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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 10
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Written in 1897, The Turn of the Screw remains one of the most suspenseful and fascinating ghost stories ever written. A governess arrives at an isolated English mansion to care for two seemingly angelic but rather strange young children, and the appearance of two evil phantoms leads her to question her sanity. Tor Classics are affordably-priced editions designed to attract the young reader. Original dynamic cover art enthusiastically represents the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 8
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The thirteen-year-old daughter of an English country knight keeps a journal in which she records the events of her life, particularly her longing for adventures beyond the usual role of women and her efforts to avoid being married off.
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Bridget Jones volume 2
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Taking up where the Diary left off, this story follows the next year in Bridget's life. Over the months, she juggles her love for Mark, advice from her friends, and rivalry with Rebecca, who is slyly pursuing Mark
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Bridget Jones volume 3
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What do you do when your girlfriends sixtieth birthday party is the same day as your boyfriends thirtieth? Is it better to die of Botox or die of loneliness because youre so wrinkly? Is it wrong to lie about your age when online dating? Is it normal to get fewer followers the more you tweet? If you put lip plumper on your hands do you get plump hands? Is sleeping with someone after two dates and six weeks of texting the same as getting married after...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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In her fictional journal, 11 year old Minnie Swift recounts how her family dealt with the difficult times during the Depression and how the arrival of an orphan from Texas changed their lives in Ind.heir steamship journey from New York. Includes a historical note.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
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Twelve-year-old Amber Billows, upset to be moving once again to follow her father's reporting job, cannot help loving Hawaii, but the peace of her tropical paradise is shattered on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
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After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloé, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic...
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Alan Christofferson, wakes one morning to find himself injured, alone, and confined to a hospital bed in Spokane, Washington. Sixteen days earlier, reeling from the sudden loss of his wife, his home, and his business, Alan left everything and set off on an extraordinary cross-country journey. He planned to walk to Key West. But a vicious roadside stabbing has interrupted his trek. Homeless and facing months of difficult recovery,. Alan has nowhere...
71) Ava and Pip
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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When ten-year-old Ava uses her writing talents to help her older sister overcome her shyness, both girls learn the impact their words and stories can have on the world around them.
73) The illumination
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c2010
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In the aftermath of a fatal car accident, a private journal of love notes written by a husband to his wife passes into the keeping of a hospital patient, and from there through the hands of five other suffering people, touching each of them uniquely
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Sarah Agnes Prine novels volume 2
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Turner opens her story in 1906 after years of drought have devastated the cattle ranches of Arizona. Sarah is faced with starving cattle, a dry well, and romantic advances from a scheming neighbor. In addition, she must try to save her brother's family, who are victims of the great San Francicso earthquake.
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Owl diaries volume 16
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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When Eva hurts her wing, she visits the hospital and meets a new friend, Rocco, who has a broken leg--but wearing a sling for a week prevents her from writing in her diary, and she turns to her friends and family in order to keep it up to date.
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Confessions of Georgia Nicolson volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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The saga of teenager Georgia Nicolson continues in diary entries about her life after her boyfriend goes off to Kiwi-agogoland, leaving her to make do without him.
78) The dirt diary
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Dirt diary volume 1
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[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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After her parents' divorce, eighth-grader Rachel Lee joins her mother's new housecleaning business, which has her scrubbing bathrooms in her more popular classmates' homes and learning useful secrets.
79) The journal of Sean Sullivan: a Transcontinental Railroad worker : Nebraska and points west, 1867
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[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1867, fifteen-year-old Sean experiences both hardships and rewards when he joins his father in working on the building of the Transcontinental Rairoad.
80) Jay's journal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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Jay's journal reveals his growing involvement with witchcraft before his suicide at age 16.