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Nantucket is only two and a half hours away from Martha's Vineyard by ferry. But the two islands might as well be worlds apart for a set of identical twin sisters who have been at odds for years. Just because twins look exactly the same doesn't mean they're anything alike - and Tabitha and Harper Frost have spent their whole lives trying to prove this point. When a family crisis forces them to band together - or at least appear to - the twins come...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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Revisits the sometimes challenging relationship between a six-year-old (the Pain) and his eight-year-old sister (the Great One) through seven chapters featuring such events as learning to ride a bicycle, having a birthday party, and dog-sitting
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Wingfeather saga volume 2
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 19
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Wild escapes. A desperate journey. And the ghastly Fangs of Dang. First they found themselves On the Edge of the Dark Sea of Darkness. Now they must make their way North! Or Be Eaten. Janner, Tink, and Leeli Igiby thought they were normal children with normal lives and a normal past. But now they know they're really the Lost Jewels of Anniera, heirs to a legendary kingdom across the sea, and suddenly everyone wants to kill them. In order to survive,...
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Growing up, Cassie Carter and her sisters, Karen and Nichole, were incredibly close -- until one fateful event drove them apart. After high school, Cassie ran away from home to marry the wrong man, throwing away a college scholarship and breaking her parents' hearts. To make matters worse, Cassie had always been their father's favorite -- a sentiment that weighed heavily on her sisters and made Cassie's actions even harder to bear. Now thirty-one,...
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"After fifty years of marriage, Stan and Joy Delaney are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy's door. She says she chose their house because it looked the friendliest. And since Savannah is bleeding after a fight with her boyfriend, the Delaneys are more than happy to give her the small kindness she sorely needs. If only that was all she wanted. Later, everyone will...
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Clementine volume 5
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IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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Third-grader Clementine tries to adjust to the news that her perfect family of four is adding a new brother or sister
7) East of Eden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks' and the Hamilton's--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. The story of two brothers, Aron is a clean-cut model student, engaged to be married, the pride of his hardworking father. Cal is a rebellious loner, sternly rejected...
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When parenting authorities Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish sat down to write the national bestseller How to Talk so Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, they found that the could not contain their chapter on sibling rivalry. No matter how much they tried to pare down their advice, they found the subject inexhaustible-and parents agreed! Siblings Without Rivalry guides the way to family peace and tranquility with humor and compassion for both...
11) Mallory vs. Max
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Mallory McDonald books volume 3
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Carolrhoda Books
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2005
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IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
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Eight-year-old Mallory feels left out when her older brother, Max, gets a dog that becomes the center of attention
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"World War II has ended and American women are shedding their old clothes for the gorgeous new styles. Voluminous layers of taffeta and tulle, wasp waists, and beautiful colors, all so welcome after years of sensible styles and strict rationing. Jeanne Brink and her sister Peggy both had to weather every tragedy the war had to offer: Jeanne without the fiancé she's counted on, Peggy now a widowed mother, both living with Peggy's mother-in-law in...
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"Whiskey and Charlie might have come from the same family, but they'd tell you two completely different stories about growing up. Whiskey is everything Charlie is not--bold, daring, carefree--and Charlie blames his twin brother for always stealing the limelight, always getting everything, always pushing Charlie back. By the time the twins reach adulthood, they are barely even speaking to each other ... When Charlie hears that Whiskey has been in a...
14) Me first
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Nancy Paulsen Books, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) Inc
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[2014]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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A donkey brother and sister's constant attempts to outdo each other land them in a sticky situation
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Newly orphaned children of immigrants, Lucy and Sam are suddenly alone in a land that refutes their existence. Fleeing the threats of their western mining town, they set off to bury their father in the only way that will set them free from their past. Along the way, they encounter giant buffalo bones, tiger paw prints, and the specters of a ravaged landscape as well as family secrets, sibling rivalry, and glimpses of a different kind of future
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Goosebumps. Original series volume 7
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Discover the original bone-chilling adventures that made Goosebumps one of the bestselling children's book series of all time!
Lindy names the ventriloquist's dummy she finds Slappy. Slappy is kind of ugly, but he's a lot of fun. Lindy's having a great time learning to make Slappy move and talk. But Kris is jealous of all the attention her sister is getting. It's no fair. Why does Lindy always have all the luck?Kris decides to get a dummy of her...
18) Jawbreaker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Twelve-year-old Max, who has an extreme overbite, must navigate sibling rivalry and middle school bullies
Max Plink's life is complicated. Her parents aren't getting along. The school bullies are relentless, and her own sister is the cruelest of them. Worst of all, her mouth is a mess. With a mismatched puzzle of a jaw, Max has a Class II malocclusion, otherwise known as a severe overbite. She already has braces, which means she lives on Advil and...
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