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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
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Ever since her troubled mother abandoned her, Trix McCabe has preferred to stay on the move. But when she lands with her long-lost relatives, she finds out that the McCabe women have talents like her own that defy explanation: pies that cure all ills, palm-reading that never misses the mark, knowledge of secrets that have never been told. Before long, Trix feels like she might finally have found somewhere she belongs. But when her past comes back...
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Montmaray journals volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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In January 1937, as Sophia FitzOsborne continues to record in her journal, the members of Montmaray's royal family are living in luxurious exile in England but, even as they participate in the social whirl of London parties and balls, they remain determined to free their island home from the occupying Germans despite growing rumors of a coming war that might doom their country forever.
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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Fourteen-year-old Nadira, her sister, and their parents leave Bangladesh for New York City, but the expiration of their visas and the events of September 11, 2001, bring frustration, sorrow, and terror for the whole family.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
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In 1917, Aaluk leaves for Siberia while her sister Nutaaq remains in their Alaskan village and becomes one of the few survivors of an influenza epidemic, then in 1986, Nunaaq's great-granddaughter leaves her mother due to a different kind of sickness and returns to the village where they were born.
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Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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When her sixteen-year-old sister is hospitalized for depression and her parents want to keep it a secret, fourteen-year-old Elena tries to cope with her own anxiety and feelings of guilt that she is determined to conceal from outsiders.
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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"It's the summer of '83 on Trowbridge Road, and June Bug Jordan is hungry. Months after her father's death from complications from AIDS, her mother has stopped cooking and refuses to leave the house, instead locking herself away to scour at the germs she believes are everywhere. June Bug threatens this precarious existence by going out into the neighborhood, gradually befriending Ziggy, an imaginative boy who is living with his Nana Jean after experiencing...
8) Smiles to go
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense, but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
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Antsy Bonano volume 2
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Dutton Children's Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Fourteen-year-old Anthony "Antsy" Bonano learns about life, death, and a lot more when he tries to help a friend with a terminal illness feel hopeful about the future.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 12
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Haya Leah Molnar, n�ee Eva Zimmermann, recalls growing up in Bucharest, Romania, during the 1950s. Though she heard Yiddish and kept Kosher at home, Eva remained unaware of her Jewish heritage. This ignorance protected Eva at her Communist-run school.
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