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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Colleen Hoover returns with an unforgettable love story between a writer and his unexpected muse. Fallon meets Ben, an aspiring novelist, the day before her scheduled cross-country move. Their untimely attraction leads them to spend Fallon's last day in L.A. together, and her eventful life becomes the creative inspiration Ben has always sought for his novel. Over time and amidst the various relationships...
Author
Series
Terrible two volume 1
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When master prankster Miles Murphy moves to sleepy Yawnee Valley, he challenges the local, mystery prankster in an epic battle of tricks but soon the two join forces to pull off the biggest prank ever seen.
Author
Series
Three rancheros volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night and tells her they need to leave home immediately, and this time Granny intends for them never to return.
Author
Language
English
Description
Eliza Spalding Warren was just a child when she was taken hostage by the Cayuse Indians during a massacre in 1847. Now the young mother of two children, Eliza faces a different kind of dislocation; her impulsive husband wants them to make a new start in another territory, which will mean leaving her beloved home and her departed mother's grave--and returning to the land of her captivity. Eliza longs to know how her mother, an early missionary to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A young woman moves to Los Angeles to escape her life and discovers she doesn't have to leave all of herself behind to make a fresh start, from USA Today bestselling author Abbi Waxman. When Laura Costello moves to Los Angeles, hoping to finally get away from her overprotective family, she doesn't expect to be homeless after a week. (She's almost certain she didn't start that fire . . . right?) When she's rescued by a charming but eccentric bookseller...
Author
Series
Publisher
Kensington Books
Language
English
Description
Booklover Sadie Coleman knows that in life, as in fiction, the right setting can make a world of difference. The small town of Shady Creek, Vermont, seems like the perfect place to start over after losing her Boston job to a merger and her relationship to her ex's gambling addiction. She's bought and redecorated the old grist mill pub, transforming the Inkwell into a cozy spot where tourists and regulars alike can enjoy a pint or a literary-themed...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From May Kay Andrews, the New York Times bestselling author of Hello, Summer, comes a novella celebrating the magic of Christmas and second chances in The Santa Suit. When newly-divorced Ivy Perkins buys an old farmhouse sight unseen, she is definitely looking for a change in her life. The Four Roses, as the farmhouse is called, is a labor of love-but Ivy didn't bargain on just how much labor. The previous family left so much furniture and so much...
8) Long lost
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Feeling lonely and out of place after her family moves to a new town, eleven-year-old Fiona Crane ventures to the local library, where she finds a gripping mystery novel about a small town, family secrets, and a tragic disappearance.
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
Author
Language
English
Description
"The plan is to leave. As for how, when, to where, and even why--she doesn't know yet. So begins a journey for the twenty-four-year-old narrator of Days of Distraction. As a staff writer at a prestigious tech publication, she reports on the achievements of smug Silicon Valley billionaires and start-up bros while her own request for a raise gets bumped from manager to manager. When her long-time boyfriend, J, decides to move to a quiet upstate New...
11) I am number four
Author
Series
Lorien Legacies volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In rural Ohio, friendships and a beautiful girl prove distracting to a fifteen-year-old who has hidden on Earth for ten years waiting to develop the Legacies, or powers, he will need to rejoin the other six surviving Garde members and fight the Mogadorians who destroyed their planet, Lorien.
Author
Series
Mr. Terupt volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Several students relate their experiences helping Mr. Terupt move the old classroom to the sixth grade annex during the summer vacation.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Evan Pao and his family move to Haddington, Virginia in hopes of keeping his father's notoriety a secret, but a small southern town is not an easy place for a Chinese-American boy to fit in, and one kid, Brady Griggs, seems determined to make things difficult.
14) New kid
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--
15) First team
Author
Series
New kids novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"The companion novel to New Kid, where Brock is in another new town after being on the run with his dad again, and this time, he joins the football team"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year old Jessie, still grieving over her mother's death, must move from Chicago to "The Valley," with a new stepfamily but no new friends until an anonymous fellow student emails and offers to help her navigate the school's treacherous social waters.
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of Never Have I Ever comes the hair-raising story of a mother who moves herself and her daughter across the country to lose a dangerous stalker-only to discover that it will take more than distance to escape him"--
It started with the letters... For actress Meribel Mills, disturbing fan mail is part of the price of fame. So when she starts getting creepy letters written in fruit-scented marker she is mostly...
Author
Series
Life of a cactus volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
New friends and a mystery help Aven, thirteen, adjust to middle school and life at a dying western theme park in a new state, where her being born armless presents many challenges.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Evelyn Del Rey is Daniela's best friend. They do everything together and even live in twin apartments across the street from each other: Daniela with her mami and hamster, and Evelyn with her mami, papi, and cat. But not after today--not after Evelyn moves away. Until then, the girls play amid the moving boxes until it's time to say goodbye, making promises to keep in touch, because they know that their friendship will always be special. The tenderness...
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