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English
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"When Janey Sweet, CEO of a couture wedding dress company, is photographed in the front row of a fashion show eating a bruffin--the delicious lovechild of a brioche and a muffin--her best friend and business partner, Beau, gives her an ultimatum: Lose thirty pounds or lose your job. Sure, Janey has gained some weight since her divorce, and no, her beautifully cut trousers don't fit like they used to, so Janey throws herself headlong into the world...
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English
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"From one of our most beloved and best-selling authors: a hilarious new stand-alone novel about one man's misadventures in travel and romance in the Italian countryside. When writer Paul Stewart heads to the idyllic Italian town of Montalcino to finish his already overdue cookbook, he expects it to be the perfect escape from stressful city life. But when he arrives, things quickly take a turn for the worse. His hired car is nowhere to be found, and...
4) Enginerds
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When a group of nerdy best friends each begin receiving robots that start to act like real creatures, it is up to them to save the day, and the planet.
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Series
Publication Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"[A] novel of a family riven by fortune, an ex-wife driven psychotic with jealousy, a battle royal fought through couture gown sabotage, and the heir to one of Asia's greatest fortunes locked out of his inheritance" -- provided by publisher.
6) Fruit bowl
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A tomato tries to convince his fellow companions that he belongs in the fruit bowl too, but his efforts prove "fruitless" and will require the authorative voice of Old Man Produce to settle the debate.
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Language
English
Description
Perfect for fans of Marisa de los Santos and Allison Winn Scotch, Samantha Wilde’s new novel is a funny and heartfelt look at friendship, marriage, and the dynamics of modern motherhood.
Nora and Annie have been best friends since kindergarten. Nora, a shy English teacher at a quaint New England boarding school, longs to have a baby. Annie, an outspoken stay-at-home mother of two, longs for one day of peace and quiet (not...
Nora and Annie have been best friends since kindergarten. Nora, a shy English teacher at a quaint New England boarding school, longs to have a baby. Annie, an outspoken stay-at-home mother of two, longs for one day of peace and quiet (not...
Author
Publisher
Hippo Park, an imprint of Astra Book for Young Readers
Publication Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
Follow these simple instructions for drawing a brave chicken: Draw an oval, two dots for eyes, triangles for the beak, lines for legs, and some wings. Easy enough. But wait . . . where is the chicken? Oh, she's hiding! Maybe she needs armor to feel brave . . . so let's draw her some shiny armor. Now she's feeling brave--and she wants to chase a dragon! Oh no, Chicken! Are you sure you want to do that?
9) Escargot
Author
Series
Publication Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Escargot is a beautiful French snail who only wants to be your favorite animal and get to the delicious salad at the end of the book, even if he has to try a carrot, which he hates.
11) Fall mixed up
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Publisher
Carolrhoda Books
Publication Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The delights of autumn are described in mixed-up verse and illustrations, and the reader is challenged to uncover the errors.
12) The nix: a novel
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
"An epic novel about a son, the mother who left him as a child, and how his search to uncover the secrets of her life leads him to reclaim his own"-- Provided by publisher.
13) Squirm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Billy Dickens discovers that his mysterious father lives in Montana, so this summer Billy will fly across the country, hike a mountain, float a river, dodge a grizzly bear, shoot down a spy drone, and save his own father.
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Publication Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
There's a spark missing between Lexi and Cameron, so Lexi comes up with a plan to get him to fall for another girl. But when Lexi has a change of heart, can she find a way to rekindle her relationship with Cameron before his twelfth date with Jaylene at the Christmas Ball?
15) Telephone tales
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Publisher
Enchanted Lion Books
Publication Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A collection of nearly seventy short and surreal stories told by Signor Bianchi, a traveling salesman, to his daughter over the telephone nightly.
Every night, at nine o'clock, wherever he is, Mr. Bianchi, an accountant who often travels for work, calls his daughter and tells her a bedtime story. Set in the 20th century era of pay phones, each story has to be told in the time that a single coin will buy. One night, it's the story of a carousel so...
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Series
Publication Date
2006
Language
English
Description
As Vampire Queen Betsy Taylor approaches the big 3-1 (in human years, that is), she has a lot on her plate. There are wedding plans to finalize, with no help from her fiancé Eric. And Betsy’s decided to stop drinking blood, something Eric, the vampire king, may not understand…
So when some guests show up uninvited, and they happen to be the powerful European vampires who have finally come to pay their respects the...
So when some guests show up uninvited, and they happen to be the powerful European vampires who have finally come to pay their respects the...
Author
Series
Publication Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
When their over-the-top ideas expand their amazing treehouse to include a giant submarine sandwich shop and a human pinball machine, Andy and Terry find themselves babysitting Mr. Big Nose's three troublesome grandkids.
19) Fun and games
Author
Series
Unicorn and Yeti volume 8
Publisher
Acorn/Scholastic, Inc
Publication Date
2024.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In three stories, friends Unicorn and Yeti enjoy each others' company as they make up an original game, play hide-and-seek, and work on a puzzle.
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Language
English
Description
""I've planted my feet on Fijian earth and I intend to stay here until the last sunset. Why don't you join me? Leave behind everything that didn't work out!" When Sina, Maya, Ingrid, and Lisbeth each receive a letter in the mail posing the same question, the answer is obvious. Their old high school friend Kat--Kat the adventurer, Kat who ran away to the South Pacific as soon as they graduated--has extended the invitation of a lifetime: Come live with...




