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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Esperanza and her mother are forced to leave their life of wealth and privilege in Mexico to go work in the labor camps of Southern California, where they must adapt to the harsh circumstances facing Mexican farm workers on the eve of the Great Depression.
3) Parachutes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A wealthy Chinese teen is sent to America on her own to attend private school. Claire is a rich 11th grader in Shanghai; Dani is a scholarship student at a private school in Southern California who helps her mother clean houses. When Claire is parachuted into America to finish high school and Dani's mother needs the income from a boarder, they become unlikely housemates.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Angie finds herself in her neighborhood with no recollection of her abduction or the three years that have passed since, until alternate personalities start telling her their stories through letters and recordings.
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Cleo Edison Oliver volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Fifth-grader Cleo Edison Oliver is full of money-making ideas, and her fifth-grade Passion Project is no different--but things get more complicated when she has to keep her business running, be a good listener when her best friend needs her, and deal with the bully teasing her about being adopted at the same time.
8) Unraveling
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"If Janelle Tenner wants to avenge her father's death and stop the end of the world, she's going to need to uncover Ben's secrets--and keep from falling in love with him in the process"--Provided by publisher.
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Peace love and softball volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Sophia Garcia, thirteen, wants to excel at softball like her older sister, Ellie, and make her family proud, but when she is chosen for a different team and position than Ellie, she must learn to succeed by being herself.
10) Warp speed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Marley Sandelski has always felt invisible at school when he is not facing bullies, but a series of unexpected events gives him a taste of popularity and insights into some classmates, well-liked or greatly-feared.
13) Odder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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"Odder spends her days off the coast of central California, practicing her underwater acrobatics and spinning the quirky stories for which she's known. She's a fearless daredevil, curious to a fault. But when Odder comes face-to-face with a hungry great white shark, her life takes a dramatic turn, one that will challenge everything she believes about herself--and about the humans who hope to save her"--
14) What light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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When Sierra falls for Caleb, a boy who made a terrible mistake years before, she is determined to help him find forgiveness, despite the disapproval and suspicions they meet.
17) A good horse
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Horses of Oak Valley Ranch volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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On her family's California horse ranch in the 1960s, eighth-grader Abby Lovitt tries to rely on her Christian faith as she faces the possibility of giving up her beloved colt, Jack.
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I survived volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Traces the story of a boy who moves across the country to rural northern California, where his efforts to adjust are challenged by a fast-moving firestorm that places family homes and lives at risk. --
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Katsuyamas never quit -- but seventeen-year-old CJ doesn't even know where to start. She's never lived up to her mom's type A ambition, and she's perfectly happy just helping her aunt, Hannah, at their family's flower shop. She doesn't buy into Hannah's romantic ideas about flowers and their hidden meanings, but when it comes to arranging the perfect bouquet, CJ discovers a knack she never knew she had. A skill she might even be proud of. Then her...
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Stella Batts volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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When Stella learns that her best friend Willa is moving away, she makes a wish and tries with a magic potion to keep her in Redwood City, California.