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Adventures of Lily Lapp volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Introduces Lily Lapp who, beginning at age five, finds opportunities for blessings, laughter, learning, and mischief as she explores her Amish community, welcomes a new baby brother, begins school, and spends time with family and friends.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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Eleven-year-old Gladys Gatsby loves food and cooking, so when she lands an assignment to write a restaurant review for a New York City newspaper, she will do anything to make it happen, even risk the wrath of her fast-food loving parents.
4) Wild girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
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Series
Publisher
Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA)
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When eleven-year-old Ivy Blake leaves the nice farm family where she has been living in upstate New York and moves back in with her mother she is finally forced to face up to the fact that her alcoholic, dysfunctional parent will never be able to provide her with a stable home--and if she wants to achieve her dreams she is going to have to take charge of her own future.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Told in multiple viewpoints, a tangle of knots is a magnificent puzzle. In a slightly magical world where everyone has a talent. Eleven-year-old Cady is an orphan with a phenomenal talent for cake baking. But little does she know that fate has set her on a journey from the moment she was born. And her destiny leads her to a mysterious address that houses a lost luggage emporium, an old recipe, a family of children searching for their own talents,...
9) Hero
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
730L
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Description
Fourteen-year-old Zach learns he has the same special abilities as his father, who was the president's globe-trotting troubleshooter until "the Bads" killed him, and now Zach must decide whether to use his powers in the same way at the risk of his own life.
10) One-handed catch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Description
After losing his hand in an accident in his father's butcher shop in 1946, sixth-grader Norman uses hard work and humor to learn to live with his disability and to succeed at baseball, art, and other activities.
11) Prairie Evers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
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Description
Prairie Evers is finding that socialization isn't all it's cracked up to be. She's been homeschooled by her granny and has learned the most from traipsing through nature. But now she has to attend public school, and feels just like her chickens--cooped up and subject to the pecking order. School is a jolt for Prairie until she meets Ivy, her first true friend. But while raising chickens and the great outdoors have given Prairie wisdom and perspective,...
12) Gingersnap
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
Description
When her brother Rob, a Navy cook, goes missing in action during World War II, Jayna, desperate for family, leaves upstate New York and their cranky landlady, accompanied by a turtle and a ghost, to seek their grandmother, who Rob believes may live in Brooklyn. Includes soup recipes.
13) Farmer boy
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Story of farm life before farms were mechanized and electrified.
"This farmer boy lived in northern New York about 1868. School days, beginning when he was nine years old, work on the farm and some innocent pleasures rounded out his life." Wis. bul.
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