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A plane crashes into a crowd of spectators at an air show, killing and injuring dozens. A thirteen-year-old girl named Ava is found huddled beneath a pocket of rubble with her best friend. He is injured and bleeding, and when Ava places her hands over him, his wounds heal. Ava has a unique gift: she can cure others' ailments. Now the whole world knows, and Ava is thrust into the spotlight. But Ava's gift costs her her own health, and as she grows...
2) Almond
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The New Girl at school plays the violin so beautifully that Almond gets lost in the music, but she also feels sad because she does not know if she herself has any talent at all--until the school play, when with the encouragement of her mother, her teacher, and the New Girl, she finds she has a talent for acting.
3) Paper things
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
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When Ari's mother died four years ago, she had two final wishes: that Ari and her older brother, Gage, would stay together always, and that Ari would go to Carter, the middle school for gifted students. So when nineteen-year-old Gage decides he can no longer live with their bossy guardian, Janna, Ari knows she has to go with him. But it's been two months, and Gage still hasn't found them an apartment. He and Ari have been "couch surfing," staying...
4) Clover
Language
English
Description
"Kazuhiko is a young, but already deeply wounded black ops agent of a baroque, retro-tech future-- is pulled out of retirement to escort Sue, a mysterious waif, to a destination she alone knows. Sue and Kazuhiko have never met, yet she knows him, having grown up since the age of four with her only human contact being two distant voices: that of her elderly 'grandma'-- Kazuhiko's commander, General Ko, and of Kazuhiko's dead girlfriend, the beautiful...
5) Matilda
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
"Matilda is a sweet, exceptional young girl, but her parents think she's just a nuisance. She expects school to be different, but there she has to face Miss Trunchbull, a kid-hating terror of a headmistress. When Matilda is attacked by the Trunchbull, she suddenly discovers she has a remarkable power with which to fight back. It will take superhuman genius to give Miss Trunchbull what she deserves, and Matilda may be just the one to do it!
6) Trion rising
Author
Series
Shadowside trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Orianon, whose special ability is to to mentally record everything she sees and hears, lives a happy life with her wealthy family on the bright side of the planet Corista until the arrival of Jesmet, a music teacher whose new ideas and songs cause him to be labeled an enemy and banished to the dark side of the planet.
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
"Christie, the precocious young niece of Sherlock Holmes, once again joins the famous victorian detective and his sidekick Watson in tackling some of the strangest puzzles of all time. From a family haunted by a demon hound to a London vandal obsessed with smashing statues of Napoleon, no secrets are safe from Christie's curious mind-- and no criminals are safe from her steadfast companions, the deceptively gentle Annmarie and the rambunctious Nora,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Tery Ordway takes a reporter's job under an overbearing editor on Balona High School's summer newspaper, the Korndogger. The subject of her article is 105-year-old Junior Kuhl, a survivor of the fearsome 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire.
Author
Series
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Journey to the Living Planet! It's Lunella Lafayette's biggest adventure yet, as a voice from the outer reaches of space beckons her and Devil Dinosaur on a truly fantastic voyage - an Ego trip, if you will! Are you ready for Moon Girl to meet--Girl-Moon? Lunella isn't just smart, she's the smartest person on Earth - but what good is that when the problems she faces are intergalactic? And when our incredible duo makes it back to Earth, they might...
Author
Series
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 6
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"It's time to cry S.O.S. - Save Our School! New York City has a new mayor, and his name is...Wilson Fisk! Yes, the Kingpin is in charge of the Big Apple and everything in it, including the Department of Education! But he won't be running it alone: meet your new favorite Marvel character, Princess Fisk! What's her tragic past? Meanwhile, Lunella's problems are all in the present - for one, if she's so smart, why can't she unravel the genetic mystery...
Author
Series
Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur volume 7
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Eight hours of sleep usually means a full night's rest--but now Lunella and Devil face a fight to stay out of the Dream Dimension, a place at the edge of our subconscious where all manner of monsters dwell! What fearsome fiends lay within the unconscious mind of a 65-million-year-old thunder lizard? Or worse yet, a 9-year-old super-genius? As Moon Girl and Devil transverse the Dreamscape, all is revealed about their host, Bad Dream--and he isn't...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Brains and brawn! Tony, Stark, Victor Von Doom, T'Challa, Amadeus Cho... the greatest minds in the Marvel Universe all have one thing in common: They're not smarter than a fourth grader! Lunella Lafayette is the smartest there is -- and her brain is matched by Devil Dinosaur's brawn! They'll need both to stand up to some of the worst villains the world has to offer -- and maybe even one of its greatest heroes! Because while Reed Richards, the guy...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When the Silver Surfer arrives in Manhattan warning of an ancient cosmic menace on a collision course with Earth, Lunella Lafayette must step up and solve the impossible! But without Devil Dinosaur by her side, Lunella joins forces with some new friends who are missing their won pals: the Human Torch and the ever-lovin' blue-eyed Thing! But who will make it a truly awesome foursome? Then it's time to cry S.O.S. -- that means Save Our School, from...
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