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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
HL 920L
Language
English
Description
Having devoted his studies to optics and refraction, an impulsive scientist named Griffin has rendered himself invisible. Unable to reverse the effects, his struggle to survive grows desperate until he realizes that there are benefits to living out of the public eye. Increasingly isolated, he soon spirals into a life of crime and degenerates into madness. He can't see that he has become his own worst enemy. Exploring the loss of identity and the willful...
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Lexile measure
GN 870L
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English
Description
"For the first time in any modern language, a female scholar and translator reimagines The Art of War. Sun Tzu's ancient book of strategy and psychology has as much to tell us today as when it was first written 2,500 years ago. In a world forever at odds, his rules for anticipating the motivations and strategies of our competitors never cease to inspire leaders of all kinds. Michael Nylan, in her provocative introduction, sees new and unexpected lessons...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
4) The prince
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.3 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1510L
Language
English
Description
Need to seize a country? Have enemies you must destroy? In this handbook for despots and tyrants, the Renaissance statesman Machiavelli sets forth how to accomplish this and more, while avoiding the awkwardness of becoming generally hated and despised. "Men ought either to be well treated or crushed, because they can avenge themselves of lighter injuries, of more serious ones they cannot; therefore the injury that is to be done to a man ought to be...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 620L
Language
English
Description
In the Time Traveller's miraculous new machine, we will be carried from a Victorian dinner table to 802,701 AD, when the Earth is divided between the gentle, ineffective Eloi, and the ape-like Morlocks; forward again by a million years or so to glimpse a dying world of blood-red beaches and menacing shapes; and on again to the last days of our planet, a remote twilight where nothing moves but darkness and a cold wind.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
HL 1170L
Language
English
Description
As life on Mars becomes impossible, Martians and their terrifying machines invade the earth. Find yourself caught in the middle of an alien invasion in the late 1800s in this collectible hardcover edition of the thrilling science fiction classic. A classic science fiction novel, The War of the Worlds tells the story of the martian invasion of Planet Earth. This late–nineteenth century novel plays on the mood of the period in which it was written—a...
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English
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An out-of-this-world new middle-grade graphic novel about a genius scientist and her evil nemesisâfrom New York Times bestselling author Laini Taylor and cartoonist Jim Di Bartolo
Donât you hate it when your archenemy launches your latest invention into space, accidentally creating a robot army that falls into the clutches of an evil alien emperor? Well, thatâs how Billie Blasterâs day is going!
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Donât you hate it when your archenemy launches your latest invention into space, accidentally creating a robot army that falls into the clutches of an evil alien emperor? Well, thatâs how Billie Blasterâs day is going!
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Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
850L
Language
English
Description
Ender Wiggin, the hero and scapegoat of mass alien destruction in Ender's Game, receives a chance at redemption in this novel. Ender, who proclaimed as a mistake his success in wiping out an alien race, wins the opportunity to cope better with a second race, discovered by Portuguese colonists on the planet Lusitania. Orson Scott Card infuses this long, ambitious tale with intellect by casting his characters in social, religious and cultural contexts....
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Series
Jedi Academy volume 2
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Description
After surviving his first year at Jedi Academy, Roan Novachez thought his second year would be a breeze. This year, Roan will have to face alien poetry tests, menacing robots, food fights, flight simulation class, online bullies, more lightsaber duels, and worst of all ... a girl who is mad at him.
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Series
Umbrella Academy volume 1
Language
English
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The New York Times bestselling comics series that was the inspiration for The Umbrella Academy on Netflix, now on Season 3!
In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-three extraordinary children were spontaneously born to women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world."
These...
In an inexplicable worldwide event, forty-three extraordinary children were spontaneously born to women who'd previously shown no signs of pregnancy. Millionaire inventor Reginald Hargreeves adopted seven of the children; when asked why, his only explanation was, "To save the world."
These...
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English
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The #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater (The Raven Cycle series) and artist Morgan Beem unearth the primal power of memory and how it twists the bond between two brothers.
Twins Alec and Walker Holland have a reputation around town. One is quiet and the other is the life of any party, but they are inseparable. For their last summer before college, the two leave the city to live with their rural cousins, where they find that the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
680L
Language
English
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Description
Neil Armstrong's journey to the moon is the focus of the 15th picture book in the New York Times bestselling series of biographies about heroes, for ages 5 to 8. (Cover may vary)
This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great—the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational...
This friendly, fun biography series focuses on the traits that made our heroes great—the traits that kids can aspire to in order to live heroically themselves. Each book tells the story of one of America's icons in a lively, conversational...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
1040L
Language
English
Description
"When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on Iceland, where they enter an extinct volcano on a daring quest to reach the center of the earth. They soon find themselves at a giant underground ocean where the laws of science are constantly redefined and prehistoric...
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Series
Hilo volume 3
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
GN 210L
Language
English
Description
Hilo and DJ, with the help of Polly, the magical warrior cat, travel through a mysterious portal and battle bad guys, face disgusting food, an angry mom, and powerful magic to save their friend Gina.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Description
The first graphic novel from #1 New York Times and USA Today bestseller Marissa Meyer!
In her first graphic novel, bestselling author Marissa Meyer extends the world of the Lunar Chronicles with a brand-new,action-packed story about Iko, the android with a heart of (mechanized) gold.
When rogue packs of wolf-hybrid soldiers threaten the tenuous peace alliance between Earth and Luna, Iko takes it upon herself to hunt
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Series
Jedi Academy volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 630L
Language
English
Description
Someone is setting Roan up to get in trouble with everyone at school, including Yoda and if he doesn't find out who it is, he may get kicked out of school!
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 530L
Language
English
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Description
Best Friends. Mad Science.
It can get pretty dull living on a small, out-of-the-way station like Wilnick SS. Best Friends Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega do their best to relieve the monotony of every day space life by finding adventures, solving mysteries, and taking turns getting each other into and out of trouble. But when Sanity's latest science project-an extremely-illegal-but-impossibly-cute three-headed kitten-escapes from the lab...
It can get pretty dull living on a small, out-of-the-way station like Wilnick SS. Best Friends Sanity Jones and Tallulah Vega do their best to relieve the monotony of every day space life by finding adventures, solving mysteries, and taking turns getting each other into and out of trouble. But when Sanity's latest science project-an extremely-illegal-but-impossibly-cute three-headed kitten-escapes from the lab...
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Series
Waffles and Pancake volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Meet Waffles and his sister Pancake, two siblings who love science and outer space! It's Saturday, and Dad-Cat surprises the kittens with a trip to the science museum. While there, they see extraordinary things, such as dino-cats and the planetarium show. But soon the kittens find themselves separated from Dad-Cat -- oh no! Will they be stuck living in the museum forever?"--
19) The giver
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
GN 760L
Language
English
Description
Jonas's world is perfect. Everything is under control. There is no war or fear or pain. There are no choices. Every person is assigned a role in the community. When Jonas is singled out to receive special training from The Giver, it is time for Jonas to receive the truth.
20) Jedi Academy
Author
Series
Jedi Academy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
GN 650L
Language
English
Description
"My whole life I planned on going to pilot school like the rest of my friends--then I got rejected! Along came a little green guy named Yoda who invited me to Jedi Academy. Now I'm at a school with aliens, robots, and lightsaber-wielding bullies who can lift things with their minds! How am I supposed to compete with that? As if starting middle school wasn't hard enough..." The story of Roan Novachez, Jedi Academy student, is told through comics, journal...
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