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Puffin Books
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Fourteen-year-old Stephen, his new foster brother, and his friends are sentenced to help out in an old age home for the summer after Stephen is caught writing graffiti on a train.
Fourteen-year-old Stephen, his new foster brother, his friends are sentenced to help out at an old age home for the summer after Stephen is caught writing graffiti on a train.
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Now even more complete, with updated lists of available resource materials, this manual is your access guide to home schooling- maximizing our family life while providing a quality education for your children. If you're considering homeschooling, this book is a must-read before you decide; and if you've been at it for awhile, it's a fresh perspective, with plenty of tactics for renewing your energy and motivating your kids. With wit and wisdom gleaned...
84) Sweet enough
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"A simple, stylish cookbook full of desserts that come together faster than you can eat them, from the New York Times bestselling author of Dining In and Nothing Fancy. Casual, effortless, chic: These are not words you'd use to describe most desserts. But before Alison Roman made recipes so perfect that they go by one name -- The Cookie, The Pasta, The Lemon Cake -- she was a restaurant pastry chef who spent most of her time learning to make things...
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Bright and early book volume BE 18
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Beginner Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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A household of unusual creatures help beginning readers recognize common "household" words.
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If you are thinking about homeschooling or are struggling with a homeschooling curriculum that is difficult to use, let Dr. Ray and Dorothy Moore show you how to make homeschooling an easy-to-live-with family adventure in learning. Known as the grandparents of homeschooling, the Moores have helped thousands of parents successfully homeschool their children comfortably and effectively.
87) Too crowded
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Gil the Goldfish feels crowded in his small bowl with a plant, a castle, and 138 pebbles, but when he leaves his bowl in search of a better home, he learns some important lessons.
89) Cress Watercress
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
90) The pinballs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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Three lonely foster children learn to care about themselves and each other.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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On the last night of summer, Emma and her Maine game warden father rescue a small domestic rabbit stuck in a fence; the very next day Emma starts fifth grade after years of being home schooled, excited and apprehensive about making new friends, but she is paired with Jack, a hyperactive boy, who does not seem to fit in with anyone--except that they share a love of animals, which draws them together, because of the rabbit.
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of Rules of Civility--a transporting novel about a man who is ordered to spend the rest of his life inside a luxury hotel With his breakout debut novel, Rules of Civility, Amor Towles established himself as a master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction, bringing late 1930s Manhattan to life with splendid atmosphere and a flawless command of style. Readers and critics were enchanted; as NPR commented, "Towles...
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Gail Sheehy, author of the groundbreaking 'Passages'—which was a New York Times bestseller for more than three years—now brings us 'Passages in Caregiving'. In this essential guide, the acclaimed expert on the now aging Baby Boomer generation outlines nine crucial steps for effective, successful family caregiving, turning chaos into confidence during this most crucial of life stages.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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Feeling a need for stability after her divorce and pursuit by a stalker, criminal defense attorney Emily Graham accepts a job with a Manhattan law firm and buys the former family house in New Jersey. When the house is renovated, the corpse of a missing woman turns up along with evidence linked to a family disappearance in 1892.
96) Love, Stargirl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
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Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 3
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860L
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Through letters to his little sister, who is living in a different foster home, sixth-grader Lonnie, also known as "Locomotion," keeps a record of their lives while they are apart, describing his own foster family, including his foster brother who returns home after losing a leg in the Iraq War.
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Harry Posehn is the best dad and the best husband . . . or is he? Detective Teaghan Beaumont isn't sure.
Detective Teaghan Beaumont is getting closer and closer to discovering the truth about Harry Posehn. But there's a twist that she-and you-will never see coming.
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Detective Teaghan Beaumont is getting closer and closer to discovering the truth about Harry Posehn. But there's a twist that she-and you-will never see coming.
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100) Leave me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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"International bestselling author Gayle Forman's trademark humor and insight abound in this masterful adult debut, showing us that sometimes you have to leave home in order to find it again. For every woman who has ever fantasized about driving past her exit on the highway instead of going home to make dinner, for every woman who has ever dreamed of boarding a train to a place where no one needs constant attention--meet Maribeth Klein, a harried working...
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