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1) French braid
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English
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"The Garretts take their first and last family vacation in the summer of 1959. They hardly ever venture beyond Baltimore, but in some ways they have never been farther apart. Mercy has trouble resisting the siren call of her aspirations to be a painter, which means less time keeping house for her husband Robin. Their teenage daughters, steady Alice and boy-crazy Lily, could not have less in common. Their youngest, David, is already intent on escaping...
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Series
Island of Mure novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"Years ago, Flora fled the quiet Scottish island where she grew up -- and she hasn't looked back. What would she have done on Mure? It's a place where everyone has known her all her life, where no one will let her forget the past. In bright, bustling London, she can be anonymous, ambitious... and hopelessly in love with her boss. But when fate brings Flora back to the island, she's suddenly swept once more into life with her brothers -- all strapping,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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"Set in Depression-era America, a breathtaking story of five extraordinary women and their remarkable journey through the mountains of Kentucky and beyond, from the author of Me Before You and The Peacock Emporium. Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a...
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English
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The story of Joan, a ballerina whose life has been shaped by her relationship with the world-famous dancer Arslan Ruskov, whom she helps defect from the Soviet Union to the U.S. While Arslan's career takes off in New York, Joan's slowly declines, ending when she becomes pregnant and decides to marry her longtime admirer, a PhD student named Jacob. As the years pass, Joan settles into her new life in California, teaching dance and watching her son,...
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English
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"In a small town in Maine, recently widowed Eveleth "Evvie" Drake rarely leaves her house. Everyone in town, including her best friend, Andy, thinks grief keeps her locked inside, and she doesn't correct them. In New York, Dean Tenney, former major-league pitcher and Andy's childhood friend, is struggling with a case of the "yips": he can't throw straight anymore, and he can't figure out why. An invitation from Andy to stay in Maine for a few months...
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Series
Princess Posey books volume 10
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
First-grader Posey is concerned that her spring vacation will be boring compared to her friends' travels, but her mother's plan to take each day as it comes turns out to be full of excitement.
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Series
Sophie books (Rosemary Wells) volume 4
Publisher
Viking, published by Penguin Group
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Sophie and her mother make very special treats for their party, but Sophie worries there won't be one left for her"--
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Language
English
Description
Veronique Vincent is a star. At age twenty-two, she is one of the most sought-after models in fashion, gracing the covers of magazines and walking the runways of haute couture shows across the globe. Yet, despite being the consummate professional, Veronique wants little of the glamorous life that modeling affords her. The beloved daughter of a hardworking single mother, she has always preferred spending time at home or with her kindhearted boyfriend...
9) Dog dreams
Author
Series
Barkus volume 2
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Barkus is a large and very clever dog, and Baby is a cat, and together their adventures make life exciting for seven-year-old Nicky and her family.
10) Shelter in place
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Language
English
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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts comes Shelter in Placea powerful tale of heart, heroism and propulsive suspense. It was a typical evening at a mall outside Portland, Maine. Three teenage friends waited for the movie to start. A boy flirted with the girl selling sunglasses. Mothers and children shopped together, and the manager at the video-game store tended to customers. Then the shooters arrived. The chaos and carnage lasted...
11) Race to the sun
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Series
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Guided by her Navajo ancestors, seventh-grader Nizhoni Begay discovers she is descended from a holy woman and destined to become a monsterslayer, starting with the evil businessman who kidnapped her father. Includes glossary of Navajo terms.
12) Designed by Lucy
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Series
Kindness club volume 2
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The Kindness Club takes on two new tasks, one, to do a project with children at the Community House, and two, to plan a surprise birthday party at Tanaka Lanes.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Join in the fun as a young girl imagines her family as a pandemonium of parrots, a swarm of bees, a smack of jellyfish, a wisdom of wombats, and more! When a young girl gets frustrated with her chaotic life at home, she imagines what things would be like if her family were animals instead. Would life be better as a pod of pelicans, a pride of lions, or a herd of buffalo? Or is it ultimately a family of humans that she needs? In this beautifully illustrated...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"When scientist-in-the-making Madeline Little starts sixth grade, she soon learns that middle school is nothing like a perfect lab experiment--and that she now has to find the cure for her newly messed-up life"--
Author
Series
Spirit riding free volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Lucky Prescott craves adventure, but as a young lady of society she's only been allowed to experience adventure through books. That is, until one fateful day when Lucky, her father, and her aunt leave their neat-and-tidy city life and travel to their new home out west-the Wild West. At first Lucky is excited, but during the long train ride to her new hometown of Miradero, she begins to worry. What if she doesn't make any new friends?...
16) Felix Yz
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Felix Yz chronicles the final month before an experimental procedure meant to separate him from the fourth-dimensional creature, Zyx, with whom he was accidentally fused as a young child.
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Series
Publisher
American Girl Pub
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Painting in her grandmother's studio and riding her favorite horse, Georgia, helps fourth-grader Saige cope with missing Mimi and sparks an idea for funding the school art program, but more creativity will be needed to keep Georgia from being sold.
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old social outcast Charlie Han, known as "the short Chinese kid" at school, searches for a talent to improve his popularity, but when he discovers skateboarding, much to the disapproval of his overprotective mother, he also uncovers a huge family secret.
Author
Series
101 ways to bug-- series volume 3
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Steve "Sneeze" Wyatt takes half of his classes at the high school, where he attracts the attention of a bully on the varsity golf team, while at middle school all of his friends seem to be falling in love--including Sneeze, himself.
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Just as twelve-year-old Ferrell Savage is beginning to think of Mary Vittles, his life-long friend, as a potential girlfriend, a new boy at school blackmails them with a family secret--that one of Ferrell's ancestors ate one of Mary's.
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