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Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone--maybe not even herself. Having grown up under Malcolm and Maud's intense perfectionist demands, no child comes away undamaged. Tandy decides that she will have to clear the family name, but digging deeper into her powerful...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Creative, intelligent, nine-year-old Mina keeps a journal in her own disorderly way that reveals how her mind is growing into something extraordinary, especially after she begins homeschooling under the direction of her widowed mother.
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Shades of London volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Samuel and his younger brother, Joshua, are free black boys living in an orphanage during the Civil War, but when Samuel takes the blame for his brother's prank, he is sent South, given a new name, and sold into slavery--and somehow he must survive both captivity and the war, to find his way back to his brother.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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The globetrotting naturalists of the eighteenth century were the geeks of their day: innovators and explorers who lived at the intersection of science and commerce. Foremost among them was Carl Linnaeus, a radical thinker who revolutionized biology. In What Linnaeus Saw, Karen Magnuson Beil chronicles Linnaeus's life and career in readable, relatable prose. As a boy, Linnaeus hated school and had little interest in taking up the religious profession...
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Echo Falls mystery volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
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Gallagher girls volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Cammie Morgan is a CIA legacy and attends the premier school in the world...for spies. The school hosts some mysterious guests with the code name Blackthorne. When Cammie is blamed for a security breach that threatens to expose the school's top secret status, she and her friends face danger to clear Cammie's name and learn the truth about Blackthorne.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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As a child, Laura Ingalls Wilder traveled across the prairie in a covered wagon. Her daughter, Rose, thought those stories might make a good book, and the two created the beloved Little House series.
Sara Breedlove, the daughter of former slaves, wanted everything to be different for her own daughter, A'Lelia. Together they built a million-dollar beauty empire for women of color. Marie Curie became the first person in history to win two Nobel prizes...
Author
Publisher
Marshall Cavendish
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Alaskans Luke, Chickie, Sonny, Donna, and Amiq relate their experiences in the early 1960s when they are forced to attend a Catholic boarding school where, despite different tribal affiliations, they come to find a sort of family and home.
13) Last of her name
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Sixteen years ago, rebellion swept the galaxy known as the Belt of Jewels. Every member of the Leonov royal family was murdered--down to their youngest child, Princess Anya--making way for the Union government to seize power. But Stacia doesn't think much about politics. She spends her days half-wild, rambling her father's vineyard with her friends, Clio and Pol. That all changes when a Union ship appears burning through the sky, bearing the leader...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Teen activist and trailblazer Jazz Jennings--named one of "The 25 most influential teens" of the year by Time--shares her very public transgender journey, as she inspires people to accept the differences in others while they embrace their own truths.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Newbery Award - Children's Fiction
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"A girl named Petra Pena, who wanted nothing more than to be a storyteller, like her abuelita. But Petra's world is ending. Earth has been destroyed by a comet, and only a few hundred scientists and their children - among them Petra and her family - have been chosen to journey to a new planet. They are the ones who must carry on the human race. Hundreds of years later, Petra wakes to this new planet - and the discovery that she is the only person...
17) Rotten
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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When troubled sixteen-year-old Jimmer "JD" Dobbs returns from a mysterious summer "upstate" he finds that his mother has adopted an abused Rottweiler that JD names Johnny Rotten, but soon his tenuous relationship with the dog is threatened.
18) The bone houses
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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"When risen corpses called 'bone houses' threaten Ryn's village because of a decades-old curse, she teams up with a mapmaker named Ellis to solve the mystery of the curse and destroy the bone houses forever"--
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Series
Hagenheim volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Formats
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Sophie is trying desperately to escape her stepmother's jealousy, when a young man named Gabe arrives from Hagenheim Castle announcing that she is betrothed to his older brother. As Gabe, who is also betrothed, fulfills his mission to find Sophie, emotional conflict ensues as they realize that their feelings for each other have developed into romance, though they are both promised to other partners.
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Series
Lonely Hearts Club volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Fed up with boys and the way they have treated her and her friends, high school junior Penny Lane--named after the Beatles song--forms a club whose members vow to stop dating, but the repercussions are surprising.