Will
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Language
English
Description
Ryan, Harley and Miles are very different people-the swimmer, the rebel and the nerd. All they've ever had in common is Isaac, their shared best friend. When Isaac dies unexpectedly, the three boys must come to terms with their grief and the impact Isaac had on each of their lives. In his absence, Ryan, Harley and Miles discover things about one another they never saw before, and realize there may be more tying them together than just Isaac. In...
3) Memory boy
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles and his family must flee their Minneapolis home and begin a new life in the wilderness after a chain of cataclysmic volcanic explosions creates dangerous conditions in their city.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
Author
Series
Department 19 volume 05
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
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Description
A Department 19 shaken by betrayal and losses prepares for a final battle against Dracula, who has returned to full strength, and his legions of undead, as violence spreads throughout the world over the revelation that vampires are real.
6) Pitch
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
Taylor's got a crush who isn't interested and a pushy admirer who is, and the fallout will teach him a valuable lesson about trust.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Description
A short story from the world of Department 19. In 1891, Abraham Van Helsing and a group of friends faced Dracula, the world's first vampire – and won. The survivors of that battle founded Department 19, and have been secretly saving the world ever since. A highly classified archive exists recording every act of bravery in that time. That archive is now open. These are the Department 19 files. London, 1919. Safely returned from the killing fields...
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Language
English
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Description
Unimaginable loss yields to the power of human connection in this simple, moving story from the filmmakers of the eponymous Oscar-winning film. An elegy on grief. Based on the Academy Award-winning animated short by the same name, If Anything Happens I Love You is a young adult graphic novel that follows two parents as they reckon with the loss of their young daughter, Rose, in a school shooting. Readers follow Rose from above as she watches her parents...
9) Full service
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the summer of 1965, teenager Paul Sutton, a northern Minnesota farm boy, takes a job at a gas station in town, where his strict religious upbringing is challenged by new people and experiences.
10) Defect
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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Description
After spending most of his life in Minnesota foster homes hiding a bizarre physical abnormality, fifteen-year-old David is offered a chance at normalcy, but must decide if giving up what makes him special is the right thing to do.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In a small town in northern Minnesota, the much-anticipated Saturday night dirt-track race at the old-fashioned, barely viable Headwaters Speedway becomes, in many ways, an important life-changing event for all the participants on and off the track.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Trace Bonham knows he is fortunate to be offered a chance at being a paid super stock driver when he is still in high school, but regrets that he must leave his friends and home track and wonders if the sponsor is legitimate.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Trace Bonham, a teenaged professional stock car racer, blows away the competition wherever he races, but with every victory Trace is increasingly aware that his winning is due to more than just his driving skills.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A short story from the world of Department 19. In 1891, Abraham Van Helsing and a group of friends faced Dracula, the world's first vampire - and won. The survivors of that battle founded Department 19, and have been secretly saving the world ever since. A highly classified archive exists recording every act of bravery in that time. That archive is now open. These are the Department 19 files. Rome, 1918. The Great War is over, but the world is in...
16) Wet Paint
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Series
Language
English
Description
When Addy's past intrudes, it's going to take everything Benny can muster to show that no matter what they face, they belong together.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A short story from the world of Department 19. In 1891, Abraham Van Helsing and a group of friends faced Dracula, the world's first vampire - and won. The survivors of that battle founded Department 19, and have been secretly saving the world ever since. A highly classified archive exists recording every act of bravery in that time. That archive is now open. These are the Department 19 files. Belgium, 1917. Quincey Harker and his hand-picked Special...
18) A Noble Lie
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Language
English
Description
A Nobile Lie is the second book in the Jack Graystone Mysteries, Freshman Trilogy. In this exciting book, Jack's world is turned upside down and he is forced to decide when it is acceptable to lie. Can you lie to protect an innocent friend? Can you lie to convict a guilty criminal? Throughout his quest to find answers, Jack quickly learns that people are not always who they appear to be. And in the end, it will require extraordinary skills to save...
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Series
Language
English
Description
The story opens up with a wedding in the country of Fegnir at Guel Castle. Shortly after the wedding, everyone in the castle except the groom named Sargon and the priest that performed the ceremony, die from poisoned food. The priest dies by a scout as he and Sargon flee. A soldier from the last patrol of Castle Guel named Bellgrad is discovered by Sargon, while riding his horse away from the carnage. All of this takes place as a horrendous blizzard...
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Language
English
Description
GRANDMA ROSE IS THE CUSTODIAN OF SOME VERY SPECIAL MYSTERIES SAFEGUARDED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS.
Lusine is a young girl growing up in Melbourne.
Her family & school life are perfectly normal but as she grows, she finds that her much loved grandmother has some intriguing qualities separating her from the often ordinary.
Lusine and her grandmother Rose, share a loving relationship where she learns to cook and hear Rose speak about the stories...