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This story begins in the woods surrounding a small upstate New York town, as 11-year-old Celia watches her best friend, Djuna, get into a stranger's car, never to be seen again. At least that's the story Celia gives to the police. Twenty-one years later, Celia returns to her hometown to tell her family and old friends what really happened that fateful day, but her new version of the disappearance is met with disbelief by family and old friends. Meanwhile,...
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Allegra Biscotti collection volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
790L
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English
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Emma Rose is SO not a diva. She doesn't want her turn on the catwalk-she'd rather be behind the scenes creating fabulous outfits! So when a famous fashionista discovers Emma's designs and offers her the opportunity of a lifetime-a feature in Madison magazine (squeal!)-Emma sort of, well, panics. She has only one option: to create a secret identity. And so Allegra Biscotti is born. Allegra is worldly, sophisticated, and bold-everything Emma is not....
3) Aquarium
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"Twelve year old Caitlin lives alone with her mother-- a docker at the local container port-in subsidized housing next to an airport in Seattle. Each day, while she waits to be picked up after school, Caitlin visits the local aquarium to study the fish. Gazing at the creatures within the watery depths, Caitlin accesses a shimmering universe beyond her own. When she befriends an old man at the tanks one day, who seems as enamored of the fish as she,...
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2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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"When eleven-year-old Chiyo Tamura is sent from her home in a small Japanese mountain village to a girls' school in the city of Tsuchiura, she never imagines that she will soon be in Tokyo helping to welcome more than twelve thousand Friendship Dolls from America--including Emily Grace, a gift to her own school. Nor could she dream that she'd have an important role in the crafting of Miss Tokyo, one of fifty-eight Japanese dolls to be sent to America...
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"Madeleine Altimari is a smart-mouthed, rebellious nine-year-old who also happens to be an aspiring jazz singer. Still mourning the recent death of her mother, and caring for her grief-stricken father, she doesn't realize that on the eve of Christmas Eve she is about to have the most extraordinary day--and night--of her life. After bravely facing down mean-spirited classmates and rejection at school, Madeleine doggedly searches for Philadelphia's...
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All about us novels volume 01
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Lissa is a Christian, but doesn't want everyone to know, and her roommate seems intent on outing her. Meanwhile, she wants to score the hottest guy in school, who ends up pressuring her to have sex with him. What will she do, when he's here and now and God seems far away?
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Swans in space volume 3
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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"In their latest adventures in space, Corona and Lan finds out what it takes to run a space restaurant! Back on Earth, the girls are participating in a Space Patrol Costume Contest while their instructor contacts them for an emergency mission. Follow the Swans in Space as they deal with schoolwork, Martians, and also trying to save the world!" -- p. [4] of cover.
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