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1) Shelter
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
After tragic events tear Mickey Bolitar away from his parents, he is forced to live with his estranged Uncle Myron and switch high schools, where he finds both friends and enemies, but when his new new girlfriend, Ashley, vanishes, he follows her trail into a seedy underworld that reveals she is not what she seems to be.
Author
Series
Earth's children volume 5
Pub. Date
2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 53
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A desperate mother. Her missing child. A stolen chalice. With Silent Night, Mary Higgins Clark, America's own Queen of Suspense, gave her readers their best Christmas present ever. Now, with All Through the Night, she once again celebrates the Christmas season with a tale of suspense that will keep readers turning the pages -- all through the night. At the center of the novel are two of Mary Higgins Clark's most beloved characters, Alvirah, the lottery...
5) Straydog
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Rachel, a teenager with a healthy dose of both aptitude and attitude, begins to feel at home volunteering at an animal shelter.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel of first love and second chances, former high school sweethearts confront the painful truths of their past to build a promising future—together.
"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."
In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply,...
"Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once, too, back when she was eighteen."
In the spring of 1984, high school students Amanda Collier and Dawson Cole fell deeply,...
Author
Series
Dover thrift editions
Everyman's library volume 206
Tantor unabridged classics
A Signet classic volume CT393
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Everyman's library volume 206
Tantor unabridged classics
A Signet classic volume CT393
More Series...
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 32
Language
English
Description
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" by Harriet Beecher Stowe is a powerful and groundbreaking novel that played a pivotal role in shaping American history. Published in 1852, the book provides a stark depiction of the brutal realities of slavery in the United States. The story revolves around the life of Uncle Tom, an enduring and compassionate African American slave, and the various characters he encounters through his life of servitude. Stowe's narrative vividly...
8) Safe haven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
"When she arrives in a small village in the Two Rivers, Moiraine discovers three young men, each of whom might be the long-awaited and reviled Chosen One, the Dragon Reborn. But she is not the only stranger new to the village, nor the only one searching. In a race against time and the agents of the Shadow, she must guide her charges through lands of myth and legend, toward allies both new and old, and into the footsteps of prophecy. The Wheel of Time...
10) Serpent & dove
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Two years ago, Louise le Blanc fled her coven and took shelter in the city of Cesarine, forsaking all magic and living off whatever she could steal. There, witches like Lou are hunted. They are feared. And they are burned. Sworn to the Church as a Chasseur, Reid Diggory has lived by one principle: Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live. His path was never meant to cross with Lou's, but a wicked stunt forces them into an impossible union--holy matrimony....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, in 2034, a comet is due to hit the Earth within the hour. Denise, who's sixteen years old and autistic, must try to find her missing sister and also help her neglectful, undependable mother safely aboard a spaceship"--
12) Dragonsong
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.
13) Seconds away
Author
Series
Mickey Bolitar novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"When tragedy strikes close to home, Mickey Bolitar and his new friends find themselves at the center of a murder mystery"--Provided by publisher.
14) Found
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mickey Bolitar and his friends continue to investigate the Abeona Shelter, while Mickey searches for answers about his father's tragic death"--
15) Candide
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?" - CANDIDE
Candide is a French satire first published in 1759 by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It is the absurdly melodramatic story of a young man, Candide, living a sheltered life who clings desperately to "the best of all possible worlds," one which is abruptly interrupted by a series of painfully disillusioning events that set him off on a wide-ranging journey....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Shares the experiences of the citizens of Gander, Newfoundland, who were hosts to the more than six thousand passengers of thirty-eight U.S.-bound jetliners forced to land there in the wake of the September 11th attacks.
Author
Series
Stalking Jack the Ripper volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
A gothic murder mystery set in gritty Victorian-era London, where an intrepid society girl finds herself embroiled in the investigation of a serial killer known as Jack the Ripper.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex Craft knows how to kill someone. And she doesn't feel bad about it. Three years ago, when her older sister, Anna, was murdered and the killer walked free, Alex uncaged the language she knows best - the language of violence. While her own crime goes unpunished, Alex knows she can't be trusted among other people. Not with Jack, the star athlete who wants to really know her but still feels guilty over the role he played the night Anna's body was...
19) And she was
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Dara finds her birth certificate, she is puzzled to find two strange names on it, but when her mother, Mellie, reveals that she is transgender and transitioned when Dara's biological mother died soon after Dara's birth, Dara is stunned and angry--and she sets off with her friend Sam, in search of the grandparents she never knew existed (and who may be able to fund her tennis career), and the family secrets she can only guess at.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
After escaping from a death sentence in the summer of 1775, Octavian and his tutor, Dr. Trefusis, find shelter but no safe harbor in British-occupied Boston and, on hearing of Lord Dunmore's proclamation offering freedom to slaves who join the counterrevolutionary forces, Octavian and his friends find themselves on board a British ship raiding the shores of Virginia as the Revolutionary War breaks out in full force.