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While traveling on a ship, a Swiss pastor, his wife and four sons encounter a violent storm that abruptly transports them to a tropical island. They attempt to navigate the desolate shore but face looming danger and an unforeseen presence.
A family venture turns into a survival effort when a ship is damaged during a tropical storm. A father, mother and four sons stumble across a small island that appears to be uninhabited. They set up camp, complete...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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#1 Kids Indie Next List * Parents Magazine Best Book of the Year * Chicago Public Library Best of the Best Book of the Year * SLJ Best Book of the Year * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * Junior Library Guild Selection * Edgar Award Nominee * Four Starred Reviews * Bank Street Best Children's Book of the Year * An Indie Bestseller *
From debut author Janae Marks comes a captivating story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
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The highly anticipated third book in the critically acclaimed and bestselling series takes the art of being wimpy to a whole new level. Let's face it: Greg Heffley will never change his wimpy ways. Somebody just needs to explain that to Greg's father. You see, Frank Heffley actually thinks he can get his son to toughen up, and he enlists Greg in organized sports and other "manly" endeavors. Of course, Greg is able to easily sidestep his father's efforts...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
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"Big sister Beezus Quimby tries to be patient with her ltitle sister, Ramona, but it isn't easy, not when Ramona powders her nose with marshmellows and invites her nursery school classmates to Beezus's birthday party without telling her family. Sometimes Beezus doesn't like Ramona, but the girls are sisters and that means they will always love each other...just not every single minute."--Page 4 of cover.
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The Peterkin Papers by Lucretia P. Hale is a delightful collection of stories that chronicle the whimsical and often absurd adventures of the lovable Peterkin family. First published in the late 19th century, this charming book has entertained generations of readers with its humor, wit, and gentle satire.
The Peterkin family, consisting of Mr. and Mrs. Peterkin and their children, are known for their well-meaning but hilariously misguided attempts...
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Stink (Candlewick Press) volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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After second-grader Stink gets an unsatisfactory grade in physical education, his parents tell him he must play a sport and so he masters thumb wrestling, as seen on a sports channel.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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When the secret shop below her parents' bookstore, where dreams are bought and sold, is robbed and her parents go missing, Sophie must unravel the truth with the help of her best friend, a wisecracking and fanatically loyal monster, to save them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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In this modern take on Harriet the Spy, twelve-year-old Drew uses her true crime expertise to catch the cyberbully in her school—only to discover that family, friendship, and identity are the hardest mysteries to solve.
Drew Leclair knows what it takes to be a great detective. She's pored over the cases solved by her hero, criminal profiler Lita Miyamoto. She tracked down the graffiti artist at school, and even solved
...10) Ramona forever
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Ramona's year in third grade is highlighted by the arrival of Howie's rich Uncle Hobart, a change in her after-school situation, a surprise wedding, a death and a new arrival in the family, and her father's getting a job.
12) Ava and Taco Cat
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Fifth-grader Ava writes in her diary about her family, losing her best friend to a new girl, and adopting an injured, skittish, and very special cat.
14) Mike's mystery
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
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The entire town of Yellow Sands is left puzzled by a mysterious fire.
15) Homesick
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Benny's parents are getting divorced, his mom left and his father has become a hoarder, to make matters worse his hometown has been entered into a contest, and now the pressure is on to get the house cleaned up.
16) Hello! hello!
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A child seeks a way to communicate with parents and a brother who are busy with their electronic devices.
18) Switch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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"Gypsy Beaumont's magical savvy switches to its opposite when she learns that her mean and decidedly non-magical grandma has Alzheimer's and is going to move in with her family"-- Provided by publisher.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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In the year before they become the orphans known as the Boxcar children, Henry, Jessie, Violet, and Benny Alden live with their parents at Fair Meadow Farm, where, although times are hard, they take in a family who has been stranded in their car during a blizzard.