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"In this profoundly honest and examined memoir, the star of Orange Is the New Black and author of Born with Teeth takes us on an unexpected journey of life and loss, secrets and betrayal, and the transcendent nature of a daughter's love for her parents. They say you can't go home again. But when her father is diagnosed with aggressive lung cancer and her mother with atypical Alzheimer's, New York-based actress Kate Mulgrew returns to Dubuque, Iowa,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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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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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
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"Selected as a contestant in an online competition to find the World's Greatest Kid, Zeke Stahls decides to give it his best shot but soon finds himself wondering what "great" really means and who gets to decide"--WorldCat.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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"It's June's first day at Huey House, and as if losing her home weren't enough, she also can't bring her cherished viola inside. Before the accident last year, her dad saved tip money for a year to buy her viola, and she's not about to give it up now. Tyrell has been at Huey House for three years and gives June a glimpse of the good things about living there: friendship, hot meals, and a classical musician next door. Can he and June work together...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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"In this remake of Shakespeare's Hamlet set in Williston, North Dakota, seventeen-year-old Hinton, released after a year in juvenile prison, faces rumors that his uncle--now married to his mother and running the family drug empire--caused his father's overdose. Conflicted, Hinton knows bloodshed is likely however he reacts"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
660L
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English
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"Since her mom died, Andie's family has crumbled. Instead of working, her dad gambles away insurance money, while her sister, Paige, has put her future on hold in order to pick up extra waitressing shifts. Andie's afraid of what will happen if people find out just how bad things are. She's not sure how long she can hide the fact that there's no food or money in the house...or adults, for that matter. When her science partner suggests they study paranormal...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
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English
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In a desperate attempt for survival, a peaceful civilization on a faraway planet besieged by a dark lord sends its most precious gift across the cosmos into the lunchbox of Tommy Pepper, sixth grader, of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
820L
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Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
580L
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English
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Eleven-year-old Sam McQueen, who has leukemia, writes a book during the last three months of his life, in which he tells about what he would like to accomplish, how he feels, and things that have happened to him.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
660L
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Cally Fisher knows she can see her dead mother, but the only other living soul who does is a mysterious wolfhound who always seems to be there when her mom appears. How can Cally convince anyone that her mom is still with the family, or persuade her dad that the huge silver-gray dog belongs with them? With beautiful, spare writing and adorable animals, A Dog Called Homeless is perfect for readers of favorite middle-grade novels starring dogs, such...
12) Cassie Binegar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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700L
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During her family's first summer in a weathered old house by the sea, Cassie learns to accept change and to find her own space.
13) Salt and sugar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"To save her family's bakery, Salt, which as been at war with the Molinas' bakery, Sugar, across the street, Lari Ramires does the unthinkable by teaming up with Pedro Molinas to save both their bakeries, falling in love in the process."
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"As the youngest of eight, painfully average Pup Flanagan is used to flying under the radar. He's barely passing his classes. He lets his longtime crush walk all over him. And he's in no hurry to decide on a college path. The only person who ever made him think he could be more was his older brother Patrick. But that was before Patrick died suddenly, leaving Pup with a family who won't talk about it and acquaintances who just keep saying, "sorry for...
15) Kindred souls
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
590L
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English
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Ten year-old Jake shares a special bond with his grandfather, Billy, but when Billy asks Jake to build him a sod house, Jake is not sure he wants to do it.
16) The plan
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Coping with a loss, a father and daughter rediscover an important piece of family history and begin to build a new life filled with adventure, in a book that features twenty letter-by-letter word shifts.
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"Kim Fairley was twenty-four when she fell in love with and married a man who was fifty-seven. Something about Vern -- his quirkiness, his humor, his devilish smile -- made her feel an immediate connection with him. She quickly became pregnant, but instead of the idyllic interlude she'd imagined as she settled into married life and planned for their family, their love was soon tested by the ghosts of Vern's past -- a town, a house, a family, a memory....
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"How do you go on when life is nothing like what you had hoped it would be? Three weeks before her first wedding anniversary, Mattie Jackson Selecman lost her husband to a traumatic brain injury. Nothing had ever shattered her faith so dramatically. Nothing had ever caused her to question her beliefs or her own identity so deeply. Nothing would transform her so completely. In Lemons on Friday, Mattie offers hope, understanding, and biblical encouragement...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
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English
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Summer's father moves their family to Australia after the sudden death of her brother Floyd, and the only thing that keeps her grounded is Floyd's guitar, which was miraculously unharmed in the bombing that killed him.
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