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4521) Nikki on the Line
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Judy Blume meets Mike Lupica in this pitch-perfect, action-packed, and funny novel about a girl coming of age at home, in school, and on the basketball court. Thirteen-year-old Nikki Doyle's dreams of becoming a basketball great feel within reach when she's selected to play on an elite-level club team. But in a league with taller, stronger, and faster girls, Nikki suddenly isn't the best point guard. In fact, she's no longer a point guard at all,...
4522) Light years from home
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"Evie Shao and her sister, Kass, aren’t on speaking terms. Fifteen years ago on a family camping trip, their father and brother vanished. Their dad turned up days later, dehydrated and confused—and convinced he'd been abducted by aliens. Their brother, Jakob, remained missing. The women dealt with it very differently. Kass, suspecting her college-dropout twin simply ran off, became the rock of the family. Evie traded academics to pursue alien...
4523) Now
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Follow a little girl as she takes you on a tour through all of her favorite things, from the holes she digs to the hugs she gives"--
4524) Love's enduring promise
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Missie Davis, devoted equally to teaching school and doing her share on the family farm, becomes torn between two very different men until she learns what is really important.
4525) Papa's mechanical fish
Author
Publisher
Margaret Ferguson Books
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the summer of 1851, with encouragement and ideas provided by his family, an inventor builds a working submarine and takes his family for a ride. Includes notes about Lodner Phillips, the real inventor on whom the story is based.
4526) My Jasper June
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The school year is over, and it is summer in Atlanta. The sky is blue, the sun is blazing, and the days brim with possibility. But Leah feels lost. She has been this way since one terrible afternoon a year ago when everything changed. Since that day, her parents have become distant, her friends have fallen away, and Leah's been adrift and alone. Then she meets Jasper, a girl unlike anyone she has ever known. There's something mysterious about Jasper,...
4527) The Second Base Club
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Elroy will do almost anything, from joining the wrestling team to forming a band, in order to get a girlfriend, until he finally realizes the truth of a girl friend's words about being himself.
4529) A Little women Christmas
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With Father away serving in the Civil War, Marmee and her girls try to have a cheery Christmas.
4530) Bump
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"MJ knows what it means to hurt. Bruises from gymnastics heal, but big hurts--like her dad not being around anymore--don't go away. Now her mom needs to work two jobs, and MJ doesn't have friends at school to lean on. There is only one thing MJ loves: the world of professional wrestling. She especially idolizes the luchadores and the stories they tell in the ring. When MJ learns that her neighbor, Mr. Arellano, runs a wrestling school, she has a new...
Author
Publisher
Front Street
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
As his odd parents fight the regional environmental health officer about their dung-covered house and his melodramatic younger brother demands attention, fourteen-year-old Australian Seth Parrot simply seeks the muscular woman of his dreams.
4532) Irreversible
Author
Series
Inexcusable volume 2
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Keir Sarafian insists he did nothing wrong. No one will believe that he's the good guy he knows he is. Now at Carnegie College, Keir's life isn't what he thought it would be. Two soccer players are poised to take his spot as kicker. Ray keeps calling, and Joyce, his guiding light on campus, seems to be avoiding him. When tragedy strikes, will Keir finally be able to confront his past actions and realize his potential?
4533) The doughnut king
Author
Series
Doughnut fix volume 2
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
When his business prospects in Petersville are challenged by major supply issues that are forcing his neighbors to move away, Tris enters a cutthroat kids' cooking competition to finance the community's makeover as a tourist destination.
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When her efforts to pursue a professional culinary life end in disappointment, Sam spends a summer working for the family pie shop and begins to learn about and understand the women in her life, her family's history, and her passion for food.
4535) Rules for 50/50 chances
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Rose Levenson must decide whether or not she wants to take the test to find out if she has Huntington's disease, the degenerative disease that is slowly killing her mother"--
4536) The warden's daughter
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Cammie O'Reilly is the warden's daughter, living in an apartment above the entrance to the Hancock County Prison. But she's also living in a prison of grief and anger about the mother who died saving her from harm when she was just a baby. And prison has made her mad. This girl's nickname is Cannonball. In the summer of 1959, as twelve turns to thirteen, everything is in flux. Cammie's best friend is discovering lipstick and American Bandstand. A...
4537) Searching for Caleb
Author
Publisher
Fawcett Columbine
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
"Through the syncopated rhythms of the ragtime era to the thumping, rocking beats of the 1970s, generations of Pecks have maintained a determined steadiness. Adamantly middle class—Peck-proud, as the family slogan goes—they are quick to sweep under the rug those members who do not live up to their standards. Maybe that’s why Caleb Peck took off with his violincello as a boy? Sixty years later, his brother Daniel is still wondering. No longer...
4538) Triple threat
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Alex Carlisle loves football almost as much as she loves her father but when she joins the Orville Middle School football team, not all of the boys, or parents, are pleased.
4540) Pet sematary
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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Description
The Creeds move next door to a pet cemetery, which is built over old Native American burial grounds with the power of resurrection.
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