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1) 11 birthdays
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Series
Willow Falls series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Description
After celebrating their first nine same-day birthdays together, Amanda and Leo, having fallen out on their tenth and not speaking to each other for the last year, prepare to celebrate their eleventh birthday separately but peculiar things begin to happen as the day of their birthday begins to repeat itself over and over again.
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
John and Jane Smith are a married couple who are beginning to get bored with their quiet domestic life. What they don't know, however, is that they are both assassins, secretly traveling around the world and killing for hire. But their separate lives are about to collide when the discover they are each other's next target.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Four fifth-grade students--a geek, a class clown, a teacher's pet, and a slacker--as well as their teacher and mothers, each relate events surrounding a computer programmed to complete homework assignments.
Author
Series
Origami Yoda books volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
McQuarrie Middle School's students miss Origami Yoda when Dwight leaves for Tippett Academy, but he sends Sara a paper Fortune Wookiee that seems to give advice just as good as Yoda's--even if, in the hands of girls, it seems preoccupied with romance.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
460L
Language
English
Description
When Jake was three years old at Miss Lulu's Danity Diaper Day Care Center, what did he know about bullies? Nothing. But he learned fast--too fast! Why? Because Jake is kind of smart, and he's not a tattletale, and he doesn't have a big brother to protect him..."
6) The swap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Ellie, who is having best-friend problems, and eighth-grader Jack, who is under tremendous pressure from his father, switch bodies and lives, they learn a great deal about themselves and the opposite sex.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one she let get away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie has been mortifyingly single ever since. Now Thomas is back in her life because Sophie has unexpectedly inherited his aunt Connie's house on Scribbly Gum Island -- home of the famously unsolved Munro Baby mystery. Sophie moves onto...
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Language
English
Description
"From USA Today bestselling author of The Hating Game Sally Thorne comes something a little unexpected... a historical rom-com that imagines Victor Frankenstein's sheltered younger sister, and her attempts to create the perfect man. For generations, every Frankenstein has found their true love and equal, unlocking lifetimes of blissful wedded adventure. Clever, pretty (and odd) Angelika Frankenstein has run out of suitors and fears she may become...
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Language
English
Description
"You know that old saying, "if we are still single when we're 35, we should get married?" Well, Maggie Vine made that vow with two different people, at two very different stages of her life. And they both showed up. Maggie Vine's life is going extra-medium. At 35 she's pursuing her dreams of being a singer and being a mother--though neither are successfully panning out. So when Garett Scholl--stifled hedge fund manager by day but electrifying aspiring...
10) The weather man
Language
English
Description
Dave Spritz is a local weatherman in his home town of Chicago. His career is going well, but his personal life is spiraling downward. His relationship with his perfectionist writer father, his neurotic ex-wife, and his now-separated children have him feeling that his life is out of control. Despite being both loathed and loved by the local masses, Dave is a guy who just doesn't seem to have it all together. An attractive job offer from New York City...
11) Mister monkey
Author
Language
English
Description
"From New York Times bestselling author and house treasure Francine Prose comes this ingenious, darkly humorous novel that follows the exploits and intrigue of a constellation of characters affiliated with an off-off-off-off Broadway children's theater production"--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The bestselling author of A Map of the World and The Book of Ruth serves up an entirely different kind of novel: Le Divorce meets The Love Letter. Married for 12 years, Laura and Charlie Rider have come to share almost everything: their nursery business, their love for their animals, and, most especially, their zeal for storytelling. And though they no longer share a bed, they are happy enough continuing along in their pleasant, platonic routine....
Author
Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
In a series of humorous diary entries, British teenager Georgia Nicolson tries to decide between two potential boyfriends--Masimo from Pizza-a-gogo land (Italy) or local boy Dave the Laugh.
Author
Language
English
Description
Twenty-nine-year-old Callie Holt, with her seven-hour-old marriage already imploded, turns to her phone, sifting through the photographic evidence of the past year to pinpoint where it all went wrong, in this darkly humorous novel exploring millennial wedding culture, class and relationships told through a social media lens.
16) My ex-life
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Hitting rock bottom after his beautiful apartment is sold to his ex, David receives an unexpected call from his first wife, Julie, and agrees to help her sullen teen daughter get into college, an endeavor that brings lingering feelings and unresolved issues to light"--
Author
Series
Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Georgia continues her diary in which she records her misadventures trying to reclaim the attention of seventeen-year-old Robbie, while coping with her friends, family, and dog-like cat Angus at the same time.
18) Defekt
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Derek is LitenVärld's most loyal employee. He lives and breathes the job, from the moment he wakes up in a converted shipping container at the edge of the parking lot to the second he clocks out of work 18 hours later. But after taking his first ever sick day, his manager calls that loyalty into question. To test his commitment to the job, Derek is assigned to a special inventory shift, hunting through the store to find defective products. Toy chests...
Author
Language
English
Description
"When the spaceships arrive-- and then depart suddenly without a word-- it creates many forms of uncertainty on our planet. When his kids blithely ponder skinning people to see if they're aliens, Blaine begins to crack. Half a continent away, Heather watches the massive ships hover overhead and is certain that her life is finally going to start. After twenty catatonic years, Olives is suddenly conscious, and struggling to make sense of his desire...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Cody Carson keeps a journal of his hopes for a fresh start in a town where nobody knows about his humiliating mistakes of the past, but before school even begins so does his embarrassment.
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