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1) Firefly Lane
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
Spanning more than three decades and playing out across the ever-changing face of the Pacific Northwest, Firefly Lane is the poignant, powerful story of two women and the friendship that becomes the bulkhead of their lives.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
This special edition of the highly acclaimed novel Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda features art from the major motion picture starring Nick Robinson, Katherine Langford, Jennifer Garner, and Josh Duhamel, which hits theaters on March 16, 2018.
Author
Series
To all the boys I've loved before volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter. She and Peter were just pretending. Except suddenly they weren't. Now Lara Jean is more confused than ever. When another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him return too. Can a girl be in love with two boys at once?"--‡cProvided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
A fourteen-year-old boy pretends to seduce a girl to steal a copy of "Playboy" before discovering that she is his computer-loving soul mate, in a humorous coming-of-age story set against a backdrop of late-1980s teen pop-culture trends.
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Language
English
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Description
"Having forged a new identity as a gay man in New York, Daniel Henriquez returns to the floodlands where he went to high school, to mourn Aubrey, the self-identified "redneck" girl he loved back then. His track team buddies--Twig, a long-distance runner; Desmond, a sprinter; Des's girlfriend, Egypt; and Jess, Aubrey's best friend--help him reckon with who they are to him, and he to them. Recklessly, he confronts the good-ole-boy responsible for Aubrey's...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Chiko isn't a fighter by nature. He's a book-smart Burmese boy whose father, a doctor, is in prison for resisting the government. When Chiko is forced into the army by trickery, he must find the courage to survive the mental and physical punishment meted out by the training facility's menacing captain. Tu Reh can't forget the image of the Burmese soldiers burning his home and the bamboo fields of his oppressed Karenni people, one of the many ethnic...
Author
Publisher
Anaya
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
Español
Description
Mason Buttle es el chico más grande y sudoroso de su clase, y todos saben que apenas es capaz de leer y escribir. Estos problemas, sin embargo, no son nada comparados con la aflicción que siente por la muerte de su mejor amigo. Mason, que es el niño más honesto del mundo, no entiende por qué el teniente Baird no se cree la historia que le ha contado sobre lo que ocurrió ese día. Menos mal que su nuevo amigo, el diminuto Calvin Chumsky, un divertido...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Bunny Lampert is the princess of North Shore - beautiful, tall, blond, with a rich real-estate-developer father and a swimming pool in her backyard. Michael - with a ponytail down his back and a septum piercing - lives with his aunt in the cramped stucco cottage next door. When Bunny catches Michael smoking in her yard, he discovers that her life is not as perfect as it seems. At six foot three, Bunny towers over their classmates. Even as she dreams...
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