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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Speed and self-confidence, that's Astrid's motto. Nicknamed "the little thunderbolt," She loves to spend her days racing down the hillside on her skis or sled, singing merrily as she goes, and drinking hot chocolate made from real chocolate bars with her grumpy best friend and godfather, Gunnvald. She just wishes there were other children to share in her hair-raising adventures. But her world is about to be turned upside down, first by the arrival...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Reluctantly attending camp away from the uncle who saved her from foster care and an elderly next-door neighbor who shares stories and warm cookies, 11-year-old Tash is dismayed when she returns home and discovers that her neighbor has gone missing, a situation that compels her to test the power of a key that the neighbor has always insisted possesses magic.
"Tash doesn't want to go to camp, doesn't want to spend the summer with a bunch of strangers,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Thoughtful, strong-willed sixth-grader Merci Suarez navigates difficult changes with friends, family, and everyone in between in a resonant new novel from Meg Medina. Merci Suarez knew that sixth grade would be different, but she had no idea just how different. For starters, Merci has never been like the other kids at her private school in Florida, because she and her older brother, Roli, are scholarship students. They dont have a big house or a fancy...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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In a racially polarized classroom in 1970 Alabama, Lus talent for running track makes her a new best friend and tests her mettle as she navigates the schools social cliques. Miss Garretts classroom is like every other at our school. White kids sit on one side and black kids on the other. I'm one of the few middle-rowers who split the difference. Sixth-grader Lu Olivera just wants to keep her head down and get along with everyone in her class. Trouble...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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With the United States on the verge of World War II, eleven-year-old Gusta is sent from New York City to Maine, where she discovers small-town prejudices and a huge family secret. It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent...
7) Otherwood
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"'Hatred combined with lies and secrets can break the world." Grandpa Zach used to say that before he died, but Stuey never really knew what he meant. It was kind of like how he used to talk about quantum physics, or how he used to say ghosts haunted the overgrown golf course. But then one day, when Stuey and his best friend, Elly Rose, are playing in the deadfall in the middle of the woods, something totally unbelievable happens. As Stuey and Elly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Delphernia Undersea wants to sing. But everyone on Blightsend knows music belongs to the Masters and girls with singing throats are swallowed by the sea. On the strange, stormy island of Blightsend, twelve-year-old Delphernia Undersea has spent her whole life in the cloister of turnaway girls, hidden from sea and sky by a dome of stone and the laws of the island. Outside, the Masters play their music. Inside, the turnaway girls silently make that...
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