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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Red's factory-applied label clearly says that he is red, but despite the best efforts of his teacher, fellow crayons and art supplies, and family members, he cannot seem to do anything right until a new friend offers a fresh perspective.
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"When we first meet Ruby, a Metis woman in her 30s, she's a mess. She's angling to sleep with her therapist while also rekindling an old relationship with a man who was - let's just say - a mistake. As we will soon learn, however, Ruby's story is far broader and deeper than its rollicking, somewhat lighthearted first chapter. This is the story of a woman in search of herself, in every sense. Given up for adoption as an infant, Ruby was raised by a...
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Pub. Date
2023
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"Lean in close, my darling bao bei, and I will whisper a most precious secret about a powerful magic that lives inside you....The Truth About Dragons follows a young child on a journey guided by his mother's bedtime storytelling. He quests into two very different forests, as his two grandmothers help him discover two different, but equally enchanting, truths about dragons. Eastern and Western mythologies coexist and enrich each other in this warm...
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Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 8
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Dangerous dragon Peril is on a mission to find and stop her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and she is not sure if the SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her, will be a help or a hindrance.
Peril is possibly the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia, because she has firescales that can kill an opponent with a touch, but now she has a mission--find her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy,...
66) Jip, his story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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While living on a Vermont poor farm during 1855 and 1856, Jip learns his identity and that of his mother and comes to understand how he arrived at this place.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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When Ben De Backer comes out to their parents as nonbinary, they're thrown out of their house and forced to move in with their estranged older sister, Hannah, and her husband, Thomas, whom Ben has never even met. Struggling with an anxiety disorder compounded by their parents' rejection, they come out only to Hannah, Thomas, and their therapist and try to keep a low profile in a new school. But Ben's attempts to survive the last half of senior year...
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
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Serafina's defeat of the Man in the Black Cloak has brought her out of the shadows and into the daylight realm of her home, Biltmore Estate. Every night she visits her mother in the forest, eager to learn the ways of the catamount. But Serafina finds herself caught between her two worlds: she's too wild for Biltmore's beautifully dressed ladies and formal customs, and too human to fully join her kin. When a mysterious series of attacks test Serafina's...
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Sunny has always taken the Dragonet Prophecy very seriously, so Morrowseer's devastating news changes everything--now she must forge a new identity, and find a way to stop the futile and destructive war between the dragon clans.
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Minerva Louise volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.2 - AR Pts: 1
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When Minerva Louise, a curious chicken, mistakes a baby crib for a rabbit hutch, she searches for the rabbit and in the process discovers new additions around the house.
72) I am a tiger
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Despite the evidence Mouse insists that he is a tiger--or maybe a crocodile.
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Alan Christoffersen's wife was thrown from a horse and paralyzed from the waist down, and in just a few weeks, died of complications. On her deathbed, Alan promised his wife he would live. Alan decided to set off on an extraordinary cross-country walk. Carrying only a backpack, he plans to walk from Seattle to Key West, the farthest destination on his map. Now nearly halfway through his trek, this book takes him from South Dakota to Memphis, Tennessee....
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"Claire Cook has a perfect life. Married to the scion of a political dynasty, with a Manhattan townhouse and a staff of ten, her surroundings are elegant, her days flawlessly choreographed, and her future auspicious. But behind closed doors, nothing is quite as it seems. That perfect husband has a temper that burns as bright as his promising political career, and he's not above using his staff to track Claire's every move, making sure she's living...
75) The warrior heir
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Series
Heir chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
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After learning about his magical ancestry and his own warrior powers, sixteen-year-old Jack embarks on a training program to fight enemy wizards.
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Set before the Civil War, in the first half of the nineteenth century, this novel of Mark Twain's delves into the ironies of racial prejudice. A young would-be lawyer, Wilson, sets out to solve a murder using the (at that time) unproven method of fingerprinting. Thought to be a simpleton or 'puddenhead', he eventually makes his critics look like puddenheads themselves. The main focus of the novel, however, deals with the identities of two young...
77) In search of us
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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To seventeen-year-old Angie, who is mixed-race, Marilyn is her hardworking, devoted white single mother. When Marilyn was seventeen, she fell in love with Angie's father, James, who was African-American. Marilyn has always told her he died before she was born. When Angie discovers evidence of an uncle she's never met she starts to wonder: What if her dad is still alive, too? So she sets off on a journey to find him, hitching a ride to LA from her...
78) I'm from
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Pub. Date
2023.
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"Explore the question 'Where are you from?' through the small moments in a boy's day"--
79) Mask of shadows
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Series
Mask of shadows duology volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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The gender fluid thief Sal Leon enters a competition to become a replacement member of the Left Hand--a quartet of the Queen's personal assassins--but must first survive the training and the contests while putting the reason for auditioning into motion--revenge.