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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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"Rion Kwirk comes from a rather odd family. His mother named him and his sisters after her favorite constellations, and his father makes funky-flavored jellybeans for a living. One sister acts as if she's always on stage, and the other is a walking dictionary. But no one in the family is more odd than Rion's grandfather, Papa Kwirk. He's the kind of guy who shows up on his motorcycle only on holidays handing out crossbows and stuffed squirrels as...
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A hilarious and irreverent coming-of-age YA novel in which three teens facing uncertain futures embark on a madcap adventure that challenges each of their identities.Hattie Larken doesn't know if she's ever really been real in her life. A compulsive liar with a quick-witted response to everything, she's willing to do whatever it takes to just skate through the rest of high school until she can graduate and escape it the mind-numbing monotony of this...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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While her grandmother was alive, Emma's world was filled with enchantment. But now Gram is gone, and suddenly strange spots are appearing on Emma's skin. Soon, she's diagnosed with vitiligo-a condition that makes patches of her skin lose their color-and the magic in her world is suddenly replaced with school bullies and doctor appointments. But when Emma writes one last story in the journal she shared with Gram, something strange happens. Someone...
6) Didier
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Le roman québécois Les quatre saisons: Didier gravite autour des thèmes universels que sont l'amour, la mort et l'amitié au masculin, des sources d'inspiration privilégiées par Luc Desilets. Cette fois-ci, l'auteur met surtout l'accent sur la relation père-fils. Depuis la mort de son père, Didier rêve de faire publier un ouvrage dans lequel il lui rend hommage. Il envoie son manuscrit à différentes maisons d'édition et essuie malheureusement...
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What do you do when you're not ready for love, but love is ready for you?
Formerly "Malibu Betrayals". Hollywood screenwriter Samantha Dekker spent the last year picking up the pieces after her husband's suicide. Along with grief, guilt, and tabloid hell, she's had to watch helplessly as the film industry slammed its doors in her face. Now Sam has the rarest of Hollywood opportunities-a second chance...working with the one man she swore never to...
8) Save Steve
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"Steve Stevenson is a jerk. That might not be a cool thing to say about someone with cancer, but it's true. Yeah, he throws legendary parties and is the most popular guy in school, but he also loves humiliating pranks and Cardi B, and he doesn't recycle. Worst of all, he's dating Kaia--the girl of nice guy Cam's dreams. But when a desperate Kaia asks Cam to help her raise money to pay for Steve's experimental treatment, Cam offers to organize the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 730L
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English
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The morning after her eighteenth birthday, Andrea McNulty wakes up in a motel room, covered in blood and unable to remember what happened the previous night, only to discover that her parents were brutally attacked and she is the main suspect.
The morning after her eighteenth birthday, Andrea McNulty wakes up in a motel room, covered in blood and unable to remember what happened the previous night. According to the news, Andi's parents were brutally...
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A varied collection of 30 contemporary duologues from Mark Wheeller's plays. Compiled at a time when social distancing is a consideration, these duologues all lend themselves to Zoom/Social Distance friendly performances.
It includes duologues from:
Too Much Punch For Judy
Hard To Swallow
Missing Dan Nolan
I Love You, Mum, I Promise I Won't Die
Game Over
...and many, more of Mark's plays...and musicals. It also includes, a previously unpublished...
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My Memories of a Singing Country Legend' is a fast moving biography of Country Singer Lance James. It's up close and personal and is written by myself, Bill Jones the Jazz Drummer, international author and movie director. I originally met the singing country legend when we worked together fifty years ago, in the music department of the South African Broadcasting Corporation.
I became a close friend and compadre of Lance James at the beginning of...
12) Frozen beauty
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"When the body of 17-year-old Kit Malloy is found out by the woods frozen to death and half-undressed in the back of the boy-next-door's truck, her sisters Tessa and Lilly are left to pick up the pieces, search for answers, and ultimately find their own voices"--
13) Heart Wars
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Benedict is living the dream of a happy family in the midst of a full-blown war.
With his loving wife and lively kids by his side, every day becomes a memory. Suddenly, his world comes crashing down when his wife, Chelsea, dies at the detestable Colour bridge alongside his good friend Manny. He is thrown into an abyss of mourning and doubt until Jeanette shows up in their lives.
Would Benedict be able to pick up the pieces of his life and move on?
Would...
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Eight months, seven days. Too short for a life. Long enough to change one.
Only parents understand this place in our hearts, in our souls, that gets bigger as our children grow.
When life stops, the hallowed space stops being filled, but it continues to expand. I, like most, if not all parents who’ve walked this path, have no idea what to do with those expanding empty spaces.
For a time, I used to wear her loss on my sleeve like an insignia of rank...
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Are you prepared for the inevitable?
At some point in your life, you will contemplate the end and question what it is like to depart from the only thing you've known. Hesitation and uncertainty might consume you to the core, or a sensation of comfort and contentment will set you free.
In Four Seasons, Chris Widener shares the relatable journey of Jonathan Blake and his family through a year in their life, confronted with unavoidable tragedy. After...
17) Georgia rules
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Magnolia Grace never wanted to leave Georgia. She never wanted to move with her mama to the farm her daddy owned before he died. But now here she is, in a tiny Vermont town where everybody sings the praises of the father Maggie never knew. Then Maggie meets the Parker family-two moms, six kids, plus a pony. The Parkers are loud and wild, ask lots of questions, and don't follow any of the rules Maggie grew up with in Georgia. Suddenly Maggie has questions...
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Written with humor, tenderness, grit, and wonderment by acclaimed playwright Stephen Adly Guirgis, Between Riverside and Crazy is an extraordinary new play: a dark comedy about a man trying to maintain control as the world unravels around him. City Hall is demanding more than his signature, the Landlord wants him out, the liquor store is closed, and the Church won't leave him alone. As ex-cop and recent widower Walter "Pops" Washington struggles to...
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They say hindsight is 20/20. They're not wrong.
Ten years after their parents' death in a car accident, now-grown sisters Carmen and Manon are together for one of their rare visits — and one of them is finally ready to confront their shared tragedy.
Carmen is a boisterous country-and-western singer who has left her home, and all her past, in the dust. Manon lives a more sheltered life, closely aligned with the traditions of religious Quebec, which...
20) August
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Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Drama"A tremendous achievement in American playwriting: a tragicomic populist portrait of a tough land and a tougher people. "-Time Out New York"Tracy Letts' August: Osage County is what O'Neill would be writing in 2007. Letts has recaptured the nobility of American drama's mid-century heyday while still creating something entirely original. "-New York magazineOne of the most bracing and critically acclaimed plays...
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