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English
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Sixteen-year-old Rain strives to maintain a calm environment for her autistic twin brother Ethan, but her role as his reliable anchor faces uncertainty when Ethan seeks to become more independent and Rain ventures out of her comfort zone and starts dating her school crush, Liam.
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English
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"Liza is Henry's big sister, and Henry is Liza's little brother. As long as there has been a Henry and Liza, they have always done everything together. Haircuts, birthday parties, tree climbing, even flu shots. Liza and Henry. Henry and Liza. But that all changes when Liza starts school for the first time, heading off to kindergarten and leaving her little brother behind. Henry is incredulous. How can Liza do this to him?"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Lucy Willows discovers that her father had an illegitimate child, now an eight-year-old boy who lives in the same town, and she begins to question everything she thought she knew about her family and life.
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Series
Alice McKinley. Prequels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
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Fourth-grader Alice tries unsuccessfully to avoid embarrassing mistakes and to establish better relations with her older brother Lester. Can someone die of embarrassment? Everything seems to go wrong for Alice: whether it's being seen in her underpants by Donald Sheavers from next door or saying dumb things in class. Worst of all, she's managed to get Lester really mad at her. Will life ever get any easier? Fourth grade can't end soon enough for Alice!...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
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Aurora County, Mississippi, is only the latest stop on the Cakes' nomadic lifestyle, opening bakeries wherever they go; but Emma Alabama Lane Cake (only girl of the six Cake children) is sick of it, and determined not to form any friendships here because they will just disappear as soon as the family moves again--but Aurora County has other ideas, and so does a girl named Ruby Lavender who plans to teach Emma a thing or two about friendship.
10) My sister, Daisy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
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An older brother reacts to his younger sibling's gender transformation with compassion. Includes a note from the author.
11) Snowboard sham
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
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English
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When Will Pastora's family arrived at the Sorenson Resort for a family vacation he did not know that there was going to be a snowboarding competition; he enjoys snowboarding, but he is embarrassed to admit that he is only a beginner so he signs up at a higher level--and soon realizes that tackling the more difficult slopes is dangerous and that he needs some help to admit his error in front of his new, more experienced acquaintances.
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English
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"When we first met him in Kindergarten in A Squiggly Story, this boy figured out how to tell a story by writing it in squiggles. Now he's in Grade 2, and he's writing another story -- this time, an autobiography for school. Readers will delight in following along on this first-person journey as the boy works through the basic steps for crafting a piece of writing to arrive at his very own Story of Me by Me. With direction from his teacher, advice...
13) Switcharound
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Forced to spend a summer with their father and his "new" family, Caroline, age eleven, and J.P., age thirteen, are given unpleasant responsibilities for which they are determined to get revenge.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Micah hopes for a miracle transformation before starting middle school but as she is torn between twins Luke and Megan she sees that the real transformation must be in how she sees herself.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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After being saved from a disastrous landslide by an extraordinary goat that blocks their usual way to school, twins Pollyread and Jackson, living with their parents high in the mountains of Jamaica, find the strange goat reappearing at crucial intervals as their day-to-day life is changed by series of mysterious events involving the return of a local troublemaker and secrets from their family's past.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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"Twins Domingo and Carmen Rivera are ready for the big Mega Meet, when the four camps compete in an annual cross-country running competition. But this year there are problems: in the boys' race there is a pile-up, and Andy, Domingo's old friend, manages to prevent him from winning. When Andy sends a text warning Carmen to watch out in the girls' race the twins become convinced that some of the other kids are cheating by working together to sabotage...
17) Back on track
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Addison Jones would love to try out for the track team, and she knows that she is faster than the other girls, but her single mom is working two jobs and every day after school Addison has to take care of her little brother--without telling her mom Addison and her best friend, Sofia, work out a plan that will allow her to run, but soon the strain and guilt of lying to her mother begins to take its toll.
18) Climbing strong
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Mike Gordon cannot resist a dare, but climbing the school flagpole gets him into trouble not just at school, but with his parents, who are usually preoccupied with his younger sister who has muscular dystrophy; but when a family friend introduces him to rock climbing, Mike finds an outlet for his thrill-seeking behavior--and just maybe his parents will finally pay some attention to him.
19) Love, Penelope
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Fifth-grader Penny writes a series of letters to her future sibling, including facts about their Oakland, California, home, questions about whether their moms will ever marry, and especially that he or she is loved.
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