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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In 1920s Harlem, sixteen-year-old Mark Purvis, an aspiring jazz saxophonist, gets a summer job as an errand boy for the publishers of the groundbreaking African American magazine, "The Crisis," but soon finds himself on the enemy list of mobster Dutch Shultz.
2) Stormbreaker
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Alex Rider adventure volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
Meet Alex Rider, the reluctant teenage spy. When his guardian dies in suspicious circumstances, fourteen-year-old Alex Rider finds his world turned upside down. Within days he's gone from schoolboy to superspy. Forcibly recruited into MI6, Alex has to take part in gruelling SAS training exercies. Then, armed with his own special set of secret gadgets, he's off on his first mission ...
3) The Lost
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A girl's perfect life falls apart when her mother is arrested for a white collar crime in this novel School Library Journal calls "realistic yet positive."
Carly Wheeler lives a charmed life. Her mother is a stylist for the soap opera Lovelock Falls, she lives in a nice house, and goes to an excellent private school. But when her mom is arrested and charged with embezzlement, everything starts to unravel. There are shocking stories about her mother's...
6) Illusive
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The X-Men meets Ocean's Eleven in this edge-of-your-seat sci-fi adventure about a band of "super" criminals.
When the deadly MK virus swept across the planet, a vaccine was created to stop the epidemic, but it came with some unexpected side effects. A small percentage of the population developed superhero-like powers, and Americans suffering from these so-called adverse effects were given an ultimatum: Serve the country or be declared a traitor.
Some...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Pretty Little Liars meets Heist Society in this exciting and flirtatious book about a high school girl whose innocent game of Robin Hood spirals way out of control. At first, Willa's plan to take from the rich kids at Valley Prep and give to the poor ones seems easy. Her daredevil stunts are thrilling. And keeping secrets helps her play hard-to-get with Aidan Murphy, Prep's most notorious bad boy. But when the cops start investigating and her friends...
8) Pretty Sly
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Pretty Sly is Elisa Ludwig's heart-pounding sequel to Pretty Crooked and the second book in a trilogy perfect for fans of Sarah Mlynowski, Ally Carter, or Sara Shepard. Willa Fox was ordered to stay out of trouble by a juvenile court judge. But that was before her house was ransacked... and her mother went missing. Now Willa and her sexy crush, Aidan, must violate her probation and hit the California highway in search of her mom. When Willa and Aidan...
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Publisher
Lerner Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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People in Merit, Wisconsin, always said Jimmy was . . . you know. But people said all sorts of stupid stuff. Nobody really knew anything. Nobody really knew Jimmy. I guess you could say I knew Jimmy as well as anyone (which was not very well). I knew what scared him. And I knew he had dreams-even if I didn't understand them. Even if he nearly ruined my life to pursue them. Jimmy's dead now, and I definitely know that better than anyone. I know about...
10) Rogue Agent
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
Description
When there's a dangerous, near-impossible mission that needs done, only Shadow Squadron is up to the job. Over the years, the elite team of soldiers has used its superior skills to resolve conflicts around the globe under the leadership of Lieutenant Commander Ryan Cross. But the world remains riddled with warfare, and there's still work to be done for the covert team. And with new members, traitors, and rogue agents, it's difficult to know who to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The Internet gives us information, communication options, shopping opportunities, entertainment, and much more-all at the touch of a fingertip and much of it for free. But in exchange for these benefits, we may be losing a basic right: the right to privacy. By clicking to accept website user agreements, we often allow companies to track our activities online and to share our data with outside groups. In addition, the police and government agencies...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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The headlines say she killed her family. The truth? She doesn't remember.
Andrea McNulty goes to sleep on her eighteenth birthday with a near-perfect life. The next morning, she wakes up covered in blood. Her parents were killed in the middle of the night...and she's the prime suspect.
Andrea McNulty has a wonderful life: she's a high school field hockey star, a doted-upon big sister, the beloved daughter of two happy
...14) Running on Empty
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Everyone expected Leon Kline, anchor for the 4x100 sprint relay, to secure Gilburn High's spot in the record books. But a freak accident on the final stretch changes everything. Suddenly his future is gone. No more running, no scholarship, no college. But then he meets sassy and straight-talking Casey De Vries, and life doesn't look quite so bleak. She even gets him running again. He can't sprint anymore, but he can handle longer distances. As he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
New York, December 8, 1980: The announcement shocked the world. Beatles founder and legendary musician John Lennon had been murdered in front of his New York home. With no warning, a lone gunman opened fire, shooting Lennon in the back just as Lennon returned from a recording session with his wife, Yoko Ono. Husband, father of two, cultural icon, and hero to millions, Lennon was dead. Around the globe, people mourned the loss of a man who had stood...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Grace Milton's peaceful life with her family on a horse ranch outside Tombstone, Arizona is shattered in one devastating night. Her parents and siblings are all brutally killed by the notorious Guiltless Gang, leaving Grace the only survivor. Alone and desperate, she buries her family and sets out into the wilderness on her trusted stallion, Bullet, with burning thoughts of revenge. But when she falls ill on the trek, a young man called Joe saves...
17) Her Cold Revenge
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
Description
Grace Milton has only one goal: bring to justice the Guiltless Gang, the outlaws who slaughtered her family. That's why she had to abandoned Joe and the Apache -- she couldn't afford any distractions. Now she's making her living as one of the only female bounty hunter in the Wild West, despite the doubts and protests of others. But when Joe shows up in town, Grace is torn. Feelings she thought she had left behind at the Apache camp are rekindled,...
18) Payback time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Overweight, somewhat timid Mitch reluctantly agrees to be the sports reporter for the Lincoln High newspaper because he's determined to be a writer, but he senses a real story in Angel, a talented football player who refuses to stand out on the field--or to discuss his past.
19) Rock the Boat
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Webb believes that if you want to reach your dreams, you have to live life loud. Bring the roof down. Rock the boat. Make sure that when you look back, you have no regrets. But when a shady music producer steals one of Webb's songs, Webb finds out how hard it is for a kid on his own in Nashville to get justice. With the help of an unlikely ally, Webb discovers that he has what it takes to succeed: talent, determination and some good friends.
20) Solitary
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Escape from Furnace volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Imprisoned for a murder he did not commit, fourteen-year-old Alex Sawyer thinks that he has escaped the hellish Furnace Penitentiary, but instead he winds up in solitary confinement, where new horrors await him.
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