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Seventeen-year-old Lindsey Allen is an A-student who has her heart set on becoming an astronomer. But first she must break away from her mother, an eccentric failed beauty queen who has set up a phony psychic reading shop in their Oregon garage.
Lindsey is biding time until she graduates high school, reading tarot cards for the neighbors in her mother's shop and recording the phases of the moon in her Moon Sign notebook. Her life changes when her...
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A Fun Story about Courage and Kids Dealing with Problems in a Healthy Way.
Part of a series about kids dealing with everyday hurdles and accomplishments, You're a Brave Kid! thoughtfully written by Sandrina Kurtz, shows that problems are better solved when shared with loved ones.
When Magnolia accidentally makes a small mess in the kitchen, it quickly escalates into a greater problem. The hilarious illustrations by John Kurtz show just how large...
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IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
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Rob and Frida's Battalion Zero has vanquished Dr. Dirt, but Dirt's accomplice, Lady Craven, has risen to power to finish what Dirt started: control of every biome boundary to rule the Overworld. The balance of day and night has shifted, and the mobs keep the villagers at bay, making them work ever harder during the day to replace what monsters destroy at night. Battalion Zero has suffered some losses and must regroup and recoup their resources and...
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David Lee is twelve years old and disappointed in his father Earl, a once-famous rodeo clown who has quit the circuit and moved David to a small town in Vermont to start a new life. David has a hard time adjusting to life as a "normal" boy and is hurt that his father never allowed him the chance to be his partner in the rodeo arena. When Earl tries to buy David a horse at auction, David pretends to have no interest in it, and the horse is sold, instead,...
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Mama calls it Sophie's imagination, but Sophie calls it magic. Everything Sophie draws comes to life, and one day when Sophie feels lonely, she decides to draw a friend. But the polar bear cub isn't very happy in Sophie's room, where it is much too warm. So Sophie tries again. But the duck wants to swim in a pool full of water. And the giraffe is too tall for the tiny room! It isn't long after the elephant shows up that things begin to get a little...
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IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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Following the seventieth anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima, this is a new, very personal story to join Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes.
Yuriko was happy growing up in Hiroshima when it was just her and Papa. But her aunt Kimiko and her cousin Genji are living with them now, and the family is only getting bigger with talk of a double marriage! And while things are changing at home, the world beyond their doors is even more unpredictable....
10) Super Dorks
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Pack of dorks volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Lucy is ready to be a superhero!
Lucy loves her best friends-her pack of dorks. But this year, everyone in the pack has become a hero . . . except for her! Sam rescues twin toddlers about to get hit by a car. April helps bring about the downfall of a ring of bicycle thieves. Sheldon and Amanda launch a campaign to protect turtle eggs laid on the school playground. Even Lucy's new teacher asks the class about their bravest moments. But Lucy's not brave-she...
11) Phoenix Burning
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Though the Phoenix and the Banshee have divided the precious solar panels they teamed up to salvage at the end of Phoenix Rising, both ships are missing the crucial component that will allow them to actually put the panels to use. And so Toby and Ayla warily team up to infiltrate a sect of sun worshippers to steal the equipment. They think entering trials to be chosen as the Sun and Moon for the sect's upcoming sun festival will be an easy feat, but...
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IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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Ella has two major phobias in life: spiders and mathematics. She firmly believes that anything with more than four legs should not exist. She also believes the world would be a better place without word problems or long division. That being said, she's fascinated by science. So when her class finds a dead opossum in the playing field one morning, she's intrigued by rigor mortis and how long it will take for the opossum to unstiffen. Science is so...
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An original and touching story of a little koala and monkey, the best of friends.
Where are you going and where have you been?
Gussie and Max take us on a trip through the years of their friendship and accomplishments.
They remember standing on tip toes, needing help to build block towers, imaginary friends, and how hard it was to say goodbye.
As they anticipate new experiences like riding the school bus, learning addition and subtraction, and...
14) Phoenix Rising
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IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Sail. Salvage. Repeat. For as long as Toby can remember, he and his father have sailed on the Phoenix, salvaging from the junk-filled seas to stay afloat, while keeping under the radar of the authorities. His father is, after all, a wanted man. And now the Phoenix is on the trail of the ultimate prize: a salvage of solar panels that could mean they'll never need to hunt for fuel again. Ayla is second-in-command on the rival Banshee, where she's trained...
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Mimi and her three-legged dog Maty are determined to help rescue any animal that needs help. Armed with their trusty animal rescue notebook, Mimi and Maty set out to find their beloved sheep Sadie, who has gone missing at Aunt Bee's farm. Mimi keeps track of all of the clues she and Maty find during their search for Sadie. Along with their friends Henry and Finn (Maty's puppy crush), this dynamic team of animal rescuers race against time to find Sadie...
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Stevie likes sharks. Like a LOT. In response to everything his mom asks him, Stevie has an excellent shark fact in response.
"Brush your teeth, Stevie."
"Mom, Mako sharks don't have to brush their teeth because they are covered in fluoride."
From morning to bedtime-you would think this might totally wear his mom down. But guess who likes, sharks, too?
The book is filled with tons of fun facts, and also information about different shark breeds....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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He's limping strangely down the hall with outstretched arms and a groaning drawl. A zombie! Could it really be? You race to class, but turn to see he's sitting in the desk right next to you! But odds are you'll probably be okay, because this is no ordinary zombie. This zombie doesn't want to eat your brains, he wants to eat your books! Hide your textbooks and your fairy tales, because the little zombie is hungry and he doesn't discriminate between...
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Charlie, like all small snails, lives in a shell. And since this two-in-one protective cover is strapped onto his back, Charlie carries his home with him everywhere. One day, while having a snail race with his friends-as snails like to do-there's a terrible accident. As Charlie nears the finish line, the misplaced shoe of a little boy running through the garden comes down and breaks his shell. Charlie's shell-and his home-are completely destroyed....
19) Camp Dork
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Pack of dorks volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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The pack of dorks heads to camp-and this time the bully they face might just be one of their own.
Sheldon convinces Lucy, Sam, April, and Amanda to join him at Camp Paleo. Like cavemen, the campers are going to have to make do without air conditioning, and they'll dig for fossils during the day. And Grandma's coming too-as the lunch lady for the camp next door.
But Sam backs out at the last minute to attend a gymnastics camp instead. Lucy wonders...
20) Future Flash
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For as long as she can remember, Laney's been having "future flashes"-visions of the future that she sees when she makes physical contact with another person. Left on a doorstep as a baby, Laney's past has always been cloudy to her, despite the clarity with which she can see the future. Her caretaker, Walt, claims to be her father, but Laney has a nagging suspicion that he isn't quite telling her the entire truth. And when a new kid, Lyle, moves to...
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