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A one-time ace reporter rents a cabin in a backwoods Georgia town, then stumbles upon and determines to solve the town mystery, which involves a seemingly affable sheriff, an autocratic town father and an incest-ridden family whose once-prosperous farm now lies under a lake. He joins forces with a plucky female reporter bent on proving that the sheriff is "dirty," and there's never a dull moment as the story surges toward its exciting climax.
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Hungry city chronicles. Main series volume 4
Mortal engines quartet volume 04
Predator Cities volume 4
Mortal engines quartet volume 04
Predator Cities volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
1000L
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English
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London is a radioactive ruin. But Tom and Wren discover that the old predator city hides an awesome secret that could bring an end to the war. But as they risk their lives in its dark underbelly, time is running out. Alone and far away, Hester faces a fanatical enemy who possesses the weapons and the will to destroy the entire human race.The final book in the Mortal Engines series, Philip Reeve's A Darkling Plain is the winner of the Guardian Children's...
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"From the New York Times bestselling author of No Safe House comes an explosive novel about the disturbing secrets of a quiet small town... After his wife's death and the collapse of his newspaper, David Harwood has no choice but to uproot his nine-year-old son and move back into his childhood home in Promise Falls, New York. David believes his life is in free fall, and he can't find a way to stop his descent. Then he comes across a family secret...
4) Dhalgren
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"Bellona is a city at the dead center of the United States. The population has fled. Madmen and criminals wander the streets. Strange portents appear in the cloud-covered sky. Into this disaster zone comes a young man-poet, love, and adventurer known only as the Kid. -- Back cover.
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Hungry city chronicles. Main series volume 1
Predator cities volume 1
Predator cities volume 01
Mortal engines quartet volume 01
Predator cities volume 1
Predator cities volume 01
Mortal engines quartet volume 01
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
990L
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English
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Tom, a third class apprentice in a distant future in which technology has been lost and tiered cities move about the Earth on caterpillar tracks, often absorbing smaller locales, has many dangerous adventures after being pushed off London by Thaddeus Valentine, a historian who is trying to resurrect an ancient atomic weapon.
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Booke of the hidden volume 2
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English
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When Kylie Strange learns that the Booke may have released not one, but two creatures of horror out into the world, it's up to her to save Moody Bog -- again. Calling upon the devilishly handsome demon Erasmus once more for help, Kylie's determined to handle the mischief of the Booke and go back to a normal life. But when digging through Moody Bog's history leads her to the ghost of her grandfather, the past she once knew is turned upside down. Can...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1080L
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English
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Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire are wisked off to the village of V.F.D. where a council of elders have enacted thousands of rules about the thousands of crows that inhabit the town and are protected by handyman Hector against Count Olaf, who is after the children's fortune.
9) Spray
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Disparate teenagers sign up for a three-week-long, city-wide assassination game during a water shortage, with pressurized water guns the weapons of choice, under the watchful eye of a mysterious game keeper.
10) Osiris
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(Emma J.).Osiris project volume 01
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English
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As storm victims die of cold and starvation in the ocean city of Osiris, refugee Vikram hopes to use socialite Adelaide to bring about reform, but she is plagued by her own problems when her twin brother mysteriously disappears.
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"The town of Whistling Ridge guards its secrets. When seventeen-year-old Abigail goes missing, her best friend Emma, compelled by the guilt of leaving her alone at a party in the woods, sets out to discover the truth about what happened. The police initially believe Abi ran away, but Emma doesn't believe that her friend would leave without her, and when officers find disturbing evidence in the nearby woods, the festering secrets and longstanding resentment...
14) Ragweed
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
690L
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Ragweed, a young country mouse, leaves his family and travels to the big city, where he finds excitement and danger and sees cats for the first time.
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LThe small town of Lachlan, Florida, was rocked last year when two bodies were uncovered in the roots of a fallen tree. Despite their lack of investigative experience, Sara Medlar; her niece, Kate; and Jack Wyatt found themselves at the center of the mystery, working together to reveal the truth behind a decades-old secret in the sleepy town. After a narrow escape, they vowed to never again involve themselves in something so dangerous--until Janet...
16) The wide window
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1150L
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English
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Dear Reader, if you have not read anything about the Baudelaire orphans, then before you read even one more sentence, you should know this: Violet, Klaus, and Sunny are kindhearted and quick-witted; but their lives, I am sorry to say, are filled with bad luck and misery. All of the stories about these three children are unhappy and wretched, and this one may be the worst of them all. If you haven't got the stomach for a story that includes a hurricane,...
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