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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Mallory Moss knows the rules of middle school. The most important one? You have to fit in to survive. But then Jennifer Chan moves in across the street, and that rule doesn't seem to apply. Jennifer doesn't care about the laws of middle school ... Then Jennifer goes missing. Using clues from Jennifer's journals, Mallory goes searching. But the closer she gets, the more Mallory has to confront why Jennifer might have run ... and face the truth within...
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"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school"--
A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past--the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A member of the Bayview Crew disappears and everyone feels like they could be next, but the situation suddenly worsens when someone unexpectedly returns to Bayview
Ever since Simon died in detention, life hasn't been easy for the Bayview Crew. First the Bayview Four had to prove they weren't killers. Then a new generation had to outwit a vengeful copycat. Now, it's beginning again. At first the mysterious billboard seems like a bad joke: Time for...
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Gigi Shin books volume 1
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English
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"Determined to go to an elite art camp, young Korean American girl Gigi Shin starts a tutoring club with her friends to make money, but when the first few sessions are chaotic, she wonders if she'll end up sacrificing more than she bargained for to achieve her dreams"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"When their favorite teacher tells them they must participate in a debate about the Holocaust--arguing for the Nazis--Logan march and Cade Crawford are horrified. They can't believe Mr. Bartley would seriously expect anyone to craft an argument supporting the genocide of the Jewish people, even hypothetically. Logan and Cade decide they must take a stand against an assignment that fuels intolerance and discrimination."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"Life in a small Appalachian town is not easy. Cash lost his mother to an opioid addiction and his Papaw is dying slowly from emphysema. Dodging drug dealers and watching out for his best friend, Delaney, is second nature. He's been spending his summer mowing lawns while she works at Dairy Queen. But when Delaney manages to secure both of them full rides to an elite prep school in Connecticut, Cash will have to grapple with his need to protect and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Absence makes the heart grow fonder... right? Everyone knows that Nick and Charlie love their nearly inseparable life together. But soon Nick will be leaving for university, and Charlie, a year younger, will be left behind. Everyone's asking if they're staying together, which is a stupid question... or at least that's what Nick and Charlie assume at first. As the time to say goodbye gets inevitably closer, both Nick and Charlie start to question...
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"Channeling her frustrations into email drafts--ones that she'd never send--seemingly perfect Sadie Wen finds her carefully crafted, conflict-free life turned upside down when the email is sent out accidentally, and the only person growing to appreciate the 'real' Sadie is the only boy she's sworn to hate"--
12) Shelter
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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While ten-year-old Maya attends an elite private school on scholarship her classmates are unaware that she and her family are living in a homeless shelter, but on one poignant day Maya discovers having a house is not the only way to have a home
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Spy school volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"Ben Ripley and his friends are training in Alaska when Cyrus Hale is kidnapped by his old Russian nemesis. Ben, Erica, and the others mount a rescue mission, but events quickly spiral out of control in a plot involving the secret history of US-Russian relations, a young KGB agent with skills to rival Erica's--and lots and lots of bears" --
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Brynn Gallagher uses her internship at a new true crime show to investigate the unsolved murder of her favorite teacher, uncovering secrets about her school, her teacher, and her ex-best friend in the process
Four years ago, Brynn left Saint Ambrose School following the shocking murder of her favorite teacher--a story that made headlines after the teacher's body was found by three Saint Ambrose students in the woods behind their school. The case...
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Clique novels. Original series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Meet the clique...Massie Block: With her glossy brunette bob and laser-whitened smile, Massie is the uncontested ruler of The Clique and the rest of the social scene at Octavian Country Say School, an exclusive private girls' school in Westchester County, New York. Massie knows you'd give anything to be just like her. Dylan Marvil: Massie's second in command who divides her time between sucking up to Massie and sucking down Atkins Diet shakes. Alicia...
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""'You must work twice as hard to get half as much.' Adina Walker has known this the entire time she's been on scholarship at the prestigious Edgewater Academy -- a school for the rich (and mostly white) upper class of New England. It's why she works so hard to be perfect and above reproach, no matter what she must force beneath the surface. Even one slip can cost you everything. And it does. One fight, one moment of lost control, leaves Adina blacklisted...
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Horrible Harry volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Follows the school activities of second-graders, Harry and Doug, as they participate in a secret mission to celebrate "Charlotte's Web," learn how to make green slime, and put on a skit warning about the dangers of smoking
18) One kid's trash
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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When his father moves them halfway across Colorado, eleven-year-old Hugo O'Donnell is surprised that his remarkable talent for garbology makes him popular for the first time in his life
19) Honestly Elliott
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Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Struggling with ADHD, loneliness, and connecting with his divorced father who would rather see him embrace sports instead of cooking, sixth-grader Elliott finds an unlikely friend in popular, perfect Maribel when the two are paired in a school-wide contest
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Series
Henry Heckelbeck volume 13
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English
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A sprained leg threatens to take away Henry's role as the lead character in his school play
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