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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Elric and his mother secretly care for his mentally disabled sister, Wynn, whom the villagers consider a changeling, until their father threatens to sell her, so they flee into the forest, even though Elric does not share her belief in magic.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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A controversial tale of friendship and tragedy during the Great Depression, in a deluxe centennial edition. Over seventy-five years since its first publication, Steinbeck's tale of commitment, loneliness, hope, and loss remains one of America's most widely read and taught novels. An unlikely pair, George and Lennie, two migrant workers in California during the Great Depression, grasp for their American Dream. They hustle work when they can, living...
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When Aaron Maciver's beautiful young wife, Madeline, suffers brain damage in a bike accident, she is left with the intellectual powers of a six-year-old. In the years that follow, Aaron and his second wife care for Madeline with deep tenderness and devotion as they raise two children of their own.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
Physical Desc
211 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
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Ten-year-old Liam and his two younger sisters, precocious third-grader Dakota and second-grader Izzy, who has Down syndrome, face the possibility of losing their beloved dog, Cupcake, who keeps urinating on their apartment's carpet.
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Pub. Date
2020
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3 sound discs (210 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
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Sally Miyake is happy at Sunnyside Plaza, the community center she lives in with other adults with developmental disabilities. But everything changes the day a resident unexpectedly dies. After a series of tragic events, detectives Esther Rivas and Lon Bridges begin asking questions. Are the incidents accidents? Or is something more disturbing happening? The suspicious deaths spur the residents into taking the investigation into their own hands. But...
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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245 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
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It is 1871 in Scranton, Pennsylvania, and fourteen-year-old Pringle Rose, still grieving from the death of her parents, takes her brother Gideon, who has Down syndrome, escapes from her uncle and aunt, taking a train to Chicago--but disaster seems to follow her there.
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[2023]
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256 pages ; 22 cm
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"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....
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