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3041) Who I was with her
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IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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"When Corrine Parker's girlfriend dies in a car accident Corrine struggles to come to terms with her grief and whether she is ready to come out as bisexual"--
Corinne Parker is a runner. She runs on her high school's cross-country team. She runs from her alcoholic mother and her clueless father. And she runs from the truth that she's bisexual. Then Maggie Bailey dies. Maggie, the captain of the rival high school's cross-country team and Corinne's...
3042) The Wolf's curse
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Accused of witchcraft and shunned by his fearful village, twelve-year-old carpenter's apprentice Gauge allies with another orphan to prove his innocence and capture the magical wolf hounding his every move.
3043) Throwing stones
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1923, in Pierre, Indiana, fourteen-year-old Andy realizes a dream when he makes the high school basketball team, but when an accident keeps him from playing, he ventures into journalism and begins to understand the meaning of sportsmanship.
3044) Under shifting stars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Twins Audrey and Clare grapple with their brother Adam's death as well as with the need to belong.
Audrey and Clare may be twins, but as they grew older they grew apart. When their brother Adam died, Clare blamed Audrey for the accident. Now Audrey is attending an alternative school, but is determined to switch to the public school with Clare, rebuilt their friendship, and atone for Adam's death. Clare is still dealing with Adam's death, and with...
3045) Soar: A Memoir
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When Gail Campbell Woolley was seven, a pediatrician told her mother that Gail suffered from sickle cell anemia, a rare blood disease, and that she would be dead by age thirty-five. While others may have responded to this horrifying news by descending into a fog of self-pity, Gail went in the opposite direction. She decided to live an eventful, exciting life that ultimately included-despite a troubled home life and the systemic racism and sexism of...
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From the award-winning bestselling author of books about autistic and learning-disabled children, Mary MacCracken, comes an engaging memoir of love, marriage, and Alzheimer's. Braving divorce to be together, Cal and Mary help each other overcome setbacks in their work. Cal's inventions are increasingly successful, Mary's first book is published to much acclaim, followed by three more. It seems nothing can stop them.
Then Alzheimer's strikes. Always...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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"Regine Stokke began to blog about her day-to-day life shortly after she was diagnosed with leukemia in 2008. Regine's stated purpose with her posts was to give people a sense of "what it's like to live with" such a serious illness, and her blog became an almost instant classic. It was first adapted into book form in 2010, and became a best seller in Norway. Regine was also a very gifted photographer, and had her photos exhibited at both the 2009...
3049) 14 ways to die
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Seventeen-year-old Jessica Simmons becomes the star of a YouTube reality series, and she uses her fame to catch her mother's murderer.
3050) How Jack lost time
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"Jack is not like other sea captains. Fishermen say he's weird, but Jack only cares about one thing: the grey whale with the scarred dorsal fin, the one who swallowed up his son, Julos, years before. Jack promises he will not come home without Julos, even if it means losing himself in the process. Then, on a night like any other, Jack sees something lurking around his boat. He throws himself into the whale's dark mouth. But is he too late? Will his...
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Her father died before she was born, but Ella Benton knows they have a supernatural connection. Since her mother discourages these beliefs, Ella keeps her cemetery visits secret. But she may not be the only one with secrets. Ella's mother might be lying about how Dad died sixteen years ago. Newfound evidence points to his death in a psychiatric hospital, not as a result of a tragic car accident as her mother always claimed. After a lifetime of just...
3053) The runaways
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
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480L
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Grandpa hates being in hospital. He thinks only of the place he was happiest---the island where he used to live. He wants to go back, but they won't let him out of the hospital. So Gottfried Junior, his namesake, helps Grandpa make a plan to run away. They think of everything. Their deception is so complete that when Gottfried Junior finally decides to tell the truth, no one believes him.
3055) Salt and Sugar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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"To save her family's bakery, Salt, which as been at war with the Molinas' bakery, Sugar, across the street, Lari Ramires does the unthinkable by teaming up with Pedro Molinas to save both their bakeries, falling in love in the process"--
3056) A bridge for passing
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Pearl S. Buck's absorbing and candid chronicle of her experience making a movie in 1960s Japan, while surviving the loss of her beloved husband Pearl S. Buck's children's story, The Big Wave, about two young friends whose lives are transformed when a volcano erupts and a tidal wave engulfs their village, was eventually optioned as a movie. A Bridge for Passing narrates the resulting adventure, the story of the people involved in the movie-making...
3057) Copyboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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860L
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Newspaper copyboy Victor Vollmer sets out from Memphis to spread the ashes of Mr. Spiro, his friend and mentor, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and with the help of new friend Philomene he may meet the challenge.
3058) The ravenous
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From the outside, the Cane family looks like they have it all. A successful military father, a loving mother and five beautiful teenage daughters. But on the inside, life isn't quite so idyllic: the Cane sisters can barely stand each other, their father is always away and their neglectful mother struggles with addiction and depression. When the youngest and most beloved sister dies in a tragic accident, the sisters discover just how far they will...
3059) Far from fair
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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As far as twelve-year-old Odette Zyskowski is concerned, her parents have ruined her life by selling the house she and her younger brother have grown up in, getting an RV, and giving her some little mutt instead of the Labrador Retriever she wanted--but as they travel north to see her grandmother, Odette becomes aware of an even more frightening problem: her parents may be on the verge of a divorce.
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Laila Tarraf was the Chief People Officer for Peet's Coffee and Tea, the iconic Berkeley coffee roaster that launched the craft coffee movement in America, but she had a secret: she was failing in the most important relationships in her life. Yes, she was a strong and effective business leader, the successful daughter of immigrants, and the mother of a toddler; but she was also disconnected from her own feelings and had little patience for the feelings...
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