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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, the intertwined stories of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the mother and daughter who upend their lives. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose...
Author
Series
Princess Academy trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Read Alikes: Ever After High
Children's Read Alikes: Ever After High
Description
While attending a strict academy for potential princesses with the other girls from her mountain village, fourteen-year-old Miri discovers unexpected talents and connections to her homeland.
Author
Language
English
Description
France, 1916: Artist Edouard Lefevre leaves his young wife, Sophie, to fight at the front. When their small town falls to the Germans in the midst of World War II, Edouard's portrait of Sophie draws the eye of the new Kommandant. As the officer's dangerous obsession deepens, Sophie will risk everything--her family, her reputation, and her life--to see her husband again. Almost a century later, Sophie's portrait is given to Liv Halston by her young...
5) Refugee
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Middle School)
Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Book Battles: 6th-8th Grade
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Children's Book Battles: 2021_22 Middle Schools
Children's Book Battles: 6th-8th Grade
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Description
Although separated by continents and decades, Josef, a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany; Isabel, a Cuban girl trying to escape the riots and unrest plaguing her country in 1994; and Mahmoud, a Syrian boy in 2015 whose homeland is torn apart by violence and destruction, embark on harrowing journeys in search of refuge, discovering shocking connections that tie their stories together.
Author
Series
Creepy tales! volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"When Jasper Rabbit finds a purple crayon willing to do his schoolwork for him, he is elated--at first."--Provided by publisher.
7) Twilight
Author
Series
The mediator volume 6
Publisher
HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Carmel, California, teenager Suze Simon is a typical high school student except for the fact that she is a "shifter" who can mediate between the living and the dead, and she is in love with a ghost from the nineteenth century.
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Language
English
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In this novel the author takes us to Telegraph Avenue. It is a story that explores the profoundly intertwined lives of two Oakland, California families, one black and one white. Here he creates a world grounded in pop culture: Kung Fu, 1970s Blaxploitation films, vinyl LPs, jazz and soul music, and an epic of friendship, race, and secret histories. Longtime band mates Archy and Nat preside over Brokeland Records, a used-record emporium. All is well...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Children's New Books: September 2021 e-Books
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Read Alikes: Cinder
Children's Recommended: 7th and 8th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Description
The four princes erroneously dubbed Prince Charming and rudely marginalized in their respective fairy tales form an unlikely team when a witch threatens the whole kingdom. Includes "Extras" at the end of the book.
Author
Series
Bad guys (Aaron Blabey) volume 8
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dr. Marmalade prepares to destroy the world, the Bad Guys have a chance to be superheroes.
Author
Series
Tales of the Frog Princess volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Although a princess, Millie cannot keep herself from turning unexpectedly into a dragon, so she ventures off to the Frozen North to find the Blue Witch, who she hopes will help her learn to control her dragon magic.
13) The goose girl
Author
Series
Books of Bayern volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Children's Book Battles: 6th-8th Grade
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Description
On her way to marry a prince she's never met, Princess Anidori is betrayed by her guards and her lady-in-waiting and must become a goose girl to survive until she can reveal her true identity and reclaim the crown that is rightfully hers.
Author
Series
Mr. Terupt volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Description
"The kids from Mr. Terupt's fifth- and sixth-grade classes are entering their first year of junior high school. There's a lot to be excited about, but there are new challenges, too. Everyone is missing Mr. Terupt. When a fight threatens to break up the group forever, they think their favorite teacher is the only one who can help them. But the kids soon find out that it's Mr. Terupt who needs saving"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
While trying to pinpoint the root of her dissatisfaction with her life, Daisy Shoemaker begins receiving misdirected emails meant for another woman and starts living vicariously through her until she discovers that their connection was not completely accidental.
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother's home...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In order to save Merlin, Jack and Annie continue their quest for the secrets of happiness. But when the magic tree house leads them to a deserted island, they're not sure who needs help more--Merlin or them! a shipful of explorers and scientists saves them, but the rescuers aren't looking for the secrets of happiness. They're looking for ... a sea monster! Will Jack and Annie wind up in the monster's clutches?
Author
Series
Princess in Black volume 6
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's the Interkingdom Science Fair! There's Princess Magnolia's poster about plants, Princess Honeysuckle's mole habitat, and Princess Sneezewort's blanket fort. But will a volcanic goo monster ruin everything? The Princess in Black is on the job, and with the help of the Princess in Blankets, sets out to save the science fair.
Author
Series
Princess in Black volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Children's Read Alikes: Captain Underpants
Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2023
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Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: 3rd Grade 2023
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Description
Princess Magnolia is having hot chocolate and scones with Duchess Wigtower when ... Brring! Brring! The monster alarm! A big blue monster is threatening the goats! Stopping monsters is no job for dainty Princess Magnolia. But luckily Princess Magnolia has a secret -- she's also the Princess in Black, and stopping monsters is the perfect job for her! Can the princess sneak away, transform into her alter ego, and defeat the monster before the nosy duchess...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Children's New Books: October 2021 Middle Grade Fiction
Children's Special Topics: Christmas
Children's Special Topics: Winter Holiday Books
Children's Special Topics: Christmas
Children's Special Topics: Winter Holiday Books
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"Jack loves his childhood toy, Dur Pig. DP has always been there for him, through good and bad. Until one Christmas Eve something terrible happens -- DP is lost. But Christmas Eve is a night for miracles and lost causes, a night when all things can come to life ... even toys. And Jack's newest toy -- the Christmas Pig (DP's replacement) -- has a daring plan: Together they'll embark on a magical journey to seek something lost, and to save the best...
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