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Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?
Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?
Are you often busy but not productive?
Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?
If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the EssentialistThe Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done. It is not a time...
3) Soccer song
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Jill's friends know that she has strong arms and hands and so when she is learning to play soccer, they help her to find a position in which she can excel.
4) Leo the Lop
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A Serendipity book volume 6
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English
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Leo is a lop-eared rabbit in a colony of bunnies whose ears stand up, and he is hurt by the teasing of the other rabbits--until a possum teaches him about individuality.
5) Stargirl
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Stargirl volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
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A celebration of nonconformity; a tense, emotional tale about the fleeting, cruel nature of popularity--and the thrill and inspiration of first love.
Leo Borlock follows the unspoken rule at Mica Area High School: don't stand out--under any circumstances! Then Stargirl arrives at Mica High and everything changes--for Leo and for the entire school. After 15 years of home schooling, Stargirl bursts into tenth grade in an explosion of color and a clatter...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Twelve-year-old identical twins Jay and Ray have long resented that everyone treats them as one person, and so they hatch a plot to take advantage of a clerical error at their new school and pretend they are just one.
7) Remake: bk.1
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In Freedom Prime, young adults can choose their name, their trade, and their gender, but the one thing they cannot choose is to be part of a family, because the family unit has been eradicated.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor of starting a band with a group of like-minded weirdos.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When homeschooled farm girl Piper McCloud reveals her ability to fly, she is quickly taken to a secret government facility to be trained with other exceptional children, but she soon realizes that something is very wrong and begins working with brilliant and wealthy Conrad to escape.
12) About Average
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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As the end of sixth grade nears, Jordan Johnson, unhappy that she is only average in appearance, intelligence, and athletic ability, reveals her special skills when disaster strikes her central Illinois elementary school.
13) Take Two
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Identical twins Payton and Emma continue to navigate life in middle school as they serve their punishment for having fooled people by trading places, and they learn that their own identities are usually best.
15) School of Charm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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After her beloved father's death in 1977, eleven-year-old tomboy Chip tries to fit with her family of beauty queens, making unlikely new friends at Miss Vernie's unusual charm school in Mt. Airy, North Carolina.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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A mother duck hatches three odd ducklings then one that seems perfect, so she names the fourth Beauty and fusses over her, while the other ducklings are learning to fly, swim, find food, and have fun. Includes puzzles and notes for adults.
17) Wish girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Twelve-year-old Peter has never felt at home with his noisy family, but begins to find the strength to live and to be himself when he discovers a special valley in the Texas Hill Country and meets Annie, a girl dying of cancer who knows and accepts him from the start.
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Among Americans, diabetes is more prevalent today than ever; obesity is at epidemic proportions; nearly 10% of children are thought to have nonalcoholic fatty liver disease. And sugar is at the root of these and other critical society-wide, health-related problems. With a combination of science and straight talk, Gary Taubes delves into Americans' history with sugar: its uses as a preservative, as an additive in cigarettes, the contemporary overuse...
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Franny K. Stein Mad Scientist volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Franny Stein, self-styled mad scientist, creates a robot to show her school friends the joys of science, she ends up learning something from them instead.
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