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Pub. Date
©2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Caroline worries that British spies may be lurking in Sackets Harbor, but when strange things start happening at Abbott's Shipyard Caroline wonders if a spy, either someone she has known all her life or Papa's long-lost friend, is responsible.
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It's August of 1974, a summer "hot and serious and full of death and betrayal," and Watergate and the Vietnam War make the world feel precarious. A stunned hush pauses the cacophonous universe of New York City as a man on a cable walks (repeatedly) between World Trade Center towers. This extraordinary, real-life feat by French funambulist Philippe Petit becomes the touchstone for stories that briefly submerge you in ten varied and intense lives--a...
64) Wild girl
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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When twelve-year-old Lidie leaves Brazil to join her father and brother on a horse ranch in New York, she has a hard time adjusting to her changed circumstances, as does a new horse that has come to the ranch.
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Vanderbeekers volume 3
Pub. Date
c2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Description
The Vanderbeeker children, ages six to thirteen, race to help save their mother's baking business from closure after it fails an inspection.--
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American girl BeForever. Rebecca, 1914 volume 1
A Rebecca classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Rebecca 1914 volume 1
A Rebecca classic volume 1
American girl BeForever. Rebecca 1914 volume 1
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"Rebecca Rubin is growing up in the bustling city of New York in 1914. She dreams of being a star on the silver screen, but her performance this year is on the stage at school. She has to share the spotlight with her cousin Ana, though, and Rebecca fears the audience will laugh instead of applaud. Will Ana hurt or help the performance? Then, being included in a special plan fills Rebecca with joy. But what act of kindness teaches her the true meaning...
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c 2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Thirteen-year-old Anjali dreams of hosting a televised cooking show featuring foods based on her Hindu and Trinidadian heritage, but when an opportunity presents itself, she will have to defy her family to go to the audition. Includes recipes.
69) All Four Stars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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Eleven-year-old Gladys Gatsby loves food and cooking, so when she lands an assignment to write a restaurant review for a New York City newspaper, she will do anything to make it happen, even risk the wrath of her fast-food loving parents.
70) Tight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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After his quick-tempered father gets in a fight and is sent back to jail, sixth-grader Bryan, known for being quiet and thoughtful, snaps and follows new friend Mike into trouble.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Description
When Dina starts at a new school, she is tasked with completing a video project with popular girl Chelsea. Dina thinks tracking down a famous former student of her school will be her ticket to success, but Chelsea also wants to find this celebrity for her own reasons, leaving Dina to wonder what's going on.
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"Laila desperately wants to become a mother, but each of her previous pregnancies has ended in heartbreak. This time has to be different, so she turns to the Melancons, an old and powerful Harlem family known for their caul, a precious layer of skin that is the secret source of their healing power. When a deal for Laila to acquire a piece of caul falls through, she is heartbroken, but when the child is stillborn, she is overcome with grief and rage....
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Pacy Lin books volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Frustrated at her seeming lack of talent for anything, a young Taiwanese American girl sets out to apply the lessons of the Chinese Year of the Dog, those of making best friends and finding oneself, to her own life.
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Viola Chesterton books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
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Back home in Brooklyn, fifteen-year-old Viola has big summer plans but with one best friend going to camp and the other not only working but experiencing her first crush, Viola is glad to be overworked as an unpaid lighting intern when her grandmother's play goes to Broadway.
76) Permanent record
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Description
Nineteen-year-old Pablo Neruda Rind is working in an upscale health food store in New York CIty when pop star Leanna Smart rushes in and turns his life upside-down.
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Family tree (Ann M. Martin) volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Dana is Abby and Zander's daughter, but growing up in New York City in the late nineteen fifties is not always easy, especially when you would like your own room separate from your twin sister--and when your beloved father dies and you are forced to move things just get worse.
78) Game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Description
If Harlem high school senior Drew Lawson is going to realize his dream of playing college, then professional, basketball, he will have to improve at being coached and being a team player, especially after a new--white--student threatens to take the scouts' attention away from him.
80) Slipping
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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Thirteen-year-old Michael and an unlikely group of allies journey to the river of the dead to help Michael's grandfather release his hold on a ghostly life and, in the process, heal wounds that have kept Michael's father distant.