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Mr. Terupt volume 1
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English
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Seven fifth-graders at Snow Hill School in Connecticut relate how their lives are changed for the better by "rookie teacher" Mr. Terupt.
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Anne of Green Gables volume 3
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English
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How horrible it is that people have to grow up and marry and change! The only change Anne is ready for is leaving Green Gables for Redmond College. As for marriage, she's waiting for the Prince Charming she imagined as a girl: someone tall and handsome, with sad eyes and a sensitive voice. So when a dashing stranger appears, Anne's dreams seem to have come true. But with everything changing around her, will Anne's heart stay the same? Part of the...
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Origami Yoda books volume 4
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English
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"Dark times have fallen on McQuarrie Middle School. Dwight is back--and not a moment too soon--as Kellen, Sara, and the gang face a new Menace: the FunTime Educational Program. FunTime is supposed to raise students' standardized test scores. Instead, it's driving everyone crazy. The students turn to Origami Yoda for help"--
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Emily Windsnap volume 4
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English
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When Neptune tells Emily and her merman father and human mother to return to Brightport to try to make merpeople and humans work more closely together, Emily faces problems with old enemies, her new, half-merfolk friend Aaron, and a mystery related to a group of legendary lost sirens.
6) Pollyanna
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English
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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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Origami Yoda books volume 6
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English
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The seventh graders and their Star Wars-inspired Origami finger puppets go on a field trip to Washington, D.C., on what proves to be a very long trip full of shifting alliances, betrayals, carsickness, and sugar rushes.
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Origami Yoda books volume 1
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English
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Sixth-grader Tommy and his friends describe their interactions with a paper finger puppet of Yoda, worn by their weird classmate Dwight, as they try to figure out whether or not the puppet can really predict the future. Includes instructions for making Origami Yoda.
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English
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"This book uses vivid picture scenes to describe a child's inner feelings during stressful (although not always bad) situations. Dragons roar, storms crash, and bats stare as different situations are resolved (or diminished) through small acts of connection by someone "on the outside.""--
14) New kid
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New kids novels volume 1
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English
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"A troubled kid finds his bearings in a new school after a baseball coach offers him a spot on the team"--
15) Love the world
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English
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Whether looking at one's own nose and toes, helping others, or exploring the world, there is always something to love.
16) Nightbird
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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Twig, aged twelve, is practically ignored by classmates and other residents of Sidwell, Massachusetts, but gets along fine with just her mother and brother, whose presence must be kept secret, until descendants of the witch who cursed her family move in next door and want to be her friends.
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The perfect score volume 1
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English
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No one likes or wants to take the statewide assessment tests. Not the students in Mrs. Woods?s sixth-grade class. Not even Mrs. Woods. It?s not as if the kids don?t already have things to worry about. . . . The whole school is in a frenzy with test time approaching?kids, teachers, the administration. Everyone is anxious. When one of the kids has a big idea for acing the tests, they?re all in. But things get ugly before they get better, and in the...
18) Twerp
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Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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In Queens, New York, in 1969, twelve-year-old Julian Twerski writes a journal for his English teacher in which he explores his friendships and how they are effected by girls, a new student who may be as fast as Julian, and especially an incident of bullying.
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Kevin Spencer books volume 4
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2013
Language
English
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Fourteen-year-old Kevin impetuously announces that he will run for student body president, mainly to impress his girlfriend Tina, but soon gets excited about making a positive difference in his school and community.
20) Out of my mind
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Out of my mind volume 1
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English
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Books for Young Readers to Inspire Conversations
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
Staff Reads - Juneteenth Weekend Edition! 2023
NYT - Middle Grade Paperback
Staff Reads - Juneteenth Weekend Edition! 2023
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Considered by many to be mentally retarded, a brilliant, impatient fifth-grader with cerebral palsy discovers a technological device that will allow her to speak for the first time.
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