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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Taking up where Charlie and the Chocolate Factory leaves off, Charlie, his family, and Mr. Wonka find themselves launched into space in the great glass elevator. Mr. Willy Wonka might be a genius with chocolate, but Charlie and his family don't trust his flying skills one bit. And right now, he's at the helm of a giant glass elevator that's picking up speed and hurtling through space with Charlie and the entire Bucket family stuck inside! Roald Dahl's...
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English
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A Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel from the legendary “colossus of science fiction” and creator of 2001: A Space Odyssey (The New Yorker).
Renowned structural engineer Dr. Vannevar Morgan seeks to link Earth to the stars by constructing a space elevator that will connect to an orbiting satellite 22,300 miles from the planet’s surface. The elevator would lift interstellar spaceships...
Renowned structural engineer Dr. Vannevar Morgan seeks to link Earth to the stars by constructing a space elevator that will connect to an orbiting satellite 22,300 miles from the planet’s surface. The elevator would lift interstellar spaceships...
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Language
English
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It is a time of crisis in the city's Department of Elevator Inspectors, and Lila Mae Watson, its first black female inspector, is at the center of it. Two factions are locked in a power struggle: the Empiricists, who rely on measurements; and the Intuitionists, who can sense structural defects through meditation and instinct. Lila Mae, an Intuitionist, has the highest accuracy rate in the department--until an elevator goes into deadly freefall on...
6) Lift
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
390L
Language
English
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Description
Young Iris loves elevators. She especially loves when her parents let her push the button. However, her relationship to elevators--and to her little brother--changes when he starts pushing the buttons.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve, they find that laughter, romance, and a little holiday magic will get them through and change their lives in unexpected ways. A heartless real estate tycoon clings to life in a precarious construction elevator hundreds of feet off the ground. Unexpected relationships bloom for a musician stuck with her dysfunctional orchestra mates.
8) Devil
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Trapped in an elevator high above Philadelphia, five people discover that the Devil is among them, and no one can escape their fate. This chilling, supernatural thriller will keep you on the edge of your seat all the way to a heart-stopping ending with a truly wicked twist.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Lexile measure
AD 510L
Language
English
Description
It takes a tight-knight team to keep the Hotel running smoothly, and Elevator Bird is at the center of it all. He helps people get where they need to go and has a kind word for everyone he meets. Elevetar Bird makes everyone's day brighter. So when he confesses to his friend Mousey that he's always longed for a room with a view, Mousey wants to make it happen. All of Elevator Bird's friends hatch a secret plan to make sure Elevator Bird has the nest...
10) Up & down
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Lexile measure
AD 20L
Language
English
Description
"Familiar phrases and unusual characters accompany a boy as he ascends and descends in an elevator"--Verso page.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
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Description
Quirky babysitter Carolina Giddle moves into the Blatchford Arms, a spooky apartment building rumoured to be haunted, and enchants her young charges with ghost stories that they find eerily familiar.
13) The Elevator Man
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Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the elevator in a building in the 1950s is modernized, a young resident misses the operator.
14) Overload
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English
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"Elizabeth Major can't believe her bad luck when, during a blackout, she finds herself trapped with her ex-boyfriend. Elizabeth Major and Tom Quinlan had a passionate relationship until she broke things off abruptly, seemingly for no reason. Now Elizabeth has her own interior design business in a sleek office building in downtown Dallas, but she can't escape her fiery past with Tom - he ends up right across the hall from her, running a private investigation...
15) Elevator pitch
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English
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"An edge-of-your-seat thriller that does for elevators what Psycho did for showers and Jaws did for the beach--a heart-pounding tale in which a series of disasters paralyzes New York City with fear. Pulsating with tension, Elevator Pitch is a riveting tale of psychological suspense that is all too plausible. and will chill readers to the bone"--
"Four people board an elevator in a Manhattan office tower, press the buttons for their floor. The elevator...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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"Our homes, businesses, and other buildings would not exist without the expert craftsmanship of dedicated trade workers. In this book, readers will learn what it is like to work as an elevator mechanic. They will find out what elevator mechanics do each day, what kind of education is required to become an elevator mechanic, and much more"--
17) The escape room
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English
Description
"Welcome to the escape room. Your goal is simple. Get out alive. In the lucrative world of finance, Vincent, Jules, Sylvie, and Sam are at the top of their game. They've mastered the art of the deal and celebrate their success in style--but a life of extreme luxury always comes at a cost. Invited to participate in an escape room as a team-building exercise, the ferociously competitive co-workers crowd into the elevator of a high rise building, eager...
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Milligan Creek volume 4
Pub. Date
c2019.
Language
English
Description
"When Milligan Creekѫs iconic grain elevators are slated for demolition, to be replaced by a huge, ugly cement-and-steel inland grain terminal a couple of miles from town, brothers Matt and Chad and their best friends Andrew and Dean concoct a wild scheme to save their grain elevatorsاand their small prairie communityاfrom being wiped off the face of the planet"--Back cover.
19) 9/11
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English
Description
A group of five people find themselves trapped in an elevator in the World Trade Center's North Tower on September eleventh. They work together, never giving up hope, to try to escape before the unthinkable happens.
20) The elevator
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Language
English
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As a deadly hurricane approaches, three very different women are trapped in the elevator of a high-rise office building and are stunned to discover that they are linked to the same man.
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