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Land of Elyon volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Captain Roland Warvold tells Alexa and Yipes about the adventures he shared with his brother Thomas in Elyon, before the wall went up and divided the world in two.
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On a bright June day in 1965, a dozen girls -- classmates at a Blue Ridge women's college -- launch a ramshackle raft on a trip down the Mississippi. Thirty-five years later, four of the "girls" reunite to cruise the river again on a luxury steamboat and rediscover themselves
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The much-loved classic, finally in eBook.
Enthralling sequel to The Weirdstone of Brisingamen
It is the Eve of Gomrath - the night of the year when the Old Magic is aroused. Had Colin and Susan known this, they would never have lighted a fire on the Beacon, thereby releasing the uncontrollable ferocity of the Wild Hunt. Soon they are inextricably caught up in the struggle between their friend, the Wizard Cadellin, and the evil Morrigan.
The strength...
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Land of Elyon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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When she finds the key to a secret passageway leading out of the walled city of Bridewell, twelve-year-old Alexa realizes her lifelong wish to explore the mysterious forests and mountains that lie beyond the wall.
6) Betsy -Tacy
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Betsy-Tacy stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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The girl who moves in across the street from Betsy is the same age. Soon they are good friends and everyone thinks of them as Betsy-Tacy.
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Birchbark house volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
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Nine-year-old Omakayas, of the Ojibwa tribe, moves west with her family in 1849. Her name is Omakayas, or Little Frog, because her first step was a hop, and she lives on an island in Lake Superior. One day in 1850, Omakayas's island is visited by a group of mysterious people. From them, she learns that the chimookomanag, or white people, want Omakayas and her people to leave their island and move farther west. That day, Omakayas realizes that something...
8) Paper towns
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
High school senior Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, his neighbor and classmate,...
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c2007
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A modern, heartwarming twist on Mary Shelley's classic, this compelling debut novel weaves an old-fashioned love story with modern scienceand leaves us wanting more.Lucy Morrigan, a young genetic researcher, lives with her boyfriend, Gray, in her crumbling family mansion. Surrounded by four generations of clothes, photographs, furniture, and other remnants of past lives, they are strangely out of touch with the modern worldexcept in the basement,...
10) Worth
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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After breaking his leg, eleven-year-old Nate feels useless because he cannot work on the family farm in nineteenth-century Nebraska, so when his father brings home an orphan boy to help with the chores, Nate feels even worse.
11) Mirror Lake
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c2003, 2007
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After a decade of aimlessness marked by remaining a professional college student and drifting through relationships, Nathan Carter moves from Boston to rustic Eden, Vermont in search of a more purposeful life. When he meets Wallace Fiske, the town outcast, a strange friendship grows between these two lonely men, and Nathan slowly begins to learn the story of the love and pain that have haunted Wallace's life. Brilliantly intertwining past and present,...
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Losing weight has never been easier or more fun than with Leslie Sansone's WALK AWAY THE POUNDS. For over twenty-five years, Leslie has helped more women get off the couch and onto their feet than anyone else in the fitness industry. Her secret? If you can walk, you can achieve the weight-loss goals you dream about...with none of the intimidation or negative messages that have stopped you from succeeding before. Whether you are a beginner or have...
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Inkheart trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2003, 2008
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Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father, who repairs and binds books for a living, can "read" fictional characters to life when one of those characters abducts them and tries to force him into service.