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"Twelve-year-old Lizzie Chu has lived with her Wai Gong (grandfather) in Glasgow since her parents died when she was a baby. But Wai Gong has been acting different lately. He spends a lot of time talking to his Guan Yin statue--the Chinese goddess of compassion, kindness, and mercy--at his altar and seems to be becoming more forgetful. Even the shared passion he and Lizzie have for their favorite show, Strictly Come Dancing, seems to be tailing off....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
720L
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English
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Clayton feels most alive when he's with his grandfather, Cool Papa Byrd, and the band of Bluesmen -- he can't wait to join them, just as soon as he has a blues song of his own. But then the unthinkable happens. Cool Papa Byrd dies, and Clayton's mother forbids Clayton from playing the blues. And Clayton knows that's no way to live. Armed with his grandfather's brown porkpie hat and his harmonica, he runs away from home in search of the Bluesmen, hoping...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 930L
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English
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Hana decides to play violin in the school talent show, but when the show day arrives, Hana is overcome with nerves until she recalls her grandfather's encouraging words, and shows the audience how beautiful music can take many forms.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 670L
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English
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Sammy wants to be a musician, as was his grandfather, but while the band he is in is self-destructing, Sammy is too distracted by his grandfather's decline and confused feelings about his best friend to fix it--and his mother stays too busy to help.
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In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai. Kiran Desai's tragicomic novel The Inheritance of Loss spans two continents and three generations. The story cuts between New York and India, contrasting the menial jobs and meager conditions of immigrant life in the city with the political unrest engulfing an isolated...
8) Devil's pass
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Seven volume 6
Pub. Date
2012.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
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Webb's grandfather told him, "That which does not kill us makes us stronger," and Webb is living proof. He's used to dealing with fear, danger and pain. He's alone in the world, his beloved guitar his only companion. Even in the Northwest Territories, on a mission for his grandfather, Webb knows that the most dangerous animal on earth isn't a grizzly bear - it's a man.
9) Jump cut
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Seven volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Spencer wants to be a filmmaker - but not the way it's laid out in his grandfather's will: Find an ancient movie star and film her giving Spencer a kiss. He's got to be kidding. Spencer dreams of filming fast cars, hot chicks, mobsters and drug lords, not frail old ladies. But Spencer hasn't met Gloria Lorraine, star of stage and screen, who just might make all his dreams come true.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Sixth grade is hard enough, but Mexican American Selena Estrella Herrera has to do it in a new town. Her family has moved to El Paso to help care for her grandfather (who seems not to want them there and insists on speaking only Spanish). One upside to being at a new school, though, is that she can finally leave behind her embarrassing obsession with musical megastar Selena--whom her parents named her after even though she can't sing. She renames...
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