Lois Duncan
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Language
English
Description
Louis Duncan's 1958 young adult classic tells the story of what happens when the debutante tradition comes to one small town: the parties, the ball gowns, as well as one girl's growing sense of right and wrong. Lynn Chambers is popular, wealthy, and going (almost) steady with a handsome college boy. But when she decides not to be a debutante, Lynn finds herself on the outside, which leads her to a side of her town she barely knew existed. There she...
Author
Language
English
Description
An extraordinary look at the genesis of a great writer's career, Written in the Stars is a collection of Lois Duncan's earliest stories. Composed from the ages of 13 through 22. From family relationships, to the joy and angst of first love, to the struggles of a young soldier returning from war with PTSD, this unique book, whose stories originally appeared in magazines such as Seventeen and American Girl, is a marvelous portrait of the depth and breadth...
4) Blackwood
Author
Language
Español
Description
Si en Blackwood sólo hay cuatro alumnas, ¿de quiénes son las otras voces?
Cuando Kit Gordy ve Blackwood Hall despuntar sobre las puertas negras de hierro, no puede evitar pensar: "Este lugar es maligno". La imponente mansión le provoca un desasosiego que en los siguientes días no hace más que intensificarse. En especial cuando oye los rumores sobre el incendio que calcinó hace años esas mismas paredes.
Entonces sus compañeras de clase empiezan...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When two teenage boys vanish on a camping trip, a stranger claims that one owes him two thousand dollars. The boy's sister volunteers to repay the money while continually looking for clues that he is alive.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding under assumed names and flee the pursuit of a hired killer.
10) Summer of fear
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Soon after the arrival of cousin Julia, insidious occurrences begin that convince Rachel she is a witch and must be stopped before her total monstrous plan can be effected.
11) Movie for dogs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
When Andi's brother Bruce wants to enter a dog-themed film-making contest, Andi jumps at the opportunity to become a screenwriter. But neither of them expects what happens next -- a producer wants their movie! Can Andi and Bruce's show (and dogs) go Hollywood?
12) Down a dark hall
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
Suspicious and uneasy about the atmosphere at her new boarding school, fourteen-year-old Kit slowly realizes why she and the other three students at the school were selected.
13) Gallows Hill
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When seventeen-year-old Sarah works in the fortune-telling booth at a school carnival, she finds that sometimes she can really see the future in the crystal ball, a talent that disturbs some of the other students and makes them suspect her of being a witch.
14) Hotel for dogs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Liz and her brother wind up with nine stray dogs that need homes but must be kept a secret.
16) Ransom
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five teenaged students are kidnapped from their school bus and held for ransom by two men who have already killed old Mr. Godfrey, their regular bus driver .
17) A gift of magic
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Until she learns to control it, Nancy's gift of extrasensory perception brings her more trouble than she can handle.
18) Locked in time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nore Robbins visits her new stepmother, brother, and sister in Louisiana, she is unnerved by the feeling of evil and eerie threats that pervades the plantation.
19) News for dogs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
Andi is excited when the newspaper for dogs that she and her brother Bruce start becomes a big success, but when a group of dognappers appears on the scene, Andi and Bruce work to uncover the culprits and rescue the dogs.
20) The third eye
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
High school senior Karen, who worries that her psychic powers will make her seem different from other people, is frightened at first when a young policeman asks her to use her gift to help the police locate missing children.