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Young Amelia Bedelia (Picture books) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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While visiting her grandparents, literal-minded Amelia Bedelia finally learns, despite some mishaps, how to bake an apple pie.
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A poignant and unforgettable novel from Jacquelyn Mitchard, author of the monumental New York Times bestsellers
The Deep End of the Ocean and The Most Wanted,
A Theory of Relativity is a powerful tale that explores the emotional dynamics and dramas of two families fighting for custody of a young child. The very first author selected by the Oprah Book Club, Mitchard is a matchless, wise, and warm chronicler of families and their human foibles-and...
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Love comes softly series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Book 5 of the bestselling Love Comes Softly series. Marty Davis had thoroughly enjoyed her visit with daughter Missie, even though a tragic accident had extended it far longer than originally planned. But now she and Clark are home again, and there are changes to make. The family begins to adjust to Clark's crutch, and Clark and Marty recognize their children's new maturity and independence. But Nandry seems unable to come to terms with Clark's handicap;...
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Prairie Legacy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Her Character Has Been Shaped and Tempered by Both Adversity and Triumph... If Virginia could have chosen to accept or discard all the changes that came her way, she gladly would have let most of them pass right by herself and her family. She loved her life--living on the farm with her beloved Jonathan and their children, not far from her parents and her grandparents. But a change that is tearing at her heart is the gradual but steady physical decline...
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When she receives the news in late 1944 that her baby's father was shot down in the South Pacific, Amelia Richards loses hope. Jobless and broke, she has nowhere to turn for help but her infant's paternal grandparents. The only problem is, they don't know that she--or their grandson--exists. When Amelia discovers that the family is wealthy and influential, dare she disclose the truth of her relationship with their son? Or could the celebration of...
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Times are hard in Depression era Georgia mountain country. Even so, fourteen-year-old Halley Owenby, her younger brother, Robbie, and their parents, Jim and Kate manage to get by until Jim dies suddenly in an accident, and Kate decides she and her children have no choice but to move in with her parents.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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While spending Christmas at their grandparents' farm, Lily becomes convinced that her younger brother Liam is right about White Cow being lonely and helps him seek a companion for her, leaving little time for Christmas preparations or reading.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Just when twelve-year-old Summer thinks nothing else can possibly go wrong in a year of bad luck, an emergency takes her parents to Japan, leaving Summer to care for her little brother while helping her grandmother cook and do laundry for harvest workers.
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[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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276 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Eleven-year-old Maizy Chen visits her estranged grandparents, who own and run a Chinese restaurant in Last Chance, Minnesota; as her visit lengthens, she makes unexpected discoveries about her family's history and herself."--
12) Walk two moons
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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After her mother leaves home suddenly, thirteen-year-old Sal and her grandparents take a car trip retracing her mother's route. Along the way, Sal recounts the story of her friend Phoebe, whose mother also left.
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[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
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309 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
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"Sixth grader Andy Zhou grapples with fitting in, befriends a bully, drifts apart from his childhood best friend, and gets to know grandparents who have just moved from Shanghai to live with his family"--
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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219 pages ; 17 cm
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"Eager to prove herself to her family, Kelsey Summerfield is on board to plan her grandfather's upcoming wedding. But the bride's grandson, rancher Clay McKendry, is equally determined to keep the city girl's big ideas in check. When a series of disasters threaten to derail their grandparents' big day, will these two opposites put aside their differences...and find their own happily-ever-after?"--Page 4 of cover.
15) Fablehaven
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Fablehaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
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(Anna Lois)Pages and Co volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
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304 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.
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When eleven-year-old Tilly Pages joins Oskar and his family on a Christmas trip to Paris, she and her friend bookwander into the land of fairy tales, where someone--or something--is causing chaos.
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[2020]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 27 cm.
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"Joshua and his grandfather love being together. More than anything else they love fishing. But Grandpa gets sick and is in the hospital a long time. When he gets out, he and Joshua share one more fishing adventure, and Grandpa promises Joshua that he will always be near."--Amazon.com.
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When thirteen-year-old Eddie receives a Christmas sweater instead of the new bicycle he so desperately wanted, he is quite disappointed. After a tragic car accident kills his mother and Eddie is sent to live with relatives, the sweater is all Eddie has to remind him of his mother. Feeling awful about how unappreciative he was to his mother, Eddie turns to his next door neighbor to teach him the true meaning of a gift.
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"Bestselling author Lauraine Snelling shares a heartfelt story of a couple who put their plans for a peaceful retirement on hold to assume guardianship of their young grandchildren. Mona and Ken Sorenson are approaching the best years of their lives. Mona's greatest concern is that Ken will learn of the surprise party she's planning for his retirement from his job as Dean of Students at Stone University. They've already been making plans to travel,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
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In 1947, twelve-year-old Pattie Mae is sustained by her dreams of escaping Rich Square, North Carolina, and moving to Harlem when her Uncle Buddy is arrested for attempted rape of a white woman and her grandfather is diagnosed with a terminal brain tumor.
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