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Pub. Date
2022.
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"A coming-of-age brother-sister story in which the siblings meet a new friend, and as they build a friendship and help one another through various challenges, they learn that letting go of childhood means taking risks to face the future, while learning from the past" --
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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teenager Velvet seems like any other girl who's horse-crazy. but who else would dare chop off her hair, don jockey's clothes, and enter the world's toughest steeplechase? Here's the story that made Elizabeth Tayor a teenage screen star...a story you'll laugh over, cry over, and never forget.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 66
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Growing Up! Young David Copperfield, orphaned as a child, abandoned by a vicious stepfather, must learn to make a life for himself. In Charles Dickens' brilliant novel, we learn of David's early harsh years... his adoption by his eccentric aunt... his betrayal by a childhood friend... the pressures of starting a career... immature, young love... and finally career success and personal happiness. Charles Dickens' sensitive portrayal of David's early...
6) The good egg
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Appears on list
Description
When the other eggs in his carton behave badly, the good egg feels like he needs to be perfect.
8) 11 before 12
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Series
Friendship list volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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Kaylan and Arianna are new to middle school, and when they decide to make a list of eleven things that they want to accomplish before they turn twelve, including getting detention and helping humanity, they start to lose sight of their friendship.
9) Side by side
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Told in rhyming text, Little Mouseling searches the forest for a friend who can share her adventures.
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat takes readers on the road trip of a lifetime!"Are we there yet?" Every parent has heard this classic kid question on a long car ride--and after reading this astonishingly inventive new book (that even turns upside down for several pages!), you'll never look at being bored the same way again.Let's face it: everyone knows that car rides can be boring. And when things get boring, time slows down. In this book, a boy feels...
11) Dear boy
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up.
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Series
The jumbies (Tracey Baptiste) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Suspicion falls on half-jumbie Corinee when local children from her Caribbean island home begin to disappear, and she is forced to go deep into the ocean to seek the help of a dangerous jumbie who rules the waves.
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Series
Kiranmala and the kingdom beyond volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Up until her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala considered herself an ordinary sixth-grader in Parsippany, New Jersey, but then her parents disappear and a drooling rakkhosh demon shows up in her kitchen, and soon she is swept into another dimension, full of magic, winged horses, talking birds (very annoying), and cute princes--and somehow Kiranmala needs to sort it all out, find her parents, and basically save the world
14) When I grow up
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Sebastian the turtle tells his father about all the jobs he might do when he grows up, from fireman to skydiver, and agrees that being a father might be the best of all.
15) Wish
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As an elephant couple embark on a life together, thoughts of children are far away-at first. But as the desire for a child grows, so do unexpected challenges. And it's only after thwarted plans and some difficult disappointments that their deepest wish miraculously comes true.Now available as a board book, this beautiful, uplifting story about the beginning of a family is just right for parent-child reading time.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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As soon as Anne Shirley arrived at the snug, white farmhouse called Green Gables, she knew she wanted to stay forever. But would the Cuthberts send her back to the orphanage? Anne knows she's not what they expected -- a skinny girl with decidedly red hair and a temper to match. If only she could convince them to let her stay, she'd try very hard not to keep rushing headlong into scrapes or blurt out the very first thing she had to say. Anne was...
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Mishna Wolff grew up in a poor black neighborhood with her single father, a white man who truly believed he was black. "He strutted around with a short perm, a Cosby-esque sweater, gold chains and a Kangol--telling jokes like Redd Fox, and giving advice like Jesse Jackson. You couldn't tell my father he was white. Believe me, I tried," writes Wolff. And so from early childhood on, her father began his crusade to make his white daughter down. Unfortunately,...
20) Big Friends
Author
Pub. Date
20160119
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Birt and Etho are best friends. Together they play outside in big cardboard boxes. Sometimes they're kings, soldiers, astronauts. Sometimes they're pirates sailing wild seas and skies. But always, always they're Big friends. Then one day a new boy arrives, and he wants to join them. Can two become three?