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Bud, Not Buddy

author: Curtis, Christopher Paul
Ten-year-old Bud, a motherless boy living in Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression, escapes a bad foster home and sets out in search of the man he believes to be his father--the renowned bandleader, H.
FIC
year: 2005
copies: 620
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 950

The Miraculous Journey Of Edward Tulane

author: Dicamillo, Kate
Edward Tulane, a cold-hearted and proud toy rabbit, loves only himself until he is separated from the little girl who adores him and travels across the country, acquiring new owners and listening to their hopes, dreams, and histories.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 378
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 700

Penny From Heaven

author: Holm, Jennifer L
As she turns twelve during the summer of 1953, Penny gains new insights into herself and her family while also learning a secret about her father's death.
FIC
year: 2007
copies: 68
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730
subjects: family life, italian americans, secrets, new jersey, secrecy, large type books, large print books [X], family, families, electronic books [X]

Flush

author: Hiaasen, Carl
With their father jailed for sinking a river boat, Noah Underwood and his younger sister, Abbey, must gather evidence that the owner of this floating casino is emptying his bilge tanks into the protected waters around their Florida Keys home.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 311
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 830

The Tale Of Despereaux

author: Dicamillo, Kate, Kate Dicamillo
A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Kate DiCamillo's Newbery Medal–winning tale.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 406
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 670

The Sea Of Monsters

author: Riordan, Rick
Part two of "The Sea of Monsters" in which seventh-grader Percy Jackson, having discovered that he is the son of Poseidon, making him half human and half god, joins with a demigod and a satyr friend to save his beloved Camp Half-Blood from evil forces determined to destroy it.
FIC
year: 2022
copies: 246
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 740

Messenger

author: Lowry, Lois
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue, " Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
FIC
year: 2018
copies: 348
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 720

The Chocolate War

author: Cormier, Robert, Cormier, Cormier, R
A homework pack that contains book and audio versions of "The Chocolate War," a story in which a high school freshman discovers the devastating consequences of refusing to join in the school's annual fundraising drive; and includes a student worksheet and teacher's guide.
FIC
year: 2008
copies: 74
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 820

The Book Thief

author: Zusak, Markus, Rush, Geoffrey
Trying to make sense of the horrors of World War II, Death relates the story of Liesel--a young German girl whose book-stealing and story-telling talents help sustain her family and the Jewish man they are hiding, as well as their neighbors.
FIC
year: 2016
copies: 465
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 730

Where She Went

author: Forman, Gayle
Adam, now a rising rock star, and Mia, a successful cellist studying at Juilliard, are reunited in New York City and reconnect for the first time since Mia's near-fatal car accident three years earlier drove them apart.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 55
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 800

The Attacks Of September 11, 2001

author: Tarshis, Lauren
Lucas has to tell his dad's friend Benny, a firefighter and former football star, that his parents do not want him playing football anymore, and he takes the train into New York City to talk to Benny, but everything changes when the Twin Towers are attacked.
FIC
year: 2012
copies: 281
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 630

The Throne Of Fire

author: Riordan, Rick
Carter Kane and his sister must prevent the chaos snake Apophis from breaking free in a few days' time or the world will come to an end.
FIC
year: 2015
copies: 130
call number/section: FIC
lexile: 710

Brown Girl Dreaming

author: Woodson, Jacqueline
"The author shares her childhood memories and reveals the first sparks that ignited her writing career in free-verse poems about growing up in the North and South"--Provided by the publisher.
920
year: 2018
copies: 222
call number/section: 920
lexile: 990

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