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1) The waves
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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A formally innovative work of modernist fiction, Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics. More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels, The Waves conveys the full complexity and richness of human experience. Tracing the lives of a group of friends, The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth and middle age. While social events, individual achievements and disappointments...
2) Stage fright
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Series
Allie Finkle's rules for girls volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Allie's theatrical hopes are crushed when, instead of being cast as the princess, she is given the role of the evil queen in the fourth-grade class play.
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Series
Baby-sitters Club volume 09
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English
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Stoneybrook Middle School is putting on a production of Peter Pan, with Kristy in the starring role.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
In this hard-hitting novel, first published in 1924, the murky personal relationship between an Englishwoman and an Indian doctor mirrors the troubled politics of colonialism. Adela Quested and her fellow British travelers, eager to experience the "real" India, develop a friendship with the urbane Dr. Aziz. While on a group outing, Adela and Dr. Aziz visit the Marabar caves together. As they emerge, Adela accuses the doctor of assaulting her. While...
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English
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Cheryl Strayed's Wild meets Katherine Center's How to Walk Away in Kathleen Basi's debut novel about an unconventional road trip and what it means to honor the ones we love.
It's one year after the death of her husband and twin teenagers, and Miriam Tedesco has lost faith in humanity and herself. When a bouquet of flowers that her husband always sends on their anniversary shows up at her workplace, she completely unravels....
It's one year after the death of her husband and twin teenagers, and Miriam Tedesco has lost faith in humanity and herself. When a bouquet of flowers that her husband always sends on their anniversary shows up at her workplace, she completely unravels....
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English
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In tribute to their late best friend, three former high school friends, in a 1962 red Lincoln Continental convertible, take the road trip of their lives, discovering that it's never too late to live the wild life--and rediscovering what made them "best friends forever."
When they posed for a photo at their high school graduation, they vowed they'd be friends forever, but teenage promises are so easily broken, and now, thirty years later, they're...
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English
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"Celia Fairchild, known as advice columnist 'Dear Calpurnia,' has insight into everybody's problems - except her own. Still bruised by the end of a marriage she thought was her last chance to create a family, Celia receives an unexpected answer to a "Dear Birthmother" letter. Celia throws herself into proving she's perfect adoptive mother material - with a stable home and income - only to lose her job. Her one option: sell the Charleston house left...
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English
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As children in foster care, Cecilia and Robin vowed they would be the sisters each had never had. Now superstar singer-songwriter Cecilia lives life on the edge, but when Robin is nearly killed in an accident, Cecilia drops everything to be with her. Robin set aside her career as a successful photojournalist to create the loving family she always yearned for. But gazing through a wide-angle lens at both past and future, she sees that her marriage...
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English
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Things aren't always what they seem on Waverly Lane... After moving to the outskirts of Charleston, South Carolina, Shelby Anderson decides to form a book club to get to know her neighbors and build a new life after her old one imploded. Little does she know that the women who show up with homemade cookies and perfectly manicured nails have a whole host of secrets of their own. Will her new book club lead to lifelong friendships or put her in the...
12) Karen's surprise
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
"Yay! Mrs. Colman's class is putting on a Thanksgiving play. Karen wants to be the star, of course. But Karen is given the worst part of all--the Thanksgiving turkey! All she gets to do is walk across the stage in a big brown suit. Will everyone laugh at Karen the Turkey?" Not when they see her big surprise!"
13) The house guests
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English
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When her step-daughter steals money belonging to Amber, a woman who has since been evicted along with her teenage son, Cassie invites them to move in with her and as they each form friendships, Cassie discovers that Amber is trying to outrun her dark past.
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Series
Baby-sitters little sister. Main series volume 104
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
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Karen and Andrew have roles in a Christmas Carol, but Karen becomes jealous because Andrew's role is much larger.
15) Finding Orion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
"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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English
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Eudora Honeysett is done with this noisy, moronic world--all of it. She has witnessed the indignities and suffering of old age and has lived a full life. At eighty-five, she isn't going to leave things to chance. Her end will be on her terms. With one call to a clinic in Switzerland, a plan is set in motion. Then she meets ten-year-old Rose Trewidney, a whirling, pint-sized rainbow of color and sparkling cheer. All Eudora wants is to be left alone...
17) Heaven
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English
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"Hailed as a bold foray into new literary territory, Kawakami's novel is told in the voice of a 14-year-old student subjected to relentless torment for having a lazy eye. Instead of resisting, the boy chooses to suffer in complete resignation. The only person who understands what he is going through is a female classmate who suffers similar treatment at the hands of her tormenters. These raw and realistic portrayals of bullying are counterbalanced...
18) Shelter me
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English
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A young mother and widow learns how to deal with her husband's sudden recent death.
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English
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No film in history has captured the world's imagination like Walt Disney's first full-length animated masterpiece. The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one, the Queen, her jealous stepmother. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White as the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest. There, she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs, Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey....
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Series
Cupcake club (Sheryl Berk) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When shy Lexi develops a crush on Jeremy, the club's supportive efforts to help her bake him a heart-shaped cupcake do not go quite as planned, while Kylie's efforts to play matchmaker are compromised by her subjects' mutual animosity and tomboy Sadie undergoes a surprising makeover.
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