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"Broken Wheel, Iowa, has never seen anyone like Sara, who traveled all the way from Sweden just to meet her pen pal, Amy. When she arrives, however, she finds that Amy's funeral has just ended. Luckily, the townspeople are happy to look after their bewildered tourist--even if they don't understand her peculiar need for books. Marooned in a farm town that's almost beyond repair, Sara starts a bookstore in honor of her friend's memory. All she wants...
6) Extra credit
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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As letters flow back and forth--between the prairies of Illinois and the mountains of Afghanistan, across cultural and religious divides--sixth-grader Abby, ten-year-old Amira, and eleven-year-old Sadeed begin to speak and listen to each other.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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The hit series is back, to charm and inspire another generation of baby-sitters!
A bunch of kids at Stoneybrook Elementary have pen pals at a school in New Mexico. The Baby-sitters love hearing the letters that Charlotte, Becca, and the Pike kids get from their new friends.Then the bad news reaches Stoneybrook: their pen pals' school has been destroyed by a fire. Dawn is so upset that she organizes a fund-raiser for them, and as a reward to all the...
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A year's worth of novellas from twelve inspirational romance authors. Happily ever after guaranteed.
What will happen when novelist Madeleine Houser's "pen pal" friendship with a lonely widower takes an unexpected turn?
Who can work in a house that's overrun by contractors and carpenters? Not Madeleine Houser, a successful novelist who gladly accepts the help of her octogenarian friend, Ginny, to arrange for a temporary office in the charming bed...
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Ashbury/Brookfield books volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Three female students from Ashbury High write to three male students from rival Brookfield High as part of a pen pal program, leading to romance, humiliation, revenge plots, and war between the schools.
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Tony Baloney volume 3
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English
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"It's pen pal month at school and Tony Baloney is ready to write. Big Sister Baloney says her pen pal is always a friend for life. Tony Baloney hopes his pen pal will be a friend for life too!"--Back cover.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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After a string of incredibly good luck, Molly decides that she has developed magical powers--but when she finds out that her pen pal Olive has had an equally surprising run of minor disasters Molly starts to wonder if her magical good luck is somehow responsible for her friend's problems.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Pen pals Molly and Olive are both having relationship problems in their third grade classes--Molly is struggling with Jenna, a new girl, who seems to think that name calling is a way to fit in, and Olive has joined a gymnastics team which is putting a strain on her friendship with Emma, whom she has know for years.
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"It's summer 1977 and closeted lesbian Tammy Larson can't be herself anywhere. Not at her strict Christian high school, not at her conservative Orange County church and certainly not at home, where her ultrareligious aunt relentlessly organizes antigay political campaigns. Tammy's only outlet is writing secret letters in her diary to gay civil rights activist Harvey Milk--until she's matched with a real-life pen pal who changes everything. Sharon...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Pen pals Molly and Olive consider themselves best friends even though they have never actually met because Molly lives in New York City and Olive lives on a farm in Iowa--but when Olive finds a diamond bracelet in the grass the two girls start to wonder if they can finally get the money for one of them to visit the other.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Molly who lives in New York City, and Olive who lives on a farm in Iowa are email friends, and both think that the other would be in serious trouble if they exchanged places--so they make a bet, and while Olive is getting totally lost in Minneapolis, Molly is at a farm in upstate New York desperately trying to milk a goat.
18) Dear pen pal
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Mother-Daughter Book Club volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Four very different friends in Concord, Massachusetts, and their mothers continue their book club, reading Jean Webster's "Daddy Long-Legs," while getting to know their own pen pals from Wyoming.
19) Dear little lamb
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NorthSouth Books
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2006.
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IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When her tender little lamb begins exchanging letters with "Wolfgang," Mama Sheep becomes distinctly uncomfortable and decides to meet this mysterious stranger for herself.
20) Same sun here
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Candlewick Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A twelve-year-old Indian immigrant in New York City and a Kentucky coal miner's son become pen pals, and eventually best friends, through a series of revealing letters exploring such topics as environmental activism, immigration, and racism.
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