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It is 1936 and Kate Merritt, the middle child of Victor and Nadine, works hard to keep her family together. Her father slowly slips into alcoholism and his business suffers during the Great Depression. As her mother tries to come to grips with their situation and her sisters seem to remain blissfully oblivious to it, it is Kate who must shoulder the emotional load. Who could imagine that a dirty, abandoned little girl named Lorena Birdsong would be...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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After their mother dies of typhoid, Verna and her younger sister Carlie move with their father, a psychiatrist, and stern Aunt Maude to an asylum for the mentally ill in early-twentieth-century Michigan, where new ideas in the treatment of mental illness are being proposed, but old prejudices still hold sway.
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Magic tree house volume 35
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Jack and Annie visit the Paris World's Fair of 1889 in an effort to protect four scientific pioneers from an evil sorcerer.
9) Glory be
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In the summer of 1964 as she is about to turn twelve, Glory's town of Hanging Moss, Mississippi, is beset by racial tension when town leaders close her beloved public pool rather than desegregating it.
10) Lucky strikes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Set in Depression Era Virginia, this is the story of orphaned Amelia and her struggle to keep her siblings together--
11) The red pyramid
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Kane chronicles volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
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Mermaid tales volume 20
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
92 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Pearl Swamp is not happy when her selection as the next winter princess is overshadowed by her family's decision to adopt a baby boy.
13) Brother's keeper
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Sora and her eight-year-old brother, Youngsoo, must try to escape North Korea's oppressive Communist regime on their own in 1950. Includes historical notes, photographs of the author's mother, glossary of Korean words, and timeline.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Delphine, Vonetta, and Fern are off to Alabama to visit their grandmother, Big Ma, and her mother, Ma Charles. Across the way lives Ma Charles's half sister, Miss Trotter. The two half sisters haven't spoken in years. As Delphine hears about her family history, she uncovers the surprising truth that's been keeping the sisters apart. But when tragedy strikes, Delphine discovers that the bonds of family run deeper than she ever knew possible"--From...
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Baby-sitters little sister volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Karen is afraid her next-door neighbor's granddaughter, Druscilla, is a witch but her father says Druscilla is lonely and he wants her to go trick-or-treating with Druscilla and to her Halloween party. But Karen is afraid.
16) P.S. be eleven
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The Gaither sisters return to Brooklyn, where they adapt to new feelings of independence while managing changes large and small, from Pa's new girlfriend to a very different Uncle Darnell's return from Vietnam.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
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Series
Cupcake diaries volume 20
Publisher
Simon Spotlight
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
128 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alexis is excited about the Cupcake Club job for the neighbor's BBQ/pool party because her crush, Matt will be there. Unfortunately, things don't go according to plan with a big test she can't concentrate on and nothing to wear. Alexis's big sister, Dylan, comes to the rescue.
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Magic tree house volume 46
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Jack and Annie travel to a monastery in the Swiss Alps where, with the help of St. Bernard dogs and magic, they seek the second of four special objects necessary to break the spell on the wizard Merlin's beloved penguin, Penny.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 33
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
While on a mission to prove to Merlin that they can use magic wisely, Jack and Annie travel to seventeenth-century Venice, Italy, to save the city from disaster.
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