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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Twelve-year-old Mitch, spending the summer with his grandparents at Bird Lake after his parents' separation, becomes friends with ten-year-old Spencer, who has returned with his family to the lake where his little brother drowned years earlier, and as the boys spend time together and their friendship grows, each of them begins to heal.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In Wisconsin, fourth-grader Ida B spends happy hours being home-schooled and playing in her family's apple orchard, until her mother begins treatment for breast cancer and her parents must sell part of the orchard and send her to public school.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 31
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English
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A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
7) Dead center
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In Dead Center, we find our beloved Andy carpenter reentering the dating scene – God Bless him. Surprisingly he’s a hot commodity, but that’s not necessarily a good thing. His friends are offering up their two cents on his dating life, but of course they know as little about the dating world as Andy. One thing that rings true, whether the ladies he meets are terrific or not, is that the spectra of his longtime love Laurie hangs over his head....
8) Send for me
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"From the author of the highly praised Days of Awe: a sweeping, achingly beautiful new novel that moves between Germany on the eve of World War II and present day Wisconsin, unspooling a story of love, longing, and the ceaseless push and pull of motherhood"--
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After an emergency police call from a lake house on Wisconsin's Lake Mondac, Deputy Brynn drives up to the deserted lake in search of answers. There, Brynn uncovers not only a gruesome murder, but a terrified witness to the murder, city-girl Michelle. And thus, a heart-pounding chase through the Wisconsin wilderness commences as the murderers pursue Brynn and Michelle, who must learn to trust each other if they want to survive.
10) Stella Maris
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"From the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road comes the second volume of a two-volume masterpiece: Stella Maris is an intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric facility seeks to understand her own existence. Black River Falls, Wisconsin, 1972: Alicia Western, twenty years old, with forty thousand dollars in a plastic bag, admits herself to the hospital. A doctoral candidate in mathematics at the...
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