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2) Heidi
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
An introduction to the story for younger readers. It has been sensitively abridged and retold to make it suitable for sharing with young children from 5+, whilst retaining all the key parts of the story including Heidi's friendship with Peter, her life in Frankfurt with Clara, and fascinating details about life in the mountains
3) Gilead
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In 1956, toward the end of Rev. John Ames's life, he begins a letter to his young son, an account of himself and his forebears. This is also the tale of wisdom forged during his solitary life and how history lives through generations, pervasively present even when betrayed and forgotten.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
With only a yellowing photograph in hand, a young man - also named Jonathan Safran Foer - sets out to find the woman who might or might not have saved his grandfather from the Nazis. Accompanied by an old man haunted by memories of the war, an amorous dog named Sammy Davis, Junior, Junior, and the unforgettable Alex, a young Ukrainian translator who speaks in a sublimely butchered English, Jonathan is led on a quixotic journey over a devastated landscape...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
1000L
Language
English
Description
With his bestselling blend of nail-biting intensity, daring artistry, and storytelling magic, Dean Koontz returns with an emotional roller coaster of a tale filled with enough twists, turns, shocks, and surprises for ten ordinary novels. Here is the story of five days in the life of an ordinary man born to an extraordinary legacy--a story that will challenge the way you look at good and evil, life and death, and everything in between. Jimmy Tock comes...
8) Adored
Author
Language
English
Description
Born into a Hollywood dynasty, Siena McMahon seems to have a fairy-tale life. Yet behind the gates of the sprawling McMahon mansion, the family is bound together by infighting and ambition. Siena must search the dysfunctional landscape of her life for people who will help her survive and become the person she was meant to be.
Author
Series
Things not seen volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery of her grandfather's sudden disappearance.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Alcatraz Smedry and his companions seek Al's father and grandfather in the Great Library of Alexandria, where they face undead, soul-stealing wraiths called the Curators of Alexandria, and one of the Scrivener's Bones, a part-human, part-machine mercenary.
11) Eleven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
600L
Language
English
Description
When Sam, who can barely read, discovers an old newspaper clipping just before his eleventh birthday, it brings forth memories from his past, and, with the help of a new friend at school and the castle they are building for a school project, his questions are eventually answered.
12) Dogged by death
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
After losing her fiancé, her clinic, and all her savings, veterinarian Ally Winter moves back to Willow Bluff, Wisconsin and becomes accidentally involved when a sleazy lawyer is murdered in his home office with his Boxer the only witness.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Life is meant to be savored, but that's not easy with no family, limited prospects and a past you'd rather not talk about. Still, Callie Smith doesn't know how to feel when she discovers she has a brother and a sister - Malcolm, who grew up with affection, wealth and privilege, and Keira, a streetwise twelve-year-old. Callie doesn't love being alone, but at least it's safe. Despite her trepidation, she moves into the grand family home with her siblings...
Author
Language
English
Description
Vowing to repair his relationships with his estranged adult children after learning he has Alzheimer's, Bill Warrington takes a cross-country drive with his teenage granddaughter and leave clues intended to force his children to overcome mutual distrust and work together.
15) Unleashed
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Orphaned Kat McBride, nearly seventeen, must leave California to live with her grandfather in small-town Arkansas, where she is drawn into a paranormal world of feuding werewolf clans.
17) Tailing trouble
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Thirty-something veterinarian Ally Winter has found a new "leash" on life since she moved back to her hometown of Willow Bluff, Wisconsin. But when she takes Domino, the black standard poodle she's boarding for the weekend, for a sunny September stroll along the shore of Lake Michigan, the diminutive dog dashes off, only to return with a single, polka-dotted, high-heeled shoe. Retracing Domino's paw prints back to a weeping willow tree, they find...
18) Hour of the bees
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
At first, twelve-year-old Carol is not happy to be spending the summer helping her parents move her grandfather to an assisted living home, but as the summer wears on, she finds herself drawn to him, fascinated by his amazing stories.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Walt Longmire faces one of his most challenging crime scenes as he tries to reckon with the revelations of his last case where he confronted the ghosts of his past and questioned the very nature of justice and mercy in the hard country of the West. Deep in the heart of the Wyoming countryside, Sheriff of Absaroka County, Walt Longmire, is called to a crime scene like few others that he has seen. This crime brings up issues that go back to Walt's...
20) Lemons
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
630L
Language
English
Description
After her mother dies in 1975, ten-year-old Lemonade must live with her grandfather in a small town famous for Bigfoot sightings and soon becomes friends with Tobin, a quirky Bigfoot investigator.
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