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"Cecilia Ross is looking for a change. She has decided to take time off from her job as a successful motivational speaker and sell her home. She moves in to a beautiful old house in St. Paul, Minnesota, complete with a big front porch, a wild garden, a chef's kitchen--and three roommates. The four women are different ages, but all are feeling restless, and want to take a roadtrip to find again the people and things they miss. One woman wants to connect...
Author
Series
Beach volume 1
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
c2011
Edition
Berkley trade pbk ed.
Physical Desc
423 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Madeline, Avery, and Nikki are strangers to each other, but they have one thing in common. They each wake up one morning to discover their life savings have vanished, along with their trusted financial manager-leaving them with nothing but co-ownership of a ramshackle beachfront house.Throwing their lots in together, they take on the challenge of restoring the historic property. But just as they begin to reinvent themselves and discover the power...
Author
Series
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Two roller-skating best friends--one tiny, one tall--share three comical adventures involving outrageously bright socks, an impromptu trek to the Andes, and a most unlikely marvelous companion.
Author
Series
Front desk volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mia Tang's sixth grade year complicated by a hard-to-please teacher, financial setbacks at her parents' motel, and a looming immigration law that threatens to derail her entire life.
9) Ocean Beach
Author
Series
Beach volume 2
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Berkley trade pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
x, 438 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
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Description
After arriving in Ocean Beach to renovate an old home, Avery Lawford, her interior designer mother, and some friends discover a set of unexpected challenges.
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Greg records his sixth-grade experiences in a middle school where he and his best friend, Rowley, undersized weaklings amid boys who need to shave twice daily, hope just to survive, but when Rowley grows more popular, Greg must take drastic measures to save their friendship.
13) Roller girl
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Astrid signs up for roller derby camp, but her best friend Nicole chooses dance. While making new friends and struggling with a new sport, Astrid fears she is losing Nicole.
Author
Series
Ten Beach Road volume 3
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 403 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Maddie, Avery, and Nikki first got to know one another, perhaps all too well, while restoring a beachfront mansion to its former grandeur. But their latest project has presented some challenges they couldn't have dreamed up in their wildest fantasies.
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
Author
Series
Candy shop war volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
When fifth-graders Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon meet the owner of the new candy store in town and are given a magical candy that endows them with super powers, they find that along with its benefits there are also dangerous consequences.
Author
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"The monkey has finally gotten his banana, but now a bumble bee wants a bite.The monkey tries to swat away the bee, but in the process finds himself with a bigger problem on his hands. Will the monkey and the bee be able to work together and become friends?"--
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After three years in exile Kestra Dallisor has been summoned back to Antora by her father, right-hand man of the seemingly immortal king, Lord Endrick, but she is intercepted and kidnapped by the Coracks who want to use her to get the Olden Blade, which they believe can be used to kill the despot--Simon, one of the rebels with his own grudge against the Dallisors, is assigned to accompany her, but Kestra has her own plans and she does not intend to...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Edition
1st pbk. ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
42 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Houndsley and Catina are stuck inside after the winter's first snowfall, and while Houndsley enjoys the quiet time, Catina fears her plans will be ruined until Houndsley helps her see what fun it can be to stay indoors.