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2) Stargirl
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Hannah's popular bakery, The Cookie Jar, licated in Lake Eden, Minnesota, is best known for its tempting confections--until best-selling cookbook author and television personality Connie McIntyre is murdered in its pantry while baking a special treat for the town's Winter Carnival. Despite police warnings to steer clear of the case, Hannah is soon chasing down a bevy of suspicious characters.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
After being involved in a drunk driving accident in the spring, Paige Sheridan spends the summer in Paris as an au-pair and then returns to her suburban Iowa existence for her senior year of high school, where she begins to wonder if she wants more out life than being popular, having a handsome boyfriend and all the latest clothes, and being a member of the social elite.
Author
Series
Roscoe Riley rules volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Having gotten a pair of hard-to-find Walkie Talkie shoes, Roscoe is suddenly popular and wants his best friend, Gus, to join the fun, but before Gus's parents will buy him new shoes, he must wear out his long-lasting sneakers.
Author
Language
English
Description
On the heels of Kendrick Lamar's Pulitzer Prize, as the world begins to recognize the creative side of Hip-Hop, comes a writing guide from a musician and "The greatest MC of all time," Rakim.
The musician and Hip Hop legend—hailed as "the greatest MC of all time" and compared to Thelonious Monk—reimagines the writing handbook in this memoir and guide that incorporates the soulful genius, confidence, and creativity
...10) Lucky
Author
Series
Avery sisters trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Phoebe and her clique of privileged girlfriends get ready to graduate from eighth grade, a financial scandal threatens her family's security--as well as Phoebe's social status--but ultimately it teaches her the real meaning of friendship.
12) Eggnog murder
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Collects holiday-themed mysteries by three popular authors including "Eggnog Murder" by Leslie Meier, in which a gift-wrapped bottle of eggnog proves to be a killer concoction for a Tinkers Cove local, and Lucy Stone must seek out the murdering mixologist.
13) What to say next
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
When an unlikely friendship is sparked between relatively popular Kit Lowell and socially isolated David Drucker, Kit asks David for his help figuring out the how and why of her father's tragic car accident.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.9 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shakespeare's popular comedy of love and mistaken identity is accompanied by a section on reading Shakespeare's language, information on Shakespeare's life and theater, explanatory notes, annotated reading lists, and an essay.--
16) The coworker
Author
Language
English
Description
"Dawn Schiff is strange. At least, everyone at work thinks so. She never says the right thing. She has no friends. And she is always at her desk at precisely 8:45 a.m. So when Dawn doesn't show up to the office one morning, her coworker Natalie Farrell-beautiful, popular, top sales rep five years running-is surprised. Then she receives an unsettling, anonymous phone call that changes everything ... Now, Natalie is irrevocably tied to Dawn as she finds...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"1890, Atlanta. By day, seventeen-year-old Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel Caroline Payne, the daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night, Jo moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper advice column for 'the genteel Southern lady'"--
1890, Atlanta. Jo Kuan works as a lady's maid for the cruel daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Atlanta. But by night she moonlights as the pseudonymous author of a newspaper...
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