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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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When his wealthy uncle, a champion bridge player who has lost his vision, asks seventeen-year-old Alton to be a cardturner for him, Alton has no idea how much he will ultimately learn from his eccentric relative. Includes appendix by Syd Fox with information about bridge.
42) Leading ladies
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Series
Deaf child crossing volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
A deaf fourth-grader finds her true calling when she is cast as Dorothy in a school production of "The Wizard of Oz."
45) Freckles
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Orphaned and maimed, Freckles' bitterness about his fate is lessened when he is hired to guard a stretch of lumber in the wild Limberlost, and, after meeting the beautiful "Swamp Angel," he determines to find out about his past.
47) Mind's eye
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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A novel in play form in which sixteen-year-old Courtney, paralyzed in an accident, learns about the power of the mind from an elderly blind woman who takes Courtney on an imaginary journey to Italy using a 1910 guidebook.
48) Blind spot
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"Tricia Farni was last seen alive the night she fought with Roswell Hart--a night Roz can't remember. Can Roz piece together the events of that night, despite the eye disease that robs her of most of her vision, in order to clear her name and find a murderer?"--
50) The monument
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Description
Thirteen-year-old Rocky, self-conscious about the braces on her leg, has her life changed by the remarkable artist who comes to her small Kansas town to design a war memorial.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Yearning for life in a cloistered scriptorium, thirteen-year-old Princess Matilda, whose lame foot brings fear of the evil eye, escapes her scheming cousin Ivo and joins her servant Judith and an old friend, Parz, in hunting dragons and writing about them.
54) Going bovine
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
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Description
In an attempt to find a cure after being diagnosed with Creutzfeldt-Jakob's (aka mad cow) disease, Cameron Smith, a disaffected sixteen-year-old boy, sets off on a road trip with a death-obsessed video gaming dwarf he meets in the hospital.
55) Finest kind
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
When his father's Boston bank fails in 1838, causing his family to relocate to a small Maine town, twelve-year-old Jake Webber works to prepare the family for the harsh winter while also keeping the existence of his disabled younger brother a secret.
57) Max's fun day
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Max and his good friend Don, who is in a wheelchair, have a lot of fun together, whether they are at the park, in the library, or at a restaurant.
58) Harry Sue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Although tough-talking Harry Sue would like to start a life of crime in order to be "sent up" and find her incarcerated mother, she must first protect the children at her neglectful grandmother's home day-care center and help her paralyzed friend.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Eleven-year-old tomboy Lucy feels betrayed by everyone when a bobcat stalks the neighborhood, her friend Mora suddenly becomes boy-crazy about Lucy's best friend, and the town considers selling the soccer field where she plays.
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