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Courtney Moore is the best gamer at the arcade. But she can't understand why there aren't more girl characters. When Courtney imagines her own video game, the hero is a girl who knows how to handle any situation. If only I was like that in real life, Courtney wishes. Her dad's moving for a job, so Courtney won't be living with him on the weekends anymore. That's causing a big problem with her stepsister, who doesn't like sharing a room with Courtney...
4062) The Year of Miss Agnes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Ten-year-old Fred (short for Frederika) narrates the story of school and village life among the Athapascans in Alaska during 1948 when Miss Agnes arrived as the new teacher.
4063) Willa of the Wood
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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In the late 1800s, a twelve-year-old nightspirit living in the Great Smoky Mountains despairs as homesteaders destroy her forest habitat, until a chance encounter with a "day-folk" man changes everything she thought she knew about her people--and their greatest enemy.
4064) Bell's Star
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Horse diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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In the Vermont spring of 1853, Bell's Star, a Morgan horse, and his owner Katie rescue a runaway slave and try to outwit the slave catchers in order to help her to freedom.
4065) Waking Nightmare
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Hello neighbor volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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It's been four months since Nicky Roth has seen his best friend and neighbor, Aaron Peterson. Aaron's father, a reclusive theme park designer, told the town that Aaron and his sister Mya are living with a relative far away, but Nicky can't seem to accept it. Plagued by terrifying nightmares of robotic mannequins, rotting theme parks, and a dark basement, Nicky teams up with his friends from school to find out what really happened to Aaron and Mya....
4066) An American Story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"A picture book in verse that threads together past and present to explore the legacy of slavery during a classroom lesson"--
4067) The Last Magician
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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In an alternate version of present-day Manhattan, magic is dying, and Esta, a Mageus with a talent for manipulating time, travels back to 1901 to stop the destruction of a book that can possibly restore magic, but in Old New York, Esta must navigate gangs, secret societies, and her feelings for another magician in order to save the future of magic.
4068) Dash
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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When her family is forced into an internment camp, Mitsi Kashino is separated from her home, her classmates, and her beloved dog Dash; and as her family begins to come apart around her, Mitsi clings to her one connection to the outer world--the letters from the kindly neighbor who is caring for Dash.
4069) The Hero Two Doors Down: based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
4070) The Boy Who Dared
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Newbery Honor Winner Susan Campbell Bartoletti explores the life of a heroic German youth who dared to stand up against the Nazis.
Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmuth Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he attempts to expose the...
Bartoletti has taken one episode from her Newbery Honor Book, Hitler Youth, and fleshed it out into a thought-provoking novel. When 16-year-old Helmuth Hubner listens to the BBC news on an illegal short-wave radio, he quickly discovers Germany is lying to the people. But when he attempts to expose the...
4071) Kindling
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"A standalone fantasy set against a war-ravaged world where kindling warfare, the use of elite, magic-wielding teenage soldiers has been outlawed. In this rich and evocative novel, seven kindlings search for purpose and identity as they prepare for one final battle"--
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