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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Saya's mother is sent to jail as an illegal immigrant, she sends her daughter a cassette tape with a song and a bedtime story, which inspires Saya to write a story of her own--one that just might bring her mother home.
42) Paper planes
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Publisher
Peachtree
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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Neighbors and best friends Mia and Ben love nothing more than making planes and flying them together, but when Ben moves away, both wonder if they can remain friends.
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English
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Now in its third edition, It's My Life Now is a guide for survivors who have left an abusive relationship. It addresses-in clear, non-threatening language-various issues associated with abuse and violence, including post-relationship emotions, psychological impact, dealing with children, personal safety, legal problems, and financial security. Each chapter dismantles common myths about being in and leaving an abusive relationship and contains activities...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Missing her mother who has returned to Turkey to resolve an immigration problem, sixth-grader Sila welcomes a very large distraction in her life when she helps a surprising new friend rescue a circus elephant.
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English
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"Adolescence is the time of exciting milestones-such as first relationships-but also of difficult new experiences, such as the first pangs of jealousy and the first breakup. This title offers guidance for teens struggling with jealousy issues or coping with the fallout of a breakup. Although problem jealousy can be corrosive, it can be managed if the issue is acknowledged and addressed. Breakups are difficult ordeals for teenagers, but time, self-care,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
On a drunken impulse, Michael Henchard, a hay-trusser by trade, sells his wife Susan and their child to a sailor. Years later, Susan returns to Casterbridge a widow, to seek her legal husband who is, surprisingly, now the Mayor.
51) Kartography
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Raheen and her best friend, Karim, share an idyllic childhood in upper-class Karachi. Their parents were even once engaged to each others' partners until they rematched in what they call "the fiancée swap." But as adolescence distances the friends, Karim takes refuge in maps while Raheen searches for the secret behind her parents' exchange. What she uncovers reveals not just a family's but a country's turbulent history-and a grown-up Raheen and Karim...
52) You'll find me
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Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Illustrations and easy-to-read text highlight ways to find reminders of loved ones in everyday actions, even after they are gone.
54) After I do
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English
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"From the author of Forever, Interrupted--hailed by Sarah Jio as "moving, gorgeous, and at times heart-wrenching"--comes a breathtaking new novel about modern marriage, the depth of family ties, and the year that one remarkable heroine spends exploring both. When Lauren and Ryan's marriage reaches the breaking point, they come up with an unconventional plan. They decide to take a year off in the hopes of finding a way to fall in love again. One year...
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English
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The Between Boyfriends Book is an honest, hilarious look at the world of dating-and not dating-that will have fans rushing back for multiple copies to press on the psychic wounds of their afflicted friends. Chupack not only puts voice to the cheerful brutality that shapes young women's love lives, but creates bonus coinages to describe instantly recognizable dating tropes, such as:
* "sexual sorbet": the first person you sleep with after a breakup...
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English
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This is a fun, yet educational resource for readers who are experiencing a breakup and don't know where to turn. The text is presented in an approachable, friendly fashion, which reassures readers that the experience of a breakup is not the end of the world. Common worries are highlighted, such as what went wrong and how to get over the former partner. These concerns are then addressed in a nonjudgmental and healthy manner. Additionally, there are...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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"Two high school sweethearts get a second chance at their perfect ending in this charming new romance by Kerry Winfrey, author of Very Sincerely Yours. Once upon a time, Sandy Macintosh thought she would have her happily ever after with her high school sweetheart, Hank Tillman. Sandy wanted to be an artist, Hank was the only boy in town who seemed destined for bigger things, and they both had dreams to escape town together. But when Sandy's plans...
58) City of margins
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Language
English
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A vivid new cast of characters collide in gritty 1990s Brooklyn, in this latest from acclaimed neo-noir author William Boyle. In City of Margins, the lives of several lost souls intersect in Southern Brooklyn in the early 1990s. There's Donnie Parascandolo, a disgraced ex-cop with blood on his hands; Ava Bifulco, a widow whose daily work grind is her whole life; Nick, Ava's son, a grubby high school teacher who dreams of a shortcut to success; Mikey...
59) Black sun
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Language
English
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Now in a Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition, the timeless novel that chronicles a reckless romance in the wilderness, from Edward Abbey, one of America's foremost defenders of the natural environment.
Black Sun is a bittersweet love story involving an iconoclastic forest ranger and a freckle-faced "American princess" half his age. Like Lady Chatterley's lover, he initiates her into the rites of sex and the stark, secret harmonies of his wilderness...
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English
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Hailed as a masterpiece in Britain, this epic novel is at once a great love story, a riveting political thriller, and a profound analysis of modern Iran.
It is the spring of 1974, and John Pitt, a young Englishman, sets off for the hippie East, stopping in Iran. There, in the lovely city of Isfahan, he meets the enchanting and spirited Shirin, an Iranian schoolgirl of seventeen. They fall desperately in love, marry in secret, and are forced into...