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1) Wolf Hall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
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Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price. Employing a vast array of historical characters, and a story overflowing with incident, the author turns Tudor England into a compelling piece of fiction. Mantel re-creates an era when the personal and political...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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A modern retelling of the myth, Orpheus and Eurydice, in which Eury leaves Puerto Rico for the Bronx, haunted by losing all to Hurricane Maria and by evil spirit Ato, and meets a bachata-singing charmer, Pheus.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Jazz learned all about being a serial killer from his notorious "Dear Old Dad," but believes he has a conscience that will help fight his own urges and right some of his father's wrongs, so he secretly helps the police apprehend the town's newest murderer, "The Impressionist."
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Series
Girl from everywhere volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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The breathtaking sequel to the acclaimed The Girl from Everywhere. Nix has spent her whole life journeying to places both real and imagined aboard her time-traveling father's ship. And now it's finally time for her to take the helm. Her future lies bright before her-until she learns that she is destined to lose the one she loves. Desperate to change her fate, Nix sails her crew to a mythical utopia to meet another Navigator who promises to teach her...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When living with her mother, an alcoholic ex-beauty queen, becomes unbearable, almost seventeen-year-old Maybelline "Maybe" Chestnut runs away to California, where she finds work on a taco truck and tries to track down her birth father.
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Series
Mara Dyer trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Mara cannot remember the accident that took the lives of three of her friends but, after moving from Rhode Island to Florida, finding love with Noah, and more deaths, she realizes uncovering something buried in her memory might save her family and her future.
7) Charmed
Author
Publisher
Atheneum
Pub. Date
1990
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Miranda and her companion Bastable, an invisible catlike creature from another world, discover that they are part of the Correct Combination, a team that must stop the evil Charmer from taking over the universe.