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1) The BFG
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
720L
Language
English
Description
Kidsnatched from her orphanage by a BFG (Big Friendly Giant), who spends his life blowing happy dreams to children, Sophie concocts with him a plan to save the world from nine other man-gobbling cannybull giants.
Author
Series
Michael Bennett mysteries volume 1
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 01
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 1
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 01
Detective Michael Bennett thriller volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: First there was Alex Cross. Then there was the Women's Murder Club. With the unexpected death of a beloved former first lady, the nation falls into mourning as the world's most powerful people gather in New York for her funeral. Then the inconceivable occurs. Billionaires, politicians, and superstars of every kind are suddenly trapped by one man's brilliant and ruthless scenario. Now meet detective Michael Bennett, NYPD. Pulled...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
GN 420L
Language
English
Description
Overview: In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including...
4) Fractured
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Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Gailyn Campano, caught in a violent, abusive marriage, knew what it was like to be a victim. Perhaps that feeling was what caused her to snap when she returned home one day to find an intruder holding her daughter hostage. A ferocious strength emerged within her and the next thing she remembered the man was dead on the floor. Now it is up to Will Trent, an agent from the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, to pick up the pieces before they completely...
5) Crucible
Author
Series
Sigma Force novels volume 14
Language
English
Description
Arriving home on Christmas Eve, Commander Gray Pierce discovers his house ransacked, his pregnant lover missing, and his best friend's wife, Kat, unconscious on the kitchen floor. With no shred of evidence to follow, his one hope to find the woman he loves and his unborn child is Kat, the only witness to what happened. But the injured woman is in a semi-comatose state and cannot speak -- until a brilliant neurologist offers a radical approach to "unlock"...
Author
Series
His dark materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of dark matter, Will for his missing father--but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies...
Author
Series
St. Kilda Consulting volume 1
Language
English
Description
When federal judge Catherine Silva's son is kidnapped by a violent killer, she turns to ruthless Joe Faroe, an ex-kidnapping specialist and a man from her past, to help save her son from an underground world Joe is trying to leave behind.
Author
Series
Catherine Ling novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Resolving to devote her life to the son who was returned to her after being kidnapped nine years earlier, CIA operative Catherine Ling uses her skills to confront an enemy from her past who is killing everyone she loves. (Baker & Taylor)
Now that Catherine Ling is building a realtionship with her son Luke, it seems that someone from her past is playing a deadly game with her. And using those she cares about as pawns. Someone is picking off the people...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
890L
Language
English
Description
When Cammie Morgan visits her roommate Macey in Boston, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer. But when you go to the world's best school (for spies), "exciting" and "deadly" are never far apart. The girls suddenly find themselves trapped in a kidnapper's plot, with only their espionage skills to save them.
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Series
Language
English
Description
"On the snow-covered slopes of Utah, the President of the United States has been kidnapped and his Secret Service detail massacred. Only one agent has survived--ex-Navy SEAL Scot Harvath. He doesn't buy the official line that Middle Eastern terrorists are behind the attack and begins his own campaign to find the truth and exact revenge. But now, framed for murder by a sinister cabal, Harvath takes his fight to the towering mountains of Switzerland--and...
11) The jester
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Hugh De Luc, a poor innkeeper, returns home from the First Crusade wearied from battle and disillusioned by carnage. After journeying from the Holy Land back to his own small village, he finds his nightmare is just beginning. In his absence, Hugh's son has been killed and his beloved wife, Sophie, abducted by a ruthless duke in search of a priceless relic dating back to the Crucifixion. Taking on the role of a jester, Hugh infiltrates the court where...
13) Saint
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Carl Strople was covertly recruited to Black Ops and given the most brutal kind of training any man or woman could endure. Now he belongs to The X Group. But why do they call him "Saint"? An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet . . . Carl Strople struggles to retain fleeting memories that betray an even more ominous reality. He's been told part of the truth--but not all of it.Invasive techniques have stripped him of his identity...
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Series
Gunnie Rose novels volume 4
Language
English
Description
"Felicia, Lizbeth Rose's half-sister and a student at the Grigori Rasputin school in San Diego -- capital of the Holy Russian Empire -- is caught between her own secrets and powerful family struggles. As a granddaughter of Rasputin, she provides an essential service to the hemophiliac Tsar Alexei, providing him the blood transfusions that keep him alive. Felicia is treated like a nonentity at the bedside of the tsar, and at the school she's seen as...
Author
Language
English
Description
Chet and his human companion Bernie are called in to investigate a series of threats made against a pampered show dog named Princess, and when Princess and her owner are abducted and Bernie's girlfriend, reporter Susie Sanchez, disappears, the detective team realizes the show dog world is more dangerous than they ever imagined.
16) The Sable Quean
Author
Series
Redwall volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
The courageous Redwall creatures band together as Vilaya, the evil Sable Quean, and her horde of vermin attempt to make off with the young animals of the Abbey.
17) Fire storm
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
"A fourth action-filled puzzler for teen Sherlock as he plunges into a fight for his life and battles to discover what has happened to his missing friends"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A call in the middle of the night summoned psychiatrist Laura McCaffrey out into the rain-swept streets of Los Angeles. The police had found her husband--beaten to death. But what of her daughter, Melanie, whom he had kidnapped six years earlier? At the brutal murder scene, the police lead Laura into her husband's makeshift lab-and open the door to a rising tide of terror that has trapped Melanie in its midst."--P. [4] of cover.
19) The switch
Author
Series
Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara volume 01
Language
English
Description
Dangerously eccentric characters, razor-sharp black humor, brilliant dialog, and suspense all rolled into one tight package—that’s The Switch, Elmore Leonard’s classic tale of a kidnapping gone wrong…or terribly right, depending on how you look at it. The Grand Master whom the New York Times Book Review calls, “the greatest crime writer of our time, perhaps ever,” has written a wry and twisting tale that any of the other all-time greats—Dashiell...
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Series
Nick McIver time adventure volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Nick McIver tries to help his father and sister send vital information to England about imminent Nazi invasion, until he finds himself transported through time to help his ancestor stop a mutinous captain who is aiding the French fleet and endangering British sailors.
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