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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
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840L
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English
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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...
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When massive solar flares send an intense electromagnetic pulse to Earth, every electrical device is fried instantly. The modern world that sixteen-year-old Mitch Henley has always known comes crashing down. Anarchy, looting and chaos explode all around him. Stranded in New Orleans, Mitch escapes into the Mississippi backwoods he knows so well, hoping to stay alive using the survival and hunting skills he learned from his game-warden father. Alone...
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Living among the ordinary citizens of the infamous New Mexico city of Roswell are four teenagers who are not there by choice. Max, Isabel, Michael, and Tess are humans with extraordinary gifts. They are human/alien hybrids, sent here as replacements for the royalty of an alien race. This year the show will be built around around the relationships between human and aliens.
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Rust volume 1
Pub. Date
2011.
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English
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After a young boy with a rocket pack named Jet Jones crash-lands on his farm while being chased by a giant robot, Ronan Taylor becomes convinced that Jet and the robot hold the key to saving his family farm, which he has been trying to keep afloat in the aftermath of a world war.
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On the evening of October 30, 1938, radio listeners across the United States heard a startling report of a meteor strike in the New Jersey countryside. With sirens blaring in the background, announcers in the field described mysterious creatures, terrifying war machines, and thick clouds of poison gas moving toward New York City. As the invading force approached Manhattan, some listeners sat transfixed, while others ran to alert neighbors or to call...
8) Sojourn
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Forgotten realms. Dark Elf series volume 3
Dark elf trilogy volume 03.0(EG-IN)1380773
Forgotten Realms universe The dark elf trilogy volume 3
The Legend of Drizzt
Dark elf trilogy volume 03.0(EG-IN)1380773
Forgotten Realms universe The dark elf trilogy volume 3
The Legend of Drizzt
Lexile measure
1080L
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English
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After abandoning the perils of his homeland, the Underdark, Drizzt Do-Urden, the renegade dark elf, battles to survive in the harsh surface world and seeking a new beginning to gain acceptance from the surface-dwellers
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2013
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Collects Avengers #7-11. The Avengers must scramble to deal with the threat of another Universal SYSTEM. The New Adam is transformed, and his true self revealed. And the most dangerous hero on Earth is created. The Avengers face off against the World Breaker. Discover the imminent threat to the Avengers World. Watch as we get our first hints as the hidden connections between the events of Avengers and New Avengers.
11) Ghostbusters
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When three college professors lose their jobs, they decide to go into the freelance "paranormal investigation and elimination" business. When their first client discovers her refrigerator has become a portal into the spiritual dimension, our heroes come face to face with an ancient evil force with plans to raise hell in Manhattan. When ghosts go on a rampage, only these men can save the world. Soon every spook in the city is loose and our heroes face...
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A tragic accident took his sight - but in return, enhanced Matt Murdock's remaining senses far beyond human limits. An accomplished attorney by day, by night Murdock seeks justice outside the law as Daredevil, the Man Without Fear! When Marvel Knights took hold of this classic Marvel Comics character 10 years ago, the fledgling imprint redefined Daredevil for a new generation. In famed filmmaker Kevin Smith's series debut, a scared teenager on the...
14) The blob
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Criterion collection volume 91
Pub. Date
2000.
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English
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"One of the most memorable of the giant monster films of the '50s, this sci-fi classic concerns a shapeless, flesh dissolving mass that emerges from a fallen meteor and grows larger with each victim it absorbs. At fist scoffed at the police, teenage hero Steve Andrews ('Steven' McQueen, in his first lead role) and his girlfriend, Jane Martin (Aneta Corseaut from the Andy Griffith Show), enlist their drag-racing buddies to alert the town to the danger,...
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[2007]
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English
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"Mork, a misfit on Ork because of his sense of humor, was sent off to study Earthlings, whose "crazy" customs the "Orkans" had never been able to understand. Mork landed in a giant eggshell near Boulder, Colorado and was befriended by pretty Mindy McConnell, a music store clerk. Mork looked human but his strange mix of Orkan and Earthling customs led most people to think of him as just some kind of nut. Aware of his origins, Mindy helped him adjust...
17) Surrogates
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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People are living their lives remotely from the safety of their own homes via robotic surrogates - sexy, physically perfect mechanical representations of themselves. It's an ideal world where crime, pain, fear and consequences don't exist. When the first murder in years jolts this utopia, FBI agent Greer discovers a vast conspiracy behind the surrogate phenomenon and must abandon his own surrogate, risking his life to unravel the mystery.
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Time twisters volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
520L
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English
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When a spaceship carrying Neil Armstrong accidentally time travels to 1869 Texas, cowboy Nat Love decides to trade in his horse for a trip to the Moon, and step-siblings Abby and Doc must untwist history and get everyone back to their own time.
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[2014]
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English
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In the fourth season, we see Rick and the group of survivors fostering a thriving community in the safe haven of the prison only to have it short-lived as the group loses everything, their home, family, and friends to the threat of the walkers, outside threats and the hidden dangers brewing inside the fences. The group of survivors are broken apart and sent on divergent paths, unsure of everyone else's fate as they are exposed to new dangers, new...
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What great things will you do if you discover a time portal?
Will you save children from their imminent deaths, change your fate, and change history? Will it affect the present or make another past?
Journey with Dr. Daniel Wallace and Willie Lincoln as they travel through time in Saving CJ-a story with a wonderful blend of friendship, history, and time travel.
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