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2) The new girl
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Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Guided by her rules, nine-year-old Allie works to get past being just the new girl at school, eagerly awaits the arrival of her kitten, and faces turmoil when her grandmother visits while the family is still settling into their new home.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Sebastian Prendergast, having left the safety of the geodesic dome in which he lived after his grandmother had a stroke, meets sixteen-year-old Jared Whitcomb, and together the boys experience the angst of being teenagers while forming a punk rock band, but when Jared's grandma asks him to return to her home, he is faced with choosing between her dying wish and his newfound life.
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Nancy Bell's best-selling Biggie series combines Texas small-town humor with tantalizing mysteries. As J.R., Biggie Weatherford's 12-year-old grandson, recounts Biggie's uncanny ability to solve the peskiest cases, his observations are spiced with his wry adolescent view of grownups. A trip to a nearby town introduces J.R. to a ghost and presents Biggie with a perplexing local murder.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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A remarkable debut that has been called a hybrid of Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird and Myla Goldberg's Bee Season, The Center of Everything is the fictional story of 10-year-old math prodigy Evelyn Bucknow. Living in Kansas with her single mother and deeply religious grandmother, Evelyn believes she is destined to marry Travis, the boy next door. But as she grows up, she experiences the heartbreak of a love not meant to be.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
Description
Rebecca Wells's wonderful third book in her Ya-Ya trilogy, which includes Little Altars Everywhere and Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, is sure to provide reading that makes you laugh and cry, a book that will break your heart and mend it again.
Ya-Yas in Bloom reveals the roots of the Ya-Yas' friendship in the 1930s, following Vivi, Teensy, Caro and Necie through sixty years of marriage, child-raising, and hair-raising family secrets.
When...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Robbie Darko is an old-school, pull-a-rabbit-out-of-your-hat-style magician, but despite his best efforts, something always goes wrong with his tricks until crotchety Grandma Melvyn moves in and teaches him something about the true meaning of magic.
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English
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Cantankerous and vinegar-tongued Grandmama, from Anne Perry's Charlotte and Thomas Pitt series, is the leading character in this Christmas novel, which unfolds in the chilly, windswept Romney Marshes off the English Channel. Grandmama arrives on a holiday visit to the home of Charlotte's parents, where a fellow guest-an outcast from her own family-is subsequently murdered. Like the heroes before her in Anne Perry's Christmas novels, Grandmama is called...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Tara Doucet is grieving for her grandmother, and her family is falling apart around her, but it seems like her grandmother has preplanned an elaborate itinerary for her to follow which will lead her and her sister Riley from Louisiana to a South Pacific island and into danger--and everywhere she turns butterflies follow.
14) In her shoes
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English
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In Her Shoes observes two sisters, Rose and Maggie, the brain and the beauty, as they make journeys of discovery. Along the way, they borrow each other’s clothes, boyfriends, and make peace with their most intimate enemies-each other.
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Jasper John Dooley volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Feeling left behind when his beloved Nan leaves for a week-long cruise, Jasper John Dooley realizes that he will be less lonely if he has his own adventures, which include a stapling mishap and a hamster escape.
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Biggie Weatherford, the wealthiest woman in Job's Crossing, Texas, is indignant about the plans to put a garbage dump next to her ancestral cemetery, but certainly not angry enough to poison the mayor's angel food cake. With typical zeal, Biggie sets out to discover who killed the mayor, while continuing to campaign against the dump.
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Biggie Weatherford, the matriarch who just about runs the town of Job's Crossing, Texas, is up to her neck in problems when Firman Birdsong is found murdered under a table in the kitchen of his chicken restaurant and her grandson J.R.'s other grandmother shows up trying to claim custody of the ten-year-old boy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Little Red Riding Hood is worried about her Granny. Granny's recovered from her scare with the Big Bad Wolf, but she's lonely. Thankfully Little Red Riding Hood is on the case! She is ready to find her Granny some new hobbies and some new friends.
20) The ebony swan
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English
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A young woman, at a crossroad in her life, returns to her maternal grandfather. There she searches for the truth about her mother's mysterious death and her own past.
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