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82) Flyaway
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Seattle fifteen-year-old Stevie Calhoun does not realize how bad her life is until her mother leaves and Stevie must move in with annoyingly perfect Aunt Mindy for a summer, filling her days with being tutored and volunteering at a bird rehabilitation center.
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2023.
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"A funny, touching, unforgettable story of an invisible everywoman pushed to the brink--who finally pushes back. Grace Adams gave birth, blinked, and now suddenly she is forty-five, perimenopausal and stalled--the unhappiest age you can be, according to the Guardian. And today she's really losing it. Stuck in traffic, she finally has had enough. To the astonishment of everyone, Grace gets out of her car and simply walks away. Grace sets off across...
84) Crow Lake
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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Set in the wild terrain of northern Ontario of the Pye and Morrison families who are rural farmers, this is a story of family love and misunderstandings, of resentments harbored and driven underground.
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"Finley McGowan is determined that the niece she's raising will always feel loved and wanted. Unlike how she felt after her mom left to pursue a dream of stardom, and when the grandfather who was left to raise them abandoned her and her sister, Sloane, when they needed him most. Finley reacted to her chaotic childhood by walking the straight and narrow, nose down, work hard, follow the rules. Sloane went the other way. Now Sloane is back, as beautiful...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Isabel "Izzy" Spellman is a 28-year-old private eye working for her eccentric family's investigation firm. Looking to get out of the family business, she agrees to take one more job--a 15-year-old missing persons case. But things get complicated when someone close to Izzy also goes missing.
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"A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Feeling like she does not fit in with the other members of her family, who are all thin, brilliant, and good-looking, fifteen-year-old Virginia tries to deal with her self-image, her first physical relationship, and her disillusionment with some of the people closest to her.
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Fifteen-year-old equestrian prodigy Roan Montgomery has only ever known two worlds: inside the riding arena, and outside of it. Both, for as long as she can remember, have been ruled by her father, who demands strict obedience in all areas of her life. The warped power dynamic of coach and rider extends far beyond the stables, and Roan's relationship with her father has long been inappropriate. She has been able to compartmentalize that dark aspect...
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Jessica Clayton has made a career out of helping others downsize, because she's learned the hard way that the less "stuff," the better. She even applies that policy to her relationships. Her sister Rachel put roots down in Cape Sanctuary. The world thinks she has a perfect life, but the demands of her youngest child's disability have caused her marriage to fray. She needs her sister, but painful experience won't let her count on Jess. When a new client...
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"Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new emancipation bill on its way to the floor of the United States Congress. It is 1953 and he and the other council members know the bill isn’t about freedom; Congress is fed up with Indians. The bill is a termination...
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Fairham Island volume 2
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"The rich and powerful Josephine Lazarow, matriarch of Fairham Island, is dead. The police say it's suicide, but Keith, her estranged son, doesn't believe it and returns to Fairham determined to find his mother's killer"--
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Spenser novels volume 40
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Spenser takes up a seemingly open and closed cold case at the behest of a street-wise teen-age girl, who believes her mother's murderers went free. As Spenser digs deeper into the mystery, he finds a much more dangerous and complex mystery than he bargained for. When fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan asks Spenser to look into her mother's murder, he's not completely convinced by her claim that the police investigation four years ago was botched. Mattie...
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Tucker has an eye for tragedy and pain. A celebrated, internationally famous photographer, he has traveled the world and seen both the serious and the strange. But when his brother escapes from a mental hospital and an old girlfriend appears with her son and a black eye. Tucker is forced to return home and face the agony of his own tragic past. Back in rural Alabama, Tucker comes to terms with the ghosts he left behind. Miss Ella Rain once loved Tuck...
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Sylvie Snow knows the pressures of expectations: a woman is supposed to work hard but never be tired; age gracefully but always be beautiful; fix the family problems but always be carefree. Sylvie does the grocery shopping, the laundry, the scheduling, the schlepping, and the PTA-ing, while planning the Bar Mitzvah of her son, Teddy, and cheerfully tending to her husband, Paul, who's been lying on the sofa with a broken ankle. She's also secretly...
96) Canopy Row
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2018
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Ben Storm is living the perfect life in Texas at a children's home. Suddenly his entire source of stability and friendships are ripped away when he is told he will be moving to Southern California. After a few months, his relatives turn him over to a man they say is his dad and he finds himself living a tenuous situation with a father he has never known. Unable to forge a relationship with his father due to years spent apart because of his dad's chemical...
97) Finding Audrey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey?s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother?s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects with him. Audrey can talk through her fears with Linus in a way she?s never been able to do with anyone before. As their friendship deepens and her recovery gains momentum, a sweet romantic connection develops, one that helps not just...
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[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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While writing letters to Innocence X, a justice-seeking project, asking them to help her father, an innocent black man on death row, teenaged Tracy takes on another case when her brother is accused of killing his white girlfriend.
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Christmas bookshop volume 1
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When she is out of a job just in time for the holidays, Carmen, with little cash and few options, is forced to move in with her perfect sister where she takes a job at a book store that desperately needs her help -- and helps her in return.
100) Dig
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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Five white teenage cousins who are struggling with the failures and racial ignorance of their dysfunctional parents and their wealthy grandparents, reunite for Easter.