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IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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"Efrén Nava's Amá is his Superwoman--or Soperwoman, named after the delicious Mexican sopes hist mother often prepares for the family. Both Amá and Apá work hard all day to provide for the family, making sure Efrén and his younger siblings Max and Mía feel safe and loved. But Efrén worries about his parents; although he's American-born, his parents are undocumented. And according to the neighborhood talk, or local chisme, families like his...
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2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
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Against the will of their grandmother, twins Alex and Conner must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the greatest threat it has ever faced--the return of the Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty.
83) The substitutes
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[2015]
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Josh and Jenny are disturbed that their school is suddenly overrun with nearly identical substitute teachers who ask strange questions and record everything that the students say--but when their own teacher disappears the twins set out to find out what is going on, and who is responsible, and the reader must choose the solution.
84) Jake and Lily
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 6
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"Jake and Lily are twins and have always felt the same--like two halves of one person--but the year they turn eleven and Jake begins hanging out with Bump Stubbins, everything changes"--
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This is a tale set in Kerala, in southern India, in 1969. The lives of twins Rahel and Esthappen are changed forever when their English cousin and her mother arrive on a Christmas visit. The story unfolds with foreboding and takes on big themes like love, madness, hope and joy.
86) Cold cereal
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Cold cereal saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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A boy who may be part changeling, twins involved in a bizarre secret experiment, and a clurichaun in a red tracksuit try to save the world from an evil cereal company whose ultimate goal is world domination.
87) Body Double
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Pregnant women play key roles in this bone-chilling fourth novel in Gerritsen's edgy, suspenseful series of thrillers featuring Boston Medical Examiner Maura Isles and Homicide Detective Jane Rizzoli. Both of the usually gritty crime fighters are uncharacteristically vulnerable. Rizzoli is carrying her first child, and Isles-divorced and alone at age 40 and suddenly, unsettlingly aware of her biological clock-is experiencing decidedly unspiritual...
88) The necromancer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Back in London, fifteen-year-old twins Sophie and Josh Newman must determine whom they can and cannot trust as they search for both Scatty and an immortal who can teach Josh the magic of fire, while Doctor Dee and Machiavelli continue to seek power.
89) The enchantress
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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When Nicholas Flamel, a legendary Alchemyst, and his Sorceress wife Perenelle have only one day left to live, they must finish the job of defending San Francisco before the monsters from Alcatraz Island can reach the city and destroy everyone and everything in their path.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 41
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In his most brilliant and powerful novel, Pat Conroy tells the story of Tom Wingo, his twin sister, Savannah, and the dark and violent past of the family into which they were born. Set in New York City and the low country of South Carolina, the novel opens when Tom, a high school football coach whose marriage and career are crumbling, flies from South Carolina to New York after learning of his twin sister's suicide attempt. Savannah is one of the...
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The never tilting world volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
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"After an ancient prophecy is betrayed, a world ruled by a long line of goddesses is split in two--one half in perpetual day, and the other in an endless night--and two young twin goddesses set out on separate and equally dangerous journeys to the Breach that divides them, hoping to save their broken world"--
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[2015]
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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 bold, daring and carefree. Charlie blames his twin brother for always stealing the limelight, always getting everything, and 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 terrible accident and has slipped...
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Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
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Against the will of their grandmother, twins Alex and Conner must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the greatest threat it has ever faced--the return of the Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty.
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Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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Discovering a clue left by the famous Brothers Grimm, Conner, his classmate Bree, and the outlandish Mother Goose embark on a mission across Europe to crack a code while Alex haphazardly trains as the next Fairy Godmother.
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2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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"Rio has always dreamed of leaving the underwater city of Atlantia for life in the Above; however, when her twin sister, Bay, makes an unexpected decision, Rio is left stranded below where she must find a way to unlock the secrets of the siren voice she has long hidden and save Atlantia from destruction" --
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2014
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The Nantucket wedding of Alix Madsen and Jared Kingsley is a glorious affair. Jareds cousin Graydon Montgomery cant look away from bridesmaid Toby Wyndam. And Toby possesses the remarkable ability of being able to distinguish Graydon from his identical twin brother, Rory. According to family legend, this marks her as Graydons True Love. But Graydon knows there is no way that they can ever be together, for he is heir to the Lanconian throne and is...
98) Mitch and Amy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 6
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The adventures of a nine-year-old twin brother and sister who, despite constant bickering and fighting, support each other loyally in learning to read and spell, memorizing the multiplication tables, confronting the school bully, and making friends.
99) Identical
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Kindle County novels volume 9
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A mayoral candidate's brother is released from prison 25 years after pleading guilty to the murder of his girlfriend, a situation that leads to the re-opening of the case.
100) The Grammarians
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Laurel and Daphne Wolfe, identical, inseparable redheaded twins, share an obsession with words. As adults making their way in 1980s Manhattan, their verbal infatuation begins to push them apart. Their fraying twinship finally shreds completely when the sisters go to war over custody of their most prized family heirloom: Merriam Webster's New International Dictionary, Second Edition