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2) This lullaby
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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Raised by a mother who's had five husbands, eighteen-year-old Remy believes in short-term, no-commitment relationships until she meets Dexter, a rock band musician.
5) Almost home
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Newbery Honor winner Joan Bauer's new novel will touch your heartWhen twelve-year-old Sugar's grandfather dies and her gambling father takes off yet again, Sugar and her mother lose their home in Missouri. They head to Chicago for a fresh start, only to discover that fresh starts aren't so easy to come by for the homeless. Nevertheless, Sugar's mother has taught her to be grateful no matter what, so Sugar does her best. With the help of a rescue dog,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Ever since she can remember, seventeen-year-old Margot Nielsen has been living with her mother in a run-down, single-bedroom apartment where she has to follow a strange set of rules laid down by her mother, Jo. Longing to know of her past, Margot comes upon a family bible with a photograph and phone number, taking her on a journey to rural Nebraska where she discovers her grandmother Vera, living on the family homestead. Margot soon realizes the warm...
8) Show way
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Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
The making of "Show ways," or quilts which once served as secret maps for freedom-seeking slaves, is a tradition passed from mother to daughter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Description
"My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I'm allergic to the world. I don't leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla. But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black -- black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking...
11) Not even bones
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Series
Market of monsters volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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Nita's mother hunts monsters and, after Nita dissects and packages them, sells them online, but when Nita follows her conscience to help a live monster escape, she's sold on the black market in his place.
12) The Hazel Wood
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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When the scary, magical world in her grandmother's book of dark feminist fairy tales becomes real, seventeen-year-old Alice, partnered with Ellery, an obsessed fan of the fairy tales, must enter the world to rescue Alice's kidnapped mother.
13) The escape
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Series
Horses of the dawn volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Estrella is a filly, daughter of the lead mare, one of a shipment of horses bound for the new world, but when the ship is becalmed and the horses are dropped overboard to lighten the load, Estrella finds that it is up to her to lead the herd to land and safety.
14) Raybearer
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Series
Raybearer volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Tarisai has always longed for the warmth of a family. She was raised in isolation by a mysterious, often absent mother known only as The Lady. The Lady sends her to the capital of the global empire of Aritsar to compete with other children to be chosen as one of the Crown Prince’s Council of 11. If she’s picked, she’ll be joined with the other Council members through the Ray, a bond deeper than blood. That closeness is irresistible to Tarisai,...
15) Money hungry
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Series
Raspberry Hill novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
All thirteen-year-old Raspberry can think of is making money so that she and her mother never have to worry about living on the streets again.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
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A young Asian girl notices that her eyes look different from her peers'. They have big, round eyes and long lashes. She realizes that her eyes are like her mother's, her grandmother's, and her little sister's. They have eyes that kiss in the corners and glow like warm tea, crinkle into crescent moons, and are filled with stories of the past and hope for the future. Drawing from the strength of these powerful women in her life, she recognizes her own...
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Series
So B. it volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
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After spending her life with her mentally retarded mother and agoraphobic neighbor, twelve-year-old Heidi sets out from Reno, Nevada, to New York to find out who she is. Living with her mentally disabled mother who only knows just over twenty words, young Heidi has learned to live in her special world until a new word is suddenly used and repeated by her mother; causing Heidi to think it might be a key to a secret past about which she knows so little....
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Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Twelve-year-old Candice Miller is spending the summer in Lambert, South Carolina, in the old house that belonged to her grandmother, who died after being dismissed as city manager for having the city tennis courts dug up looking for buried treasure--but when she finds the letter that sent her grandmother on the treasure hunt, she finds herself caught up in the mystery and, with the help of her new friend and fellow book-worm, Brandon, she sets out...
19) Erandi's braids
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Description
In a poor Mexican village, Erandi surprises her mother by offering to sell her long, beautiful hair in order to raise enough money to buy a new fishing net.
20) Saturday
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Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When all of their special Saturday plans go awry, Ava and her mother still find a way to appreciate one another and their time together