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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
The circus arrived in town unannounced. Even so, people flocked to the big top. They don't know that two of the acts--young magicians, Celia and Marco--have been trained since childhood by their instructors for a competition between them that will leave only one standing. Even when the two fall in love, the game must play out, and the fates of everyone hang in the balance.
Author
Series
All of us villains volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
790L
Language
English
Description
Every generation, seven families select a champion to compete in a tournament to the death for control of high magick--the most powerful resource in the world--but this year, a salacious tell-all book draws reporters, tourists, and government agents to Ilvernath to watch the bloody curse unfold and some of the champions are determined to thwart their destinies and rewrite their stories.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
820L
Language
English
Description
"A life-long speech competitor, Leela loves nothing more than crushing the competition, all while wearing a smile. But when she meets the incorrigible Firoze Darcy, a debater from an elitist private school, Leela can't stand him. Unfortunately, he'll be competing in the state league, so their paths are set to collide. But why attempt to tolerate Firoze when Leela can one-up him? The situation is more complicated than Leela anticipated, though, and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
This is the box, Ed. Inside is everything. Two bottle caps, a movie ticket from Greta in the Wild, a note from you, a box of matches, your protractor, Joan's book, the stolen sugar, a toy truck, those ugly earrings, a comb from the motel,and the rest of it. This is it Ed. The whole story of why we broke up.
5) The crucible
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
1320L
Language
English
Description
Contains the text of the 1953 drama that recreates the Salem witch trials, and includes critical and contextual material about the play and its author.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 22
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When music therapist Zoe Baxter's latest pregnancy ends in a stillbirth, her husband Max decides he can't handle any more heartbreak and leaves her. As she picks up the pieces of her life, Zoe is surprised to find herself falling for a school counselor who happens to be a woman. While Zoe is finding happiness with Vanessa, Max falls off the wagon and is helped by a pastor from his brother's evangelical church. Vanessa and Zoe wed in Massachusetts,...
7) Unbreakable
Author
Series
The Legion volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
HL 670L
Language
English
Description
"Seventeen-year-old Kennedy Waters discovers she is a member of an ancient secret society formed to protect the world from a powerful demon determined to find a way out of his dimension and into ours. She joins the Legion on a mission to find a weapon that can defeat the demon"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a family of bonobo apes who know American Sign Language are kidnapped from a language laboratory, their mysterious appearance on a reality TV show propels scientist Isabel Duncan, together with reporter John Thigpen, on a personal mission to rescue them. An entertaining book that calls into question our assumptions about these animals who share 99.4% of our DNA.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1060L
Language
English
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Description
The official movie tie-in edition to the major motion picture, starring Reese Witherspoon and based on this sensational #1 New York Times Bestseller. At twenty-two, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother's death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life. With no experience or training, driven only by...
10) A dog's promise
Author
Series
Dog's purpose volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
The dog who thinks of himself as 'Bailey' knows one thing for sure: all dogs go to heaven after they have fulfilled their purpose on earth. But Bailey's work on earth is far from finished: there are still so many more humans that need a dog's talent for unconditional love. There is one family in particular that needs Bailey's help, a family that is on the verge of breaking apart. But if Bailey helps this family he won't remember his previous lives,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another: the nature of space and time, the role of God in creation, the history and future of the universe. But it is also true that in the years since its publication, readers have repeatedly told Professor Hawking of their great difficulty in understanding...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
950L
Language
English
Description
FINALIST FOR THE YALSA AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONFICITON FOR YOUNG ADULTS! Minamoto Yoshitsune should not have been a samurai. But his story is legend in this real-life Game of Thrones. This epic tale of warriors and bravery, rebellion and revenge, reads like a novel, but this is the true story of the greatest samurai in Japanese history. When Yoshitsune was just a baby, his father went to war with a rival samurai family-and lost. His father was...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
HL 800L
Language
English
Description
An eleven-year-old boy's violated corpse is found in a town park. Eyewitnesses and fingerprints point unmistakably to one of Flint City's most popular citizens. He is Terry Maitland, Little League coach, English teacher, husband, and father of two girls. Detective Ralph Anderson, whose son Maitland once coached, orders a quick and very public arrest. Maitland has an alibi, but Anderson and the district attorney soon add DNA evidence to go with the...
14) Fire
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
Description
A must-read title for all fans of Patrick Rothfuss and Trudi Canavan, FIRE is an exceptional fantasy novel. From the deft characterisation to the gripping story, the fast-paced action to the evocative prose, this is one of the strongest fantasy novels of the year.Set in a world of stunningly beautiful, exceptionally dangerous monsters, Fire is one of the most dangerous monsters of all - a human one. Marked out by her vivid red hair, she's more than...
Author
Series
Way I used to be volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 640L
Language
English
Description
After being raped as a freshman by her brother's best friend, Eden navigates the pain of trauma and broken friendship and finds her entire life shaped by that one night as she moves through high school.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
Synopsis: Set in contemporary San Francisco and in a Chinese village where Peking Man is unearthed, The Bonesetter's Daughter is an excavation of the human spirit: the past, its deepest wounds, its most profound hopes. This is the story of LuLing Young, who searches for the name of her mother, the daughter of the famous Bonesetter from the Mouth of the Mountain. The story conjures the pain of broken dreams, the power of myths, and the strength of...
17) NYPD red
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Detective Zach Jordan investigates a series of brutal, public crimes that coincide with the arrival of dozens of glamorous celebrities in town for parties and premieres. NYPD Red is a special task force charged with protecting the interests of Manhattan's wealthiest and most powerful citizens. When a world-famous movie producer is poisoned on the first day of a Manhattan film festival called Hollywood on the Hudson, they are the first ones called....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"After fourteen-year-old Jace Wilson witnesses a brutal murder, he's plunged into a new life, issued a false identity, and hidden in a wilderness-survival program for troubled teens. The plan is to get Jace off the grid while the police find the two killers. And so the nightmare begins. The killers, known as the Blackwell brothers, are slaughtering anyone who gets in their way. Soon all that remains between them and the boy are a couple who run the...
19) Forever
Author
Series
Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In Maggie Stiefvater's Shiver, Grace and Sam found each other. In Linger, they fought to be together. Now, in Forever, the stakes are even higher than before. Wolves are being hunted. Lives are being threatened. And love is harder and harder to hold on to as death comes closing in.
20) Matched
Author
Series
Matched trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 680L
Language
English
Description
All her life, Cassia has never had a choice. The Society dictates everything: when and how to play, where to work, where to live, what to eat and wear, when to die, and most importantly to Cassia as she turns 17, whom to marry. When she is Matched with her best friend Xander, things couldn't be more perfect. But why did her neighbor Ky's face show up on her match disk as well?
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