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1) Old school
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive?"--
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
217 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Description
"Life was better in the old days. Or was it? That's the question Greg Heffley is asking as his town voluntarily unplugs and goes electronics-free. But modern life has its conveniences, and Greg isn't cut out for an old-fashioned world. With tension building inside and outside the Heffley home, will Greg find a way to survive?"--
4) Unplugged
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Formats
Description
Relates, in multiple voices, the adventures of a group of youngsters at an electronics-free wellness camp where wealthy, spoiled Jett, leads other campers in trying to stop a criminal.
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
250 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
Believing his long-absent father is missing and leaving clues behind through geocaching, Zig, thirteen, relies on his love of electronics, a garage sale GPS unit, and his best friend, Gianna, to search for answers.
7) Federica
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Description
"Federica's busy family can't keep their house clean! To get away from the buzzy, buggy mess, she escapes to the peaceful park where she can spend time with her animal friends--which gives her an idea."--
8) Remedy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
A girl who has been struggling with inexplicable poor health her entire life becomes the focal point of her mother's increasingly suspicious online funding campaign for medical expenses.
It feels like Cara has been sick all her life, but she and her mom have never stayed in one place long enough for doctors to really understand what is happening to her. Now, at fourteen, Cara is tired of being tired, and sick of being sick. And it's only getting...
Author
Series
J. D. the kid barber volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"Eight-year-old kid barber J.D. joins forces with his sister, who has beauty shop dreams, to find stardom online"--
11) You hold me up
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An evocative picture book intended to foster reconciliation among children and encourage them to show each other love and support.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Evie Beckham has always been too occupied with her love of math and frequent battles with anxiety to want to date. Besides, she's always found the idea of kissing to be kind of weird. But by senior year, thanks to therapy and her friends, she's feeling braver than before. Maybe even brave enough to enter the national math and physics competition or flirt back with the new boy. Meanwhile, Evie's best friend, Caleb Covic, has always...
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Description
"Seamus would give anything to be taller! One day, while playing dress-up in his mother's closet, he finds a way to reach new heights. With his mother's high-heeled shoes on, Seamus can suddenly reach everything that was once too high: the top-floor elevator button, the chocolate milk in the fridge, the TV remote and that horrid picture of him as a baby. But when Seamus encounters problems that can't be solved from a great height, he has to admit...
14) Baby squeaks
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"Baby mouse has learned to squeak. And now it's squeak, squeak, squeak all day long. Baby chats with new friends and old friends, big friends and little friends, and sometimes just chats with no one at all. Poor Mama needs a break...but when Baby wanders off, Mama knows what to do: follow the squeaks!"--
15) Forever our home
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"This gentle picture-book lullaby is a celebration of the plants and animals of the Prairies and a meditation on the sacred, ancestral connections between Indigenous children and their Traditional Territories."--
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 18 x 25 cm
Description
"All is quiet in the forest...until two little musicians, Strum and Drum, wake from their deep sleep and set out for the Great Star in the north, making the most joyous music they can along the way."--
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"A girl longs for her mother's attention. But Mummy is always busy helping everyone else and their children! Day by day, the narrator recalls what it was like growing up with her mother, who was a nanny, as well as a friend, baker, maker, teacher, cleaner and more. As the youngest in her family, the girl stayed home and helped amuse the children her mother looked after. She went along on trips to the Caribbean greengrocer in their Brooklyn neighborhood,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
Description
"The year is 1991. Mona Hasan is a young Muslim girl growing up in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates. The first Gulf War has broken out close by, but it isn't what she expects -- "We didn't even get any days off school! Just my luck." However, the event sparks major change in her life, as her family moves from big-city Dubai in the UAE to small-town Darmouth on the east coast of Canada."--Book jacket flap
"Mona learns to find her voice over the course...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"In a future world ravaged by global warming, people have lost the ability to dream, and the dreamlessness has led to widespread madness. The only people still able to dream are North America's indigenous population - and it is their marrow that holds the cure for the rest of the world. But getting the marrow - and dreams - means death for the unwilling donors. Driven to flight, a 15-year-old and his companions struggle for survival, attempt to reunite...
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