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"In this powerful novel about the cost of ambition and success, a legendary athlete attempts a comeback at an age when the world considers her past her prime-from the New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising. Carolina Soto is undeniably fierce. She is determined to be the best professional tennis player the world has ever seen. And by the time she retires from the game in 1989 at the age of thirty-one, she is just that: the best. She has...
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Seasoned pro golfer Travis McKinley is cruising toward a new season when he misses a putt on the 18th green. Just like that, he's down and out and off the Senior Tour, his career all but dead. Then Travis is visited by a mysterious stranger whose vision is clear. Go back to the beginning. The very beginning. Taking his advice both literally and to heart, Travis and his family travel to their ancestral home - Scotland. In the place where golf was born,...
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"The bestselling author of The River returns with a heart-racing thriller about a young man who, escaping his own grief, is hired by an elite fishing lodge in Colorado where amid the natural beauty of sun-drenched streams and forests he uncovers a plot of shocking menace"--
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Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2023]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Camila's soccer team, Las Estrellas Fugaz, has lost three games in a row, so the players get together to practice working as a team, which they hope will turn their season around. Includes glossary and discussion points.
Camila is ready to be a soccer star, but her soccer team, Las Estrellas Fugaz, has lost three games in a row. When it comes to soccer, it takes teamwork to become stars. How will Camila and the other shooting stars come together...
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Fourteen-year-old twin basketball stars Josh and Jordan wrestle with highs and lows on and off the court as their father ignores his declining health.
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Catalina incognito volume 4
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Aladdin
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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With the Valle Grande Skate Spectacular competition coming up, Catalina is hoping her sister Coco will win and she can have her old board, but Coco has lost her skateboarding mojo so Catalina considers entering the competition herself.
"One Day at a Time meets Mindy Kim in this fourth book in the charming chapter book series about Catalina Castaneda, a Mexican American girl with a magical sewing kit who wants to win a skateboarding competition. The...
9) Ghost
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Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 1
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Life in Middle School
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Read-Alikes for Angie Thomas
Summer Olympics for Children & Teens
One World, Many Stories 6th - 8th
Read-Alikes for Angie Thomas
Summer Olympics for Children & Teens
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"Ghost wants to be the fastest sprinter on his elite middle school track team, but his past is slowing him down in this first electrifying novel of a brand-new series from Coretta Scott King/John Steptoe Award-winning author Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Lu. Patina. Sunny. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds with personalities that are explosive when they clash. But they are also four kids chosen for an elite middle school track team-a team that...
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Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012.
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Randy Riley, a science genius who loves baseball but is not very good at it, needs to use both his interests to save his town from a giant fireball that is heading their way.
"Randy Riley loves two things: science and baseball. When it comes to the solar system, the constellations, and all things robot, Randy is a genius. But on the baseball diamond? Not so much. Then, one night, Randy sees something shocking through his Space Boy telescope: it's...
11) Just one goal!
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Scholastic Canada
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[2008]
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IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ciara decides to build an ice rink behind her house so that she and her friends can play hockey whenever they like, but when no one in her family is willing to help, Ciara begins the work by herself.
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All in volume 3
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Montlake
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"My name is Ryan Kingston, and I’m a rule follower. I’ve never been in a fistfight. I always obey the speed limit. I don’t get drunk, and I definitely don’t pick up random women at bars. Except the night I found out that my whole existence has been a lie. I got drunk. And picked up a stranger. Her name was Queenie, and she was everything I’m not: reckless, impulsive, and chaotic. We did shots and traded secrets. And ended up naked at...
13) Sooley
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2022.
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Español
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After seventeen-year-old Samuel "Sooley" Sooleymon receives a college scholarship to play basketball for North Carolina Central, he moves to Durham from his native, war-torn South Sudan, enrolls in classes, joins the team, and prepares to sit out his freshman season, but Sooley has a fierce determination to succeed so he can bring his family to America, working tirelessly on his game until he dominates everyone in practice, and when Sooley is called...
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Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When Won Lee, the first Asian American in the NBA, stuns the world in a seven-game winning streak, the global media audience dubs it "The Wonder"--much to Won's chagrin. Meanwhile, Won struggles to get attention from his coach, his peers, his fans, and most importantly, his hero, Powerball!, who also happens to be Won's teammate and the captain. Covering it all is sportswriter Robert Sung, who writes about Won's stardom while grappling with his own...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 29
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IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Jack and Annie use the magic tree house to travel back in time to 1947 Brooklyn, New York, where they pretend to be batboys at Jackie Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers against the Boston Braves"--
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HarperCollinsEspanol
Pub. Date
[2022]
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Español
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"Tras dejar a su esposo infiel, Britt-Marie encuentra trabajo como encargada en el casi clausurado centro civico de Borg, un abandonado y ruinoso pueblo del que lo unico bueno que puede decirse es que tiene una carretera. Esta quisquillosa mujer se vera envuelta en la vida de sus nuevos vecinos, un grupo de malhechores, borrachos y holgazanes que le demostraran que la vida va mas alla de tener un cajon de los cubiertos ordenado. Pero su reto mas grande...
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