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1) Just Lizzie
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
310 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Lizzie knows what she's not. She's not at home in her new house on the other side of town, after an incident with a neighbor forced her family to move. She's not ready to say goodbye to the wild apple tree in her old backyard, or to her older brother, who just left home for his first semester of college. She's definitely not happy to be taking women's self-defense with her sworn-enemy PE teacher. And unlike her best friend--and seemingly...
2) Ferris
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
When a ghost shows up at the threshold to Ferris's grandmother Charisse's room, Ferris worries that she's there to take Charisse to the Great Beyond. But Charisse says that the ghost has something else in mind--something unpredictable, a task that's impractical and illuminating. But how can Ferris focus on completing an assignment for a ghost when her little sister is terrorizing the town, her uncle keeps sending her to spy on her aunt, and the house...
Author
Publisher
Walden Pond Press, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
307 pages : 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
If you ask Delphinia Baker, she'd tell you she has all the family she needs. Sure, her mom passed away when she was young, her dad is often away on deployment, and she's never had anyone she can call her people, but she has always had Gramma--and for Del, that's enough.
All this changes, though, when Gramma falls ill and Del is sent to stay with her great-grandmother. Del has never heard of Nana Rose, and she has no interest in staying on an unbearably...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The story begins with a young orphan running for his life. Lucky for him he runs into Samir, a portly huckster whose silver tongue saves the boy. Samir names him Monkey, and claims him as his new servant. But Monkey, a strict and devout soul, is horrified to discover that his new master is a liar whose dealings have angered every village he's ever passed through.
The villagers have hired a collection of murderers, including a Viking berserker, a...