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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
780L
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"Seventeen-year-old 'Hank,' who can't remember his identity, finds himself in Penn Station with a copy of Thoreau's Walden as his only possession and must figure out where he's from and why he ran away."
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“Spectacular. . . . Ten shades blacker and several corpses grimmer than the novels of John Grisham. . . . Do yourself a favor. Read this book.” —Entertainment Weekly
Two brothers and their friend stumble upon the wreckage of a plane–the pilot is dead and his duffle bag contains four million dollars in cash. In order to hide, keep, and share the fortune, these ordinary men all agree to a simple plan.
5) The Presence
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
550L
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English
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While visiting her grandmother in California, seventeen-year-old Catherine comes in contact with a mysterious stranger who says he can help her contact a friend who died in a car crash for which Catherine feels responsible.
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"Reina Castillo is [an] alluring young woman whose beloved brother is serving a death sentence for a crime that shocked the community: throwing a baby off a bridge--a crime for which Reina secretly blames herself. With her brother's death, though devastated and in mourning, Reina is finally released from her prison vigil. Seeking anonymity, she moves to a sleepy town in the Florida Keys where she meets Nesto Cadena, a recently exiled Cuban awaiting...
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HL 580L
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Caggie's life of privilege in Manhattan appears near-perfect. But blaming herself for her younger sister's death and being acclaimed for saving a classmate from suicide cause her to withdraw from friends and family until Astor arrives at school, hiding a past at least as dark as her own.
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"Assistant DA Holt Douglas makes his living exposing lies and sending criminals to jail in Ashley County, Georgia. His job is always easier when defendants, instead of remaining silent, blame someone else or try to excuse their actions. With a confession in his hand, Holt knows a guilty plea will soon follow. But lurking in Holt's past is a dark secret that could end his successful career and possibly his relationship with Angelina, his hoped-for...
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Series
Chosen people novels volume 1
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English
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"Bestselling author Robert Whitlow dives deep into the legal ramifications of a tragic event half a world away and how it affects two lawyers in Atlanta from vastly different backgrounds"--
10) Good to a fault
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"There's heartbreak, there's joy, there are parts where you cry-and it's very high quality writing. Well done!"
- Margaret Atwood
"Unpretentious and affecting, with characters to remember and themes that linger and resound."
- Meg Wolitzer, New York Times bestselling author of The Ten-Year Nap
Marina Endicott's Good to a Fault wrings suspense and humor out of the everyday choices we make, revealing the delicate balance between sacrifice and...
11) Scar Island
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Jonathan Grisby has been sent to the Slabhenge Reformatory School for Troubled Boys, a former lunatic asylum that is currently run by a sadist who enjoys punishing the boys and setting them against each other. But when a lightning strike kills all the adults, the boys find themselves suddenly free--and trapped on Scar Island, which seems to be sinking into the ocean.
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"Alex Smyth, of Irish birth but living for many years with his wife in rural Canada, receives a trout fly in the mail, with no message and no return address. It stirs a fear that he is being stalked after the publication of his most recent book, and it awakens in him deeply buried, inchoate memories from his childhood in Ireland, before he was old enough to understand the adult world around him. It also evokes the guilt that he may have murdered a...
13) Blackwater
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
570L
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English
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When a boy and girl are drowned in the Blackwater River, thirteen-year-old Brodie must decide whether to confess that he may have caused the accident.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
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English
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Eleven-year-old tomboy Livie is sure that she is responsible for the accident that has put her mother into a coma, so, trying to make amends, she travels through the Louisiana swamps to get a spell that will make her mother well again.
15) Land of silence
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Elianna is a young girl crushed by guilt. After her only brother is killed while in her care, Elianna tries to earn forgiveness by working for her father's textile trade and caring for her family. When another tragedy places Elianna in sole charge of the business, her talent for design brings enormous success, but never the absolution she longs for. As her world unravels, she breaks off her betrothal to the only man she will ever love. Then illness...
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"All legends are borne of truths. And just as much lies. These are mine. Judge me for what you will. But you will hear my story first. I buried the village of Ampur under a mountain of ice and snow. Then I killed their god. I've stolen old magics and been cursed for it. I started a war with those that walked before mankind and lost the princess I loved, and wanted to save. I've called lightning and bound fire. I am legend. And I am a monster. My name...
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"For fans of Celeste Ng and Claire Messud comes an impeccably paced and transfixing debut novel about how life's little decisions can ultimately yield the most powerful consequences. It's five pm on a Wednesday when Emma settles into her hometown bar with a motley crew of locals, all unaware that a series of decisions over the course of a single night is about to change their lives forever. As the evening unfolds, key details about Emma's history...
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Max Rupert novels volume 3
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English
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"Two friends take opposite sides of a murder investigation and trial, each convinced that he is right"--
20) Sad girls
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Schoolgirl Audrey starts suffering from panic attacks after a lie she told left one of her classmates dead, but she finds hope in the form of Rad, a boy who could turn her life around, but their romance may be ill-timed and push her closer to the edge.
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