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Judy Moody volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When a third grade classmate gets her picture in the paper for winning a spelling bee, Judy is determined to find a way to become famous herself.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet heroism of one man's struggle for justice, in this Pulitzer Prize-winning classic that has been translated into more than 40 languages.
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English
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Overview: A modern masterpiece from one of Italy's most acclaimed authors, My Brilliant Friend is a rich, intense, and generous-hearted story about two friends, Elena and Lila. Ferrante' s inimitable style lends itself perfectly to a meticulous portrait of these two women that is also the story of a nation and a touching meditation on the nature of friendship. The story begins in the 1950s, in a poor but vibrant neighborhood on the outskirts of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
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English
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An imaginative twelve-year-old Georgia tomboy is jealous of her brother's upcoming wedding in this classic Southern novel.
Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding charmed generations of readers and became an award-winning play and a major motion picture. It tells the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's upcoming marriage....
Carson McCullers's classic The Member of the Wedding charmed generations of readers and became an award-winning play and a major motion picture. It tells the story of the inimitable twelve-year-old Frankie, who is utterly, hopelessly bored with life until she hears about her older brother's upcoming marriage....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father . . . until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in North Carolina with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is...
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Publisher
Lark Books
Pub. Date
c2002.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
112 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
Language
English
Description
A collection of dozens of ideas and step-by-step instructions for decorating a bedroom, school supplies and locker, as well as creating cosmetics, clothing, and accessories which express one's personal style.
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English
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"A love letter to and for Black girls everywhere, Black Girl Rising alchemizes the sorrow and strength of the past into the brilliant gold of the future, sweeping young readers of all backgrounds into a lyrical exploration of what it means to be Black, female, and glorious"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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When a Gypsy woman is wrongly accused of kidnapping a local child, precocious young Flavia de Luce draws on her encyclopedic knowledge of poisons and Gypsy lore to discern what really happened while investigating the mystery of her own mother's fate.
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English
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"Lisa Damour, Ph.D., director of the internationally renowned Laurel School's Center for Research on Girls, pulls back the curtain on the teenage years and shows why your daughter's erratic and confusing behavior is actually healthy, necessary, and natural. Untangled explains what's going on, prepares parents for what's to come, and lets them know when it's time to worry,"--Amazon.com.
12) Cress
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Lunar chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Working to overthrow Queen Levana, a fugitive Cinder and her companions search for Rapunzel-like hacker Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood and who has received orders from Levana to foil Cinder's efforts.
13) The lake house
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Three girls who arrive to an abandoned island must outwit and outlast the mysterious killer who awaits them there"-- Provided by publisher.
Claire's grown up triple-checking locks. Counting her steps. Second-guessing every decision. It's just how she's wired - her worst-case scenarios never actually come true. Until she arrives at an off-the-grid summer camp to find a blackened, burned husk instead of a lodge - and no survivors, except her and two...
14) Lolita
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Series
Everyman's library volume no. 133
Language
English
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When it was published in 1955, Lolita immediately became a cause celebre because of the freedom and sophistication with which it handled the unusual erotic predilections of its protagonist. But Vladimir Nabokov's wise, ironic, elegant masterpiece owes its stature as one of the twentieth century's novels of record not to the controversy its material aroused but to its author's use of that material to tell a love story almost shocking in its beauty...
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English
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Mesmerized by a band of girls in the park whom she perceives as enjoying a life of free and careless abandon, 1960s teen Evie Boyd becomes obsessed with gaining acceptance into their circle. Evie, grateful for their charismatic leader's attention, the sense of family the group offers, and the assurance of the girls, is swept into their chaotic cult existence. As things turn darker, her choices become riskier. A wonderfully written debut novel about...
Author
Publisher
Harmony Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Anyone on the front lines of caring for girls today-parents, school nurses, guidance counselors-knows that girls are more anxious and more prone to depression and self-harming than ever before. New science confirms this a biologically-rooted phenomenon, set in motion by the earlier onset of puberty, the evolutionary predisposition of the female brain to react to perceived threats, and the many new social pressures (like social media and entrenched...
19) Glass sword
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Series
Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Mare's blood is red -- the colour of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red and Silver fighters...
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