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1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
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Series
Beyond the circle volume 1
Publisher
Revell, a division of Baker Publishing Group
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English
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When Rachelle Matthews undergoes a procedure to restore her sight, she begins to dream of another world and learns that she is the one destined to find five seals in both worlds in order to bring them peace, but if she fails, both will fall into darkness.
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English
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"A young workaholic avoiding home for the holidays discovers that you can't run away from who you are--a heartfelt Christmas novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Debbie Macomber. Everly Lancaster always dreamed of leaving her hometown in rural Illinois. Now she helps run a burgeoning startup in Chicago, where her professional goals leave little time for friends...or a vacation. When a massive snowstorm hits, Everly's mother urges her to...
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English
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Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too awkward--and you can't say no--it would look like defeat. On your desk are a series of invitations to half-baked literary events around the world. QUESTION: How do you arrange to skip town? ANSWER: You accept them...
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Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
453 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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Rejected by his domineering great aunt during the summer of 1951, imaginative eleven-year-old Donal travels back to his ailing grandmother's home accompanied by his German great uncle while experiencing haphazard adventures along the way.
6) Savvy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Recounts the adventures of Mibs Beaumont, whose thirteenth birthday has revealed her "savvy"--a magical power unique to each member of her family--just as her father is injured in a terrible accident.
Author
Series
The Kane Chronicles volume 2
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
452 p. ; 22 cm.
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English
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Carter Kane and his sister must prevent the chaos snake Apophis from breaking free in a few days' time or the world will come to an end. To have any chance of battling these Forces of Chaos, the Kanes must revive the sun god Ra.
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Magic tree house volume 40
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The magic tree house takes Jack and Annie to Antarctica to search for the fourth secret of happiness for Merlin.
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English
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National Book Award Finalist?Fiction In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas,...
10) The book of Boy
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Publisher
Greenwillow Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
In 1350, a boy with a large hump on his back becomes the servant of a shadowy pilgrim on his way to Rome, who pulls the boy into a dangerous expedition across Europe to gather the seven precious relics of Saint Peter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Arrow, a young boy who lives in Seattle, goes on an adventure to visit his grandfather in Alaska aboard Aunt Kelly's salmon boat, spends time with Grampy on his float house, then returns to Seattle with Grampy on a friend's seaplane.
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Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
348 p. : map ; 25 cm.
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English
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Margo Crane, a beautiful and uncanny markswoman, takes to the Stark River after being complicit in the death of her father and embarks on an odyssey in search of her vanished mother.
13) The courage test
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Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
212 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Dragged along on his father's wilderness adventure that follows the trail of Lewis and Clark, young Will meets fascinating strangers and has courage-challenging experiences that are overshadowed by growing fears that something is not quite right.
15) The Red Pyramid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
After their father's research experiment at the British Museum unleashes the Egyptian god Set, Carter and Sadie Kane embark on a dangerous journey across the globe--a quest which brings them ever closer to the truth about their family, and their links to a secret order that has existed since the time of the pharaohs.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
369 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Bright aspiring scientist Lu Wonder sets out from her Kansas home in 1855 with her best friend Eustace, a slave, on a journey to Antarctica to protect a mysterious artifact and hide it from the man responsible for her father's death.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
421 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Becoming a fugitive when he is wrongly accused of murder, an aspiring young priest embarks on a transcontinental journey by train, boat, and airship in search of answers about his shrouded past.
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Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
144 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Aunt Tanner disappears after an ex-boyfriend writes a tell-all book, eleven-year-old Amelia boards a bus on an epic journey to find her, with frenemy Rhonda in tow and help from a boy she thought she would never see again.
19) The burning
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Series
Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Publisher
Scholastic
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A great battle is on the horizon, and Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies and study the grim art of war.
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Series
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
On a mission to deliver newly contacted peculiar Noor Pradesh to an operative known only as V, Jacob and his friends work feverishly to decipher the prophecy with only a few bewildering clues to follow while pursued by dangerous enemies.