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When she awakened, there was a fly buzzing about her Jell-O and the ice-cream had melted. The storm was still on, but seemed farther away - so much so that she could hear the solemn ticking of the wall-clock. And something more: a squeaking sound, like the protests of a wheelchair too long neglected. It was coming from outside her room. It was coming up the hall.
She looked at the doorway.
Sure enough, an old woman in a wheelchair muscled her way...
3) 22 seconds
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Women's Murder Club volume 22
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English
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Publisher Annotation: SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer has guns on her mind. There's buzz of a last-ditch shipment of drugs and weapons crossing the Mexican border ahead of new restrictive gun laws. Before Lindsay can act, her top informant tips her to a case that hits disturbingly close to home. Former cops. Professional hits. All with the same warning scrawled on their bodies: You talk, you die. Now it's Lindsay's turn to choose. Women's murder club...
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Carrie Diaries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Small town girl, Carrie, learns to navigate New York City in the summer, and becomes the person she always wanted to be.
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Yada Yada Prayer Group series volume 4
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English
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"The Yada Yada Prayer Group has been together for a whole year and so many good things are happening. However that's just when the Enemy knows to attack. The Yada Yada sisters realize they need to get tough" -- Provided by publisher.
6) The postcard
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Amish country crossroads volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Philip Bradley finds an old postcard that allows him to meet the timid Rachel Yoder as they both become involved in trying to find out the postcard's secret.
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English
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Set in the high country of Colorado during the Depression, this is the story of an unforgettable friendship between two women--eighty-six-year-old Hennie Comfort and seventeen-year-old Nit Spindle--and the deepest hardships and darkest secrets they shared with each other.
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Lorien Legacies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
700L
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English
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In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
10) Quinny & Hopper
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"Two polar-opposite eight year olds who become summer best friends find their friendship threatened by the uncertainties of a new school year"--
11) Miracle
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English
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For Quinn Thompson, the storm of the century will bring down barriers he has built around himself. For neighbor Maggie Dartman, it will spark friendship at a time she needs it most. And for Jack Adams, a carpenter who repairs Quinn and Maggie's homes, the storm brings an opportunity to help two people and to be repaid with the greatest gift of all.
12) Nikki & Deja
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Nikki and Deja volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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When an arrogant new girl comes to school, third-graders and best friends Nikki and Deja decide to form a club that would exclude her but find the results not what they expected.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Percy Jackson's hope for a normal senior year is shattered as the gods present him with three quests, beginning with the retrieval of Zeus's goblet, in order to get the necessary three letters of recommendation for college.
14) Turtle boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Seventh-grader Will's Bar Mitzvah community service project, visiting an incurably ill older boy in the hospital, leads to a friendship that is life-changing for both them and those around them.
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"Two girls embark on a summer of montage-worthy dates (with a few strings attached)."--
If happy endings were real, Saoirse's mother would still be able to remember her name and not be in a care home with early onset dementia. And if she inherits the condition, Saoirse doesn't see the point in igniting any romantic sparks when she's bound to burn out. Until Saoirse meets Ruby, a girl with one blue freckle, an irresistible sense of mischief, and a...
16) A good yarn
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Series
Blossom street novels volume 2
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English
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The highly anticipated sequel to "The Shop on Blossom Street." Once again, a disparate group of women find friendship and comfort as they learn the age-old craft of knitting.
17) Late edition
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English
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Toots and the Sisters travel to Charleston, where they search for the murderer of Ida's late husband--and try to protect Ida from similar fate.
18) My friend Rabbit
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Something always seems to go wrong when Rabbit is around, but Mouse lets him play with his toy plane anyway because he is his good friend.
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English
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The untold story of the unique fifty-year friendship between two American icons: John Glenn, the unassailable pioneer of space exploration and Ted Williams, indisputably the greatest hitter in baseball history.
It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men-already experts in their fields-crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. John Glenn was an ambitious operations officer with fifty-nine...
20) Always, Abigail
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
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Sixth grader Abigail, assigned a different homeroom than her two best friends and made only the alternate on the pom-pom squad, learns a lot about popularity and true friendship when paired with unpopular Gabby for a year-long "Friendly Letter Assignment."
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