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1) The nix
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
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"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"--
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Alice McKinley comes home on the first day of junior high with a list of seven things about seventh grade that stink. Just about the only good thing she can think of is that she's friends with everyone. Maybe that's how to survive seventh grade-make it through the entire year with everyone liking her.
That turns out to be easier said than done, when Alice gets on the wrong side of the school bully, Denise 'Mack Truck' Whitlock. But Alice's problems...
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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: 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.
5) Gym candy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Groomed by his father to be a star player, football is the only thing that has ever really mattered to Mick Johnson, who works hard for a spot on the varsity team his freshman year, then tries to hold onto his edge by using steroids, despite the consequences to his health and social life.
9) Homeplace
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Orchard Books
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A grandmother and grandchild trace their family history.
10) Ribbons
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G.P. Putnam's Sons
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A promising young ballet student cannot afford to continue lessons when her Chinese grandmother emigrates from Hong Kong, creating jealousy and conflict among the entire family.
11) Royal: a novel
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Summer, 1943. The King and Queen choose to send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a noble family in the country. Despite her headstrong nature, the princess's fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London. She arrives in Yorkshire under an alias; only her guardians know her true identity. Charlotte befriends a young evacuee, trains with her cherished horse - and falls deeply in love with her...
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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
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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."
14) The Stray
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Crown Publishers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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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.
15) Saving Grace
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Dutton's Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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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.
16) Going West
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Follows a family's emigration by prairie schooner from the East, across the plains to Kansas.
17) Becoming Felix
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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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.
18) Words with wings
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Gabby daydreams to tune out her parents' arguments, but when her parents divorce and she begins a new school, daydreaming gets her into trouble. Her mother scolds her for it, her teacher keeps telling her to pay attention, and the other kids tease her...until she finds a friend who also daydreams and her teacher decides to work a daydreaming-writing session into every school day. With a notebook "thick with daydreams," Gabby grows more confident about...
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