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The Twelfth Card is a two-day cat-and-mouse chase through the streets of uptown Manhattan as quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs try to outguess Thompson Boyd a man whose past has turned him into a killing machine as unfeeling and cunning as a wolf. Boyd is after Geneva Settle, a high school girl from Harlem, and it's up to Lincoln and Amelia to figure out why.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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770L
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English
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Chronicles the not-quite-parallel lives of Dana Lynn Yarboro and Bunny Chaurisse Witherspoon in 1980s Atlanta. Both girls-born four months apart-are the daughters of James Witherspoon, a secret bigamist, but only Dana and her mother, Gwen, are aware of his double life. This, Dana surmises, confers "one peculiar advantage" to her and Gwen over James's other family, with whom he lives full time, though such knowledge is small comfort in the face of...
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Promises volume 1
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English
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After losing her mother and the abandonment of her father, Promise has two goals: graduate from high school and be loved. Her pursuit of these goals will lead to life-altering events.
4) Two Rivers
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In Two Rivers, Vermont, Harper Montgomery is living a life overshadowed by grief and guilt. Since the death of his wife, Betsy, Harper has narrowed his world to working at the railroad and raising his daughter the best way he can. Then one fall day, a train derails, and Harper finds a survivor - a pregnant fifteen-year-old girl with mismatched eyes and skin the color of blackberries who needs a place to stay. Plagued by his role in a brutal crime...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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A hurricane is building over the Gulf of Mexico, threatening the coastal town of Bois Sauvage, Mississippi, and Esch's family is stocking food--but there isn't much to save. Over twelve days leading up to the arrival of Hurricane Katrina, the family pulls itself up the lonesome, brutal, and restrictive realities of rural poverty to struggle for another day.
6) Back to me
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Guilty secrets and long-buried resentments cause a rift between cousins Maya and Viviana.
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So for real novels volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Gia Stokes knows exactly what she needs to make her life fantabulous:
• Get her mother Gwendolyn to let her relax her hair.
• Find a boy to ask her out.
• Get on the Hi-Steppers dance squad.
Gia doesn't have the hair or the clothes, but she's got the moves and the attitude to make her sophomore year at Longfellow High unforgettable. But not everyone agrees, so Gia decides it's time for a makeover. With her stylish new look,...
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Beta Gamma Pi volume 4
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In a sorority, reputation is everything, and Cassidy Cross has a lot to prove. . .
Even though Cassidy Cross is captain of the dance squad and gets good grades, it's her boy-crazy rep that makes her stand out on campus-and not in a good way. Hoping for a fresh start, she decides to pledge Beta Gamma Pi. But the sisters are determined to make Cassidy earn her letters. It's rough going--until her pledge sister, Isha, convinces her she's just got to...
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Drama High volume 2
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780L
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English
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Back for another dose of high drama, Compton's sassiest, Jayd Jackson, is about to discover it really is a different world when she starts dating South Bay High's finest white boy. . .
All Jayd Jackson wants is a drama-free year at South Bay High, a.k.a. Drama High. But it doesn't seem she's going to get it. It's only the second week of Junior year and already, Misty, her nemesis, has almost gotten her killed after instigating a fight between Jayd...
10) Logic
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Logicand Vernon return to the Deep South with the story of a young girl struggling to free herself from the unspeakable condition she refers to as the "butterflies floating inside"
11) Step up
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[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
HL 680L
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English
12) Jackal
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"A young Black girl goes missing in the woods outside her white Rust Belt town. But she's not the first - and she may not be the last...It's watching. Liz Rocher is coming home...reluctantly. As a Black woman, Liz doesn't exactly have fond memories of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, a predominantly white town. But her best friend is getting married, so she braces herself for a weekend of awkward and passive-aggressive reunions. Liz has grown, though; she...
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Nightmare-verse volume 3
Pub. Date
2023.
Lexile measure
HL 690L
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English
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"Alice and her crew are doing their best to recover from the last boss battle, but some of them keep having these. . . dreams: visions of a dark past--and an even darker future. Sadly, the evil in Wonderland may not be as defeated as they'd hoped. Attacked by Nightmares unlike any they've ever seen, Alice will have to step between the coming darkness and the mortal world once more. But this time is different. This time, the monsters aren't waiting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Surrounded by block parties that liven up the summer nights of their 1969 Philadelphia home, Joe and Louise find their marriage falling apart, a situation that is complicated by the tragic illegal abortion of their daughter's best friend.
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"Seventeen-year-old Farrah Turner is one of two Black girls in her country club community, and the only one with Black parents. Her best friend, Cherish Whitman, adopted by a wealthy white family, is something Farrah likes to call WGS--White Girl Spoiled. With Brianne and Jerry Whitman as parents, Cherish is given the kind of adoration and coddling that even upper-class Black parents can't seem to afford--and it creates a dissonance in her best friend...
16) Eden
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A fourteen-year-old African-American girl in Mississippi is sent to care for her cancer-stricken aunt on the other side of town, where she learns about crime, brutal forms of "justice," and dignity in death.
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2022.
Lexile measure
HL 740L
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English
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"Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she's grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister's name by finding the only witness to the murder -- Katia's no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths...
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Pregnant after being raped, a young teenager on the streets of North Philadelphia puts her newborn up for adoption and vows to seek revenge, eventually crossing paths with a young FBI agent trying to outrun her shady past.
North Philadelphia. Mita "Sweet Lips" Cruz survived a vicious assault at the hands of her stepfather on her fourteenth birthday. When she discovers that she is carrying the child of her rapist, it is too much for her damaged soul...
19) Break this house
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980L
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"Yaminah Okar left Obsidian and the wreckage of her family years ago. She and her father have made lives for themselves in Brooklyn. She thinks she's moved on to bigger and better things. She thinks she's finally left behind that city she would rather forget. But when a Facebook message about her estranged mother pierces Yaminah's new bubble, memories of everything that happened before her parents' divorce come roaring back. Now, Yaminah must finally...
20) A dream so dark
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Nightmare-verse volume 2
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In L. L. McKinney's A Dream So Dark, the thrilling sequel to A Blade So Black, Alice goes deeper into a dark version of Wonderland. Still reeling from her recent battle (and grounded until she graduates high school), Alice must cross the Veil to rescue her friends and stop the Black Knight once and for all. But the deeper she ventures into Wonderland, the more topsy-turvy everything becomes. It's not until she's at her wits end that she realizes--Wonderland...
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