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1) Homecoming
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On Saturday morning, 13-year-old Dicey Tillerman sits in the car at the shopping mall with her younger sister and two brothers. Momma had said, "You be good." Then she walked away. They wait for a day and a night, but Momma never comes back. Finally, Dicey decides the children should go to Bridgeport, Connecticut where Aunt Cilla lives. Maybe Momma is waiting for them there. But they don't have enough money to take the bus. Determined to keep the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When Eleven-year-old Sol arrives at the Ash House, desperate for a cure for his complex pain syndrome, he finds a community of strange children long abandoned by their mysterious Headmaster.
The children at the Ash House want the new boy to love their home as much as they do. They give him a name like theirs. They show him the dorms and tell him about the wonderful oasis that the Headmaster has created for them. But the new boy already has a name....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Questions! Questions! Questions! The Sisters Eight have so many questions and so few answers! Luckily, one more month means one more Eight will discover her power and her gift, which means they're one step closer to discovering what happened to Mommy and Daddy on New Year's Eve.
Marcia's month is about to begin. You remember Marcia, right? The sensible one? The one who would never do anything... crazy?
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When fifteen-year-old Lance Covington finds an abandoned baby in the backseat of a car, he knows she's the newborn daughter of a meth addict he's been trying to help. But when police arrest him for kidnapping, Lance is thrust into a criminal world of baby trafficking and drug abuse. His mother, Barbara, looks for help from Kent Harlan-the man whom she secretly, reluctantly loves and who once helped rescue her daughter from a mess of her own. Kent...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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One sister's story in the series about a set of octuplets, their fantastic adventures, and the quest to solve the mystery of their parents' disappearance . . .
Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no. Oh, no! May is almost over and that means only one thing: Petal's month to discover her gift and her power is about to begin. For most people, like her seven sisters, this would be a good thing. They would look forward to discovering their gift and their power....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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A boy and his pet fox go on a quest to find a wolf who has eaten all the Stars in the sky before the Shadow Witch destroys the Stars and removes good magic from the world forever, perfect for fans of The Girl Who Drank the Moon and Nevermoor.
Long ago, the land of Ulv was filled with magic. But that was before a wolf ate all the Stars in the night sky, ridding the world of magic and allowing Shadow Creatures, beasts made of shadow and evil, to flourish....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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A rather large problem has befallen the Huit girls. (Sisters, actually. Octuplets to be exact.) One particular New Year's Eve, the girls wait for their mommy to bring them hot chocolate and their daddy to return with more wood for the fire. But they don't. Mommy and Daddy, that is. They're gone. Poof! Maybe dead-no one knows for sure.
You must see the problem here. Eight little girls on their own, no mommy or daddy to take care of them. This is not...
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Egmont USA
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Having grown up in a miserable home for abandoned children, a young boy jumps at the chance to exchange places with the mysterious, flying "loblolly boy," but once he takes on this new identity, he discovers what a harsh price he must pay.
10) Jellicoe Road
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Abandoned by her drug-addicted mother at the age of eleven, high school student Taylor Markham struggles with her identity and family history at a boarding school in Australia.
12) Lucky breaks
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Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The penultimate episode in the Sisters Eight saga!
Finally! Zinnia's turn has arrived. The poor girl has been waiting for her time in the spotlight quite long enough. Really, it would be cruel to make her wait any longer. What will her power and her gift be? Will either of them prove to be as much of a doozy as she has been hoping for? There's only one way to find out: Let her story begin. It's finally Zinnia Time!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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The Sisters Eight are back in a new adventure! This time, Georgia gets her chance to be the hero-if she doesn't completely mess things up!
In the first two installments of the Sisters Eight, we met the sisters (octuplets) and their eight cats. We discovered Mommy and Daddy disappeared (or died) and that to find out what happened to them, each girl must discover her power and gift. Annie and Durinda both found theirs. We also learned that the girls'...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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It's the final book! Each of the Eights has received her power and gift and they even know where Daddy is-inside a snowglobe-shaped Christmas tree ornament. Now all they have to do is get inside the ornament and rescue Daddy. Hopefully, Mommy's in there with him.
For heaven's sake, how are they supposed to shrink all of them (plus the cats!) down to a size small enough to fit in the globe and then actually get inside it? Of course, through magic...
17) Jackie's jokes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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In this humorous series, eight sisters must fend for themselves when their parents strangely vanish. But now they must handle another taxing mystery.
Jackie's turn! Book four in this exciting series!
April has finally arrived. How lucky of Jackie to have such a lovely month to tell her story. It starts off with fun and laughter on April Fool's Day, and then all the beautiful flowers start to bloom and then ... Wait a minute. April fifteenth. That's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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A rather large problem has befallen the Huit girls. (Sisters, actually. Octuplets to be exact.) One particular New Year's Eve, the girls wait for their mommy to bring them hot chocolate and their daddy to return with more wood for the fire. But they don't. Mommy and Daddy, that is. They're gone. Poof! Maybe dead-no one knows for sure.
You must see the problem here. Eight little girls on their own, no mommy or daddy to take care of them. This is not...
19) Take me with you
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Raised in an Italian orphanage in the years following World War II, a biracial girl named Susanna and her best friend Pina want to be adopted but fear being separated.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Lost at sea while sailing with his wealthy owners, a Yorkshire terrier washes up, nearly dead, in a village on Prince Edward Island where he is nursed back to health by a lonely widow and is befriended by a fox and an abandoned waif who is also struggling to find a home for herself somewhere.