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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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One Chinese New Year, her mother sends Goldy Luck to the pandas next door with a plate of turnip cakes, but the pandas are out and disaster follows. Includes a recipe for turnip cakes and an explanation of Chinese New Year.
3) Hardscrabble
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Belle Martin and her family move to Mingo, Colorado, in 1910 when the U.S. government offers 320 acres of land free to homesteaders.
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Vanderbeekers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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"When catastrophe strikes their beloved upstairs neighbors, the Vanderbeeker children set out to build the best, most magical healing garden in Harlem--in spite of a locked fence, thistles and trash, and the conflicting plans of a wealthy real estate developer"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Dealing with her mother remarrying to a man with twin daughters and her family moving, deaf sixth-grader Macy is told that she must help her elderly neighbor Iris Gillan, who is also getting ready to move to a nursing home.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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"Helping her popular next-door neighbor Gayil set up what she thinks are harmless pranks, 12-year-old Orthodox Jewish girl Shaindy must figure out how to stop them before she becomes the next target when the pranks escalate and turn malicious"--
10) The stitchers
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Fright watch volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Thirteen-year-olds Quinn Parker and Mike Warren uncover the awful truth about their strange neighbors and the gruesome secret of how they stay young.
12) Following Baxter
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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When Professor Reese moves in next door, eleven-year-old Jordie enjoys helping her new neighbor take care of her dog and assisting in her laboratory, but she is not sure what to do when the professor goes missing.
13) Yard war
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Trip Westbrook lives in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1964 and discovers the underlying racism in his family and neighborhood when he invites his maid's son Dee to play football in the yard.
14) Way past sad
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English
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When James learns that his next-door neighbor and best friend, Sanj, is moving away, he is very sad--so sad he thinks he will feel that way forever.
15) The neighbors
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English
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As she climbs the seven stories to her own apartment, a little girl imagines what happens behind every door she passes.
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English
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A glimpse into a day in the life of the different residents who live alongside one another in an apartment building at 3 Biscuit Street. Centring on the Bunny family, readers will also discover another 11 mini-narratives in the illustrations, where they'll see what the apartment building's other residents are up to on every floor, track the antics of passersby, and observe the Bird family in the neighbouring tree
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Those darn squirrels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Grumpy Old Man Fookwire's new neighbor has a cat that threatens his beloved birds, but the pesky squirrels figure out a way to solve the problem.
19) Neighbors
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Lying in bed, a child reflects on her new apartment, and the neighbors living around and above her, and looks forward to meeting them and her new classmates.