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Violet Mackerel books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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With her knack for seeing the positive, six-year-old Violet anticipates extraordinary results after getting her tonsils removed, such as making a special new friend and turning her everyday voice into an opera voice.
4) Truman
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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He may be slow but Truman the turtle is determined to find his girl Sarah, who has boarded a city bus on her way to preschool.
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Cue the pretend drum-roll: Keats's parents have a big surprise. No, they're not having a new baby. It's -- wait for it, wait for it -- a family road trip!
Okay, so this is not exactly the birthday present Keats had in mind (no iPod?!), but when Dad parks a rented RV in the Dalinger's driveway, Keats piles in with the rest of his family -- and the manny, of course -- bound for the open road. From the big skies of farm country to the bright lights...
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Here are all the embarrassing things that might happen to you in the fourth grade -- and do happen to you, if your name is Alice McKinley:
1. Your next-door neighbor (who happens to be a BOY!) sees you in your underpants.
2. You sneeze beans all over your best friend.
3. Your brother lies to you for fun and you believe him.
4. You get trapped inside a snow cave -- your own snow cave, that is.
5. You're the only person in the whole grade who can't...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Is it possible to start afresh when you're thoroughly weighted down? A novel from the author of The Secret Language of Girls.
Seventeen pounds. That's the difference between Abigail Walker and Kristen Gorzca. Between chubby and slim, between teased and taunting. Abby is fine with her body and sick of seventeen pounds making her miserable, so she speaks out against Kristen and her groupies-and becomes officially unpopular. Embracing her new status,...
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Phineas L. MacGuire volume 1
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire is forced to team up with the new boy in class on a science fair project, but the boy's quirky personality causes Phineas to wonder if they have any chance of winning.
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Cool is cool and geek is geek, and at Eldridge the two definitely do not mix.
Sari and Jess are best friends and total opposites. They've liked each other ever since they discovered that they are the only two normal people at Eldridge Alternative. As they prepare to face the trials of ninth grade, Sari is psyched. Jess is not. How can she face the Prada Mafia, the most evil clique in school? Or Mr. McGuiness's unnervingly long nose hair? What if...
10) The Boy I Love
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English
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When the boy you love asks you to keep his greatest secret, do you? A thought-provoking, achingly complex novel about prejudice and the many meanings of love from Nina de Gramont, author of Meet Me at the River.
Fifteen-year-old Wren has been content to stay in her best friend Allie's shadow. It doesn't bother her that Ally gets the cutest guys, the cutest clothes, and even a modeling gig-Wren is happy hanging with the horses on her family's farm...
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Duane the polar bear and the other animals of the very, very far north find their friendships deepening as they are challenged by the arrival of a contentious weasel and an unexpected departure.
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How much do you have to give up to find yourself?
When Pete first sets eyes the Man, he's convinced he's an ax murderer. But at the revival meeting, Pete discovers that the Man is actually a savior of souls, and Pete has been waiting all his life to be saved.
It's not something Pete's parents can understand. Certainly his best friend, Rufus, an avowed atheist, doesn't understand. But Pete knows he can't imagine life without the Man. So when...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Time is almost out for the Keepers of the School in this fifth Keepers adventure from Andrew Clements, the master of the school story.
The Keepers of the School-known to their friends as Ben, Jill, and Robert-have one last chance to save their school before it's torn down to make room for a seaside amusement park. But their nemeses, Janitors Lyman and Wally, are just as determined to keep the kids out of the way and the demolition on schedule.
One...
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Now that she is settling into eighth grade, the class she used to envy, Alice Mckinley is discovering that it isn't all that exciting. But, maybe it's up to her to make this year as thrilling as she thought it would be? Out with the old, plain-Jane Alice in with the new, stylish, creative Alice. She's sick of being boring. It's time to be outrageous! But, what if outrageous isn't all it's cracked up to be either? What if instead Alice finds herself...
15) The Mirrorwood
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English
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Since birth Fable has been cursed by the Blight, a twisted magic that has left her without a face of her own, forced to "steal" the face of others; now the Blighthunters, who believe anything touched by the Blight must be destroyed, have found her, and pursued by apprentice Blighthunter Vycorax, she and her telepathic cat, Moth, flee into the Mirrorwood, a thorny forest trapped in time and filled with perils--determined to confront the source of the...
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A ghost saved twelve-year-old Maddie's life when she was an infant, her Granny Lane claims, so Maddie must always remember that she is special. But it's hard to feel special when you've spent your life shuffled from one foster home to another. And now that she's at the East Tennessee Children's Home, Maddie feels even less special.
She longs for a place to call home. She even has a "book of houses" in which she glues pictures of places she'd like...
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Amelia rules! volume 7
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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While trying to figure out the meaning of life, Amelia learns that even when the world is scary and life is as mystifying as ever, some things, such as friends, do last.
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Phineas L. MacGuire volume 2
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
Description
When his new best friend, Ben, decides to run for class president, fourth-grade science whiz Phineas MacGuire reluctantly agrees to be his campaign manager in exchange for help with his latest experiment--cultivating exhibits for a mold museum.
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