Emma Galvin
1) Glimpse
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Language
English
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Rain Thomas is a mess. Seven years an addict and three difficult years clean. Racked by guilt for the baby she gave up for adoption when she was sixteen. Still grieving for the boy's father who died in Iraq. Alone, discarded by her family, with only the damaged members of her narcotics anonymous meetings as friends. Them, and the voices in her head. One morning, on the way to a much-needed job interview, she borrows reading glasses to review her resume....
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English
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"The challenge: Spend a week hiding in an abandoned amusement park and don't get caught. The prize: enough money to change everything. Even though everyone is desperate to win-to seize a dream future or escape a haunting past-Mack is sure she can beat her competitors. All she has to do is hide, and she's an expert at that. It's the reason she's alive and her family isn't. But as the people around her begin disappearing one by one, Mack realizes that...
3) The twin
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
HL 580L
Language
English
Description
After sixteen-year-old Ivy's twin sister, Iris, moves in with her and their father, Ivy learns that Iris is trying to push her out of her own life--and may be responsible for their mother's death.
"After their parents divorced, 10-year-old twins Ivy and Iris were split up--Ivy lived with Dad, Iris with Mom. Now, after a tragic accident takes their mom's life, the twins are reunited and Iris moves in with Ivy and their dad. Devastated over Mom's death,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 430L
Language
English
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Jack Dahl has nothing left. Except his younger brother, Matty, who he'd do anything for. Even die for. Now with their mother gone, and their funds quickly dwindling, Jack needs to make a choice: lose his brother to foster care, or find the drug money that sent his father to prison. He chooses the money. Ava Bardem lives in isolation, a life of silence. For seventeen years her father has controlled her fate. He has taught her to love no one. Trust...
5) Burden Falls
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Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
760L
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English
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"When someone close to Ava Thorn is brutally murdered and Ava becomes the primary suspect, she starts to wonder if ghostly legends surrounding her town might be more fact than fiction"--
The town of Burden Falls drips with superstition, from rumors of its cursed waterfall to Dead-Eyed Sadie, the disturbing specter who haunts it. Ava Thorn grew up right beside the falls, and since a horrific accident killed her parents a year ago she has been plagued...
6) The insiders
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English
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"Bailey is as normal as could be, with a genius IQ and a photographic memory. But still, normal for her. Then, things happen--a guy breaks into her house in the middle of the night to take her hostage. She finds out her father is actually billionaire tech genius Peter Francis, the same guy she's idolized all her life. She learns all this when she meets dark, mysterious, and electrifying Kashton Colello. He's an associate of her father's, and he gives...
7) Deadfall
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Series
Blackbird (Anna Carey) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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The story of a girl, told in a second-person voice, desperate to escape her mysterious assailants and with no memory of her past, is forced to put her life in the hands of others.
8) The Damaged
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English
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"The world knows about Kash. Both Bailey and Kash were used to living in the shadows, but now they must live in the public eye. Kash is figuring out his new found role against his grandfather, and Bailey is starting her graduate program late. At university, everyone is watching Bailey, and some are wondering if her legendary father, Peter Francis, bought her way into the elite program. Meanwhile, Bailey's former stepmother is in jail and at home,...