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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Derek Fallon won the lottery and now gets to split over a billion dollars with a friend-the buying possibilities are endless- skateboards!, sneakers! video games!, a backyard skateboard park!!! -let the shopping begin. But Derek is soon challenged with new obstacles that he hadn't thought of before. Having money to spend should make his life easier but it's bringing with it lots of anxiety. It's up to Derek to find a balance with his newfound wealth,...
43) Love that dog
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
Description
From the Publisher: "I guess it does look like a poem when you see it typed up like that." Jack hates poetry. Only girls write it and every time he tries to, his brain feels empty. But his teacher, Ms. Stretchberry, won't stop giving her class poetry assignments-and Jack can't avoid them. But then something amazing happens. The more he writes, the more he learns he does have something to say. With a fresh and deceptively simple style, acclaimed author...
44) Dear boy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Encourages readers to accept and love themselves as they are and advises them to be confident, curious, adaptable, and willing to speak up
45) Sports Sabotage
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Hardy Boys secret files volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Frank and Joe bring their detective skills to the athletic arena in this all-new Hardy Boys Secret Files mystery!It's time for Field Day at Bayport Elementary and all the kids are excited! Whatever grade wins gets a pizza party, and the person with the highest personal score also gets a special prize. But when the field equipment is sabotaged the day before the events are supposed to start, it looks like Field Day might not happen after all--unless...
46) Sag Harbor
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English
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • PEN/FAULKNER AWARD FINALIST • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys: a hilarious and supremely original novel set in the Hamptons in the 1980s, "a tenderhearted coming-of-age story fused with a sharp look at the intersections of race and class” (The New York Times).
Benji Cooper is one of the...
Benji Cooper is one of the...
47) Lost brother
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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During an investigation of missing children in Misty Falls, Idaho, Frank Hardy has disappeared, just after the main suspect is found dead
48) Wei skates on
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Olympic gold medalist and three-time World Champion Nathan Chen delivers an inspirational picture book about facing your fears and finding the joy in sports, no matter the outcome. Wei has loved ice-skating ever since his first visit to the rink. He loves gliding across the ice, taking flight on jumps, and moving with the music--there's nothing else like it! But as Wei's first big competition draws near, he begins to worry. He's been training hard,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Gopal and his family leave their rural Indian village for life with his uncle in Mumbai, but when they arrive his father goes missing and Gopal ends up locked in a sweatshop from which there is no escape
50) Decline and fall
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English
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The "enormously funny" satire of prewar British society by the New York Times–bestselling author of Brideshead Revisited (The Telegraph).
Theology student Paul Pennyfeather has been unceremoniously ejected from Scone College after the rambunctious members of the elite Bollinger Club deprived him of his trousers, leaving him to run across campus in a highly inappropriate manner. As a result, his allowance is cut off, and he has no choice but...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Life can be stressful for Nate Wright. At school, Mrs. Godfrey makes every day a nightmare. At home, he's stuck between Ellen, his incredibly annoying older sister, and Dad, perhaps the most clueless parent of all time. And don't get him started on Gina, the ultimate teacher's pet, or Artur, the unassuming exchange student who bests him at every turn. It's enough to make even a can-do kid like Nate scream: 'I CAN'T TAKE IT!'" -- publisher's web site...
52) The best of Iggy
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Iggy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Relates three times that nine-year-old Iggy got into trouble, two of which he does not regret and one for which he is very, very sorry
Welcome to the wonderful world of Iggy, where the motto is: It seemed like a good idea at the time. Iggy is not a bad kid - he's really not. Okay, so he's done a few bad things. And okay, he's not very sorry about most of them. No one got hurt! Except for that one time when the Best Idea Ever turned into the Worst...
53) Ten conversations you must have with your son: preparing your son for a happy and successful life
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Pub. Date
2016
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English
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Every parent of a teenage boy knows there are certain conversations they must have with their son. But too often they put them off - or don't have them at all - because they simply don't know where to start. Internationally recognized in the field of raising and educating boys, Dr Tim Hawkes provides practical, accessible and invaluable advice about how to get these discussions started. Helping parents to negotiate their way through what can be difficult...
54) The great day
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Publisher
Chronicle Books LLC
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In simple text this book follows the daily activities of a young boy who is always the first in every activity--waking up, eating breakfast, playing, and getting ready for bed
55) Enginerds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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When a group of nerdy best friends each begin receiving robots that start to act like real creatures, it is up to them to save the day, and the planet
56) Iggy the legend
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Series
Iggy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"When Iggy needs to make a bit of money, he conjures up a scheme to help kids con the Tooth Fairy for profit"--
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English
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"There was a time when the world was sweeter... when the women in Beaufort, North Carolina, wore dresses, and the men donned hats. Every April, when the wind smells of both the sea and lilacs, Landon Carter remembers 1958, his last year at Beaufort High. Landon had dated a girl or two, and even once sworn that he'd been in love. Certainly the last person he thought he'd fall for was Jamie, the shy, almost ethereal daughter of the town's Baptist minister......
58) Half a King
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English
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NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY TIME AND THE WASHINGTON POST • LOCUS AWARD WINNER
“The Shattered Seas trilogy has worked its way into a very exclusive group of my favorite fantasy novels of all time.”—James Dashner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maze Runner
“A fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that grabbed me from page 1 and refused to...
“The Shattered Seas trilogy has worked its way into a very exclusive group of my favorite fantasy novels of all time.”—James Dashner, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Maze Runner
“A fast-paced tale of betrayal and revenge that grabbed me from page 1 and refused to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
60) Better boys, better men: the new masculinity that creates greater courage and emotional resiliency
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English
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"How modern forms of masculinity are harming men-and what we can do about it"--
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