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1) Lone wolf
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So many people think Maple is a wolf that she starts to believe them, but after exploring the world outside her home, she returns to her pack--the Parker family.
3) Skin again
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English
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Affirms identity as involving outward appearance, while emphasizing that to really know a person means to get to what is inside them.
4) Say my name
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Six people from different corners of the world celebrate the history, culture, and beauty behind their names.
5) Chouette
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"An exhilirating provocative novel of motherhood in extremis. Tiny is pregnant. Her husband is delighted. "You thinmk this baby is going to be like you, but it's not like you at all," she warns him. "This baby is an owl-baby." When Chouette is born small and broken-winged, TIny works around the lcock to meet her daughter's needs. Left on her own to care for a child who seems more predatory bird than baby, Tiny vows to raise Chouette to be her authentic...
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"All great kaiju are born with a super power to strike fear in the heart of the city. But Anzu is different. Instead of mayhem, he likes May flowers. Instead of striking fear, he prefers to be sincere. Can Anzu find a way to make his family proud and stay true to his kind self?" --
7) Someday
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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When A learns he is not the only person waking up in a different person's body every day, he gains new understanding of the extremes where love and loneliness can lead. Told from multiple perspectives.
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"A magical debut about an enchanted house that offers refuge to women in their time of need Distraught that her academic career has stalled, Alba is walking through her hometown of Cambridge, England, when she finds herself in front of a house she's never seen before, 11 Hope Street. A beautiful older woman named Peggy greets her and invites her to stay, on the house's usual conditions: she has ninety-nine nights to turn her life around. With nothing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
10) Monster Island
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When Lucas finds out he is not really a human, but actually a monster, the news changes his whole world! Embarking on a quest to discover his real roots, Lucas will undergo a journey he will never forget.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Inspired by a mysterious message, seventeen-year-old Ginny Park sets off to find herself as she reflects on her experiences of growing up Zainichi, an ethnic Korean born in Japan, and the incident that forced her to leave years prior.
13) The safest lies
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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"When Kelsey's agoraphobic mother disappears after years of claiming the kidnappers she escaped from were coming back for her, Kelsey quickly discovers that her mother isn't who she thought she was -- and she's not the abductor's only target"--
14) The magic fish
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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"Real life isn't a fairytale. But Tié̂n still enjoys reading his favorite stories with his parents from the books he borrows from the local library. It's hard enough trying to communicate with your parents as a kid, but for Tié̂n, he doesn't even have the right words because his parents are struggling with their English. Is there a Vietnamese word for what he's going through? Is there a way to tell them he's gay?"--
15) Every day
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Every morning A wakes in a different person's body, in a different person's life, learning over the years to never get too attached, until he wakes up in the body of Justin and falls in love with Justin's girlfriend, Rhiannon.
16) Freaky Friday
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When a mother, Katherine, and daughter, Ellie, are at the most stressful of times, they can only imagine how the other's problems could be more difficult. Thanks to the magic from their late father's hourglass, their imagination becomes a reality when they switch bodies and see what it's like to be the other person.
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Bea Garcia volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Judith, the smartest girl in school, asks Bea to be her partner in a contest, Bea is excited for the chance to impress her new friend and takes Judith's special pencil home with her to help her prepare.
18) Why am I me?
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In a poetic, philosophical exchange, two children of different races ask themselves why they are who and what they are, and speculate on how they could be different.
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