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IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Ravi has just moved to the United States from India and has always been at the top of his class; Joe has lived in the same town his whole life and has learning problems--but when their lives intersect in the first week of fifth grade they are brought together by a common enemy (the biggest bully in their class) and the need to take control of their lives.
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Noah's ark is one of the most revered stories in the Bible. Everyone who has heard the story knows how Noah and his family painstakingly built an ark to house them and two of each kind of animal in the world during the big flood. What people don't know from the Bible is how the animals were affected, how they felt, or what they did. These questions are answered in this entertaining story, Save Me a Seat on the Ark, as it tells the story through the...
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"Lewis J. Stadlen is a great actor. He is also a superb writer. SAVE ME A SEAT is a wickedly accurate account of the grit and the glory of a year on the road with a great American musical. Stadlen is willing to name names, to defy taboos and fearlessly confront himself, his country, and a business that has changed drastically over a half century he has served brilliantly. The result is endlessly interesting, richly entertaining and very moving."-...
4) Peacekeeper
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Harrison
I loved Laney Landers before most people learned to read. Blonde hair, blue eyes that rivaled the ocean, and an invisible halo over her head. She stole my heart the same day she threw sand in my face. What started as a friendship grew into so much more. I thought she'd be my forever. But then life threw me a curveball and I changed course. Laney moved on and found a different happily ever after... While I wallowed in grief and regret. And...
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"Oggie Cooder loves cheese so much that he carries a slice of cheese with him wherever he goes. It's not just for a snack-Oggie is an excellent charver. (Charving is when you chew a piece of cheese to carve it in the shape of something.) The kids at school think Oggie's charving is a little strange. But when a big TV show comes looking for people with unusual talents, Oggie is suddenly Mr. Popular. Can Oggie charve a path to fame and score an invite...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"It's Nimra Sharif's first time going to public school. Nimra's nervous, but as long as she has her best friend, Jenna, by her side, she figures she can take on just about anything. Unfortunately, middle school is hard. The teachers are mean, the schedule is confusing, and Jenna starts giving hijab-wearing Nimra the cold shoulder aorund the other kids. Desperate to fit in and save her friendship with Jenna, Nimra accepts an unlikely invitation to...
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From the award-winning author of SO B. IT, a story about family, friendship, and...pie!
When Alice's Aunt Polly, the Pie Queen of Ipswitch, passes away, she takes with her the secret to her world-famous pie-crust recipe. Or does she? In her will, Polly leaves the recipe to her extraordinarily fat, remarkably disagreeable cat, Lardo . . . and then leaves Lardo in the care of Alice.Suddenly, the whole town is wondering how you leave a recipe to a cat....
8) Honey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When she suspects that her father has a girlfriend, Melody and her best friend are determined to figure out who it is and why it is a secret.
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"In one of the year's most anticipated thrillers #1 New York Times bestseller Sarah Pekkanen calls "Alex Finlay's best yet," What Have We Done is a tale about the lives we leave behind and the secrets we carry with us forever. A stay-at-home mom with a past. A has-been rock star with a habit. A reality TV producer with a debt. Three disparate lives. One deadly secret. Twenty five years ago, Jenna, Donnie, and Nico were the best of friends, a bond...
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Percy Jackson & the Olympians volume 5
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume Bk. 5
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 5
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume Bk. 5
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon.
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Peachtree Publishing Company Inc
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"This entertaining book navigates readers through the history of car production and offers a front-seat view of the science and engineering that makes the world's most important vehicle safe for us to drive."--
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What does the Bible teach and what does it not teach? Does the Bible Tell Me So? addresses this question by first examining how the Bible has been misinterpreted in the past and then asking if the same mistakes are being made today. The topic of how to interpret scripture so as to correctly understand what it teaches is extremely important not only for creating unity among Christian denominations but for civil dialogue and peaceful decision making....
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Nero Wolfe mysteries volume 56
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English
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"Archie Goodwin and Saul Panzer have ventured into the wilds of northern Manhattan to watch the Giants take on the Dodgers at the Polo Grounds. Panzer spies state senator Orson Milbank, a silver-haired scoundrel with enemies in every corner of upstate New York, sitting in the box seats. In the fourth inning, a monstrous line drive brings every fan in the grandstand to his feet -- every fan save for one silver-haired senator, who has been shot dead...
15) Toxic terror!
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"Angelina Butterworth couldn't understand why people kept polluting our planet until the day she discovered it was the diabolical plan of aliens bent on destroying Earth! In this entertaining and instructive narrative, readers will be on the edge of their seats as they find out if Angelina can escape the slimy tentacles of the evil Toxlings while learning what people can do in real life to stop our world from becoming an actual toxic wasteland. This...
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American poets continuum volume No. 147
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English
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An "unleashed love song" to her late grandmother, Nickole Brown's collection brings her brassy, bawdy, tough-as-new-rope grandmother to life. With hair teased to Jesus, mile-long false eyelashes, and a white Cadillac Eldorado with atomic-red leather seats, Fanny is not your typical granny rocking in a chair. Instead, think of a character that looks a lot like Eva Gabor in Green Acres, but darkened with a shadow of Flannery O'Connor. A cross-genre...
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Chronicles of St. Mary's volume 7
Publisher
Night Shade Books
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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"The seventh book in the bestselling British madcap time-travelling series, served with a dash of wit that seems to be everyone's cup of tea. Behind the seemingly innocuous facade of St. Mary's Institute of Historical Research, a different kind of academic work is taking place. Just don't call it "time travel"-these historians "investigate major historical events in contemporary time." And they aren't your harmless eccentrics either; a more accurate...
19) She's not there
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"A vanished child, a family in turmoil, and a fateful phone call that brings the torments of the past into the harrowing present. the New York Times bestselling author of Someone Is Watching weaves these spellbinding elements into a gripping novel of psychological suspense--a must-read for fans of Laura Lippman and Mary Higgins Clark. "I think my real name is Samantha. I think I'm your daughter." Caroline Shipley's heart nearly stops when she hears...