Jennifer L Holm
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Sunny side up volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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Sunny's just made it to middle school and it's making her life very confusing. All her best friend Deb wants to talk about is fashion and boys. Sunny's not against any of these things, but she also doesn't understand why suddenly everything revolves around them. She's much more comfortable when she's in her basement, playing Dungeons & Dragons with a bunch of new friends. Because when you're swordfighting and spider-slaying, it's hard to worry about...
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Sunny side up volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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In the mid-1970s, Sunny Lewin is the star of her personal show, facing the prospect of middle school, and dealing with the problems of her somewhat dysfunctional family--in particular, her older brother, Dale, who has been sent off to a military academy because of his delinquent behavior.
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Sunny side up volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
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Sunny is starting to understand the ins and outs of middle school ... but she still feels more out than in. It's about classes or homework, really. No, it's the fact that most kids have a thing they do outside of class. Like football or track or cheerleading. Sunny isn't quarterback material, and her cheer attempts are ... not the best. So what can she do? When Sunny's friend Arun says he wants to start a debate club, she's not really sure what he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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Living with seven brothers and her father, who thinks girls are useless, a thirteen-year-old Finnish American farm girl is determined to prove her worth when a enterprising gentleman tries to purchase their cash-strapped family settlement in Washington State in 1900.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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She may be a miracle, but she's no proper young lady! It isn't easy being a pioneer in the state of Washington in 1899, but it's particularly hard when you are the only girl ever born in the new settlement. With seven older brothers and a love of adventure, May Amelia Jackson just can't seem to abide her family's insistence that she behave like a Proper Young Lady. Not when there's fishing to be done, sheep to be herded, and real live murderers to...
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Fourteenth goldfish volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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Eleven-year-old Ellie has never liked change. She misses fifth grade. She misses her old best friend. She even misses her dearly departed goldfish. Then one day a strange boy shows up. He’s bossy. He’s cranky. And weirdly enough . . . he looks a lot like Ellie’s grandfather, a scientist who’s always been slightly obsessed with immortality. Could this pimply boy really be Grandpa Melvin? Has he finally found the secret to eternal youth?
10) Full of Beans
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Ten-year-old Beans Curry, a member of the Keepsies, the best marble playing gang in Depression-era Key West, Florida, engages in various schemes to earn money while "New Dealers" from Washington, D.C., arrive to turn run down Key West into a tourist resort.
11) Sunny side up
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Sunny side up volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Sunny Lewin's teenage brother is struggling with substance abuse so she has been packed off to Florida to live with her grandfather for the summer. At first she thought Florida might be fun, it is the home of Disney World after all. But Sunny has to sleep on an uncomfortable sofa bed and run errands with Gramps and his elderly neighbors. Luckily, she meets Buzz, a boy who is completely obsessed with comic books, and soon they're having adventures...
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Sunny side up volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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It's summer and Sunny is bored. Most of her friends are out of town. Her mom wants her to babysit way more than Sunny wants to babysit. There's nothing good on TV. The only cool place that's cool is the community pool. Sunny loves going there - and loves it even more when she's offered a job at the snack shack. Soon she's flinging fries and serving frozen ice cream treats - with the assistance of the very sweet boy who works with her. Life is best...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Meet the Evil Princess and the Brave Knight. She casts terrible spells, while he fights dragons. He rescues cats in distress, while she makes mischief. No wonder there isn't much peace in this kingdom! But is the Evil Princess really so evil? And is the Brave Knight truly as chivalrous as he seems?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 4
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"A Ellie no le gustan nada los cambios. Echa de menos la escuela primaria, a su mejor amiga Brianna e incluso a Nemo, el pez que había sido su mascota durante años. Un día, su madre, que es profesora de teatro en el instituto, llega a casa con un chico muy raro. Viste como un adulto y se comporta como un gruñón y un cascarrabias. Pero lo más llamativo es que, por increíble que parezca, se asemeja mucho a Melvin Sagarsky, el abuelo de...