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Judy Moody volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It's her funniest adventure yet! A few sessions with a college-age math tutor turn Judy into a jargon-spouting polygon princess. Crucial!Judy Moody is in a mood. Not a good mood. And definitely NOT a math mood. The substitute teacher in Class 3T thinks Judy's math skills need improving. So Judy has to start meeting with a math tutor. Does this mean flash cards? Does this mean baby games? Does this mean school on weekends? But when Judy meets her tutor...
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English
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One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college...
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Lilly loves everything about school, especially her teacher, but when he asks her to wait a while before showing her new purse, she does something for which she is very sorry later.
4) Impact
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Wyman Ford novels volume 3
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English
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"Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia... to locate the source of strangely beautiful gemstones that do not appear to be of this world. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast... and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. A scientist at the National Propulsion Facility discovers an inexplicable source of gamma rays in the outer Solar System. He is found decapitated, the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
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Wayside School volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
More humorous episodes from the classroom on the thirtieth floor of Wayside School, where students learn to tango, face the cafeteria's dreaded Mushroom Surprise, and study a hobo during show and tell. Sequel to "Sideways Stories from Wayside School.".
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Oceanside volume 3
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English
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"When a woman alone in the world bravely chooses to open her heart, two lost souls have a new chance at belonging, in this intimate novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. A new beginning in charming Oceanside, Washington is exactly what Hope Godwin needs after the death of her twin brother. There are plenty of distractions, like her cozy cottage with the slightly nosy landlords next door, and a brewing drama among her students...
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Instinct (James Patterson) volume 2
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English
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The murder of an Ivy League professor pulls Dr. Dylan Reinhart back to the streets of New York, where he reunites with his old partner, Detective Elizabeth Needham. A heinous act of terror and a name on the casualty list rock Dylan's world. Dylan literally wrote the book on the psychology of murder, but the sociopath they're facing now is the opposite of a textbook case.
10) Scat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Nick and his friend Marta decide to investigate when a mysterious fire starts near a Florida wildlife preserve and an unpopular teacher goes missing.
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Clay Edison novels volume 1
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English
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"A former star athlete turned deputy coroner is drawn into a brutal, complicated murder in this psychological thriller from a father-son writing team that delivers "brilliant, page-turning fiction" (Stephen King). Natural causes or foul play? That's the question Clay Edison must answer each time he examines a body. Figuring out motives and chasing down suspects aren't part of his beat--not until a seemingly open-and-shut case proves to be more than...
12) Lilly's big day
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When her teacher announces that he is getting married, Lilly the mouse sets her heart on being the flower girl at his wedding.
13) Six Years
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English
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Six years have passed since Jake Sanders watched Natalie, the love of his life, marry another man. Six years of hiding a broken heart by throwing himself into his career as a college professor. Six years of keeping his promise to leave Natalie alone, and six years of tortured dreams of her life with her new husband, Todd. But six years haven't come close to extinguishing his feelings, and when Jake comes across Todd's obituary, he can't keep himself...
14) Still Alice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Fifty-year-old Alice Howland, a Harvard professor of cognitive psychology, is at the top of her game. Her kids are grown, her marriage secure, her career on fire, when after mere months of forgetfulness she finds herself in the rapidly downward spiral of early onset Alzheimer's disease. With no cure or treatment, Alice struggles to find meaning and purpose in her everyday life as her concept of self slips away. Without memory or hope, she is forced...
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
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"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school"--
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past—the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"New York Times and worldwide bestselling "dazzling storyteller" (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerizing story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident--which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Etna bliss has just moved to the New England town where her uncle teaches college when her life is transformed in a single stroke. She is dining in a hotel downtown when a fire forces her to escape to the snowy streets outside. amid the smoke and chaos of that night she is glimpsed by a man who was dining in the same room--- a man who is so overwhelmed by the sibht of her tha he rebuilds his life around a single goal: to marry Etna bliss.
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Christmas Tree Ranch volume 4
Publisher
Kensington Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
The lone lawman in the small Texas town of Branding, widowed single father Sheriff Sam Delaney shoulders a lot until a special someone enters the picture.
19) Zombie cows!
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Series
Agent Amelia volume 2
Publisher
Darby Creek
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Amelia, a young secret agent, investigates some robotic animals, an enchanting music teacher, and a pair of remarkably beautiful twin bakers with a dastardly plot, all while avoiding her nemesis, Trudy Hart.
20) The summons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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"Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi--a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. Ray Atlee is the eldest, a Virginia law professor, newly single...