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1) Heidi
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including Heidi's friendship with Peter, her life in Frankfurt with Clara, and fascinating details about life in the mountains
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English
Description
"For Havyn Powell, growing up on her grandfather Chuck Bondrant's dairy outside the 1904 gold-rush boomtown of Nome, Alaska, offered all she needed. She had the love of her mother, two sisters, and grandfather. But now, at 23, Havyn realizes the stability of her life may soon vanish. Havyn is determined to find a way to keep the family together, but her grandfather's health is declining and everyone seems to be holding secrets from each other, including...
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Series
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
The sensational bestselling story of Little Nell, the beautiful child thrown into a shadowy, terrifying world, seems to belong less to the history of the Victorian novel than to folklore, fairy tale, or myth. The sorrows of Nell and her grandfather are offset by Dickens's creation of a dazzling contemporary world inhabited by some of his most brilliantly drawn characters-the eloquent ne'er-do-well Dick Swiveller; the hungry maid known as the "Marchioness";...
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Series
Miss Peregrine volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Jacob Portman is back in Florida and this time Miss Peregrine, Emma, and their peculiar friends are with him, but when he finds a secret underground bunker owned by his grandfather Abe, Jacob is thrust into a new adventure.
7) Plain peace
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Series
Language
English
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"Anna's grandfather seems determined to ruin her Rumspringa and any hopes she has of finding a husband. Anna Byler should be enjoying her Rumspringa as allowed by her faith. But because of the strict rules enforced by her grandfather, the available suitors in town are afraid to court her. Even Anna's grandmother is keeping a big secret from Anna's grandfather in an effort to keep the peace. Under her grandfather's oppressive watch, Anna begins to...
8) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
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Series
Miss Peregrine volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
With his dying words, H entrusts Jacob with a mission: Deliver newly-contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known only as V. Noor is being hunted. She is the subject of an ancient prophecy, one that foretells a looming apocalypse. With only a few bewildering clues to follow, Jacob must figure out how to find V, the most enigmatic, and most powerful, of Abe's former associates. But V is in hiding and she never, ever, wants to be found.
10) Crash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader John "Crash" Coogan has always been comfortable with his tough, aggressive behavior, until his relationship with an unusual Quaker boy and his grandfather's stroke make him consider the meaning of friendship and the importance of family.
11) The horse dancer
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Language
English
Description
In a hidden corner of London, Henri Lachapelle is teaching his granddaughter and her horse to defy gravity, just as he had done in France, fifty years previously. But when disaster strikes, fourteen-year-old Sarah is left to fend for herself. Forced to share a house with her charismatic ex-husband, her professional judgement called into question, lawyer Natasha Macauley's life seems to have gone awry. When her path crosses that of Sarah, she sees...
12) Bag of bones
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 32
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
"Set in the Maine territory King has made mythic, Bag of Bones recounts the plight of forty-year-old bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is unable to stop grieving following the sudden death of his wife Jo, and who can no longer bear to face the blank screen of his computer. Now his nights are plagued by vivid nightmares, all set at the Maine summerhouse he calls Sara Laughs. Despite these dreams, or perhaps because of them, Mike returns to the...
13) Love story
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Series
Language
English
Description
"Decades ago, John and Elizabeth Baxter lived a love story that is still playing out in the lives of their adult children and grandchildren. But few of them know the exact details of that story or the heartbreak that brought the two together. Now in high school, Ashley Baxter Blake's oldest son, Cole, must write a family history paper for a freshman English class. He decides to interview his grandfather about that long ago love story. John is hesitant,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
With over ten million books sold, Janet Oke's charming stories of triumphant women of the West have touched the hearts and minds of readers everywhere. When young Kendra, an orphan living with her Indian grandmother and trapper grandfather in the wilds, is sent away for schooling, she must make some very difficult choices about her future.
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English
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Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister - Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
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Bella Vista volume 3
Language
English
Description
Somewhere in the vast Library of the Universe, as Natalie thought of it, there was a book that embodied exactly the things she was worrying about. In the wake of a shocking tragedy, Natalie Harper inherits her mother's charming but financially strapped bookshop in San Francisco. She also becomes caretaker for her ailing grandfather Andrew, her only living relative--not counting her scoundrel father. But the gruff, deeply kind Andrew has begun displaying...
18) Unspoken
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Language
English
Description
Charlotte Graham was at the center of the most famous kidnapping in Chicago history: it took four years for a task force of FBI and local cops find her less than three miles from her home, in a place she'd been the entire time, haunts them. Charlotte's never spoken about the kidnapping, and after sixteen years she's moved away, changed her identity, and rebuilt her life. But when a reporter begins writing a book on the crime, Charlotte finds herself...
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Series
Miss Peregrine volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
"The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop, but he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones, if they can decipher...
20) Caboose mystery
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Series
Boxcar children volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
The Alden children have an adventure as they journey along with the Little North Railroad in two cabooses rented for the summer by their grandfather.
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