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Series
Charlotte Holmes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 65
Lexile measure
1170L
Language
English
Description
Clyde Griffiths was born poor, but his prospects improve when he is hired by an uncle who owns a shirt factory. Despite a warning to stay away from the women he manages, Clyde begins a love affair with a young factory worker named Roberta, but neglects her when he catches the eye of Sondra, a glamorous socialite. When Roberta turns up pregnant, Clyde's hopes of marrying Sondra are threatened and he responds with desperation.
3) The stranger
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 139
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
880L
Language
English
Description
A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 750L
Language
English
Description
It was a beautiful day. It was a beautiful field. Except for the body. Jazz is the son of the world's most infamous serial killer, and for Dear Old Dad, "Take Your Son to Work Day" was year-round. Jazz has witnessed crime scenes the way cops wish they could-from the criminal's point of view. Now, with bodies piling up in the sleepy town of Lobo's Nod, Jazz must work with the police to prove that murder doesn't run in the family.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
1050L
Language
English
Description
Mark Twain's darkly comic short classic set in the antebellum South stands as a literary condemnation of slavery and racial inequality. Each enriched classic edition includes: A concise introduction that gives readers important background information. A chronology of the author's life and work. A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context. An outline of key themes and plot points to help readers form their own interpretations....
7) Tenderness
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
960L
Language
English
Description
A psychological thriller told from the points of view of a teenage serial killer and the runaway girl who falls in love with him.
Author
Series
Firebird trilogy (Claudia Gray) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"When eighteen-year-old Marguerite Caine's father is killed, she must leap into different dimensions and versions of herself to catch her father's killer and avenge his murder"--
Author
Series
Rosato and Associates novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Criminal lawyer Marta Richter is hours away from winning an acquittal for her client, millionaire businessman Elliot Steere, on trial for the murder of a homeless man who had tried to carjack him.But as the jury begins deliberations, Marta discovers the chilling truth about her client's innocence. Taking justice into her own hands, she furiously sets out to prove the truth, with the help of two young associates.In an excruciating game of beat-the-clock...
10) A northern light
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Description
In 1906, sixteen-year-old Mattie, determined to attend college and be a writer against the wishes of her father and fiance, takes a job at a summer inn where she discovers the truth about the death of a guest. Based on a true story.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her abusive boyfriend dies in what seems to be a drunk-driving accident, Sawyer is secretly relieved until she opens her locker and finds a note from a secret admirer that says "You're welcome."
12) Found
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"Mickey Bolitar and his friends continue to investigate the Abeona Shelter, while Mickey searches for answers about his father's tragic death"--
13) Skinny dip
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Doctoring water samples to help his corrupt agribusiness employer to continue illegal dumping in the Everglades, biologist Chaz Perrone attempts to murder his wife, who has figured out his scam and who survives to plot her husband's downfall.
14) Broken things
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 760L
Language
English
Description
It's been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods. Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn the three girls had imagined themselves into the magical world where their fantasies became twisted, even deadly. The only thing is: they didn't do it. On the anniversary of Summer's death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Alafair Tucker is a strong woman, the core of family life on a farm in Oklahoma where the back-breaking work and daily logistics of caring for her husband Shaw, their nine children, and being neighborly requires hard muscle and a clear head. She's also a woman of strong opinions, and it is her opinion that her neighbor, Harley Day, is a drunkard and a reprobate. So, When Harley's body is dicovered frozen in a snowdrift one January day in 1912, she...
16) Endless night
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
Gypsy's Acre was a truly beautiful upland site with views out to sea - and in Michael Rogers it stirred a child-like fantasy. There, amongst the dark fir trees, he planned to build a house, find a girl and live happily ever after. Yet, as he left the village, a shadow of menace hung over the land. For this was the place where accidents happened. Perhaps Michael should have heeded the locals' warnings: 'There's no luck for them as meddles with Gypsy's...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
In the office of a plastic surgeon, lawyer Kerry McGrath is shocked to see two patients resembling a woman who was murdered. McGrath is familiar with the woman, having prosecuted the murderer who is now on death row. She reopens the case and gets a shock. By the author of Remember Me.
18) She said/she saw
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Tegan's two best friends are gunned down in front of her, nobody believes her that she didn't see who did it and doesn't know why.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
HL 690L
Language
English
Description
"Princess Hesina of Yan is thrust into power when her beloved father is murdered, and she's determined to find his killer--whatever the cost"--
When her father is murdered, Princess Hesina of Yan is thrust into power, suddenly the queen of an unstable kingdom. Determined to find her father's killer, Hesina engages the aid of a soothsayer. It is a treasonous act, punishable by death, because in Yan, magic was outlawed centuries ago. Using the information...
20) Blockade Billy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Even the most die-hard baseball fans don't know the true story of William "Blockade Billy" Blakely. He may have been the greatest player the game has ever seen, but today no one remembers his name. He was the first--and only--player to have his existence completely removed from the record books. Even his team is long forgotten, barely a footnote in the game's history. Every effort was made to erase any evidence that William Blakely played professional...
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