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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 9
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1100L
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English
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The year Carly turns eleven, 1907, is filled with playing detective, watching condors, observing a fierce feud involving her family's Southern California ranch, and coping with unexpected tragedies.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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California seventh-graders Sarah and Marjorie made a promise in kindergarten to always be friends, but Marjorie is weird and Sarah, wanting to be at least somewhat popular, makes friends with a fellow choir member.
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A woman lives alone in an isolated lighthouse on the coast of California ... until a man appears on her doorstep who knows every single secret she's kept since one fateful night.
In an isolated lighthouse on the California coast, Rowan Winterbourne lives a solitary life with only her secrets for company. For she has a mission that drives her--to avenge herself against Gregory Torval, the powerful drug and arms dealer who murdered her mother and vowed...
5) Hop Scot
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Lexy Campbell is long overdue a trip to Scotland to see her parents, and an unexpected death in the extended Last Ditch Motel family makes Christmas in a bungalow in Dundee with nine others seem almost irresistible. But when Lexy and the Last Ditch crew hop across the Atlantic, there's a change of plan and they're whisked off to Mistletoe Hall in the pretty village of Yule, where the surprises continue. The news that a man disappeared from the crumbling...
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2023.
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"After her village is devastated by famine, 10-year-old Sixiang is sold to a human trafficker for a bag of rice and six silver coins. Her mother is reluctant to let her go, but the promise of a better life for her beloved daughter ultimately sways her. Arriving in America with the profits from her sale and a single photograph of Guifeng, her absent father, Sixiang journeys across an unfamiliar American landscape in the hopes of reuniting her family....
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The Edgar Award–winning author of the Stewart Hoag mysteries delivers a "fast-paced, frantic, and head spinning" crime thriller (Booklist).
In the summer of 1972, the country was rocked by the Bagley Bunch murders-a killing spree that targeted America's favorite TV sitcom family. A survivor of the slaughter, former child star Tim Ferris, is now dying of cancer. With only weeks to live, he needs the truth to come out. But the secrets he's...
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An exciting first mystery by actor Ron Ely, star of Tarzan and Doc Savage.
Jake Sands has had a truly action-packed life as a recoverer of stolen objects and people. His work has made him a very rich man, but he paid a steep price: the murder of his wife and child. Jake now spends his days working out and his nights haunted by memories.
One night, while jogging along the path of Coco Palms- an exclusive enclave in Santa Barbara where...
9) Richter 10
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A race to avert a massive earthquake. The hero is Lewis Crane, a seismologist whose family perished in the one in Los Angeles in 1994 and who devotes himself to forecasting them. He predicts a giant one for the Mississippi Valley, it never materializes and Crane is laughed at. Then he discovers a mistake in his calculations and realizes the earthquake is round the corner. But how to convince the country?
10) Wild dreamers
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Told in alternating voices, determined to make a difference and heal from their troubled pasts, teens Ana and Leandro fight to protect California wildlife and the endangered puma.
12) The Bear Flag
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The year is 1846, and war is brewing between the United States and Mexico. Under the pretext of a scientific research expedition, Lt. John C. Fremont arrives in Sutter's Fort with Kit Carson, famous Indian Scout, and a few men. Also arriving in Sutter's Fort is Cat Reilly, who has been widowed on the long trip west and is now in desperate circumstances. She becomes romantically involved with a Russian count as well as in Fremont and Carson's political...
13) A sudden silence
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
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English
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Jesse Harmon searches for the hit and run driver who killed his brother Bry.
14) Dream town
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Eve Ronin novels volume 5
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English
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"Hidden Hills is a private celebrity enclave of white picket fences and horse trails that seems to exist in a dreamworld. But when reality superstar Kitty Winslow is killed within their gates and corpses are found in the vast state park outside them, LASD detective Eve Ronin realizes there is a deadly, razor-thin line between what's real and what's imagined. Eve discovers that Kitty's surreal on- and off-camera life, a blur of fact and fantasy, shockingly...
15) Edge
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Zachary, living with his divorced mother in California, finds violence gradually invading his life and making significant changes in his day-to-day existence.
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After losing two partners in the line of duty, major crimes detective Davis Gilroy isn't about to get close to his new one. Especially when that partner is an optimistic blone beauty with killer curves. Davis will do his job, keep a close eye on detective Moira Cavanaugh and not let her get underhis skin. But when someone starts disturbing old graves in local cemeteries, he and Moira work long nights to solve the macabre mystery. Suddenly Davis finds...
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For Susannah Quinn, heartbreakingly handsome detective Christian Cavanaugh O'Bannon is trouble that she doesn't need. Still, her CSI instincts tell her a serial killer's on the loose, so she agrees to work this case with Chris through long days—and even hotter nights. But his reckless charm is allowing him perilously close to her darkest secrets. Going by the book has never been freewheeling Chris's style, so an unofficial partnership with Susannah...
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While caring for her Japanese mother, an unnamed narrator, preoccupied with her mother's garden, embarks on a torrid affair with an arborist equally fascinated by it and as she becomes obsessed with the awakening of her own body, she begins to see her mother's illness as part of a natural order.
19) Enchanted hill
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"Two young people with an entangled history collide while both working undercover at a Hollywood tycoon's lush California estate"--
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"Perhaps the best place in 1943 Hollywood to see the stars is the Hollywood Canteen, a club for servicemen staffed exclusively by those in show business. Murder mystery playwright Annie Laurence, new in town after a devastating breakup, definitely hopes to rub elbows with the right stars. Maybe then she can get her movie made. But Hollywood proves to be more than tinsel and glamour. When despised film critic Fiona Farris is found dead in the Canteen...
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