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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...
2) Blood circus
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"At the end of the twenty-first century, climate change and famine almost ended humanity--until the discovery of the Klujns, a barbaric, humanoid species with strangely colored eyes and even stranger abilities. Their crystal claws and bones fertilize barren soil, and their tender meat is a super-protein. Klujns are both humans' saviors and natural-born enemies, meant to be hunted and used. When sixteen-year-old Ava finds herself on the wrong side...
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"As a foster kid, Jacaranda has learned the hard way that the less she talks about her mother and why she's in jail, the better. But when a video of Jacaranda singing goes viral, a mysterious benefactor offers her a life-changing opportunity: a scholarship to a prestigious boarding school for performing arts, and she eagerly accepts. Pouring her heart out to her sponsor despite having never met them, Jackie (to her new friends) tries to navigate...
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Tiny pretty things volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 700L
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English
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June, Bette, and Gigi have given their all to dance at Manhattan's most elite ballet school. Now they are competing one final time for a spot at the prestigious American Ballet Company. With the stakes higher than ever, these girls have everything to lose...and no one is playing nice.
5) Muted
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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A tale inspired by true events traces the experiences of a talented singer who wants to escape her all-white community before catching the attention of an R&B star who gives her access to fame and luxury in exchange for unscrupulous sacrifices.
6) Turn it up!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 660L
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English
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Bradley Academy's all-girl a cappella group used to be the pride of sunshine state, but the Nightingales have recently fallen out of harmony. Best friends and co-captains Lidia Sato and Sydney Marino haven't been speaking ever since a boy came between them. And not just any boy--none other than Griffin Mancini, the lead singer of Bradley Academy's smug all-boy a cappella group, the Kingfishers. The Nightingales have no chance of making it to the...
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Hate u give volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 550L
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English
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"As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time-- and has massive shoes to fill. She's been labeled a hoodlum at school, and the fridge at home is empty after her mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral -- for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed by the media as a menace, Bri makes a choice-- and becomes the...
8) Fade to us
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When her stepsister Natalie, who has Asperger's, joins a musical theater program, Brooke volunteers as a crewmember to help oversee Natalie's participation, which leads to a complicated relationship with Micah, the production's stage manager.
9) Fireworks
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It was always meant to be Olivia. She was the talented one, the one who had been training to be a star her whole life. Her best friend, Dana, was the level-headed one, always on the sidelines, cheering her best friend along. But everything changes when Dana tags along with Olivia to Orlando for the weekend, where superproducer Guy Monroe is holding auditions for a new singing group, and Dana is discovered too. Dana, who's never sung more than Olivia's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When Jake Ryan returns to town, he tries to win Miley's affection with gifts and by announcing his feelings for her on television, which makes Miley wonder if she can entrust him with the secret that she is also Hannah Montana.
11) One of a kind
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Hannah Montana volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Miley Stewart learns about the importance of communication after she loses her voices doing too many encores and has to not speak for an entire week in order to be ready for Hannah Montana's television appearance.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
680L
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English
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Sixth grade is not going well for Calliope Meadow Anderson. Callie's hair is frizzy, her best friend, Ellen, is acting weird, and to top things off, she has to get glasses. And her new specs aren't even cute, trendy glasses--more like hideously large and geeky. But Callie soon discovers that her glasses have a special, magical perk ...
13) Hit or miss
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Hannah Montana volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Miley becomes jealous when her dad writes a great song for the Jonas Brothers, leading her to pose as a member of a boy band and try to convince them the song is already taken, and Oliver comes up with a secret identity of his own which he debuts at a celebrity tennis match in which Hannah is competing.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
HL 520L
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English
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Penny loves her small-town Florida life, and she has her future mapped out. She's going to community college after graduation to stay close to home and her best friend, Faye. She'll take over the family diner that her dad has been managing since her mother died. And one day, she'll marry her high school sweetheart, Logan. But when she unexpectedly lands a scholarship to a prestigious summer theater camp, she is thrust into a world of competition and...
15) Rise to the sun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival. Toni is reeling in the wake of the loss of her roadie father and desperate to figure out where her life will go from here -- so she's heading back to the festival that taught her to love music in a last ditch effort to rediscover her passion. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again), and is beginning to believe that someone like her may never find "the one"...
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