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82) Shark teeth
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Children's Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Sharkita "Kita" embarks on a tumultuous journey to keep her family together while handling the consequences of her mother's alcoholism.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Disobeying her witch-like grandmother when she becomes desperate to uncover a family secret, thirteen-year-old Simi goes exploring outside her remote Nigerian village where she discovers a strange parallel world after sinking into the red quicksand of a forbidden lake that holds the key to everything.
85) Dora loves Boots
Author
Series
Dora the explorer volume 6
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
86) The snowflake
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Tells the separate stories of one snowflake and one little girl, both longing for their own special place in the world ... The snowflake and Noelle discover that wherever we go, and however we fall, in the end, we all find a way to shine"--
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Ten-year-old Anthony Joplin has made it to double digits! Which means he's finally old enough to play in the spades tournament every Joplin Man before him seems to have won. So while Ant's friends are stressing about fifth grade homework and girls, Ant only has one thing on his mind: how he'll measure up to his father's expectations at the card table. Then Ant's best friend gets grounded, and he's forced to find another spades partner. And Shirley,...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In the ancient South Pacific world of Oceania, Moana, a born navigator, sets sail in search of a fabled island. During her incredible journey, she teams up with her hero, the legendary demi-god Maui, to traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous sea creatures, breathtaking underworlds, and ancient folklore. -- Amazon.com.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When a young girl is asked where she's from--where she's really from--she's no longer as she was. She decides to turn to her dear abuelo for some help with this ever-persistent question. But he doesn't quite give her the answer she expects."--Page [2] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Ms. Alex is called away from the classroom, she leaves Yasmin in charge, but the other children just ignore her and start acting silly and noisy--until Yasmin thinks up a way to motivate them to finish the math assignment, quietly.
Author
Publisher
Levine Querido
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious.
Author
Series
Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searches for a missing will.
Author
Series
Just Grace volume 10
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Books for Children, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
[2013]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Count on third-grader Grace to cook up a creative compromise just in time to save the day at the cupcake-themed school fair.
98) Dearest one
Author
Publisher
Lantana Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
The words of wisdom a grandmother might pass on to a growing child if she wrote her advice in the form of a letter.
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