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"Discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice, Sebastien Trovato wrestles with questions of his origins. Decades later, on an assignment to translate a rare book, Daniel Goodman finds himself embroiled in a web of secrets carefully kept within the ancient city and in the mystery of the man whose story the book does not finish: Sebastien"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Ming, the daughter of Chinese immigrants in 1930s California, wants to be like other children at school and celebrate Christmas with a tree, but after her father takes her to see a wise old friend, she discovers a better way to honor her heritage.
6) The insiders
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A Publishers Weekly Best Book of the Year * An ALA Rainbow Book List Top 10 Title for Young Readers
Three kids who don’t belong. A room that shouldn’t exist. A year that will change everything.
Perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead and Meg Medina, this debut middle grade novel from award-winning author Mark Oshiro is a hopeful and heartfelt coming-of-age story for anyone who’s ever felt like they
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Eleven-year-old Peijing and her family are adapting to their new life in Australia, but when cracks in her family life start to appear, she must find a way to cope with the uncertainties of her own little world and figure out where she fits in.
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English
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In a novel inspired by Audrey Hepburn's classic film Sabrina, a caterer returns to the grand Long Island estate--now set for demolition--where she grew up as the daughter of the house manager, and where a rekindled love triangle reveals bittersweet truths about her upbringing and a shattering secret about her family.
When Emma Jansen discovers that the grand Long Island estate where she grew up is set to be demolished, she can't help but return for...
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Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.
In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their...
10) Tokyo ever after
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Series
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After learning that her father is the Crown Prince of Japan, Izumi travels to Tokyo, where she discovers that Japanese imperial life--complete with designer clothes, court intrigue, paparazzi scandals, and a forbidden romance with her handsome but stoic bodyguard--is a tough fit for the outspoken and irreverent eighteen-year-old from northern California.
It isn't easy being Japanese American in a small, mostly white, northern California town, being...
12) Cazadora
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Wolves of no world volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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After revealing her hybrid nature to Septimus beyond her pack, Manu hopes that superstition and suspicion do not prevent her and her friends from finding allies in their fight for a better future.
13) Wave
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ABRAMS
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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When her best friend's cancer returns in the summer of 1987, none of her usual pursuits--surfing, singing, or reading poetry--can keep thirteen-year-old Ava afloat.
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Sunny volume 3
Publisher
Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Sunny's just made it to middle school . . . and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion, boys, makeup, boys, and being cool. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying,...
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Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Twelve-year-old Hanako and her family, reeling from their confinement in an internment camp, renounce their American citizenship to move to Hiroshima, a city devastated by the atomic bomb dropped by Americans
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Pub. Date
2021
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English
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"Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when...
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Series
Sunny volume 5
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
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Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and her cheer attempts are... not the best. So what can she do? When Sunny's friend Arun says he wants to start a debate club, she's not really sure what he means....