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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Fresh from a brief stay at a psych hospital, reporter Camille Preaker faces a troubling assignment: she must return to her tiny hometown to cover the murders of two preteen girls. For years, Camille has hardly spoken to her neurotic, hypochondriac mother or to the half-sister she barely knows: a beautiful thirteen-year-old with an eerie grip on the town. Now, installed in her old bedroom in her family's Victorian mansion, Camille finds herself identifying...
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Follow Mitch Rapp, as he takes on his first explosive counterterrorism assignment.
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Mitch Rapp novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
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The stately calm of the White House is shattered in a hail of gunfire. A massacre leaves dozens of innocent bystanders murdered. Hostages are taken. Terrorists have descended on the Executive Mansion. The president is evacuated to a bunker. CIA counterterrorism operative Mitch Rapp scrambles to save lives.
4) Blow fly
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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Forensic pathologist Dr. Kay Scarpetta leaves Virginia in the wake of career upheaval. But as she settles into her new life in Florida as a private forensic consultant, she confronts a baffling and horrific murder. Then she receives chilling news: the vicious and unrepentant killer summons her from his cell on death row. Only to her will he tell the secrets the authorities desire to know, the evidence that will bring a global investigation to a close...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"Sparks fly when sixteen-year-old Lucy Patterson and seventeen-year-old Owen Buckley meet on an elevator rendered useless by a New York City blackout. Soon after, the two teenagers leave the city, but as they travel farther away from each other geographically, they stay connected emotionally, in this story set over the course of one year"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The New York Times–bestselling classic set amid the mountains and streams of early twentieth-century Montana, "as beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway" (Chicago Tribune).
When Norman Maclean sent the manuscript of A River Runs Through It and Other Stories to New York publishers, he received a slew of rejections. One editor, so the story goes, replied, "it has trees in it."
Today, the title novella is recognized as one of the great...
7) Small wonder
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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In twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world
From the author of High Tide in Tucson, comes Small Wonder, a new collection of essays that begins with a parable gleaned from recent news: villagers search for a missing infant boy and find him, unharmed, in the cave
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 38
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English
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When Micky Bellsong encounters Leilani Klonk, a disabled girl, and her stepfather Preston Maddoc, she finally finds some purpose in her troubled life, but when the family disappears, Micky embarks on an arduous mission to find them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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From the author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon—"Walls vividly depicts her astonishing, resilient grandmother with a lightness of touch that is plainspoken yet heartfelt" (Chicago Tribune). Half Broke Horses has transfixed readers everywhere.
"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling...
"Those old cows knew trouble was coming before we did." So begins the story of Lily Casey Smith, Jeannette Walls's no-nonsense, resourceful, and spectacularly compelling...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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As a young man and a prisoner of war, Kurt Vonnegut witnessed the 1945 Allied fire-bombing of Dresden in Germany, which reduced the once proudly beautiful city to rubble and claimed the lives of thousands of its citizens. For many years, Vonnegut tried to write about Dresden by the words would not come. When he did write about it, he combined his trademark humour, unfettered imagination, boundless humanity and keen sense of irony to create one of...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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The adventures of the well-to-do hobbit, Bilbo Baggins, who lived happily in his comfortable home until a wandering wizard granted his wish. A new edition to Tolkien's classic, the prelude to the Lord of the Rings saga, is available just in time for "The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, " set for release in theaters in December 2002. Illustrations. In this fantasy, a prelude to The Lord of the Rings, the reader meets Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit, in...
13) The last Templar
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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With elegant music wafting through the alcoves of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art, black-tied gentlemen and white-gowned ladies applaud the unveiling of the Treasures of the Vatican exhibit. Then suddenly--with sabers swinging and Uzis blazzing--four armor-clad horsemen in Templar garb gallop up the museum's steps. Scattering the genteel crowd, they quickly snatch an ancient encoder and ride off into the night. Soon archaeologist Tess Chaykin...