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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"A rare and riveting first-hand account of the terror and torture inflicted by ISIS on young Iraqi Yazidi women, and an inspiring personal story of bravery and resilience in the face of unspeakable horrors. In the early summer of 2014, Farida Khalaf was a typical Yazidi teenager living with her parents and three brothers in her village in the mountains of Northern Iraq. In one horrific day, she lost everything: ISIS invaded her village, destroyed...
2) Darkroom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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"Beatrice know[s] she doesn't have many followers. Nobody wants to watch her living her ordinary life. But then she stumbles across a new app, Dark(room). Some users say it's super cool. Others say it's super dangerous. Beatrice downloads it and discovers that it allows her to see ghosts everywhere around her"--
3) Magisterium
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In the twenty-second century, Glennora Morgan's father has been working on a project that will allow him to penetrate the Rift border and retrieve Glennora's mother; but now that he has succeeded the Authority is suddenly trying to kill them both, and Glennora and her friend Kevin must flee into the Magisterium to escape them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
HarperCollins is proud to present a range of best-loved, essential classics. 'The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return. We penetrated deeper and deeper into the heart of darkness.' At the peak of European Imperialism, steamboat captain Charles Marlow travels deep into the African Congo on his way to relieve the elusive Mr Kurtz, an ivory trader renowned for...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
'Everything's Eventual' is a collection of short stories from Stephen King. It includes some of the best King storytelling of recent years much of which has previously only appeared in private collections or magazines.
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Dark Tower volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 44
Language
English
Description
All good things must come to an end, Constant Reader, and not even Stephen King can make a story that goes on forever. The tale of Roland Deschain's relentless quest for the Dark Tower has, the author fears, sorely tried the patience of those who have followed it from its earliest chapters. But attend to it a while longer, if it pleases you, for this volume is the last, and often the last things are best. Roland's ka-tet remains intact, though scattered...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Jimmy Tock comes into the world on the very night his grandfather leaves it. Rudy Tock spends long hours walking the corridors between the expectant fathers' waiting room and his dying father's bedside. When Josef Tock suddenly sits up in bed and speaks for the first and last time since his stroke, he says that there will be five dark days in the life of his grandson-each occurring at different times of his life. Rudy is all too ready to discount...
9) Cursed
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Nimue grew up an outcast. Her connection to dark magic made her something to be feared in her Druid village, and that made her desperate to leave...That is, until her entire village is slaughtered by Red Paladins, and Nimue's fate is forever altered. Charged by her dying mother to reunite an ancient sword with a legendary sorcerer, Nimue is now her people's only hope. Her mission leaves little room for revenge, but the growing power within her can...
10) Every last word
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Samantha McAllister looks just like the rest of the popular girls in her junior class. But hidden beneath the straightened hair and expertly applied makeup is a secret that her friends would never understand: Sam has Purely-Obsessional OCD and is consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off. Second-guessing every move, thought, and word makes daily life a struggle, and it doesn't help that her lifelong friends will turn...