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Author
Series
Sisters eight volume 4
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Description
April Fools' Day is long and hard for the third-grade Huit octuplets, but it is nothing compared to the challenges of Tax Day, through which Jackie discovers her special power and gift and learns more about their parents' mysterious disappearance.
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Having discovered that his destiny is tied to that of Farworld, Marcus, despite his growing power over water, struggles with physical pain and inner doubts as, with the help of his companions, he tries to complete the quest to find the other elementals that will help destroy the evil force of the Dark Circle.
44) Heck, superhero
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Abandoned by his mentally ill mother, thirteen-year-old Heck tries to survive on his own as his mind bounces between the superhero character he imagines himself to be and the harsh reality of his life.
Author
Series
American adventures (Lee Roddy) volume 1
Pub. Date
c1989
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Hildy Corrigan, 12, came home one day to find that her stepmother had taken her brother and 4 sisters and left Hildy alone. Angry and determined, Hildy refuses to stay with her backwoods granny and runs off with her cousin Ruby to find her family. Granny sends an evil mountain hunter on their track, determined to have Hildy to herself, and Hildy despairs of keeping her promise to her siblings to never let them be separated.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
Presents two stories by Sarah Dessen including "The Truth About Forever," in which Macy plans to work at the library and wait for her brainy boyfriend to return from camp, but instead she goes to work at a catering business where she makes new friends and finally faces her grief; and "Lock and Key," in which high school senior Ruby is abandoned by her alcoholic mother and winds up living with Cora, the sister she has not seen for ten years, learning...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"On the morning of the dedication of the new children's library in Belle Beach, Long Island, eleven-year-old Julie Sweet and her six-year-old sister, Martha, find a baby in a basket on the library steps. At the same time, twelve-year-old Bruno Ben-Eli is on his way to the train station to catch the 9:15 train into New York City. He is on an important errand for his brother, who is a soldier overseas in World War II. But when Bruno spies Julie, the...
48) Every day after
Author
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"A young girl fights to keep her mama out of the mental ward, her home away from the bank, and herself out of the orphanage after her father abandons her and her mother in depression era Alabama"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
p2006
Description
Taylor Markham is now a senior at the Jellicoe School, and has been made leader of the boarders. She is responsible for keeping the upper hand in the territory wars with the townies, and the cadets who camp on the edge of the school's property over summer. She has to keep her students safe and the territories enforced and to deal with Jonah Griggs, the leader of the cadets and someone she'd rather forget. But what she needs to do, more than anything,...