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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Nora Seed finds herself faced with the possibility of changing her life for a new one, following a different career, undoing old breakups, or realizing her dreams of becoming a glaciologist, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library to decide what is truly fulfilling in life, and what makes it worth living in the first place.
22) The Guardians
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • A classic legal thriller—with a twist. • "A suspenseful thriller mixed with powerful themes such as false incarceration, the death penalty and how the legal system shows prejudice.” —Associated Press
In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no...
In the small Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no...
23) Mr. Mercedes
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Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Months after a crazed hit-and-run driver kills several attendees at a Midwestern job fair, a depressed retired cop and two unlikely allies join forces to find and stop the killer, who has sent a letter threatening another attack.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Zack Dylan will do whatever it takes to achieve a successful singing career, but as his star rises, Zack is often asked to compromise his beliefs, and just as he's on the verge of winning it all, his choices lead him to the brink of personal disaster.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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When her reluctance to treat the newborn of a white supremacist couple results in the child's death, a black nurse is placed on trial and is aided by a white public defender who urges her not to bring up race in the courtroom.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 37
Language
English
Description
In a near-future where women succumb to a sleeping disease and men revert to their primal natures, one mysteriously immune woman struggles to survive in an Appalachian town where she is treated as both a demon and a lab specimen.
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Series
Alex Cross novels volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross's latest investigation into a series of vicious murders turns deadly as his prime suspect, a British diplomat named Geoffrey Shaffer, makes Cross and his fiancee the target of a deadly cabal of killers masterminded by Shaffer.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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"the story follows Hetty "Handful" Grimke, a Charleston slave, and Sarah, the daughter of the wealthy Grimke family. The novel begins on Sarah's eleventh birthday, when she is given ownership over Handful, who is to be her handmaid. "The Invention of Wings" follows the next thirty-five years of their lives. Inspired in part by the historical figure of Sarah Grimke (a feminist, suffragist and, importantly, an abolitionist), Kidd allows herself to go...
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Series
Beartown volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
In the tiny forest community of Beartown, the possibility that the amateur hockey team might win a junior championship, bringing the hope of revitalization to the fading town, is shattered by the aftermath of a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized.
30) Angels walking
Author
Series
Angels walking volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
After suffering a career-ending injury, Tyler Ames finds a maintenance job at a retirement home where he meets Virginia Hutcheson, a patient with Alzheimer's who seems to have the answers he is seeking.
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Becoming friends with Josef Weber, an old man who is particularly loved in her community, Sage Singer is shocked when one day he asks her to kill him and reveals why he deserves to die, causing her to question her beliefs.
32) The last juror
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • In 1970, Willie Traynor comes to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old finds himself the owner of Ford County’s only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America is in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lives on the edge of another age—until the brutal murder of a young mother...
33) Firefly Lane
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Inseparable best friends Kate and Tully, two young women who, despite their very different lives, have vowed to be there for each other forever, have been true to their promise for thirty years, until events and choices in their lives tear them apart.
34) Takedown twenty
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
While chasing after powerful mobster Salvatore "Uncle Sunny" Sunucchi, who is on the lam, New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum must help security specialist Ranger catch the killer of his top client's mother as a giraffe named Kevin runs wild in the streets of Trenton.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Anticipating a relaxing retirement, Father Tim returns to his hometown for the first time in decades when he receives an anonymous summons, an event that leads to his discovery of long-buried secrets and new people.
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Discovering the symbolic meanings of flowers while languishing in the foster-care system, 18-year-old Victoria is hired by a florist when her talent for helping others is discovered, a situation that leads to a romantic prospect and the confrontation of a painful secret from her past.
38) The nightingale
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Reunited when the elder's husband is sent to fight in World War II, French sisters Vianne and Isabelle find their bond as well as their respective beliefs tested by a world that changes in horrific ways.
Author
Series
Oregon files volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
A latest covert mission forces Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon to confront such obstacles as a weapon rooted in 13th-century China and the treacherous jungles of northern Myanmar to overcome the greatest threat to U.S. security ever known.
40) The reckoning
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Pete Banning was Clanton's favorite son, a returning war hero, the patriarch of a prominent family, a farmer, father, neighbor, and a faithful member of the Methodist church. Then one cool October morning in 1946. he rose early, drove into town, walked into the church, and calmly shot and killed the Reverend Dexter Bell. As if the murder wasn't shocking enough, it was even more baffling that Pete's only statement about it - to the sheriff, to his...
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