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4) Blubber
Author
Series
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Jill goes along with the rest of the fifth-grade class in tormenting a classmate and then finds out what it is like when she, too, becomes a target.
{28}Blubber is a good name for her,
Author
Series
Lexile measure
AD 530L
Language
English
Description
Everyone knows the cool beans. They're sooooo cool. And then there's the uncool has-bean ... Always on the sidelines, one bean unsuccessfully tries everything he can to fit in with the crowd--until one day the cool beans show him how it's done.
7) Need you now
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
When big-city life threatens the safety of one of their three teenagers, Brad and Darlene Henderson move the family to tiny Round Top, Texas. The adjustment is difficult for the kids, and when Darlene takes an outside job for the first time, tension rises. The widowed father of one of her students is paying too much attention to her. Trouble is, Darlene feels like someone is listening to her for the first time in a long time. If Darlene ever needed...
8) Flipped
Author
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In alternating chapters, two teenagers describe how their feelings about themselves, each other, and their families have changed over the years.
Author
Language
English
Description
Stitch by stitch, six unlikely lives are transformed with a little help from an Amish widow's quilting classes. . .and the healing hand of God. Annotation: Stitch by stitch, six unlikely lives are transformed with a little help from an Amish widow's quilting classes. . .and the healing hand of God.
10) I hunt killers
Author
Series
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
11) Return to me
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Roxy Burke left home for Nashville, she swore she wouldn't come back until she was a star. But it's desperation that drives this prodigal back to her family, and no one is prepared for what happens next.Roxy has crashed and burned. She's squandered an inheritance, lived a wild life, and wasted her talent. Desperate and ashamed, she now must return to her father and sister, neither of whom she's talked to in seven years.Roxy's father welcomes...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
While visiting the small town of Yonwood, North Carolina, eleven-year-old Nickie makes some decisions about how to identify both good and evil when she witnesses the townspeople's reactions to the apocalyptic visions of one of their neighbors.
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
243 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dorry Chandler is a journalist who always had a taste for mysteries. Curious about the strange "rock" her son has found, she takes it to Dylan Langford, an expert on antiquities who works at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science. When the language inscribed on the artifact is translated, a far-reaching mystery begins to unravel. The Chandler's may have unearthed a fragment of one of the most profound relics in mankind's history and the key to...
14) Rocky recess
Author
Publisher
Picture Window Books
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
440L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
When Raj and Ben have trouble sharing at recess, they take a trip to the principal's office and learn about the Golden Rule.
Author
Publisher
Kar-Ben Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource : color illustrations
Language
English
Description
Rabbi Hanina is out walking when it begins to rain. He is soon soaked to the bone and asks God to make the rain stop. The rain stops, and Rabbi Hanina returns home where it is warm and dry. When he realizes the plants, the animals, and the cracked, thirsty soil need the rain, he prays for God to make it rain once more. As the rain beings to fall, Rabbi Hanina is reminded of his place in the world.
18) Pollyanna
Author
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In early twentieth-century Vermont, orphaned, eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with her austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, and uses her philosophy of gladness to bring happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
20) Zeroboxer
Author
Publisher
Flux
Pub. Date
[2016]
Lexile measure
870L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (353 pages)
Language
English
Description
A rising star in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, Carr 'the Raptor' Luka dreams of winning the championship title. Recognizing his talent, the Zero Gravity Fighting Association assigns Risha, an ambitious and beautiful Martian colonist, to be his brandhelm-a personal marketing strategist. It isn't long before she's made Carr into a popular celebrity and stolen his heart along the way. As his fame grows, Carr becomes an inspirational hero...