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2) Microserfs
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English
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They are Microserfs-six code-crunching computer whizzes who spend upward of sixteen hours a day "coding" and eating "flat" foods (food which, like Kraft singles, can be passed underneath closed doors) as they fearfully scan company e-mail to learn whether the great Bill is going to "flame" one of them. But now there's a chance to become innovators instead of cogs in the gargantuan Microsoft machine. The intrepid Microserfs are striking out on their...
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Ever wondered what happened to your first love? Imagine bumping into them twelve years later and realizing you still fancy them rotten. That's exactly what happens to Dig Ryan when he sees Delilah again. Now imagine you're Nadine. You and Dig have been best friends for fifteen years. And you've finally realized that you're in love with him. So when Delilah-who was always your nemesis-returns, you're mad with jealousy and can't help behaving childishly...like...
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1990. Please write and tell me why you should live here. Toby Dobbs received a big Victorian house with too many bedrooms to count as a wedding present from his father, but his marriage is over within a month. Very alone, and very lonely, Toby posts an advertisement seeking the Unexpectedly Alone to become his roommates. Fifteen years later, the wayward souls he takes in are still living with him, with no intention of leaving. 2004. Please tell me...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
Description
"Celeste Tippen can't imagine a more perfect summer. Her boyfriend, Travis, has a job at her family's resort which means lots of quality couple time. Unfortunately, she forgot about Nick Saunders, the hot son of the resort's wealthiest customers. Every year, Nick flirts with Celeste, and apparently this year is no different, despite the boyfriend who's watching their every move. She assures Travis that hanging out with the resident bad boy is the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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In 2019, teens Mia, Antoine, and Midori are selected by lottery to join experienced astronauts on a NASA mission to the once top-secret moon base, DARLAH 2, while in a Florida nursing home, a former astronaut struggles to warn someone of the terrible danger there.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
590L
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English
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In the 1880s, young Fanny McCoy witnesses the growth of a terrible and violent feud between her Kentucky family and the West Virginia Hatfields, complicated by her older sister Roseanna's romance with a Hatfield.
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"You know how all those old fairy tales take you through lots of scary adventures till you finally reach that inevitable line: 'And they all lived happily ever after--' Guess what? It's not true. Life in never-never land isn't all sweetness and light. Cinderella--whose real name is Danielle Whiteshore (ně Danielle de Glas)--does marry Prince Armand. And their wedding is a dream come true. But not long after the 'happily ever after,' Danielle is attacked...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Language
English
Description
"A year after the Bayview four were cleared of Simon Kelleher's death, a new mystery has cropped up--a game with dangerous consequences that's targeting students at Bayview again. And if the creator isn't found soon, dangerous could prove deadly."--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
1010L
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English
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When she is cast out of Wonderland by her evil aunt Redd, young Alyss Heart finds herself living in Victorian Oxford as Alice Liddell and struggles to keep memories of her kingdom intact until she can return and claim her rightful throne.
11) More than this
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Series
More volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"[Mikayla]: In one night my fairytale ended. Or it may have begun. This is my story of friendship and love, heartbreak and desire, and the strength to show weakness. [Jake]: One night I met a girl. A sad and broken girl, but one more beautiful than any other. She laughed through her sadness, while I loved through her heartbreak. This is our story of a maybe ever after"--Page 4 of cover.
When Mikayla imagined her prom night, she envisioned a fairy-tale...
12) My Calamity Jane
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 17
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English
Description
Welcome to 1876 America, a place bursting with gunslingers, outlaws, and garou -- better known as werewolves. And where there are garou, there're hunters: the one and only Calamity Jane, to be precise, along with her fellow stars of Wild Bill's Traveling Show, Annie Oakley and Frank the Pistol Prince Butler. After a garou hunt goes south and Jane finds a suspicious-like bite on her arm, she turns tail for Deadwood, where there's talk of a garou cure....
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English
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"It's 2017 at the University of Arkansas. Millie Cousins, a senior resident assistant, wants to graduate, get a job, and buy a house. So when Agatha Paul, a visiting professor and writer, offers Millie an easy yet unusual opportunity, she jumps at the chance. But Millie's starry-eyed hustle becomes jeopardized by odd new friends, vengeful dorm pranks, and illicit intrigue."--
14) Watership down
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
880L
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English
Description
An allegorical tale of survival about a band of wild rabbits who leave their ancestral home to build a more humane society chronicles their adventures as they search for a safe place to establish a new warren where they can live in peace.
15) On the come up
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Hate u give volume 02
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 550L
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English
Description
"As the daughter of an underground hip hop legend who died right before he hit big, Bri wants to be one of the greatest rappers of all time-- and has massive shoes to fill. She's been labeled a hoodlum at school, and the fridge at home is empty after her mom loses her job. So Bri pours her anger and frustration into her first song, which goes viral -- for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed by the media as a menace, Bri makes a choice-- and becomes the...
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Series
Hidden secrets saga volume 2
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
If you discovered something about yourself that was less than pleasant, would you search for the answers or would you be too afraid of what you might find? Like most teenagers, Rouge is trying to figure out who she is and what she wants to be. With little knowledge about her past, she has questions but has never tried to find the answers. Everything changes when she befriends a strangely intoxicating family. Siblings Grace and Michael, appear to have...
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Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Volume 1: "It was always faerie Madar Guirmean's dream to Outbound just like her parents and grandparents. Failing her entrance exams several times, she eventually passes and enrolls into the Segais School for Outbounders with the goal of becoming a Windtalker. After rigorous training under her disapproving teacher, Borrach, she is assigned her first human client and enters the human world, only to discover that it's not quite the adventure she thought...
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