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"Three sisters have returned to their childhood home, reuniting the eccentric Andreas family. Here, books are a passion (there is no problem a library can't solve) and TV is something other people watch. Their father -- a professor of Shakespeare who speaks almost exclusively in verse -- named them after the Bard's heroines. It's a lot to live up to. The sisters each have a hard time communicating with their parents and their lovers, but especially...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 510L
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English
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"Henry Bear has very unusual parents. They encourage him to stay up all night, eat chocolate cake at every meal, and get into trouble with his teacher. But what happens when Henry Bear grows tired of indulging in childish things? Find out in this droll tale about making wishes with unanticipated consequences written and illustrated by New Yorker cartoonist Liam Francis Walsh, author of Fish, which Kirkus Reviews, in a starred review, called full-bodied...
83) Map of flames
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Series
Forgotten five volume 1
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Five children who are the offspring of supernatural criminals and who have special abilities of their own leave their isolated tropical home and head to the city of Estero, where they hope to find their parents and the treasure they hid years ago.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
920L
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English
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Describes growing up as the hearing son of two deaf parents during the Depression, the challenges of straddling the world of the deaf and the hearing world beyond the family's apartment, and his occasional resentment of the burdens of his role as an interpreter.
85) So B. It
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Series
So B. it volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
860L
Language
English
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agora phobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is.
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Series
The bad kids in 4B series volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Jayme's life is noisy. Since her mom started dating again, she's had to take care of her younger siblings. If the baby isn't crying, then the toddler is throwing a tantrum, or her brother is asking for homework help. Jayme is never able to take moment for herself, which is why she usually gets her sleep during class. When Jayme hears about auditions to sing in the school choir, part of her wants to try out. Can she follow her dream, or will she be...
87) Lonestar secrets
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English
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Single mother Shannon Astor returns to the high-mountain country of West Texas after five years to make a better life for her young daughter and becomes involved with her handsome high school nemesis Jack MacGowan, now a widowed father, but her reluctance to share with him the secrets of her past puts a damper on their relationship and they both must learn to trust in order to move forward.
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Eight-year-old Lucy Turnbull knew better than to wish for a pony that Christmas in 1937. Her mother had assured her in no uncertain terms that asking for a pony was the same as asking for the moon. Besides, the only extra mouths they needed at their boarding house were the paying kind. But when an interesting pair of strangers comes to town, Lucy starts to believe her Christmas wishes might just come true after all.
90) At paradise gate
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Infused with sharp insight, honesty, and emotion, At Paradise Gate is a treat for both the heart and the intellect. In this poignant story, best-selling author Jane Smiley pens a graceful portrait of an ordinary midwestern family confronting the mysteries of death and regeneration. While her 77-year-old husband lies upstairs, dying, Anna Robison spends her depleting energy defending their home. Their three middle-aged daughters and 23-year-old granddaughter...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 600L
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English
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The Runaway Bunny, first published in 1942 and never out of print, has indeed b ecome a classic. Generations of readers have fallen in love with the gentle magic of its reassuring words and loving pictures. With a soft, padded cover, rounded edges, and sturdy board book pages, this edition is perfect for sharing with babies and toddlers.
92) Two weeks
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"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury comes a heart-wrenching and redemptive new story in the Baxter Family series about a couple desperately waiting to bring their adopted child home and a young mother about to make the biggest decision of her life. Cole Blake, son of Landon and Ashley Baxter Blake, is months away from going off to college and taking the first steps towards his dream--a career in medicine. But as he starts his...
94) A kiss for Cade
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English
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Famous bounty hunter Cade Kolby is forced off the trail to decide the fate of his late sister's orphaned children. He's not just returning to his hometown and nieces and nephews, but also to the fiery redhead he loved and left 17 years ago.
95) Then came you
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The plans of four women--including a college student egg donor, a working-class surrogate mother, a wealthy woman, and her stepdaughter--are thrown into turmoil when the wealthy woman's husband suddenly dies and names the stepdaughter the unborn baby's guardian.
96) The family plan
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"When a fall from a horse ends her show-riding career, Jolyn Sutherland comes home to Blue Ridge, Arizona, to heal and rebuild her life. But the onetime star performer has jumped from the frying pan into the fire...smack in the middle of a brewing domestic storm that could sabotage her blossoming relationship with Chase Raintree, her first love. Jolyn's homecoming is a complication the vet and devoted single father doesn't need. Especially with her...
97) Big rig
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English
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Hitch a ride with 11-year-old Hazmat and her dad in their 18-wheeler, Leonardo, for a feel-good road trip across America that keeps on trucking!
"Life on the road with Daddy is as good as it gets for Hazmat. Together, they've been taking jobs and crisscrossing the US for years. Now Daddy's talking about putting down roots--somewhere Hazmat can go to a real school and make friends. Somewhere Daddy doesn't have to mail-order textbooks about 'nature's...
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"A Black father makes amends with his gay son through letters written on his deathbed in this wise and penetrating novel of empathy and forgiveness, for fans of Ta-Nehisi Coates, Robert Jones Jr. and Alice Walker As Jacob lies dying, he begins to write a letter to his only son, Isaac. They have not met or spoken in many years, and there are things that Isaac must know. Stories about his ancestral legacy in rural Arkansas that extend back to slavery....
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Relocating to an apartment with her two children to be closer to her mother, Gretchen offers to help clear out the home of a reclusive neighbor's recently deceased mother and discovers that the neighbor, Melissa, has two siblings and an identity that she never suspected.
100) Hello Lighthouse
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
AD 510L
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English
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"Explores the life of one lighthouse as it beams its message out to sea through shifting seasons, changeable weather, and the tenure of its final keeper."--
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