connecticut, in the early twentieth century.
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Blackberry Farm volume 1
Publisher
Algonquin Young Readers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When New York City native Becket Branch moves to the country with her family to help run her grandmother's farm and store, she finds that new friends, hostile chickens, sour lemonade and mischief are only the beginnings of her new life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Norris just moved to Texas from Canada and in order to understand the traditions at his new American school he starts taking notes on his fellow classmate’s behavior. Snarky, honest and full of authentic observations about high school, this book will almost make you miss being in school, almost.
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Knopf
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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When ten-year-old Howard has to move with his family to a distant state, he is forced to live on a street named Chester Pewe, adjust to a new school, and get used to being shadowed by the little girl in a nearby house.
14) Aldo Applesauce
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Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
1979
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
Description
When he and his family move to the suburbs, Aldo has difficulty finding new friends.
15) Skellig
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Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
1999.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Unhappy about his baby sister's illness and the chaos of moving into a dilapidated old house, Michael retreats to the garage and finds a mysterious stranger who is something like a bird and something like an angel.
16) Ira says goodbye
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
[1988]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ira is surprised to discover that his best friend Reggie feels happy about having to move to a new town.
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Series
Culhane family romances volume 1
Language
English
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"Kate Appleton needs a job. Her husband has left her, she's been fired from her position as a magazine editor, and the only place she wants to go is to her parents' summer house, The Nutshell, in Keene's Harbor, Michigan. Kate's plan is to turn The Nutshell into a Bed and Breakfast. Problem is, she needs cash, and the only job she can land is less than savory. Matt Culhane wants Kate to spy on his brewery employees. Someone has been sabotaging his...
18) Neville
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Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a boy and his family move to a new house, he devises an ingenious way to meet people in the neighborhood.
19) Betsy -Tacy
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Betsy-Tacy stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The girl who moves in across the street from Betsy is the same age. Soon they are good friends and everyone thinks of them as Betsy-Tacy.
20) A simple change
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Home to Amana novels volume 2
Publisher
BETHANY HOUSE, A division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"When unforeseen circumstances drive Jancey Rhoder to move to the Amana Colonies, she'll be forced to reconsider everything she wanted out of life--and love"--Provided by publisher.