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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club--a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do--she has no idea how much the club will change everything. Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients...running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, are sure they can handle anything. But only if they stick...
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Spy school volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Twelve-year-old Ben's unexpected success outside the classroom causes the CIA to activate him for a mission to become friends with Jessica Shang, daughter of a suspected Chinese crime boss.
3) Roller girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
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"A graphic novel adventure about a girl who discovers roller derby right as she and her best friend are growing apart"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Children's Classics: Abridged
Children's Classics: Chapter Books
Children's Classics: for Middle School Students
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Children's Classics: Chapter Books
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Mark Twain created one of America's best-loved fictional characters in Huckleberry Finn. Recounting the exploits of the imaginative adolescent as he and the runaway slave, Jim, raft down the Mississippi River, Twain ultimately addresses far deeper themes - man's inhumanity to man and the hypocrisy of conventional values.
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Spy school volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Ben Ripley is assigned to protect the president from an assassination attempt in his first solo mission, but he may be in over his head.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1970s television game show, "The 20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
9) Feathers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Children's Awards: Newbery Honor for Distinguished Literature
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
Children's Special Topics: Black History Month 2024
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When a new, white student nicknamed "The Jesus Boy" joins her sixth grade class in the winter of 1971, Frannie's growing friendship with him makes her start to see some things in a new light.
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Serafina (Robert Beatty) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Children's Book Battles: 5th Grade
Children's Read Alikes: Keeper of the Lost Cities
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Spooky Books for Middle Schoolers
Children's Read Alikes: Keeper of the Lost Cities
Children's Special Topics: Middle School Book Battles - Past & Present
Children's Special Topics: Spooky Books for Middle Schoolers
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In 1899, a twelve-year-old rat catcher on North Carolina's Biltmore estate teams up with the estate owner's young nephew to battle a great evil and, in the process, unlocks the puzzle of her past.
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Last kids on Earth volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Children's Read Alikes: Hunger Games
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Read Alikes: Percy Jackson
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
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It's been forty-two days since the monster apocalypse hit town and pretty much everyone ran away or got zombified. Average thirteen-year-old Jack Sullivan is holed up in his tree house, which he's armed to the teeth with catapults and a moat, not to mention video games and an endless supply of Oreos and Mountain Dew scavenged from abandoned stores. But Jack alone is no match for the hordes of Dozers and Winged Wretches and Zombies, and especially...
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Sunny side up volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Children's Popular: Graphic Novels with Girl Main Character
Children's Special Topics: School Related Graphic Novels
Children's Special Topics: School Related Graphic Novels
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"Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...
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School for Good and Evil volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Children's Read Alikes: Ever After High
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Read Alikes: Keeper of the Lost Cities
Children's: New e-Books February 2023
Children's Read Alikes: Harry Potter
Children's Read Alikes: Keeper of the Lost Cities
Children's: New e-Books February 2023
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"Two best friends have been chosen to be students at the fabled School for Good and Evil, where ordinary boys and girls are trained to be fairy-tale heroes and villains. One will train for Good; one will become Evil's new hope. Each thinks they know where they belong, but when they are swept into the Endless Woods, they're switched into the opposite schools. Together they'll discover who they really are and what they are capable of, because the only...
15) Escaping peril
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Peril has been loyal to Queen Scarlet, who used her fatal firescales to kill countless dragons in the SkyWing arena. Now, Peril is loyal to Clay, the only dragonet who has ever been her friend. So when Scarlet threatens Jade Mountain Academy, Peril sets off to find her former queen, stop her, and save the day, no matter what it takes. There's just one problem: a strangely persistent SeaWing, Turtle, insists on coming along, too. Turtle is worried...
17) Chasing secrets
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Lizzie and her secret friend Noah, who is hiding in her house, plan to rescue Noah's father from the quarantined Chinatown, and save everyone they love from contracting the plague that is spreading in 1900 San Francisco.
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Emily Starr trilogy volume 1
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English
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When her beloved father dies, thirteen-year-old Emily Starr, orphaned and lonely, is sent to live with her mother's relatives at New Moon Farm, but despite her stern Aunt Elizabeth and malicious classmates, Emily's quick wit and lively imagination help her to form friendships and begin to feel at home.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Children's Awards: California Young Reader Medal (Intermediate Grades 3-5)
Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
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Children's Recommended: 6th Grade 2021
Children's Recommended: Summer Reads for Middle Schoolers
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For five years, Coyote and her dad, Rodeo, have lived on the road in an old school bus, criss-crossing the nation. It's also how long ago Coyote lost her mom and two sisters in a car crash. Coyote hasn't been home in all that time, but when she learns that the park in her old neighborhood is being demolished--the very same park where she, her mom, and her sisters buried a treasured memory box--she devises an elaborate plan to get her dad to drive...
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Dragon's guide volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Children's Read Alikes: Wings of Fire
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
Children's Recommended: 5th Grade
Children's Recommended: E-Audiobook Fiction for Middle Grades
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Crusty dragon Miss Drake's new pet human, precocious ten-year-old Winnie, not only thinks Miss Drake is her pet, she accidentally brings to life her "sketchlings" of mysterious and fantastic creatures hidden in San Francisco, causing mayhem among its residents.
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