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Young Sara Hopkins(Austyn Johnson) is unlike other kids: she takes God at his word. So when one day a preacher says that prayer can move mountains, she begins fervently to do so. The Lord didn't disappoint her: from a bird being mysteriously healed, the people begin to feel their problems fade away, and any misfortune is erased from every corner of the town. This brings Sara immense attention and notoriety, which immediately takes a toll on her. Her...
42) Sold
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi, though poor, enjoys her life until the Himalayan monsoons wash away her family's crops and she is sold to a brothel in India by her stepfather. She remembers her mother's wisdom, "Simply to endure is to triumph," until the day comes that she can reclaim her life.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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The beloved American classic about a young girl's coming-of-age at the turn of the twentieth century. From the moment she entered the world, Francie Nolan needed to be made of stern stuff, for the often harsh life of Williamsburg demanded fortitude, precocity, and strength of spirit. Often scorned by neighbors for her family's erratic and eccentric behavior-such as her father Johnny's taste for alcohol and Aunt Sissy's habit of marrying serially without...
44) Indigo dreaming
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[2022]
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1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
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A young girl living on the coast of South Carolina dreams of her distant relatives on the shores of Africa and beyond. Indigo Dreaming is a poetic meditation between two young girls--on different sides of the sea--who wonder about how they are intricately linked by culture, even though they are separated by location. The girls' reflections come together, creating a vision of home, as well as a celebration of the Black diaspora.
45) Smash it!
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Olivia "Liv" James is done with letting her insecurities get the best of her. She's going to smash junior year, and makes a list. A F*ck-It list. She tries out for the school musical, says yes to a date, and starts making new friends. But with change comes a lot of missteps, and being bold means following her heart. What happens when Liv's heart is interested in three different guys-- and two of them are her best friends? What is she supposed to do...
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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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The explosion of racial hate in an Alabama town is viewed by a little girl whose father defends a black man accused of rape.
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First published in 1903, "Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm" is the charming and classic children's novel beloved the world over. Written by the American author and educator Kate Douglas Wiggin, it is the story of young and poor Rebecca Rowena Randall, who goes to live with her spinster aunts in the town of Riverboro when she is ten years-old. Rebecca's father had died three years before and the family farm had become heavily indebted. In order to ease the...
49) Stunning
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Pretty little liars volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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Struggling to return to normalcy after surviving Alison's attempt to kill them, Spencer, Aria, Emily and Hanna endure a series of disasters before realizing that they are being stalked by a new "A" who knows all of their secrets.
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c2006
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134 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
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Feeling crafty? Feeling like your room looks a bit blah, a bit humdrum, and maybe a bit like it has since you were four? Have no fear -- Clea's here to inspire you to whip your room into the here and now! Paint your room with Zooma-Zooma Racing Stripes. Give your bed an imaginary headboard. Add a thought bubble above your reading nook. Then fill your space with abstract art masterpieces, record jacket frames, and homemade tee shirt and sweater pillows...
51) Hyacinth girls
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[2015]
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295 p. ; 25 cm
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Thirteen year old Callie is accused of bullying at school, but Rebecca knows the gentle girl she's raised must be innocent. After Callie is exonerated, she begins to receive threatening notes from the girl who accused her, and as these notes become desperate, Rebecca feels compelled to intervene. As she tries to save this unbalanced girl, Rebecca remembers her own intense betrayals and best-friendships as a teenager, when her failure to understand...
53) A gift horse
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[2015]
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Amanda, a young energetic girl, is torn apart by the loss of her mother to cancer. She struggles to accept the fact that her father has moved on to a new relationship. In order to cope, Amanda spends her time at a ranch owned by a business tycoon, Mr. Canton. Amanda is gifted a beautiful horse Misty, but who has been unable to work with any other rider. Amanda proves that Misty is a true champion and restores her happiness in the process.
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[2023]
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1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When her family goes out of town, Alex and her fellow band geek friend Claire decide to steal her brother's candy apple red 1966 Mustang on a weekend joyride in hopes of appearing cool and impressing her high school crush.
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Christmas hope series volume 10
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Thirty-two-year-old Amy Denison volunteers at Glory's Place, an after school program where she meets seven-year-old Maddie, a precocious young girl who has spent her childhood in foster care. Unbeknownst to Amy, Maddie is a mini-matchmaker, with her eye on just the right man for Amy at Grandon Elementary School, where she is a student. Amy is hesitant - she's been hurt before, and isn't sure she's ready to lose her heart again - but an unexpected...
58) Blueberry girl
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Rhyming text expresses a prayer for a girl to be protected from such dangers as nightmares at age three or false friends at fifteen, and to be granted clearness of sight and other favors.
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[2014]
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 40 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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"Nine-year-old Isabelle is an inspired dancer with a flair for fashion design. She's thrilled to be studying ballet at a prestigious performing arts school, but her classmates are so talented--and she can't help feeling that she's always in the shadow of her 'perfect' older sister, Jade. So when her idol, a famous ballerina, encourages her to audition for a professional ballet, Isabelle isn't sure she can land the role"--Container.
60) Almond
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
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The New Girl at school plays the violin so beautifully that Almond gets lost in the music, but she also feels sad because she does not know if she herself has any talent at all--until the school play, when with the encouragement of her mother, her teacher, and the New Girl, she finds she has a talent for acting.
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