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Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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When Louisiana Elefante's granny wakes her up in the middle of the night to tell her that the day of reckoning has arrived and they have to leave home immediately, Louisiana isn't overly worried. After all, Granny has many middle-of-the-night ideas. But this time, things are different. This time, Granny intends for them never to return. Separated from her best friends, Raymie and Beverly, Louisiana struggles to oppose the winds of fate (and Granny)...
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Language
English
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"One kiss lasts a moment. But a thousand kisses can last a lifetime. One boy. One girl. A bond that is forged in an instant and cherished for a decade. A bond that neither time nor distance can break. A bond that will last forever. Or so they believe. When seventeen-year-old Rune Kristiansen returns from his native Norway to the sleepy town of Blossom Grove, Georgia, where he befriended Poppy Litchfield as a child, he has just one thing on his mind....
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Description
Thirteen-year-olds Cooper Goodman and Justice and Liberty Gordon investigate the eccentric residents of Windy Bottom, Georgia, after the remains of Coop's long-missing grandmother are uncovered and his Gramps is the prime suspect.
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Series
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Troy's uncanny gift for predicting football plays proves a powerful secret weapon for the Atlanta Falcons, but a seedy reporter with a vendetta suspects something is going on and sets out to shred the reputations of Troy and star linebacker Seth Halloway.
5) Kira-kira
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Series
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
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Description
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
6) Peaches
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Series
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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Description
Three teenaged girls from very different backgrounds, thrown together to pick peaches in a Georgia orchard, spend a summer in pursuit of the right boy, the truest of friends, and the perfect peach.
Author
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
This book is a treasure--a touching story of friendship, loss, and finding beauty in the everyday, with characters who stay with you long after you've turned the final page. I absolutely loved it. --R. J. Palacio, New York Times bestselling author of Wonder Laurel Snyder, author of Orphan Island, returns with another unforgettable story of the moments in which we find out who we are, and the life-altering friendships that show us what we can be. The...
Author
Series
Publisher
Disney-Hyperion
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Georgie is still adjusting to leaving Atlanta for a small town, having a stepfather, and being unable to get close to her stepsister when her six-year-old sister, Peaches, suddenly becomes very ill.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
750L
Physical Desc
234 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Walter Tipple is grieving his beloved older brother, Tank, when a sassy girl named Posey moves in next door and Banjo, a hot-air balloonist, sets the pair on an adventure.
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When seventeen-year-old Avery moves to rural Georgia to live with her ailing grandmother, she encounters decade-old family secrets and a mystery surrounding the town's racist past.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
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Description
It is June first and twelve-year-old Mary does not really understand what is happening: she does not understand the hatred and greed of the white men who are forcing her Cherokee family out of their home in New Echota, Georgia, capital of the Cherokee Nation, and trying to steal what few things they are allowed to take with them, she does not understand why a soldier killed her grandfather--and she certainly does not understand how she, her sister,...
12) Breathless
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Before: With graduation on the horizon, budding writer Claudine Henry is focused on three things: college in the fall, become a famous author, and the ever-elusive possibility of sex. She doesn't even need to be in love--sex is all she's looking for. Then her dad drops a bombshell: he and Claude's mom are splitting up. Suddenly, Claude's entire world feels like a lie, and the ground under her feet anything but stable. After: Claude's mom whisks them...
13) Unsettled
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Young Nurah reluctantly moves with her family from Karachi, Pakistan, to Peachtree City, Georgia, but, after some ups and downs, begins to feel at home.
14) The cats' meow
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Series
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Nellie Tibbits and her herpetologist mother have been in Bog Hollow for a month, but most of the other children regard Nellie as a weird Northerner. However, her pet corn snake wins the friendship of Daryl Tate, who is as obsessed with snakes as his grandmother is with stray cats, and when one of the cats disappears, Nellie joins the Bog Hollow boys in the search--and hatches a plan to help get Granny Tate's strays adopted.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Lexile measure
620L
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Recounts the experiences of a spunky young girl, just eleven when the Civil War breaks out, as she watches her brothers go to war, helps care for her mentally ill father, and falls in love with a boy determined to be a soldier. Includes historical notes.
Author
Series
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
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Description
It is summer in Bog Hollow, and Austin, Ethan, Daryl, and Nellie are working together, despite the contentious relationship between Austin and Nellie, to prepare the new snake exhibit at the park's visitor center; but Austin and Nellie also have other things to worry about--Nellie's pet corn snake has escaped, and Austin's father and Nellie's mother are spending an awful lot of time together.
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Series
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
In Georgia, the Bog Hollow State Park Junior Bass Fishing Tournament is only a week away, but most of the bass seem to have disappeared from Bog Hollow, and brothers Austin and Ethan Finch and their friends are determined to find out if it is a case of pollution, an invasion of mudfish--or something more sinister.
18) Jackpot
Author
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
Meet Rico: high school senior and afternoon-shift cashier at the Gas 'n' Go, who after school and work races home to take care of her younger brother. Every. Single. Day. When Rico sells a jackpot-winning lotto ticket, she thinks maybe her luck will finally change, but only if she--with some assistance from her popular and wildly rich classmate Zan--can find the ticket holder who hasn't claimed the prize. But what happens when have and have-nots collide?...
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Series
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
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Description
Twelve-year-old Austin Finch and his younger brother Ethan, sons of the park ranger, are determined to protect all the creatures of Bog Hollow State Park, even the Turkey vultures, from the Manley twins and their father, who would like to turn Bog Hollow into a golf course--and they find an ally in the new girl Nellie Tibbits, whose mother has come to southern Georgia to study snakes.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"The Civil War may be over, but times are not substantially improved for the freed Black citizens of Walkerton, Georgia, who are shunned by the white folks of the surrounding towns. One day, though, ol' Rootilla Redgums and her grandson, Julius Jefferson, arrive. Rootilla teaches the citizens of Walkerton how to make all sorts of beautiful things, and the white people can't get enough. But some aren't so happy. When a hooded mob threatens to burn...