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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Eleanor Estes's The Hundred Dresses won a Newbery Honor in 1945 and has never been out of print since. At the heart of the story is Wanda Petronski, a Polish girl in a Connecticut school who is ridiculed by her classmates for wearing the same faded blue dress every day. Wanda claims she has one hundred dresses at home, but everyone knows she doesn't and bullies her mercilessly. The class feels terrible when Wanda is pulled out of the school, but by...
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Laura and Casey were once inseparable, until a shocking betrayal sent Laura running into a new life, leaving Casey and a first love in her wake. But the past is impossible to escape, and now, after seventeen years away, Laura is pulled home and into a reunion with Casey she can't resist.
5) Islands
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Anny Butler is a caretaker, a nurturer, first for her own brothers and sisters, and then as a director of an agency devoted to the welfare of children. What she has never had is a real family. That changes when she meets and marries Lewis Aiken, an exuberant surgeon fifteen years older than Anny. When they marry, she finds her family-not a traditional one, but a group of Charleston childhood friends who are inseparable, who are one another's surrogate...
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(Lucy Maud),Anne of Green Gables volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Anne's children make friends with the unusual Meredith children. Their minister father is looking for a wife and the town bubbles with interest at his efforts.
7) Angel
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From New York and Hollywood to France, a family of four friends are compelled to reevaluate their lives and strengthen their commitments.
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In 1963, Dwayne Hallston spends his time perfecting his musical talents and dreaming of a career as a musician with his African-American friend, Larry Lime, who wants to be just like pianist Thelonious Monk, but as racial tensions in their small town rise, the pair find their friendship tested and their dreams for the future begin to crumble.
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Sarah McClure, unable to secure a job after she and her husband move to the small town of Waterford, Pennsylvania, learns some lessons about life, love, and family when she reluctantly takes a temporary position helping the elderly, cantankerous Sylvia Compson prepare her family estate for sale.
15) Invisible lizard
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Napoleon the chameleon tries to make friends with animals that live near him in the jungle, but has a hard time being seen.
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"Nantucket writer Madeline King couldn't have picked a worse time to have writer's block. Her deadline is looming, her bills are piling up, and inspiration is in short supply. Madeline's best friend Grace, is hard at work transforming her garden into the envy of the island with the help of a ruggedly handsome landscape architect. Before she realizes it, Grace is on the verge of a decision that will irrevocably change her life. Could Grace's crisis...
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