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"When fifteen-year-old Lucinda Hayes is found dead in her sleepy Colorado suburb, the secret lives of three people connected to her are revealed: the social outcast who loved her from afar, the jaded girl who despised her, and the policeman investigating her death"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In this magical debut, a couple's lives are changed forever by the arrival of a little girl, wild and secretive, on their snowy doorstep.
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
Alaska, 1920: a brutal place to homestead, and especially tough for recent arrivals Jack and Mabel. Childless, they are drifting apart — he breaking under the weight of the work of the farm; she crumbling from loneliness and despair. In a moment of levity during the season's first snowfall, they build...
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In a snow-cloaked kingdom, two rival servants--one who desperately wants to win the approval of the Red Jaga and the other who hopes to escape the Black Jaga--compete for the pure heart of a prince, only to discover they might be falling for each other instead. Includes author's note.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"Frozen meets The Bloody Chamber in this feminist fantasy reimagining of the Snow White fairytale At sixteen, Mina's mother is dead, her magician father is vicious, and her silent heart has never beat with love for anyone--has never beat at all, in fact, but she'd always thought that fact normal. She never guessed that her father cut out her heart and replaced it with one of glass. When she moves to Whitespring Castle and sees its king for the first...
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Ladybug Girl volume 6
Publisher
Dial Books/Penguin
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Wearing her ladybug costume, Lulu plays in new fallen snow.
8) Villette
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English
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With neither friends nor family, Lucy Snowe sets sail from England to find employment in a girls' boarding school in the small town of Villette. There she struggles to retain her self-possession in the face of unruly pupils, an initially suspicious headmaster, and her own complex feelings, first for the school's English doctor and then for the dictatorial professor Paul Emmanuel. Drawing on her own deeply unhappy experiences as a governess in Brussels,...
10) Snow song
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English
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"In this poetic ode to the first snowfall, a little girl and her friends revel in a wintry wonderland and discover the beauty and joys of snow."--
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English
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Li-yan and her family align their lives around the seasons and the farming of tea. There is ritual and routine, and it has been ever thus for generations. Then one day a jeep appears at the village gate the first automobile any of them have seen and a stranger arrives. In this remote Yunnan village, the stranger finds the rare tea he has been seeking and a reticent Akha people. In her biggest seller, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan, See introduced...
12) Crank
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Crank trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Kristina is introduced to crystal meth on a visit to her wayward father, and her drug use soon takes over, leaving her "starving for speed" and for boys who will leave her scarred and pregnant.
13) Sugar snow
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HarperCollins Publications
Pub. Date
c1998
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A cold snap late in winter allows a pioneer girl and her family to enjoy the rich sugar candy made from maple tree sap.
14) Wolf in the snow
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Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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When a wolf cub and little girl are lost in a snowstorm they must find their way home.
16) First snow
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Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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Follows a young girl's adventures, including rolling a snowman and making snow angels, as she explores the wonder of snow.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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When eleven-year-old Iris sneaks out at night to make snow angels, she was not expecting to raise the ghost of Avery Moore, a girl her own age; but bringing to light the segregated and abandoned black cemetery seems like the perfect way to help Avery get the recognition she craves, and it will also be a good idea for the school project about the history of her small North Carolina town, where racial tensions are never far from the surface--only it...
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Wild River volume 1
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English
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"If there's one gift Erika Sheraton does not want for Christmas, it's a vacation. Ordered to take time off, the workaholic surgeon reluctantly trades in her scrubs for a ski suit and heads to Wild River, Alaska. Her friend Cassie owns a tour company that offers adventures to fit every visitor. But nothing compares to the adrenaline rush Erika feels on being reunited with Cassie's brother, Reed Reynolds. Gone is the buttoned-up girl Reed remembers....
20) See her run
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Running for her life could leave her breathless. A former reporter for the Los Angeles Times, Aloa Snow knows what it means to be down and out. Once highly respected, she's now blackballed, in debt, and dealing with the echoes of an eating disorder. Until she gets one more shot to prove that she has what it takes--with a story some would die for..After the body of a promising young athlete, Hayley Poole, is recovered in the Nevada desert, authorities...