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1) Smile
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Smile volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Raina Telgemeier's #1 New York Times bestselling, Eisner Award-winning graphic memoir based on her childhood!
Raina just wants to be a normal sixth grader. But one night after Girl Scouts she trips and falls, severely injuring her two front teeth. What follows is a long and frustrating journey with on-again, off-again braces, surgery, embarrassing headgear, and even a retainer with fake teeth attached. And on top of all that, there's still more to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 0.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Simple text about smiles and repetition of the letter 'i' help readers learn how to use the 'long i' sound. Large type, vivid full-page color photos, and a word list all aid in developing reading skills. An explanatory note to parents and educators, as well as an introduction to the author, are also included."--Amazon.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A "powerful and poignant" twentieth-century reimagining of Shakespeare’s King Lear (The New York Times Book Review) that takes on themes of truth, justice, love, and pride—and centers on a wealthy Iowa farmer who decides to divide his farm between his three daughters.
When the youngest daughter objects, she is cut out of his will. This...
When the youngest daughter objects, she is cut out of his will. This...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Young Francie Nolan, having inherited both her father's romantic and her mother's practical nature, struggles to survive and thrive growing up in the slums of Brooklyn in the early twentieth century.
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Publisher
christianaudio.com
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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Imagine hearing your physician tell you that chips and queso contain more nutritional benefits than kale and quinoa. Or opening an envelope that looks like just another bill, and unfolding instead an official document declaring you the sole beneficiary of an anonymous billionaire's estate.In her new book, The Sacrament of Happy: Surprised by the Secret of Genuine Joy, Lisa Harper unveils a similarly extravagant, unexpected surprise, declaring that...
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"Jenna's parents had finally given in, and there she was, at a New York club with her best friends, watching the legendary band Avenue A, carrying her demo in hopes of slipping it to the guitarist, Jake Kincade. Then, from the stage, Jake catches her eye, and smiles. It's the best night of her life. It's the last night of her life. Minutes later, Jake's in the alley getting some fresh air, and the girl from the dance floor comes stumbling out, sick...
9) The dot
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Vashti believes that she cannot draw, but her art teacher's encouragement leads her to change her mind.
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English
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A New York Times Notable Crime Book and Favorite Cozy for 2011
A Publishers Weekly Best Mystery/Thriller books for 2011
With A Trick of the Light, Louise Penny takes us back to the deceptively peaceful village of Three Pines in this brilliant novel in her award-winning, New York Times bestselling series featuring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache.
"Hearts are broken," Lillian Dyson
11) How to stop time
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English
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Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old, but owing to a rare condition, he's been alive for centuries. Tom has lived history--performing with Shakespeare, exploring the high seas with Captain Cook, and sharing cocktails with Fitzgerald. Now, he just wants an ordinary life. So Tom moves back his to London, his old home, to become a high school history teacher--the perfect job for someone who has witnessed the city's...
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English
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In this classic drawing room mystery, Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is looking forward to celebrating his wedding anniversary at the remote, luxurious Manoir Bellechasse. As Gamache's holiday becomes a busman's anniversary, he learns that the seemingly peaceful lodge is a place where visitors come to escape their past, until that past catches up with them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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After enduring his father's suicide, his own suicide attempt, broken friendships, and more in the Bronx projects, Aaron Soto, sixteen, is already considering the Leteo Institute's memory-alteration procedure when his new friendship with Thomas turns to unrequited love.
14) The stand
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
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English
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"When a man escapes from a biological testing facility, he sets in motion a deadly domino effect, spreading a mutated strain of the flu that will wipe out 99 percent of humanity within a few weeks. The survivors who remain are scared, bewildered, and in need of a leader. Two emerge--Mother Abagail, the benevolent 108-year-old woman who urges them to build a community in Boulder, Colorado; and Randall Flagg, the nefarious "Dark Man," who delights in...
15) Hopeless
Author
Series
Hopeless novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she's tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the mysterious...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 53
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English
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"In the Field of Merrilor the rulers of the nations gather to join Rand al'Thor or to stop him, in Andor the Trollocs seize Caemlyn, in the wolf dream, Perrin Aybara battles Slayer, Mat Cauthon visits his wife in Ebou Dar and all humanity is in peril. The Wheel of Time is turning, and the Age is coming to its end. The Last Battle will determine the fate of the world."--
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English
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"Set in New York City in 1938, Rules of Civility tells the story of a watershed year in the life of an uncompromising twenty-five-year-old named Katey Kontent. Armed with little more than a formidable intellect, a bracing wit, and her own brand of cool nerve, Katey embarks on a journey from a Wall Street secretarial pool through the upper echelons of New York society in search of a brighter future."--
18) The name drop
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Inkyard Press
Language
English
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Discovering a mix-up due to their shared Korean name, interns Elijah Ri and Jessica Lee decide to stay switched so Elijah can escape his controlling father while Jessica secures college recommendations, but the one thing they didn't count on was falling in love.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Taylor Greer hits the road she has no real destination, only to get as far from Kentucky as possible. By the time she ends up in Arizona, she has inherited a three-year-old Cherokee girl from an Indian woman she met in a bar.
20) The holiday swap
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English
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"A feel-good, holiday-themed romantic comedy about identical twins who switch lives in the days leading up to Christmas--perfect for fans of Christina Lauren's In a Holidaze and Josie Silver's One Day in December"--
When chef Charlie Goodwin gets hit on the head on the L.A. set of her reality baking show, she loses her ability to taste and smell-- both critical to her success as show judge. Her identical twin, Cass, is frantically trying to hold...