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A lost classic by the author of Anne of Green Gables, Emily of New Moon is a coming-of-age story about newly orphaned Emily Byrd Starr, who deals with the loss of her beloved father as she tries to adjust to life at old-fashioned New Moon farm with her aunts and cousin. Emily, a budding writer with a mysterious sense of the otherworldly, makes quick friends in her new home and lands in more than her share of scrapes along the way. But she remains...
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Iris Lockhart receives news that her great-aunt Esme is being released from Cauldstone Hospital, where she has been confined for more than sixty years, and soon discovers that Esme holds the key to long-hidden family secrets that could change her life forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Twelve-year-old Emma-Rose Paley feels very different from her bubbly parents and thinks only her best friend understands her, but a visit from Emma-Rose's great-aunt from Romania leads her to believe she could be a vampire.
5) Missing May
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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This critically acclaimed winner of the Newbery Medal joins the Scholastic Gold line, which features award-winning and beloved novels. Includes exclusive bonus content!
Ever since May, Summer's aunt and good-as-a-mother for the past six years, died in the garden among her pole beans and carrots, life for Summer and her Uncle Ob has been as bleak as winter. Ob doesn't want to create his beautiful whirligigs anymore, and he and Summer have slipped...
6) Perfect girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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After realizing she has a crush on Perry, the boy next door, ninth-grader Ruthie Bayer calls her aunt, who is a New York romance columnist, for advice on how to change her image to get his attention away from the new girl and on her.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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It's not fair, Emma thinks, for her parents to go away (for five whole days) and leave her with an aunt and uncle she hardly knows. What if they don't like children? But Aunt Evelyn and Uncle Eliot like Emma and her brother, Zachary, just fine. They also like rules. Rules about: Eating. Sleeping. Cleaning up. Messing up. Emma doesn't believe in rules. Not unless they're hers: Eating no broccoli, dead or alive. Sleeping: No sleeping in a room where...
10) Twenties girl
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2009
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When the spirit of Lara's great-aunt Sadie-a feisty, demanding girl with firm ideas about fashion, love, and the right way to dance-mysteriously appears, she has one last request: Lara must find a missing necklace that had been in Sadie's possession for more than seventy-five years, and Sadie cannot rest without it. Never mind that Lara has her own problems--which Sadie could care less about. Will this sparring duo ever find what they're after?
11) Miss Rumphius
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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As a child Great-aunt Alice Rumphius resolved that when she grew up she would go to faraway places, live by the sea in her old age, and do something to make the world more beautiful--and she does all those things, the last being the most difficult of all.
13) The carousel
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Enroute to Cornwall by train, Prue Shackleton makes the acquaintance of little Charlotte Tolliver. Prue is coming to terms with her lackluster relationship. Charlotte is being passed from one uncaring relative to the next. Together, they will become members of a new family, bound by possibilities and the promise of love.
14) Garmann's summer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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As the summer ends, six-year-old Garmann's three ancient aunts visit and they all talk about the things that scare them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A foster child named Angel and twelve-year-old Stella, who are living with Stella's great-aunt Louise at the Linger Longer Cottage Colony on Cape Cod, secretly assume responsibility for the vacation rentals when Louise unexpectedly dies and the girls are afraid of being returned to the foster care system.
17) Not my dog
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Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Eight-year-old Ellie has to give up her life-long dream of getting a puppy after her parents agree to take in the dog that Great-aunt Margaret can no longer keep.
18) Long Lankin
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Candlewick Press
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2012
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IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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When Cora and her younger sister, Mimi, are sent to stay with their great Auntie Ida in an isolated village in 1958, they discover that they are in danger from a centuries-old evil and, along with village boys Roger and Peter, strive to uncover the horrifying truth before it is too late.
19) Pollyanna
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When orphaned eleven-year-old Pollyanna comes to live with austere and wealthy Aunt Polly, her philosophy of gladness brings happiness to her aunt and other unhappy members of the community.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A thoroughly modern woman, Sarah Cain has long disdained her sister's Plain lifestyle. But when news comes of her sister's death, Sarah is stunned to learn she has been named guardian of her children. How can Sarah sacrifice her successful career and a life she enjoys to raise five Amish orphans she barely knows? Besides, Sarah is harboring a secret grief of her own...Will the sorrow that divides them ultimately unite the new family?
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