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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2019 by Kirkus Reviews
Edwin Green's ex-girlfriend is famous. We're talking cover-of-every-tabloid-in-the-grocery-store-line famous. She dumped Edwin one year ago on what he refers to as Black Saturday, and in hopes of winning her back, he's spent the last twelve months trying to become famous himself. It hasn't gone well.
But when a history class assignment pairs Edwin with Parker Haddaway, the mysterious new girl at...
22) War stories
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Twelve-year-old Trevor Firestone loves playing war-based video games and he idolizes his great-grandfather Jacob who came home from World War II a celebrated hero; now ninety-three Jacob wants to retrace his journey in memory and reality and return to thesmall French village that his unit liberated, and Trevor is going with him--but not everyone in the town want Jacob to come, and Trevor is going to learn an important lesson: real war is not a video...
23) Two summers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Two possible futures face Summer: either she will spend the summer in Provence with her father, uncovering family secrets, and exploring the old world, or she will stay in upstate New York, coping with her mother, and dreaming of her long time crush--and which future unfolds will depend on whether or not she answers a phone call.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A 2017 Newbery Honor Book
Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award
An exciting and hilarious medieval adventure from the bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm. Beautifully illustrated throughout!
The Inquisitor's Tale is one of the most celebrated children's books of the year! ★ New York Times Bestseller ★ A New York Times...
Winner of the Sydney Taylor Book Award
An exciting and hilarious medieval adventure from the bestselling author of A Tale Dark and Grimm. Beautifully illustrated throughout!
The Inquisitor's Tale is one of the most celebrated children's books of the year! ★ New York Times Bestseller ★ A New York Times...
25) Puss in Boots
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Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A clever cat wins for his master a fortune and the hand of a princess.
26) The darkest hour
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In 1943 sixteen-year-old Lucie Blaise is the newest recruit of Covert Ops, a secret espionage and sabotage organization of girls, and her mission in German occupied France is to track down information about a weapon that could wipe out all of Western Europe--and then dismantle it before it can be used.
27) Allies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe on their evil quest to conquer the world. The only way to stop them? The biggest, most top-secret operation ever, with the Allied nations coming together -- by land, sea, and air -- to storm German-occupied France. Welcome to D-Day. Dee Carpenter, a young U.S. soldier, is on a boat racing toward the French coast. Dee -- along with his brothers-in-arms -- is terrified. He feels the weight of World War...
28) Cake eater
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English
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In the year 3070, App sensation, style icon, and social influencer Marie Antoinette arrives in Versailles to marry Louis-Auguste and together, after witnessing people outside of their gilded world suffering and starving, risk everything to set things right.
29) Madeline
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Madeline (Ludwig Bemelmans) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The smallest and bravest one is Madeline, whose adventurous spirit and outrageous antics have delighted boys and girls for over seventy years. Now even the youngest readers can enjoy this timeless favorite in a sturdy board book format.
30) Anatole
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Anatole books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A French mouse decides to earn an honest living by tasting the cheese in a cheese factory and leaving notes about its quality.
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Yellow Jacket
Pub. Date
[2018.]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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While helping her granny Collette evacuate to a makeshift shelter in Brooklyn during Superstorm Sandy, Lily uncovers secrets of her grandmother's past as a member of the French Resistance during WWII.
32) Paris for two
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Twelve-year-old Petunia is used to living in the shadow of her fourteen-year-old half-sister, Ava, their mother's favorite, but now that the whole family has moved to Paris for a year, Pet finds herself stepping into the light, making new friends, uncovering secrets, and, inspired by the classic French dolls she has found, revealing an unexpected talent for designing dresses--and her beautiful sister does not take it well.
33) Tunnel of bones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Now in Paris with her parents who are filming their TV show about the world's haunted cities, Cassidy Blake (who can see ghosts) and her friend Jacob (who is a ghost) are alert for trouble, especially when the filming takes them into the underground Catacombs, the empire of the dead, where Cassidy accidentally awakens a powerful poltergeist spirit--one whose mystery she must solve before his power in unleashed on the whole city.
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she's dreamed of and worked...
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"It's August in Paris, but 17-year-old Khayyam-American, Desi, Muslim, the only child of Chicago-based academics with a summer apartment on the Ile de la Cite-is at a crossroads. Uncertain of her relationship with Zaid, the boy back home, she can't hold on to the past. Stung by her dream college's rejection of the essay she wrote to apply early, she doesn't see a clear future. Khayyam is alone in her belief that the mysterious "raven-tressed lady"...
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Aristokittens volume 2
Publisher
Disney Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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While hosting a Dog Biscuit Bake-Off in honor of their new puppy friends, a trio of siblings--the Aristokittens--are pitted against each other, which threatens to make this contest a furry fiasco!
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Confessions (James Patterson) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"Sixteen-year-old Tandy Angel moves to Paris for a fresh start with her siblings and to be reunited with James, her lost love, but her detective work soon uncovers long-buried family secrets that threaten to destroy her life"--
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"They say Léon Delafosse will be France's next great pianist. But despite his being the youngest student ever accepted into the prestigious Paris Conservatory, there's no way an impoverished musician can make his way in 1890s Paris without an outside patron. Young gossip columnist Marcel Proust takes Léon under his wing, and the boys game their way through an extravagant new world. When the larger-than-life Count Robert de Montesquiou-Fézensac...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Winicker Wallace is forced to move to Paris when her mother starts a new job. She cannot find a single thing about Paris that she likes, except maybe that her Grandma Balthazar is there with her. It rains too much. Winicker's neighbor is irritatingly perfect. And, there is a mean girl in class who makes Winicker want to jet right back to her old house in Massachusetts. When Winicker finds herself in a scary situation, she must accept help from...