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Red gloves series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In this powerful holiday story, a man who lost everything has his whole life changed after a little girl’s letter reminds him of the true meaning of Christmas.
Ten years later Big Earl meets Gideon, a seven-year-old leukemia patient who believes with all her heart that "Christmas means never having to ask God how much he loves us." Gideon is determined to reach this lonely and hurting man who hates Christmas — and he...5) The echo
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Best-selling author Minette Walters captivates mystery aficionados throughout the world with her evocative, multi-layered novels, which have been translated into 22 languages. In The Echo she spins a finely-wrought web of secrets and betrayals, love and guilt that entangles everyone who touches it. A homeless man has been found dead of starvation-huddled next to a food-filled freezer-in a London socialite's garage. When journalist Michael Deacon interviews...
7) Holes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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As further evidence of his family's bad fortune which they attribute to a curse on a distant relative, Stanley Yelnats is sent to a hellish correctional camp in the Texas desert where he finds his first real friend, a treasure, and a new sense of himself.
8) Hyde
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NYPD Detective Brian McKenna is back where he belongs-hunting down a mysterious killer who preys upon the city's most forgotten members. At first blush, it seems as if these homeless men have frozen to death on the city streets. But this succession of deaths seems too suspicious for McKenna to ignore.
McKenna makes some curious findings: all the victims were HIV-positive, and all were seen taking their last drink from a bottle of wine given them...
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From the author of Songdogs, a magnificent work of imagination and history set in the tunnels of New York City.
In the early years of the century, Nathan Walker leaves his native Georgia for New York City and the most dangerous job in America. A sandhog, he burrows beneath the East River, digging the tunnel that will carry trains from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Above ground, the sandhogs-black, white, Irish, Italian-keep their distance from each other...
11) Windfall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Grieving the loss of a local homeless man and her family's apple tree, thirteen-year-old Liza seeks healing through gardening.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Thirteen-year-old Darnell's twin sister and the other members of the Corner Crew have doubts about his work on the school newspaper, but the article he writes about a homeless man changes his attitude about school.
13) Tunnel vision
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Stubbornness has landed private eye V.I. Warshawski in big trouble at her Chicago office. With her grand old Loop building set to be razed, she's become a hold-out tenant amid frayed wiring and scary, empty corridors. Then she finds a homeless woman with three kids in the basement, and before she can rescue them, they disappear. Worst of all, she's been implicated in a murder—after the body of Deirdre Messenger, a prominent lawyer's wife, turns...
14) Tyrell
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Tyrell, who is living in a Bronx homeless shelter with his spaced-out mother and his younger brother, tries to avoid temptation so he does not end up in jail like his father.
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Sammy Keyes mysteries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Sammy continues to make life with her grandmother interesting as she tries to discover who is stealing from St. Mary's church, befriends a homeless girl, and plays in a softball tournament against a bitter rival.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Anna, a twelve year old girl with strong survival instincts, tries to adjust to life in a Florida foster home in a strange neighborhood with an overly tidy single woman and Eb, another foster child who is not at all sure he wants to stay there.
19) The teddy bear
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Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A teddy bear, lost by the little boy who loves him, still feels loved after being rescued by a homeless man.
20) Great joy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Just before Christmas, when Frances sees a sad-eyed organ grinder and his monkey performing near her apartment, she cannot stop thinking about them, wondering where they go at night, and wishing she could do something to help.
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