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Molly's life looks perfect at least on the surface. But no one in her neighborhood knows what living with her demanding husband Tanner is really like. They know even less about the life she left behind in Florida. Back then, Molly was Maddy Carmichael and after the events of her high school prom - and the act of vengeance that followed - she fled north and reinvented herself. But the veneer of Molly's polished existence is finally cracking.
3) Mantrapped
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The Booker Prize nominee's quirky novel about a man and woman trading bodies, supplemented with her personal commentary: "Tremendously fun to read."-Booklist
Described as a "reality novel," Mantrapped reveals, in alternating chapters, personal reflections and observations of the acclaimed author Fay Weldon and the fictional story of a broke, fortysomething woman who brushes past a handsome male newspaper editor-and in that moment, mysteriously switches...
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Rachael, whose mother is Danish and father is an African-American, loses both her parents and is forced to move to a new city to live with her strict African-American grandmother, but when she is immersed into an African-American community, her physical appearance draws attention and Rachel struggles with her own uncertainties about her identity.
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After noticing his identity has been stolen and used to create various social media accounts, a man with a troubled past, Paul O'Rourke, begins to wonder if his virtual alter ego is actually a better version of himself.
"Paul O'Rourke is a man made of contradictions: he loves the world, but doesn't know how to live in it. He's a Luddite addicted to his iPhone, a dentist with a nicotine habit, a rabid Red Sox fan devastated by their victories, and...
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Lt. Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton and his devout wife, Kate, bring three-year-old Benji from Nagasaki to live with them on their Illinois farm in the late nineteenth century, claiming he is an orphan, but when it becomes known that Benji is the son of Benjamin and a geisha, shock runs throughout their entire community, and Benji is freed to explore his own identity and the truth about his mother's death.
9) Darkstalker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Long before the SandWing and the Dragonet Prophecy, Darkstalker, half NightWing and half IceWing, is hatched under the three moons--born into a divided heritage, he is destined to become the most powerful and dangerous dragon Pyrhhia will ever know, and it will take the combined efforts of a SeaWing named Fatham and a NightWing seer named Clearsight to come up with a way to save all the kingdoms from his anger.
11) Why am I me?
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In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
12) The dragon heir
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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Jason Haley, who feels left out of the action as the Trinity prepares for the attack of the wizards, runs across a powerful talisman made of opal-the Dragonheart-and the guardians take the potential weapon away while Madison Moss, who is slowly losing her power, feels the pull of the stone as well.
13) Moon rising
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Wings of fire volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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"When Moonwatcher, a young NightWing with secret powers, begins school at the academy started by the dragonets of destiny after the end of the war, she soon realizes that someone is attacking the students. Moon must choose whether to help or continue to hide her gifts"--
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At a dinner party in the posh London suburb of Greenwich, Miles Garth suddenly leaves the table midway through the meal, locks himself in an upstairs room, and refuses to leave. An eclectic group of neighbors and friends slowly gathers around the house, and the story of Miles is one told from the points of view of four of them: a woman in her forties called Anna, a man in his sixties called Mark, a woman in her eighties called May, and a ten-year-old...
16) Mixed me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Told in rhyming text, Mike is a mixed-race boy, completely comfortable with his identity and his parents--and his wild, curly hair.
17) Picture perfect
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Sofia feels that because she looks so much like her older sisters, nobody notices her--so when school picture day comes around she comes up with a way to stand out.
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"Mr. and Mrs. Cho run a successful chain of Hawai'ian plate lunch restaurants, and their adult children are finding their way in the world: 21-year-old Grace is graduating in a few months, and 25-year-old Jacob is teaching English in Seoul. They're set to take over the restaurants when Umma and Appa retire. But when Jacob is captured by the South Korean government for attempting to run across the DMZ, the Chos' peaceful lives are shattered. What could...
19) Defy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Seventeen-year-old Alexa's parents were killed by a sorcerer during a raid, so she has disguised herself as a boy, joined Antion's army, and earned a place on Prince Damian's guard--but Antion is ruled by an evil king, and "Alex" must find a way to defeat him and protect her prince.
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Wings of fire volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy very seriously, so Morrowseer's devastating news changes everything--now she must forge a new identity, and find a way to stop the futile and destructive war between the dragon clans.
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