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Molly Moon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.
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Language
English
Description
The daughter of two astronauts, Romy Silvers is no stranger to life in space. But she never knew how isolating the universe could be until her parents' tragic deaths left her alone on The Infinity, a spaceship speeding away from Earth. Romy tries to make the best of her lonely situation, but with only brief messages from her therapist on Earth to keep her company, she can't help but feel like something is missing. It seems like a dream come true when...
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
Presented with an unexpected assignment, Alex Rider's greatest nemesis, Yassen Gregoravich, recalls his life and the path that led him to become an assassin while his one-time friend, Alex's uncle, became a spy.
4) Life of Pi
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2002 Man Booker Prize for Fiction Pi Patel is an unusual boy. The son of a zookeeper, he has an encyclopedic knowledge of animal behavior, a fervent love of stories, and practices not only his native Hinduism, but also Christianity and Islam. When Pi is sixteen, his family emigrates from India to North America aboard a Japanese cargo ship, along with their zoo animals bound for new homes. The ship sinks. Pi finds himself alone in a lifeboat,...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
970L
Language
English
Description
In 1806, star-crossed lovers Jacky Faber and Jaimy Fletcher are kidnapped by British Naval Intelligence and forced to embark on yet another daring mission--this time to search for sunken Spanish gold off the Florida coast.
6) Eagle Strike
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
690L
Language
English
Description
After a chance encounter with assassin Yassen Gregorovich in the South of France, teenage spy Alex Rider investigates international pop star and philanthropist Damian Cray whose new video game venture hides sinister motives involving Air Force One, nuclear missiles, and the international drug trade.
7) Scorpia
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
Description
After being told that his father was an assassin for a criminal organization, fourteen-year-old Alex goes to Italy to find out more and becomes involved in a plan to kill thousands of English schoolchildren.
8) Armageddon
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Series
Daniel X volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Daniel, an alien hunter, faces dastardly Number Two who has slowly been amassing an underground army of aliens to help him enslave Earth's population in preparation for the arrival of Number One, the most powerful alien in the universe and Daniel's arch-nemesis.
9) Stormbreaker
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
"They said his uncle Ian died in a car accident. But Alex Rider knows that's a lie, and the bullet holes in the windshield prove it. Yet he never suspected the truth: his uncle was really a spy for Britain's top secret intelligence agency. And now Alex has been recruited to find his uncle's killers . . ." --
10) Dearly, departed
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
In the year 2195 when society is technologically advanced but follows the social mores of Victorian England, recently orphaned Nora Dearly is left at the mercy of her domineering, social-climbing aunt, until she is nearly kidnapped by zombies and falls in with a group of mysterious, black-clad commandos.
Author
Series
Boxcar children volume 86
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
540L
Language
English
Description
When the Alden children go camping on Blizzard Mountain, a place said to be inhabited by a ghost looking for buried treasure, they begin to think someone or something is trying to scare them off.
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English
Description
"Stay and die, or run and survive. Twins Virginia and Tommy Matthews have been on their own since they were orphaned at the age of five, surviving a merciless foster care system by relying on each other. Twelve years later, the world begins to collapse around them as a deadly contagion steadily wipes out entire populations and a devastating world war rages on. When Tommy is drafted for the war, the twins are faced with a choice: accept their fate...
13) Snakehead
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
While working with the Austrailian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers intormation about his parents.
14) Crocodile tears
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Description
"Targeted by a hitman and under threat of his past being exposed by the media, Alex reluctantly turns to MI6. But their help doesn't come cheap: they need Alex to spy on the activities at a GM crop plant. There he spots Desmond McCain, a high profile charity organizer, who realizes that Alex is on to him and the real plans for the money he's raising. Kidnapped and whisked off to Africa, Alex learns the full horror of McCain's plot: to create an epic...
15) Point blank
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Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
610L
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Alex continues his work as a spy for the British M16, investigating an exclusive school for boys in the French Alps.
16) This tender land
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Language
English
Description
1932, Minnesota. The Lincoln School is a pitiless place where hundreds of Native American children, forcibly separated from their parents, are sent to be educated. It is also home to an orphan named Odie O'Banion, a lively boy whose exploits earn him the superintendent's wrath. Forced to flee, he and his brother Albert, their best friend Mose, and a little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call...
Author
Lexile measure
920L
Language
English
Description
Enduring an isolated existence after the death of her mother, 14-year-old Turtle roams the rocky shores and tide pools of the California coast and refutes every outside attempt to engage her before an unexpected friendship with a newcomer helps her realize the vulnerabilities of her life with her charismatic father.
18) Fearless
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In late seventeenth-century England, eleven-year-old Digory, forced to leave his hometown after his father is lost at sea, becomes an apprentice to the architect Henry Winstanley, who built a lighthouse on the treacherous Eddystone Reef--the very rocks that sank Digory's grandfather's ship years before.
20) The reader
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Sefia knows what it means to survive. After her father is brutally murdered, she flees into the wilderness with her aunt Nin, who teaches her to hunt, track, and steal. But when Nin is kidnapped, leaving Sefia completely alone, none of her survival skills can help her discover where Nin s been taken, or if she s even alive. The only clue to both her aunt s disappearance and her father s murder is the odd rectangular object her father left behind,...
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