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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Sal has less than a week to get to Idaho in time for her mother's birthday and bring her back. Despite her father's warning that she is fishing in the air, Sal knows this journey is the only chance she has for reuniting her family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Upon learning that her deceased mother, an artist, went through a "Purple Period," ten-year-old Noonie decides to do the same, hoping that this will bring her archaeologist father home to see her win a school art contest and that the aunt, uncle, and cousin she lives with will come to understand her just a little.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Eleven-year-old Ant, stuck in a family that she does not like, copes by pretending that her "real" parents are coming to rescue her, by loving her dog Pistachio, by volunteering at the zoo, and by bending the truth and telling lies.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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In the late 1940s, twelve-year-old Gussie, a minister's daughter, learns the definition of integrity while helping with a celebration at the Alabama School for the Deaf--her punishment for misdeeds against her deaf parents and their boarders.
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Baby-sitters Club. Original series volume 43
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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The pressure's really on Stacey and she hasn't been feeling well. Then she ends up in the hospital because of her diabetes.
8) Hoodoo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Description
In 1930s Alabama, twelve-year-old Hoodoo Hatcher is the only member of his family who seems unable to practice folk magic, but when a mysterious man called the Stranger puts the entire town at risk from his black magic, Hoodoo must learn to conjure to defeat him.
10) Fiddle Fever
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1914, fourteen-year-old Felix LeBlanc feels stifled by life on his family's farm in Louisiana and after hearing his wayward uncle play the fiddle, Felix decides that he wants to be a fiddler too, even if it means making his own fiddle and going against his parents' wishes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Thirteen-year-old Desi Bascomb is in over her head with school and landing the role of Titania in A Midsummer Night's Dream, and while her job as a substitute princess is more glamorous than ever, a secret she learns about Facade's magic could make everything simpler--or more complicated.
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Genius Files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"Coke and Pepsi McDonald continue on their dangerous cross-county road trip, stopping at strange-but-real destinations in the South and facing such perils as an evil Elvis impersonator, a vat of acidic soda, and a giant recycling shredder"--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
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Fifteen-year-old Ben's mother would like him to follow his best friend, Tanner, and join Chief Master Lisa Kleisch's tae kwon do studio, but Ben is loyal to his long-time instructor, Mr. Ronson; besides he really does not like what he sees of Lisa Kleisch's joyless technique--and when Tanner admits that he hates it at the new dojang, Ben is more determined than ever to prove that he can win with Mr. Ronson.
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Addie Mills stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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In 1946 a ten-year-old girl tries to understand and overcome her stern father's objections to having a Christmas tree in the house.
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Atheneum
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
At first dismayed at having to spend the last month of her summer vacation helping out in the household of recently widowed Mrs. Hata, Rinko discovers there are pleasant surprises for her, but then bad things start to happen. Sequel to "A Jar of Dreams."
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Series
Vanderbeekers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Told that they will have to move out of their Harlem brownstone just after Christmas, the five Vanderbeeker children, ages four to twelve, decide to change their reclusive landlord's mind.
18) The Stray
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Crown Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Description
When seventy-five-year-old Henny Hickathrift runs away from the old people's home, she meets five children and their parents who welcome her into their family.
19) Saving Grace
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Publisher
Dutton's Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Description
When Grace's family is evicted from their Washington, D.C., apartment just before Christmas 1932, and she and her younger brothers are sent to the Mission, Grace wonders what will become of her sick older brother, her pregnant mother, and her out-of-work father.
20) Becoming Felix
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Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Worried about the difficulties on his family's Massachusetts dairy farm, twelve-year-old JJ is willing to give up on his dreams of becoming a great clarinet player and on his friendship with a new Jewish classmate who shares his love of music.
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