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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.2 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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At the outset of "King Richard the Second," England stands on the brink of civil war. The King - attempting to fund a war against the Irish rebels - seizes the estate of his cousin, Henry Bolingbroke, and banishes him from England for six years. Bolingbroke, in turn, accuses the king of mismanagement and assembles an army to confront Richard, depose him and place Bolingbroke himself on the throne.
A powerful and celebrated story of loyalty,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
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When her adoptive parents die in a train crash in Italy, writer Courtney Marsh becomes more determined than ever to find her roots. She was mysteriously abandoned when she was just an infant, and she never knew the truth about her biological parents. The only clues to her past are a golden unicorn pendant she’s had all her life and a tattered newspaper clipping about an artist who hailed from one of the most prominent yet reclusive East Hampton...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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When their little sister doesn't come home from school, fifteen-year-old Maggie and her brother must face up to some deep, dark secrets about their natural mother, whom they must consider as a kidnapping suspect.
6) I am Regina
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
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In 1755, as the French and Indian War begins, ten-year-old Regina is kidnapped by Indians in western Pennsylvania, and she must struggle to hold onto memories of her earlier life as she grows up under the name of Tskinnak and starts to become Indian herself.
9) Toughing it
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
650L
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Shawn must deal with his loss and anger after witnessing his older brother's murder.
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Xanth volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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The latest adventure of Gary Gargoyle in the land of Xanth. It centers on a geis, a magical compulsion, an obligation of honor which the bearer must complete before the spell is lifted. In this case, the hero's geis is to save a river from pollution. By the author of Harpy Thyme.
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Xanth volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Seeking a solution to a personal problem, Metria asks for help. Before she can be helped she must perform a perilous mission to find a suitable jury for the trial of the noble and virtuous bird, Roxanne Roc. This leads her to some surprising truths about herself and Xanth.
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Henry II novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 61
Language
English
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In the wake of King Henry I's death in 1135, the Countess of Anjou, his beautiful daughter, prepares to claim the throne despite the reservations of the late ruler's barons, but her position is usurped by her cousin. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry I, his barons faced the unwelcome prospect of being ruled by a woman: Henry's beautiful daughter Maude, Countess of Anjou. But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
560L
Language
English
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Lawanda, a high school girl trying to sell magazines in order to earn money for college, stirs up a lot of controversy in her small hometown when her efforts lead to the development of a friendship between her and Garland, a World War II veteran living out of a bus up on Cade's Hill.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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On a snowy Friday night in 1979, just hours after making love for the first time, Richard's girlfriend, high school senior Karen Ann McNeil, falls into a coma. Nine months later she gives birth to their daughter, Megan. As Karen sleeps through the next seventeen years, Richard and their circle of friends reside in an emotional purgatory, passing through a variety of careers-modeling, film special effects, medicine, demolition-before finally reuniting...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
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As the Roman army marches inexorably across the Judean desert towards the fortress of Masada, Simon and his family and friends prepare, along with the rest of the Jewish Zealots, to fight and never surrender.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
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For Tony Hawk, it wasn't enough to skate for two decades, to invent more than eighty tricks, and to win more than twice as many professional contests as any other skater.It wasn't enough to knock himself unconscious more than ten times, fracture several ribs, break his elbow, knock out his teeth twice, compress the vertebrae in his back, pop his bursa sack, get more than fifty stitches laced into his shins, rip apart the cartilage in his knee, bruise...
17) Redhanded
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
990L
Language
English
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Since he cannot depend on his father, Stephen feels as though his only chance to make it to the big boxing tournament is to go along with the dangerous plan of a local tough guy to whom he has been introduced by a thrill-seeking friend.
18) Gold in the water: the true story of ordinary men and their extraordinary dream of Olympic glory
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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Gold in the Water is a nonfiction sports narrative that chronicles the journey of a group of America's finest swimmers and coaches as they vied to compete in the 2000 Olympic Games.
In California, a team of talented young men begin pursuing the most elusive dream in sports, the Olympic Games. The pressure steadily increases as two best friends (a mentor and his protégé) reach the top of the world rankings and unexpectedly find themselves direct...
19) Magic Time
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Magic Time is vintage Kinsella. It is a novel of hope and promise and baseball that becomes humorous, enchanting fiction.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1160L
Language
English
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With this all-access pass, Tony Hawk shares the joy, the exhaustion, the adrenaline, and the pain of life on the road. Between Boardslides and Burnout puts you right on the edge of the ramp and on the road with him -- from competitions to demos, to store openings, to autograph signings, to movie sets, and back home.
Never before has a professional skateboarder offered such a complete look into his life -- and mind.
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