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Ya-Yas volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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Looks back to the years of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood's origins in Thornton, Louisiana, during which Vivi, Teensy, Caro, and Necie endure crises of faith, lapses in parenting, brushes with alcoholism, and glimpses into racial bigotry.
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Books of the Raksura volume 4
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"An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the Indigo Cloud court of the Raksura, shape-shifting creatures of flight that live in large family groups. The groundlings have found a sealed ancient city at the edge of the shallow seas, near the deeps of the impassable Ocean. They believe it to be the last home of their ancestors and ask for help getting inside. But the Raksura fear it was built by...
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Books of the Raksura volume 5
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"A former friend has betrayed the Raksura and their groundling companions, and now the survivors must race across the Three Worlds to rescue their kidnapped family members. When Moon and Stone are sent ahead to scout, they quickly encounter an unexpected and potentially deadly ally, and decide to disobey the queens and continue the search alone. Following in a wind-ship, Jade and Malachite make an unlikely alliance of their own, until word reaches...
4) Wringer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
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690L
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As Palmer comes of age, he must either accept the violence of being a wringer at his town's annual Pigeon Day or find the courage to oppose it.
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"The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's crown." -Mirror (UK)
When a man's death at the United Nations turns out to be more than just an accidental shooting, unsuspecting Tom Byrne is plunged headlong into a deadly world of hidden fellowships, unforgivable crimes, and a 60-year quest for justice. From Sam Bourne-the #1 international bestselling author of The Righteous Men and The Last Testament-comes this fast-paced, gripping, and provocative thriller...
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Can you be Grandma and turn off the light? Grandma's too tired to be Grandma tonight. She played dress-up and drank afternoon tea. Helped you climb up the Sycamore tree. Took a hike and went for a dip. Now she's exhausted! There's an ache in her hip. In this clever, rhyming picture book, a grandma tells her granddaughter that she's simply too tired to be Grandpa tonight and asks her granddaughter to take over for her.
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It was a terrifying experience when insurgents targeted Gracie Jones-Jefe and her family, but Gracie knows their enemies won't live long after this attack. Section K Replication Alluthan Clone, or Krac as he is now called, is a cold-blooded killer, just as he was designed to be, but since descendants of the Freedom Five rescued him from a secret facility, he has devoted his life to protecting the family, and now he's coming for whoever kidnapped Violet...
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Stella Diaz volume 5
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When fifth-grader Stella Díaz considers going to a different school than her closest friends, sees her big brother Nick receiving mail from colleges far away, and is forced to work on a project with her former bully, she suddenly realizes growing up is not quite as fun as she first thought.
11) Waggit's tale
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Waggit volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
910L
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English
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When Waggit is abandoned by his owner as a puppy, he meets a pack of wild dogs who become his friends and teach him to survive in the city park, but when he has a chance to go home with a kind woman who wants to adopt him, he takes it.
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Stories of the Raksura volume 2
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English
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Moon, Jade, and other favorites from the Indigo Cloud Court return with two new novellas from Martha Wells.
Martha Wells continues to enthusiastically ignore genre conventions in her exploration of the fascinating world of the Raksura. Her novellas and short stories contain all the elements fans have come to love from the Raksura books: courtly intrigue and politics, unfolding mysteries that reveal an increasingly strange wider world, and threats...
14) Bestowal
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We were created by the Bestower, and placed on the world to rid it of its native life, unpleasing to Him. He gave us the living Bestowed to sustain us and replace what was there before. Thus say the priests, but now that myth is questioned: Native life has evolved; why not ourselves and the Bestowed that came with us? Are not all native, and necessary for survival? The evidence is contentious: Exterminate, or conserve? There is increasing dissension...
15) Zero Zero Zero
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Sebastian Jones's day starts badly enough. He's beaten up – twice. Then he's nearly killed. He doesn't think life can get much worse. He's wrong. When his delivery for El Duce goes awry, Sebastian takes the money and runs – all the way to the Rigel system. There, he meets Philippe LaGrain, a con-man who double-crosses Sebastian and leaves him to die on an airless asteroid. Sebastian claws his way back to civilization, but Philippe has organized...
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"Long, long ago, sprites were the caretakers of gardens. Every flower was grown by their hand. But when humans appeared and began growing their own gardens, the sprites' magical talents soon became a thing of the past. When Wisteria, an ambitious, kind-hearted sprite, starts to ask questions about the way things used to be, she'll begin to unearth her long-lost talent of gardening. But her newly honed skills might not be the welcome surprise she intends...
17) Gracie's Touch
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Gracie Jones was little more than a child when the Earth was invaded, but by the time she is seventeen, Gracie turns the tide in the war against the Alluthans — she just has to give up everything and everyone that she knows to do it. When she wakes, she is on an undeveloped moon in a distant galaxy, and no one is coming for her. Kordon Jefe, Commander of the Confederation of Planets, is absolutely astounded when he finds Gracie Jones, the Mother...
18) River's Run
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River Knight was looking forward to a peaceful vacation in the mountains with her two best friends, Jo and Star, her fellow circus performers and sisters of the heart, but when she travels up into the mountains of North Carolina to the cabin Star has rented for them, she is shocked to see them being abducted! She follows them... and discovers their abductors are anything but human...After sneaking aboard the shuttle to rescue Jo and Star, River finds...
19) Kuiper Station
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Kuiper Station What appeared to be a simple but ambitious goal of establishing a new colony in the Kuiper Belt, a colony to service mining activities there, was more than it seemed. One side, led by the Solar Federation and the Jackson family, was determined to break humanity out of its almost century long stagnation and push it to embrace the stars. The other side, led by the Terran Federation, was determined to block such expansion and maintain...
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Embark on an interplanetary adventure with "The Day Earth Kids Met Martian Friends" – an enchanting kids' story ebook that ignites the imagination and celebrates the magic of friendship across the cosmos. Overview: Join Lily, Jake, Mia, and Noah, a group of adventurous kids who discover a mysterious signal from Mars, inviting them to befriend Martian children. What follows is a cosmic journey filled with laughter, games, and unexpected challenges,...
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