Judy Blume
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
"Now a major motion picture starring Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates! A Time Best YA Book of All Time Celebrate the legacy of the bestselling and iconic Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret with this special edition, featuring a deluxe faux-leather embossed cover that looks and feels as vibrant as the story...
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Series
Fudge books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Peter finds his demanding two-and-a-half-year-old brother an ever increasing problem.
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Series
Fudge books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Pete describes the family vacation in Maine with the Tubmans, highlighted by the antics of his younger brother Fudge.
5) Forever
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Teen-agers Katherine and Michael meet and fall in love, and expect their relationship to last forever ; but their first separation brings about a change.
A Time Best YA Book of All Time (2021) Judy Blume’s groundbreaking novel about first relationships, first love, and…the first time. The bed is brass, covered with a patchwork quilt, and “nice and firm,” Michael says, “in case you’re interested.” Katherine is interested. Katherine...
6) Superfudge
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Series
Fudge books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Peter describes the highs and lows of life with his younger brother Fudge.
Author
Series
Fudge books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
A summer in Tarrytown, N.Y., is a lot of fun for ten-year-old Sheila even though her friends make her face up to some self-truths she doesn't want to admit.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Two women from very different families become inseparable companions during summers on Martha's Vineyard during their coming-of-age years, forging the bonds of a lifelong friendship that weathers growing up, marriage, children, careers, and betrayal.
9) Blubber
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it's like when she, too, becomes a target.
Blubber is a good name for her, the note from Wendy says about Linda. Jill crumples it up and leaves it on the corner of her desk. She doesn't want to think about Linda or her dumb report on the whale just now. Jill wants to think about Halloween. But Robby grabs the note, and before Linda stops talking...
10) Tiger eyes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Davey Wexler's father is killed in a holdup in Atlantic City, her mother moves Davey and her brother to Los Alamos to get away from the memories--but Davey is a girl frozen in fear and anger, until she meets an older boy called Wolf who can read hertiger eyes.
"What does it take to recover from tragedy? This masterful Judy Blume novel has a fresh new look. Davey Wexler has never felt so alone. Her father has just been killed—shot in a holdup...
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Series
Pain and the Great One volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (The Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (The Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting
12) Double Fudge
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Series
Fudge books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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His younger brother's obsession with money and the discovery of long-lost cousins Flora and Fauna provide many embarrassing moments for twelve-year-old Peter.
13) Wifey
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Language
English
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Sandy Pressman is a nice suburban wife whose boredom is getting the best of her. She could be making friends at the club, like her husband keeps encouraging her to do. Or working on her golf game. Or getting her hair done. But for some reason, these things don't interest her as much as the naked man on the motorcycle
14) Smart women
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Language
English
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The lives of good friends, Margo Sampson and B. B. Broder, both 40, divorced, and successful businesswomen in Boulder, Colorado, are changed when B. B.'s ex-husband comes to town.
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Series
Pain and the Great One volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
First-grader Jake "The Pain" and his sister, third-grader Abigail "The Great One" have more adventures, including visiting their cousins in New York and celebrating their cat Fluzzy's birthday.
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Series
Pain and the Great One volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
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The Pain and the Great One find themselves faced with adventure no matter where they are! These stories find the siblings visiting such places as the emergency room, the mall, the county fair, the beach, and more.
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Series
Pain and the Great One volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
More adventures at school and at home with Jake, a first-grader, and his older sister Abigail, known to each other as the Pain and the Great One.
19) Iggie's house
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an African American family with three children moves into her white neighborhood, eleven-year-old Winnie learns the difference between being a good neighbor and being a good friend.