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3) Unsettled
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
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English
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On All Other Nights is a joyful middle-grade anthology centered around Passover-from an exciting array of bestselling and award-winning Jewish creators!
Welcome to Passover, a Jewish holiday that has been celebrated for thousands of years. The heart of Passover is the seder-a meal full of rituals, special foods, and songs-where we gather together to retell the story of the Exodus, when the Jewish people achieved freedom from Egypt.
And...
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Pub. Date
2023
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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*A National Book Award Finalist*
From the author of Nowhere Boy - called "a resistance novel for our times" by The New York Times - comes a brilliant middle-grade survival story that traces a harrowing family secret back to the Holodomor, a terrible famine that devastated Soviet Ukraine in the 1930s.
Thirteen-year-old Matthew is miserable. His journalist dad is stuck overseas indefinitely, and his mom has moved
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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A Valentine's Day dance at Greg's middle school has turned his world upside down until an unexpected twist gives Greg a partner for the dance and leaves his best friend Rowley the odd man out.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"In Diper överlöde, book 17 of the Diary of a Wimpy Kid series from #1 international bestselling author Jeff Kinney, Greg Heffley is finding out that the road to fame and glory comes with some hard knocks. When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodricks band, Löded Diper, Greg doesn't realize what he's getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band members, and money troubles are all part of the rock...
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"Andy Cohen has taken on the most important job of his life-father- and boy (and girl!) does he have a lot to say about it! One of Andy Cohen's most momentous years starts off with a hangover the morning after an epic New Year's Eve broadcast. But Andy doesn't have time to dwell on the drama, as his role as media mogul is now matched with the responsibilities, joys, and growing pains of parenthood. This fast-paced, mile-a-minute look behind the scenes...
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Diary of an ice princess volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Diary it's time to snow big or go home. Claudia is coming up to the clouds for a sleepover! I've spent the night at Claudia's house before, and it's the best thing on earth (or in the sky).: trampolines, pizza and staying up late! That's a lot to live up to, Diary. Fortunately, I have the perfect sleepover planned. There's just one small snowball of a problem: Great-aunt Eastia is visiting. She loves me, but she has some definite opinions on Proper...
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English
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A brave, brilliant, and unprecedented examination of menopause.
Menopause hit Darcey Steinke hard. First came hot flashes. Then insomnia. Then depression. As she struggled to express what was happening to her, she came up against a culture of silence. Throughout history, the natural physical transition of menopause has been viewed as something to deny, fear, and eradicate. Menstruation signals fertility and life, and childbirth is revered as the...
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A collection of poetry and random thoughts Describing my journey through life. Including mental abuse, trauma and a bucket load of disorders that decided to tag along for the ride. I'm hoping to give a small peek into what a person suffering from mental disorders and abuse goes through just trying to make it through one more day.
12) Diary of a dummy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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"What do Zoey and Billy Traister do when they find an abandoned ventriloquist dummy in an empty lot? They take him home, of course! As the pair tries to figure out why someone would throw out a perfectly good dummy, they accidentally bring Slappy to life. A night of horror ensues until the siblings put Slappy back into his case. But when they find Slappy's diary and clues that could lead to gold, they'll have to find Slappy's second diary while evading...
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English
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"From one of China's most acclaimed and decorated writers comes a powerful first-person account of life in Wuhan during the COVID-19 outbreak. On January 25, 2020, after the central government imposed a lockdown in Wuhan, acclaimed Chinese writer Fang Fang began publishing an online diary. In the days and weeks that followed, Fang Fang's nightly postings gave voice to the fears, frustrations, anger, and hope of millions of her fellow citizens, reflecting...
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English
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When jaded and overworked Los Angeles literary agent Daniel Ashe hires Annie Doherty, an Irish dog walker, he's simply looking for someone to care for his dogs so he can focus on landing a dream client and save his career. He certainly doesn't expect to come home each night to find Annie has left him a new and fantastical story about the secret lives of his dogs--or that she's cast him, a man who doesn't believe in love, as a romantic hero.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Jared and his mom are taking a shortcut through Woodland Cemetery at night when they encounter a disoriented girl. They drive her to her home on a desolate road out of town. When they arrive, they realize the girl has vanished. The house looks deserted, but a porch light turns on and an upstairs window creaks open. They ask about the girl, and an old woman's voice assures them everything is fine. After conducting some reseach, Jared learns about...
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No film critic has ever been as influentialor as beloved as Roger Ebert. Over more than four decades, he built a reputation writing reviews for the Chicago Sun-Times and, later, arguing onscreen with rival Chicago Tribune critic Gene Siskel and later Richard Roeper about the movies they loved and loathed. But Ebert went well beyond a mere thumbs up or thumbs down. Readers could always sense the man behind the words, a man with interests beyond film...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Mitch hears bells chiming one night in the old chapel in Evergreen Cemetery. The chapel isn't used anymore and he's seen ghosts there before. He sneaks over and finds some hobgoblins. After a seemingly harmless and amusing encounter, Mitch returns home to bed. But while he sleeps, the mischievous creatures break into his home and damage the kitchen. And Mitch gets blamed for it! Can Mitch and the Zombie Hunters reach a truce with the hobgoblins before...
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"By his early thirties, Stephen Fry--writer, comedian, star of stage and screen--had, as they say, "made it." Much loved on British television, author of a critically acclaimed and bestselling first novel, with a glamorous and glittering cast of friends, he had more work than was perhaps good for him. As the '80s drew to a close, he began to burn the candle at both ends. Writing and recording by day, and haunting a neverending series of celebrity...
19) To the moon!
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
The moon is amazing! It has craters, "oceans" of lava, and lots of awesome space rocks. Neil's imagination takes him on a trip to the moon. Join him as he explores mountains and hills, spots a famous astronaut's footprints, and collects space rocks for his science project. Find out more about that big round object in the night sky.
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Mystery with recipes volume 15
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English
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"Sisters Bernie and Libby Simmons are reunited with a distant relative who wants them to cater a New Year's Eve event--and help find a guilty party. It's been years since Bernie and Libby's parents became estranged from Ada Sinclair's side of the family--though the reasons for the rift are lost to history. The sisters, however, are intrigued when Ada makes contact. She tells them about the long-ago deaths of her father and his business partner, which...