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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
910L
Language
English
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"In his letters to his favorite author, ten-year-old Leigh reveals his problems in coping with his parents' divorce, being the new boy in school, and generally finding his own place in the world"--Title verso page.
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Series
Millicent Min series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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In a series of letters to her absent father, twelve-year-old Emily Ebers deals with moving cross-country, her parents' divorce, a new friendship, and her first serious crush.
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English
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Born into the humblest of circumstances, William Prescott is determined to amass a fortune large enough to ensure that his four children will never want for anything. He'll do whatever it takes to achieve his goal, even if it means plundering Pennsylvania's forests of every last tree and destroying anyone who stands in his way. As William's business empire grows, so too does his insatiable need to be loved and admired.
William's wife, Ursula, tries...
4) My two homes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
160L
Language
English
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Lenny follows Skye for a school project and learns about her life with two homes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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When Anna returns from a three-week stay in a mental hospital she struggles to resume a normal life in the face of her parents' arguments and peers who are afraid to ask her what happened.
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Series
Lexile measure
1340L
Language
English
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Written between 1873 and 1884 and published posthumously in 1903, The Way of All Flesh is regarded by some as the first twentieth-century novel. Samuel Butler's autobiographical account of a harsh upbringing and troubled adulthood shines an iconoclastic light on the hypocrisy of a Victorian clerical family's domestic life. It also foreshadows the crumbling of nineteenth-century bourgeois ideals in the aftermath of the First World War, as well as the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Maya J. Jenkins is bursting with questions: Will she get the MVP award at this year's soccer banquet? Who will win the big grill off between Daddy and Uncle J? When will she pass the swim test and get a green bracelet? For answers and a dose of good luck, 12-year-old Maya turns to her Wheel of Fortunes, a cardboard circle covered with the small slips of wisdom she's collected from fortune cookies. But can the fortunes answer her deep-down questions?...
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English
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"Two children feel adrift between the separate worlds of their parents ... With their father at the marina, and their mother in the workshop, Flo and Fée aren't sure where they belong. But at least they can still have fun painting the treasures that wash up on the beach. One day they hear a noise and see a stone trace an arc across the sky -- it must be from Henri's giant slingshot! They decide to go see him, but first stop at the café, where they...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Soon-to-be twelve-year-old June is a planner and a problem-solver, and right now she and her friend Calvin are planning a big welcome home celebration for her mother, only her plan falls apart when she finds out that her parents are getting a divorce; June is convinced that she can find some way to get her parents back together--until she starts getting messages on her "new" laptop (refurbished by a mysterious store called The Shop of Last Resort),...
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