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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Written by a very smart, very self-aware, and very charming thirteen-year-old boy with autism, this is a one-of-a-kind memoir that demonstrates how an autistic mind thinks, feels, perceives, and responds in ways few of us can imagine. Parents and family members who never thought they could get inside the head of their autistic loved one at last have a way to break through to the curious, subtle, and complex life within. With disarming honesty and...
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.
4) Son
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Series
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Unlike the other Birthmothers in her utopian community, teenaged Claire forms an attachment to her baby, feeling a great loss when he is taken to the Nurturing Center to be adopted by a family unit.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Aspiring artist Abby decides that in order to give her art "more heart" she will complete a list of tasks over the summer, ranging from facing a fear to falling in love, but she soon finds the list more difficult than she imagined.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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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.
7) Stray
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Epic, rewarding, and provocative, Elissa Sussmans original fairy tale tells the story of Aislynn, a princess who misbehaves and must give up her royal trappings and enter a life of service as a fairy godmother. Booklist wrote, Sussman delightfully mixed dystopian tension with retold fairy tales, and the result is something wholly original. A cross between The Handmaids Tale and Wicked, with a dash of Grimm and Disney thrown in, this original fairy...
8) Impostors
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a world that is rapidly descending into chaos, Frey and Rafi are twin sisters, but few people know of Frey's existence, because she has been raised to be her sister's body double and lethal bodyguard, while Rafi has been raised to further the family's political power--but when their father sends Frey in her sister's place as collateral in a tricky deal, Col, the son of a rival leader, gets close enough to begin to suspect something, and Frey must...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
New York, December 8, 1980: The announcement shocked the world. Beatles founder and legendary musician John Lennon had been murdered in front of his New York home. With no warning, a lone gunman opened fire, shooting Lennon in the back just as Lennon returned from a recording session with his wife, Yoko Ono. Husband, father of two, cultural icon, and hero to millions, Lennon was dead. Around the globe, people mourned the loss of a man who had stood...
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