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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 7-10 Grade

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Dark Blue: Color Me Lonely (TrueColors #1)

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Kara Hendricks and Jordan Ferguson have been best friends since kindergarten. That is until Jordan started hanging out with a new “cool” crowd and decided Kara was a popularity liability. Devastated, Kara feels betrayed and abandoned by everyone–even God. Yet for all the hurt and insecurity, these dark blue days contain a life-changing secret. Kara has the chance to discover something about herself that she never knew before. This first book in the teen fiction series TrueColors deals with self-worth, identity, and loneliness. Includes discussion questions.

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Recommended for 5-8 Grade

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No More Broken Promises (Cassie Perkins #1)

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Cassie surprises even herself when she tries out for–and wins–the lead role in the eighth-grade musical. But she loses confidence in her ability to perform when her father moves out of the house.

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Lexile/Reading Level
AD680L Recommended for Preschool-2

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Fantasy | Fiction | Humor | Picture Book

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Skippyjon Jones and the Big Bones (Skippyjon Jones)

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Holy guacamole! Skippyjon Jones is crazy-loco for dinosaurs! The kitty boy enters (via his closet) the land of dinosaurs in search of the fabled Skipposaurus. Instead he runs into his old amigos, the Chimichango gang. When a T-Mex threatens the pack, it’s El Skippito, the great sword fighter, to the rescue. With yips and yowls, he drives the big baddie away, so all the dino-dudes can rattle their bones another day. This fourth entry in a series that Kirkus Reviews called “ay caramba, mucho fun,” will win even more fans for the Siamese cat with oversize ears and an imagination to match.

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Lexile/Reading Level
940L

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Paperboy

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An 11-year-old boy living in Memphis in 1959 throws the meanest fastball in town, but talking is a whole different ball game. He can barely say a word without stuttering, not even his own name. So when he takes over his best friend’s paper route for the month of July, he knows he’ll be forced to communicate with the different customers, including a housewife who drinks too much and a retired merchant marine who seems to know just about everything.

The paper route poses challenges, but it’s a run-in with the neighborhood junkman, a bully and thief, that stirs up real trouble–and puts the boy’s life, as well as that of his family’s devoted housekeeper, in danger.

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Recommended for 3-6 Grades

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Fantasy | Fiction

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Jeffrey’s Ghost and the Leftover Baseball Team (Jeffrey’s Ghost #1)

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A baseball team of children no one else wants on a team turns into a team of winners with the help of a friendly boy ghost.

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Lexile/Reading Level
1090L Recommended for 3-7 Grades

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Fairy Tales | Fantasy | Fiction

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Ordinary Princess

Along with Wit, Charm, Health, and Courage, Princess Amy of Phantasmorania receives a special fairy christening gift: Ordinariness. Unlike her six beautiful sisters, she has brown hair and freckles, and would rather have adventures than play the harp, embroider tapestries . . . or become a Queen. When her royal parents try to marry her off, Amy runs away and, because she’s so ordinary, easily becomes the fourteenth assistant kitchen maid at a neighboring palace. And there . . . much to everyone’s surprise . . . she meets a prince just as ordinary (and special) as she is!

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Dot, The

With a simple, witty story and free-spirited illustrations, Peter H. Reynolds entices even the stubbornly uncreative among us to make a mark – and follow where it takes us.

Her teacher smiled. “Just make a mark and see where it takes you.”

Art class is over, but Vashti is sitting glued to her chair in front of a blank piece of paper. The words of her teacher are a gentle invitation to express herself. But Vashti can’t draw – she’s no artist. To prove her point, Vashti jabs at a blank sheet of paper to make an unremarkable and angry mark. “There!” she says.

That one little dot marks the beginning of Vashti’s journey of surprise and self-discovery. That special moment is the core of Peter H. Reynolds’s delicate fable about the creative spirit in all of us.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 3-6 Grades

Brother Jerome and the Angels in the Bakery

The angels love to visit Brother Jerome’s monastery bakery, because it’s the place that smells the most like heaven. But when the abbot asks Brother Jerome to open his bakery to the public, the young monk doubts that he can get customers into the shop to try his breads. With the encouragement of his abbot and a little angelic assistance, he gains the selfconfidence he needs to have a successful bakery. Brother Jerome and the Angels in the Bakery is a charming children’s book from public television’s popular baker monk, Father Dominic Garramone. Young readers will relate to Brother Jerome’s anxieties about failure, and Richard Bernal’s detailed artwork offer a unique vision of monks, angels, and baking.

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Lexile/Reading Level
Recommended for 3-7 Grades

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Beanpole

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Thirteen-year-old Lillian, miserable about being a “beanpole” and a loser, stops feeling sorry for herself when she learns the difference between a loser and a winner.

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Lexile/Reading Level
180L

Daniel’s Duck (I Can Read Book 3)

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Daniel is hurt when others laugh at his wood carving, until he learns that giving people pleasure takes a very special gift. ‘Good, warm feelings result from reading this gentle tale set in rural Tennessee during pioneer days.’

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