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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
880L
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English
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"Ray Bradbury's moving recollection of a vanished golden era remains one of his most enchanting novels. Dandelion Wine stands out in the Bradbury literary canon as the author's most deeply personal work, a semi-autobiographical recollection of a magical small-town summer in 1928. Twelve-year-old Douglas Spaulding knows Green Town, Illinois, is as vast and deep as the whole wide world that lies beyond the city limits. It is a pair of brand-new tennis...
2) Half a king
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English
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Prince Yarvi has vowed to regain a throne he never wanted... if he can, he must survive cruelty, chains, and the bitter waters of the Shattered Sea. Born with only one good hand, in a world where a strong arm and a cold heart rule, Yarvi cannot grip a shield or swing an axe, so he must sharpen his mind to a deadly edge. He gathers a strange fellowship of the outcast and the lost, who help him become the man he needs to be. But even with loyal friends...
3) Runner
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English
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Jake Rebo, an interstellar courier, is assigned the task of delivering a future religious leader to his people, a mission complicated by would-be assassins and by a young woman possessing the secret to instantaneous travel between star systems.
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Valdemar universe. Heralds of Valdemar volume 5
DAW book collectors volume no. 1199
Valdemar ; Heralds of Valdemar volume 04
Valdemar Anthologies
DAW book collectors volume no. 1199
Valdemar ; Heralds of Valdemar volume 04
Valdemar Anthologies
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Skif, an orphan who is forced to sleep on the kitchen floor of his uncle's inn, has learned how to sneak into the castles of the upper class by dressing as a page so that he can steal enough food and drink to survive, but when he meets Deek, he decides to join his gang of pickpockets and start earning his living on the streets.
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Tales of the Otori volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
An international bestseller, Across the Nightingale Floor is the first book in the Tales of the Otori series by Lian Hearn. Don't miss the related series, The Tale of Shikanoko.
In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.
In his black-walled fortress at Inuyama, the warlord Iida Sadamu surveys his famous nightingale floor. Constructed with exquisite skill, it sings at the tread of each human foot. No assassin can cross it unheard.
The youth Takeo has
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"Lester Ferris, sergeant of the British Army, is a good man in need of a rest. He's spent a lot of his life being shot at, and Afghanistan was the last stop on his road to exhaustion. He has no family, he's nearly forty, burned out and about to be retired. The island of Mancreu is the ideal place for Lester to serve out his time: a backwater island in legal limbo, belching toxic clouds of waste, and facing imminent destruction by an international...
7) Ysabel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
590L
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Ned Mariner, accompanying his photographer father on a shoot at the Saint-Sauveur Cathedral in Aix-en-Provence, meets American exchange student Kate Wenger, and together they becomes involved in a supernatural battle between a Celtic warrior and a Roman trader whose love for the same woman has not dimmed over centuries.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed-- within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women on a farm at the...
9) The wizard
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Wizard knight volume 2
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English
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Young teen Able, previously transported to a magical world into the body of an adult hero, returns to Mythgarthr in possession of special powers that he has vowed he will not use in his service to the dragon king Anthor.
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English
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Before leaving, City is given a strange book without an author called Long Division. He learns that one of the book's main characters is also named City Coldson--but Long Division is set in 1985. This 1985-version of City, along with his friend and love interest, Shalaya Crump, discovers a way to travel into the future, and steals a laptop and cellphone from an orphaned teenage rapper called...Baize Shephard. They ultimately take these items with...
11) Crap kingdom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Tenth-grader Tom Parking's dream of being swept away to a fantasy land where he becomes a hero nearly comes true when he finds himself the Chosen One of a nameless world, the most annoying, least "cool" place in the universe.
12) Brightly Burning
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
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English
Description
Lavan, brought to the capital city of Haven against his will, suffers humiliation and beatings at the hands of his classmates until his rage transforms him into something fearsome and powerful--with training, he will become the most notorious Herald in Valdemar's history.
13) Nick of time
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Series
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick McIver tries to help his father and sister send vital information to England about imminent Nazi invasion, until he finds himself transported through time to help his ancestor stop a mutinous captain who is aiding the French fleet and endangering British sailors.
14) Shy
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A troubled teenage boy wanders into the night, listening to the voices in his head and considering the weighty question of his future, as he escapes Last Chance, a home for disturbed young men.
15) Found
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Magic thief volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
Connwaer, the young thief-turned-wizard's apprentice, escapes from prison and follows the call of magic to the distant and mysterious Dragon Mountain on a quest to save Wellmet from Arhionvar, dread magic that can destroy the city.
16) Wild spaces
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English
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"An eleven-year-old boy lives an idyllic childhood exploring the remote coastal plains and wetlands of South Carolina alongside his parents and his dog Teach. But when the boy's eerie and estranged grandfather shows up one day with no warning, cracks begin to form as hidden secrets resurface that his parents refuse to explain. The longer his grandfather outstays his welcome and the greater the tension between the adults grows, the more the boy feels...
17) Wicked lovely
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Series
Wicked lovely volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Aislinn, who has the rare ability to see faeries, is drawn against her will into a centuries-old battle between the Summer King and the Winter Queen, and the survival of her life, her love, and summer all hang in the balance.
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Alexander Cold trilogy volume 3
Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar
City of the beasts volume 3
Memorias del águila y del jaguar volume 3
Memories of the Eagle and the Jaguar
City of the beasts volume 3
Memorias del águila y del jaguar volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1010L
Language
English
Description
"Once again Alexander Cold and his indomitable journalist grandmother, Kate, are braving the mystical unknown, this time in the heart of Africa. Along with Alex's friend Nadia Santos and a photographic crew from International Geographic magazine, they have travelled to Kenya to work on an article about the continent's first elephant-led safaris. But when a missionary approaches their camp in search of companions who have mysteriously disappeared,...
19) The knight
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Wizard knight volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A young man in his teens is transported from our world to a magical realm that contains seven levels of reality. Very quickly transformed by magic into a grown man of heroic proportions, he takes the name Abel and sets out on a quest to find the sword that has been promised to him, a sword he will get from a dragon, the one very special blade that will help him fulfill his life ambition to become a knight and a true hero. Inside, however, Abel remains...
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"In the days of yore, he flew the skies and scorched angry mobs--now he hides from swamp tour boats and rises only with the greatest reluctance from his Laz-Z-Boy recliner. Laying low in the bayou, this once-magnificent fire breather has been reduced to lighting Marlboros with nose sparks, swilling Absolut in a Flashdance T-shirt, and binging Netflix in a fishing shack. For centuries, he struck fear in hearts far and wide as Wyvern, Lord Highfire...
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