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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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A young girl eagerly awaits a coming rainstorm to bring relief from the oppressive summer heat. "Come on, Rain!" Tess pleads to the sky as listless vines and parched plants droop in the endless heat. Then the clouds roll in and the rain pours. And Tess, her friends, and their mothers join in together in a rain dance to celebrate the shower that renews both body and spirit.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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In this Junior Library Guild selection, Little Rose must brush her teeth, wash her face, and climb into bed while Mama takes a quick phone call. But as the call drags on, waves of uninvited guests pass through the front door. Soon the house overflows with bizarre visitors-from "muscley" men to winking wizards. As Mama continues to ignore the raucous revelry, Rose finally joins the party. But before the uproar gets out of hand, something quite surprising...
3) Show way
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter in the author's family.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When her mother becomes too ill to harvest tea on the nearby plantation, Shenaz is too small to fill in, but when she tells the monkeys she has befriended why she is sad, they bring her a basket filled with rare and valuable wild tea.
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Series
Amber Brown volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Nine-year-old Amber is nervous and excited about her mother's wedding to Max, but Amber's father makes things complicated.
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Series
Shield, sword, and the crown volume 2
Shield sword and the crown volume 2
Shield the sword and the crown volume 2
Shield Sword and Crown
Shield sword and the crown volume 2
Shield the sword and the crown volume 2
Shield Sword and Crown
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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When fourteen-year-old Arisa, aided by Prince Edoran and Weasel, tries to find the long-lost sword, she faces betrayal of the worst kind.
7) Wait for me
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As her senior year in high school approaches, Mina yearns to find her own path in life but working at the family business, taking care of her little sister, and dealing with her mother's impossible expectations are as stifling as the southern California heat, until she falls in love with a man who offers a way out.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Description
"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...
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