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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 17
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"In a new thriller from America's Queen of Suspense, a young woman is ensnared into returning to a place she had wanted to leave behind forever - her childhood home. There, at the age of ten, Liza Barton had shot her mother, trying desperately to protect her from her estranged stepfather, Ted Cartwright. Despite his claim that the shooting was a deliberate act, the Juvenile Court rule the death an accident. Many people, however, agreed with Cartwright,...
82) Pinky Pye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Meet Pinky, a furious black kitten who adopts the Pye family. The Pyes have some of the smartest pets around--there's Ginger the intellectual dog, and Gracie the clever old cat--but Pinky is more than smart enough to earn a place in the Pyes' hearts. She can box with Ginger, play games with Mr. Pye, and--Rachel and Jerry can hardly believe their eyes--even type out her life story!
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Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Flora and her brother, Julian, don't believe they were born. They've lived in so many foster homes, they can't remember where they came from. And even now that they've been adopted, Flora still struggles to believe in forever. So along with their new mother, Flora and Julian begin a journey to go back and discover their past -- for only then can they really begin to build their future.
85) Paddington
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
A small bear from Darkest Peru sets out on an adventure of a lifetime. With nothing but a suitcase, several jars of marmalade, and a label around his neck that reads, "Please Look After This Bear," he stows away on a ship headed for faraway England. When the little bear arrives at London's busy Paddington Station, he is discovered by Mr. and Mrs. Brown. As luck would have it, the Browns are just the sort of people to welcome a lost bear into their...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Growing up, Mallory "Mouse" Dodge learned that the best way to survive was to say nothing. After she escaped her terrifying childhood and spent years being homeschooled by loving adoptive parents, she is starting her senior year at a public high school. The first day, she runs into Rider Stark, the friend and protector from her childhood, and Mallory realizes that their bond never really faded. But as Rider's life spirals out of control, Mallory faces...
Author
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Twelve-year-old Jaden, an emotionally damaged adopted boy fascinated by electricity, feels a connection to a small, weak toddler with special needs in Kazakhstan, where Jaden's family is trying to adopt a "normal" baby.
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Parents, educators, therapists, and social workers alike have declared The Invisible String the perfect tool for coping with all kinds of separation anxiety, loss, and grief. In this relatable and reassuring contemporary classic, a mother tells her two children that they're all connected by an invisible string. "That's impossible!" the children insist, but still they want to know more: "What kind of string?" The answer is the simple truth that binds...
89) Shadow
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Series
Puppy place. Main series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Charles and Lizzie Peterson meet Shadow, they recognize him as a special, cute, smart black lab. Who'll be the perfect owner for him?
90) Stuart Little 2
Pub. Date
[2002]
Description
Stuart Little is back for more action-packed adventure. This time around Stuart and the reluctant Snowbell embark on a dangerous mission to rescue Stuart's new friend Margalo from a villainous falcon. But the journey proves more difficult than he ever imagines, and Stuart has to decide if he's up to the task.
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Pub. Date
c2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Nora and Ben’s younger sister Birdy loves to keep secrets. She surprises her family more than once: She hides a kitten in her room. She writes a beautiful poem. One day Birdy watches her mother spit into a tube, ready to send it off to find out more about herself and where her family came from. Birdy spits into a tube, too, when no one sees her. But when the test results come back, they are a surprise. Birdy is seemingly not related to Nora and...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A Crocodile in the Family is a heartwarming story about a family of birds who find a lone egg and take it home to care for it themselves. The egg eventually hatches and it isn't a baby bird inside--it's a baby crocodile! They raise their new baby crocodile as one of their own, while their community asks them why they keep him? It turns out the bird family's reason is simple..."--Jacket flap.
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Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Description
From her home in Lidice, Czechoslovakia, in 1942, eleven-year-old Milada is taken with other blond, blue-eyed children to a school in Poland to be trained as "proper Germans" for adoption by German families, but all the while she remembers her true name and history.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 5
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"From the legendary author of Hatchet , a laugh-out-loud eco-friendly adventure about a boy, his free-thinking dad, and the puppy-training pamphlet that turns their summer upside down. Twelve-year-old Carl is fed up with his father's single-minded pursuit of an off-the-grid existence. His dad may be brilliant, but dumpster-diving for food, scouring through trash for salvageable junk, and wearing clothes fully sourced from garage sales is getting old....
96) Tuck triumphant
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Fourteen-year-old Helen, her blind dog Friar Tuck, and her family face some dramatic challanges when they discover that the Korean boy they have adopted is deaf. Sequel to "The Trouble with Tuck."
97) Capyboppy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"A capybara is a large, tailess rodent that looks like a giant guinea pig. This is the story of a real one who actually lived with the Peet family. Capyboppy soon outgrew his name, his family and his living quarters- but for a while he was an amusing pet." -Hunntting.
100) Brave like that
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Eleven-year-old Cyrus knows he is not cut out to be a football hero or fireman like his adopted father, but it takes a skittish stray dog to teach him that he, too, can be brave.