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3) Finally
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Series
Willow Falls series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
After her twelfth birthday, Rory checks off a list of things she is finally allowed to do, but unexpected consequences interfere with her involvement in the movie being shot at her school, while a weird prediction starts to make sense.
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Language
English
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A debut novel inspired by The Great Gatsby follows the misadventures of a driven investment banker who would end a relationship between her free-spirited blogger best friend and an unscrupulous colleague, only to have her perspectives changed by a dapper Wall Street businessman and hot-air balloon pilot.
Author
Language
English
Description
In her ruefully funny and wickedly perceptive debut novel, Alison Espach deftly dissects matters of the heart and captures the lives of children and adults as they come to terms with life, death, and love. At the center of this affluent suburban universe is Emily Vidal, a smart and snarky teenager, who gets involved in a suspect relationship with one of the adults after witnessing a suicide in her neighborhood. Among the cast of unforgettable characters...
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Language
English
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Description
"Calvin Moretti can't believe how much his life sucks. He's a grad school dropout living at home again and working as an assistant teacher in a preschool for autistic kids. His insufferable go-getter older brother is also living in the family home, as is his kid sister, who is still in high school and has just confided to Cal that she's pregnant. What's more, Cal's father, a career airline pilot, is home on medical leave and has become obsessed with...
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Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Three freshmen must join forces to survive at a troubled, working-class Catholic high school with a student body full of bullies and zealots, and a faculty that's even worse in Anthony Breznican's Brutal Youth. With a plunging reputation and enrollment rate, Saint Michael's has become a crumbling dumping ground for expelled delinquents and a haven for the stridently religious when incoming freshman Peter Davidek signs up. On his first day, tensions...
Author
Series
Sophie Hartley books volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sophie, 10, doesn't want to turn into a moody teenager like her older brother and sister, and she certainly doesn't want to see The Movie (about gross adolescent body changes) at school. On the other hand, she doesn't want to be considered immature by her classmates"-- Provided by publisher.
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English
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"For Robert Carter, life in his coastal Maine hometown is comfortably predictable. But in 1976, on his first day of eighth grade, he meets Nathan Tilly, who changes everything. Nathan is confident, fearless, impetuous and fascinated by kites and flying. Robert and Nathan s budding friendship is forged in the crucible of two family tragedies, and as the boys struggle to come to terms with loss, they take summer jobs at the local rundown amusement park....
10) The ugly truth
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
12) The bean trees
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
Taylor Green becomes the guardian of an abandoned baby girl she calls Turtle. In Tucson they meet the proprietor of an auto-repair shop with a safe-house for Central American refugees upstairs and there she builds a life for herself and her child.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
While trying to find a new best friend after feuding with Rowley, middle-school slacker Greg Heffley is warned by older family members that adolescence is a time to act more responsibly and to think seriously about his future.
Author
Series
Raymond and Graham volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Fourth-grade best friends Raymond and Graham write Valentine poems, perform in a hoedown, and learn how to be men.
17) Growing up
Author
Series
Rachel Yoder, always trouble somewhere volume 8
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 08
Double trouble volume 08
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 8
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Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 08
Double trouble volume 08
Rachel Yoder always trouble somewhere volume 8
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Language
English
Description
When Rachel has trouble focusing on her schoolwork and chores, she learns a valuable lesson about growing up and the responsibility that goes with it.
Author
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Caught in a cycle of loss, Jane Austen fan Lily jumps at the opportunity to travel to England to re-enact Mansfield Park. While there Lily thinks she may finally realize her dream of living in a novel. But even in England, where she is immersed in a literary festival so rich it seems Jane Austen is present, her problems find her.
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Young Lee Goodell's life decisions--to become a sculptor, to sojourn in the mean streets of the South Side, to marry into the haute-intellectual culture of Hyde Park--play out against the crude glamour of midcentury Chicago and the meaning of his four years at Ogden Hall School.
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
At summer camp, twelve-year-old Max reinvents himself as daring and fearless "Mad Max," and although he regrets some of his behavior among strangers, he tries to keep some of that fearlessness when he returns home to his friends.
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