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"Ever wish friendship came with an instruction manual? A resourceful youngster follows step-by-step directions for constructing a robot to be her friend. The instructions make it sound so simple! But they also caution that sometimes a friendship doesn't turn out as hoped for, as the girl discovers when her new friend unexpectedly unleashes an evil robot army on the city"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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"A bear finds a piano in the woods, learns to play it, and travels to the big city to become rich and famous, but ultimately discovers that his old friends in the forest back home are still the best audience of all"-- Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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The two-time Newbery Honor winner Gary D. Schmidt delivers the shattering story of Joseph, a father at thirteen, who has never seen his daughter, Jupiter. After spending time in a juvenile facility, he's placed with a foster family on a farm in rural Maine. Here Joseph, damaged and withdrawn, meets twelve-year-old Jack, who narrates the account of the troubled, passionate teen who wants to find his baby at any cost. In this riveting novel, two boys...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Eleven-year-old Alice Mistlethwaite persuades her boarding school friends, Jesse and Fergus, to set out on an off-the-grid adventure in which they face storms, illness, injury, and international jewel thieves.
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Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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A story set on the American border with Mexico, about family and friendship, life and death, and one teen struggling to understand what his adoption does and doesn't mean about who he is. -- Provided by publisher.
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Mustache Baby volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A play date goes awry when Baby Billy and his mustache meet Beard Baby.
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Tallulah books (Marilyn Singer) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Tallulah loves the grace and elegance of ballet and can pirouette perfectly but at dance camp struggles to learn tap.
13) You loves Ewe!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Homonyms cause great confusion as an increasingly cranky yam tries to make introductions and provide explanations to a newly-arrived and rather silly donkey.
14) Greenglass House
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Greenglass House volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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At Greenglass House, a smuggler's inn, twelve-year-old Milo, the innkeepers' adopted son, plans to spend his winter holidays relaxing but soon guests are arriving with strange stories about the house sending Milo and Meddy, the cook's daughter, on an adventure.
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Mustache Baby volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Baby Billy, from the House of Mustache, and Baby Javier, from the House of Beard, bravely conquer their biggest foe, bedtime, until they both succumb to an enchanted book, which takes them to dreamland where they become the stuff of legend.
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Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Best friends Rosie and Adam find an old, magical book that has the power to make people vanish, even from memory. When Adam's older sister, Shelby, disappears, they struggle to retain their memories of her as they race against time to bring her back from the void, risking their own lives in the process.
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Clarion Books, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Hugo the dog becomes the star of an all-animal band after learning to play his best friend Hector's fiddle, and despite Hector's jealousy, remains grateful to the man who gave him his start.
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