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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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Life and excitement lie waiting for 10 year-old Winnie Foster on the other side of the iron fence that separates her from Treegap wood. One day she discovers a magic spring that promises eternal life, and meets a strange and wonderful family named Tuck. But wherever there is adventure, there is often trouble too.
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The Borrowers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Miniature people who live in an old country house by borrowing things from the humans are forced to emigrate from their home under the clock. Includes a letter and a sketch of Homily and Arrietty by the author.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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An account of the previously unheralded but pivotal contributions of NASA's African-American women mathematicians to America's space program describes how they were segregated from their white counterparts by Jim Crow laws in spite of their groundbreaking successes.
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Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
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English
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After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
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Recalling the past at her daughters' request, Lara tells the story of a famous actor with whom she shared both a stage and a romance, which causes her daughters to examine their own lives and reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.
"In this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers. “Patchett leads us to a truth that feels like life...
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Little house (Laura Ingalls Wilder) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
9) Happy place
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Despite breaking up months earlier, a picture-perfect couple still haven't told their friends about the split and attempt to pretend they are still together at an annual Maine getaway.
"A couple who broke up months ago pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry. Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since...
10) Spare
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"It was one of the most searing images of the twentieth century: two young boys, two princes, walking behind their mother's coffin as the world watched in sorrow-and horror. As Princess Diana was laid to rest, billions wondered what Prince William and Prince Harry must be thinking and feeling-and how their lives would play out from that point on. For Harry, this is that story at last. Before losing his mother, twelve-year-old Prince Harry was known...
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Cotton Malone novels volume 5
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English
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Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone isn't looking for trouble when it comes knocking at his Copenhagen bookshop. But narrowly surviving a ferocious firefight convinces him to follow his unexpected new ally-- an American Secret Service agent-- and help him stop the Paris Club, a cabal of multimillionaires bent on manipulating the global economy. Only by matching wits with a terrorist-for-hire, foiling a catastrophic attack, and plunging...
12) To fetch a thief
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When the traveling circus comes to down and its star attraction and his trainer go missing, P.I. Bernie Little and his companion Chet are on the case. Hired by Popo the Clown, Bernie and Chet discover that there are some dangerous people behind the disappearances, people who will go at any length to make the sleuthing duo disappear, too.
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Inviting her best friend from each phase of her life, widow Hollis Shaw hosts an unforgettable weekend on Nantucket, during which things don't go as planned as each woman deals with heartbreak, infidelity, scandal, and secrets, but things turn around dueto new friendships, unexpected romance, and self-discovery.
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Hotel Nantucket: After tragedy strikes, food blogger Hollis Shaw gathers four friends...
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Curiosity House volume 1
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Growing up with fellow sideshow performers at an oddities museum, three orphans with unusual superhuman abilities are joined by a fourth child, a knife-thrower, with whom they search for the museum's stolen Amazonian shrunken head.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A novel based on the true story of an Auschwitz-Birkenau survivor traces the experiences of a Jewish Slovakian who uses his position as a concentration-camp tattooist to secure food for his fellow prisoners.
"[Read by Richard Armitage] The Tattooist of Auschwitz is based on the true story of Lale and Gita Sokolov, two Slovakian Jews, who survived Auschwitz and eventually made their home in Australia. In that terrible place, Lale was given the job...
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A year ago, Travis McKinley, an unknown golfing amateur, shocked the world by winning the PGA Senior Open at Pebble Beach. Now he's famous, he makes his living playing the game he loves, and everything should be perfect. Still Travis can't shake the feeling that he's a fraud, an imposter who doesn't deserve his success - and after a series of disappointments and, to be honest, personal screw-ups, he might just prove himself right. A shot at redemption...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Two families, generations apart, are forever changed by a heartbreaking injustice in this poignant novel, inspired by a true story, for readers of Orphan Train and The Nightingale. Memphis, 1939. Twelve-year-old Rill Foss and her four younger siblings live a magical life aboard their family's Mississippi River shantyboat. But when their father must rush their mother to the hospital one stormy night, Rill is left in charge--until strangers arrive...
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Cabin Creek mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Springwater
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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When a camper disappears from the dangerous lookout at Skull Cliff, the cousins wonder if it is the old town curse at work. Then the police discover a ransom note, and everyone is in search of a kidnapper. But Jeff, David, and Claire can't make the clues fit. Was the bossy boy from the city kidnapped, or did somehting even spookier take place on Skull Cliff?
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The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses.
"From the acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees, a brilliant novel that enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity Set in the mountains of southern Appalachia, Demon...
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