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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
An anthology of historical short stories features a diverse array of girls standing up for themselves and their beliefs, forging their own paths while resisting society's expectations.
22) Wild life
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Since there wasn't enough proof to convict Alva's father for the murder of her mother, she's been forced to live in his house in Ormscaula, Scotland, being raised by the man she holds responsible for her motherlessness. His family has been called guardians of the loch for generations, and now it falls to her to monitor the water levels, despite not knowing what she's watching for -- or what may be watching her back.
24) Ace of Shades
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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New Reyens -- the City of Sin -- is no place for a proper young lady like Enne, who had to leave finishing school early to pursue her missing mother with only one name as a clue. When she finds Levi Glaisyer, however, he is not a proper gentleman but a street lord and con man who brings his own troubles and enemies to tangle with hers and catch them both in a dangerous gamble that could mean their lives.
25) Code name Verity
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Code name Verity volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends, but only one of them has a chance at survival. Arrested by the Gestapo, "Verity" is forced to reveal her mission, and so she is given paper and ink to write everything she can remember about the British War Effort. Vowing to tell the truth, she begins to write.
26) 1632
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Series
Assiti Shards volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
Now with a new Afterword by Eric Flint The Ultimate Y2K Glitch....
1632 In the year 1632 in northern Germany a reasonable person might conclude that things couldn't get much worse. There was no food. Disease was rampant. For over a decade religious war had ravaged the land and the people. Catholic and Protestant armies marched and countermarched across the northern plains, laying waste the cities and slaughtering everywhere. In
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The bestselling author of Warlight traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an abandoned Italian villa at the end of World War II. “A rare spellbinding web of dreams.” —Time
The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly...
The nurse Hana, exhausted by death, obsessively tends to her last surviving patient. Caravaggio, the thief, tries to reimagine who he is, now that his hands are hopelessly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"Before one fateful April day, Jeanne lived the life of a typical Rwandan girl. She fought with her little sister, went to school, and teased her brother. Then, in one horrifying night, everything changed. Political troubles unleashed a torrent of violence upon the Tutsi ethnic group. Jeanne's family, all Tutsis, fled their home and tried desperately to reach safety. They--along with nearly 1 million others--did not survive. The only survivor of her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 31
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English
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"An immediate best-seller on publication, Ben Hur remains a dazzling achievement by any standards. A thoroughly exhilarating tale of betrayal, revenge and salvation, it is the only novel that ranks with Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a genuine American folk possession. This was the book that finally overcame the inherent suspicion of fiction that still prevailed in much of America in the late nineteenth century. Wallace writes with a freshness and immediacy...
30) Skandal
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Sekret volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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The dramatic sequel to SEKRET, this psychic Cold War espionage thriller follows Yulia to Washington, DC, where she fights to discover the truth about her family without losing control of her mind. My mind is mine alone.
Life in Washington, D.C., is not the safe haven Yulia hoped for when she risked everything to flee communist Russia. Her father is reckless and aloof, and Valentin is distant and haunted by his past. Her mother is being targeted by...
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Letters of enchantment volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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"When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever."--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands."--Provided by publisher
"It is November 25, 1960, and three sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state...
33) High dive
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
A tale inspired by the 1984 Brighton Hotel bombing assassination attempt on the lives of Margaret Thatcher and her cabinet is told from the perspectives of an IRA bomb maker, a former star athlete-turned-hotel manager, and the manager's teenage daughter.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Propelled by the same superb instinct for storytelling that made The Kite Runner a beloved classic, the #1 New York Times bestseller A Thousand Splendid Suns is at once an incredible chronicle of thirty years of Afghan history and a deeply moving story of family, friendship, faith, and the salvation to be found in love.
“Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The...
“Just as good, if not better, than Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling first book, The...
35) Hawaii
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 83
Language
English
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author James A. Michener brings Hawaii’s epic history vividly to life in a classic saga that has captivated readers since its initial publication in 1959. As the volcanic Hawaiian Islands sprout from the ocean floor, the land remains untouched for centuries—until, little more than a thousand years ago, Polynesian seafarers make the perilous journey across the Pacific, flourishing in this tropical paradise according...
36) Cloud atlas
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks. . .
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and...
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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WINNER OF THE AGATHA • ARTHUR ELLIS • DILYS • DEBUT DAGGER AWARDS
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine.”—Chicago Sun-Times
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion...
“Wonderfully entertaining . . . sure to be one of the most loved mysteries of the year . . . [Flavia is] a delightful, intrepid, acid-tongued new heroine.”—Chicago Sun-Times
It is the summer of 1950–and at the once-grand mansion of Buckshaw, young Flavia de Luce, an aspiring chemist with a passion...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A powerful depiction of racial tensions arising over the death of a Cajun farmer at the hands of a black man—set on a Louisiana sugarcane plantation in the 1970s.
The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.”
The Village Voice called A Gathering of Old Men “the best-written novel on Southern race relations in over a decade.”
40) The lost symbol
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Series
Robert Langdon novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
#1 WORLDWIDE BESTSELLER • An intelligent, lightning-paced thriller set within the hidden chambers, tunnels, and temples of Washington, D.C., with surprises at every turn. • Don’t miss the Peacock original series Dan Brown’s The Lost Symbol!
“Impossible to put down.... Another mind-blowing Robert Langdon story.” —The New York Times
Famed Harvard symbologist Robert...
“Impossible to put down.... Another mind-blowing Robert Langdon story.” —The New York Times
Famed Harvard symbologist Robert...