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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"It's the start of a new school year, and Kylie Jean wants to play the Queen of Hearts in her second grade class's production of Alice in Wonderland. She works on her lines with her family's bull dog, Ugly Brother (whose real name is Bruno), until she memorizes every last one for the tryouts. Unfortunately, the new girl at school, Paula, sets her sights on the same role."--Amazon.com.
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Calpurnia Tate volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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"In rural Texas in 1900, when a storm blows change into town in the form of a visiting veterinarian, twelve-year-old Callie discovers a life and a vocation she desperately wants. But with societal expectations as they are, she will need all her wits and courage to realize her dreams"--
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Hank the Cowdog volume 61
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 3
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"Everyone knows that bears live in the mountains-- and there are no mountains in the Texas Panhandle. So, when Slim claims to have seen a bear cross the road, no one knows what to believe. It must have been a burro. That's it, it was a donkey. But then, Deputy Kile reports that there really is a bear on the loose in Ochiltree County! With news like this, the ranch's Security Force goes on Red Alert. Will Hank be able to defend the ranch from a raging,...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 66
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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Hank is in real trouble this time. Loper and Sally May's relatives are coming for Christmas dinner, and Sally May has been working to get the entire ranch in order — including preparing for the Christmas feast. Unfortunately, when she discovers that the turkey she bought has met a terrible end, she pins the blame on Hank! Is he the guilty party, or have more sinister forces been at work to frame him for the crime? Later that day things seem to be...
28) Valentine queen
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Kylie Jean's grandparents fiftieth wedding anniversary is on Valentine's Day, and the whole family is planning a surprise party--but Kylie also wants her class to spread valentine cheer to Oak Manor, the local assisted living facility.
29) Prince of Wolves
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Pub. Date
c2011
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Jaque Pierce was just an ordinary 17-year-old girl getting ready to start her senior year in highschool in Coldspring, Texas. When a mysterious foreign exchange student from Romania moves in across the street, Jacque and her two best friends Sally and Jen, don't realize the last two weeks of their summer were going to get a lot more interesting. From the moment Jacque sets eyes on Fane, she feels and instant connection, a pull like a moth to a flame....
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Hank the Cowdog volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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While trying to outwit his arch enemy Pete the Barncat, Hank the Cowdog is duped into believing a worthless corncob will bring him fame and fortune.
31) Illegal
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Series
Disappeared (Stork) volume 2
Pub. Date
2020
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Description
To escape the violent cartel that is after them in Ciudad Juárez, siblings Sara and Emiliano flee across the border, seeking a better life in the United States and hoping to bring their pursuers to justice, only to discover that an even greater danger awaits them
32) Bite club
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Series
Morganville vampires volume 10
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
College student Claire Danvers discovers that an extreme sport pitting vampire against vampire-- and sometimes vampire against human-- is being broadcast on the Internet from Morganville, Texas.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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When Victoria Cruz wakes up in the psychiatric ward of a Texas hospital after her failed suicide attempt, she still has no desire to live, but as the weeks pass, and she meets Dr. Desai and three of the other patients, she begins to reflect on the reasons why she feels like a loser compared with the rest of her family, and to see a path ahead where she can make a life of her own.
34) Illegal
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Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Nora, a fifteen-year-old Mexican girl, faces the challenges of being an illegal immigrant in Texas when she and her mother cross the border in search of Nora's father.
37) Last breath
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Series
Morganville vampires volume 11
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When college student Claire Danvers learns that three of the vampires in Morganville have disappeared without a trace, only to discover that the last person seen with one of the missing vampires is a mysterious new resident named Magnus, she begins to suspect that Magnus is not a fellow-human.
38) Tumbleweed Baby
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Long ago in Nowhere, Texas, Mama and Papa Upagainstit agree to take in the wild baby their five children find in a passing tumbleweed, despite the objections of the one who used to be "the littlest-of-all girl."
39) In the same boat
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Sadie Scofield is entered in the Texas River Odyssey, 260 miles of brutal canoeing, but a chance to finally make up for ruining her father's chance of winning the previous year; but her brother Tanner suddenly opts to paddle for a different team, and she is left with Cully, a young man who was her best friend years ago, but no longer--260 miles in the same boat to sort out her relationship with the boy she once tried to defend from his abusive father,...
40) The tequila worm
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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Sofia grows up in the close-knit community of the barrio in McAllen, Texas, then finds that her experiences as a scholarship student at an Episcopal boarding school in Austin only strengthen her ties to family and her "comadres."