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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
1020L
Language
English
Description
To Sherlock Holmes she is always THE woman. I have seldom heard him mention her under any other name. In his eyes she eclipses and predominates the whole of her sex. It was not that he felt any emotion akin to love for Irene Adler. All emotions, and that one particularly, were abhorrent to his cold, precise but admirably balanced mind. He was, I take it, the most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has seen, but as a lover he would...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
Language
English
Description
A Newbery Medal Winner For over thirty-five years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people who are invited to the reading of Samuel W. Westing's will. They could become millionaires-it all depends on how they play the tricky and dangerous Westing game, a game involving blizzards, burglaries, and bombings! Ellen Raskin has created a remarkable cast of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
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"Great Expectations is the thirteenth novel by Charles Dickens and his penultimate completed novel: a bildungsroman that depicts the personal growth and personal development of an orphan nicknamed Pip. It is Dickens's second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. The novel was first published as a serial in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860 to August 1861. In October 1861, Chapman...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
"For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice?s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
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Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
The Da Vinci Code has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. Now all the artwork, symbols, architecture, and historic locations, over 160 images, are beautifully compiled in this full-color collector's edition. A mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries, unveiled at last. While in Paris on business, Harvard...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.3 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
1090L
Language
English
Description
Dr. James Mortimer, a man of science, visits Sherlock Holmes, a specialist in crime, in order to retrieve his walking stick. However, Dr. James also has a manuscript and a strange story to tell... The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Enigmatic sleuth, Sherlock Holmes, prepares to use his considerable mind in solving the case and uncover the...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"When a diphtheria epidemic hits her 1840 village, thirteen-year-old Jessie discovers it is actually a 1996 tourist site under unseen observation by heartless scientists, and it's up to Jessie to escape the village and save the lives of the dying children"--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
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Description
Pay close attention and you might solve this. On Monday, five students at Bayview High walk into detention. Bronwyn, the brain, is Yale-bound and never breaks a rule. Addy, the beauty, is the picture-perfect homecoming princess. Nate, the criminal, is already on probation for dealing. Cooper, the athlete, is the all-star baseball pitcher. And Simon, the outcast, is the creator of Bayview High's notorious gossip app. Only, Simon never makes it out...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
510L
Language
English
Description
A family starts out on a one-day mountain climbing excursion that becomes very exciting. In fact, it becomes an adventure for the former "boxcar" family. They unearth some mysteries and have a fine time in the process.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
"Ten strangers are lured to an isolated island mansion off the Devon coast by a mysterious "U.N. Owen." At dinner a recorded message accuses each of them in turn of having a guilty secret, and by the end of the night one of the guests is dead Stranded by a violent storm, and haunted by a nursery rhyme counting down one by one...as one by one...they begin to die. Who among them is the killer and will any of them survive?" --Cover, p. 4.
17) Easy prey
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
"In life she was a high-profile model. In death she is the focus of a media firestorm that's demanding action from Lucas Davenport. One of his own men is a suspect in her murder. But when a series of bizarre, seemingly unrelated slayings rock the city, Davenport suspects a connection that runs deeper than anyone had imagined--one that leads to an ingenious killer more ruthless than anyone had feared."--from publisher's description
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Good girl's guide to murder volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
700L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"This is the story of an investigation turned obsession...Pretty and popular high school senior Andie Bell was murdered by her boyfriend, Sal Singh, who then killed himself. It was all anyone could talk about. And five years later, Pip sees how the tragedy still haunts her town. Now a senior herself, Pip decides to reexamine the closed case for her final project, at first just to cast doubt on the original investigation. But soon she discovers a trail...
19) Blue Bay mystery
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
What will the Aldens discover on a vacation to a beautiful island in the South Seas? The island is supposed to be deserted, but as the Aldens explore, they start to find signs that they suggest they are not alone.
20) Paper towns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
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