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4081) Vengeance bound
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Amelie Ainsworth longs to graduate from high school and live a normal life, but as an abused child she became one of the Furies, driven to mete out justice on the Guilty, and lives on the run from the murders they commit.
4082) Stranded
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
HL 750L
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English
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"When Kevin and Jesse get stuck in the middle of the woods on their way up to a family cabin, their weekend takes a turn for the worse. How will the boys make it to safety?"--
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"When fifteen-year-old Victoria grudgingly accompanies her mother to the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, she has no idea her life is about to change forever. While there, she falls under the spell of the famous John Singer Sargent portrait 'The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit'. Drawn into the portrait's shadowy depths, Victoria finds herself transported back in time to the world of the four troubled Boit sisters. By the time she returns to her own...
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Mickey Tussler novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
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English
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In the late 1940s, the minor league Milwaukee Brewers are foundering yet again and manager Arthur Murphy is desperate. When he sees seventeen-year old Mickey Tussler throwing apples into a barrel, he knows he has found the next pitching phenom. But not everyone is so hopeful. Mickey's autism—a disorder still not truly understood even today—has alienated the boy from the world, and he is berated by other players and fans. Mickey faces immense...
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In this love story set in Ithaca, New York, at an alternative high school whose two requirements for admisstion are academic excellence and psychiatric disability, a boy and girl work on their year-long senior project to write their life stories as informed by the points-of-view of people who have known them through their lives.
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Bookish boyfriends volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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When Eliza Gordon-Fergus, daughter of famous scientists and expert rule-follower, is challenged by class-clown Curtis Cavendish, she realizes he makes her want to break all the rules.
4087) Cold hands, warm heart
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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HL 760L
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English
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After sixteen-year-old Tyler convinces his parents to donate the organs of his fourteen-year-old sister, who died during a gymnastics meet, he writes letters to the recipients, including Dani, who finally has a chance at normalcy after living fifteen years with a congenital heart defect.
4088) Lightning's run
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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Bullied relentlessly, Hiram Goldfarb, a Jewish immigrant in nineteenth-century New York City, learns bareknuckle fighting from a former slave wanted for a heinous crime in the South.
4089) Nightingale
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June Hardie is everything a young woman in 1951 shouldn't be: independent, rebellious, a dreamer. June longs to travel, to attend college and to write the dark science fiction stories that consume her waking hours. Her mother grooms her to be a perfect little homemaker while her father pushes her to marry his business partner's domineering son. When June resists, she's committed to Burrow Place Asylum. Suburbia isn't the only prison for different...
4090) Freaky green eyes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
810L
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Frankie relates the events of the year leading up to her mother's mysterious disappearance and her own struggle to discover and accept the truth about her parents' relationship.
4091) Chinglish
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English
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As heard on Radio 4's Woman's Hour and BBC Breakfast TV
It is difficult trying to talk in our family cos:
a) Grandparents don't speak English at all
b) Mum hardly speaks any English
c) Me, Bonny and Simon hardly speak Chinese
d) Dad speaks Chinese and good English — but doesn't like talking
In other words, we all have to cobble together tiny bits of English and Chinese into a rubbish new language I call 'Chinglish'. It is very awkward.
Jo...
4092) This Old Man
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A spunky young girl forms an unlikely friendship with a dying Chinese man while living in a group home For Greta, having light and carefree Hackey hanging around her mom is a lot more fun than having an ordinary dad. But Hackey isn't her father-he's more like a pimp, and no matter how friendly he is, he still treats Greta's mom like dirt. When the situation at home goes from bad to worse, Greta is moved into a home for at-risk children where she meets...
4093) Through the Night
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One dream can change everything... A teenage girl is torn between faith and temptation in this thrilling novel of spiritual reckoning.
Renee Lewis has a simple and uneventful life, vying for the role of valedictorian, spending time at church, and hanging out with her best friend. But, after a distracting dream, she wakes up on the morning of her sixteenth birthday longing for a change.
She gets what she wants in the form of Kyran, a devilishly handsome...
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In this stunning graphic novel, Lacuna is a girl without a family, a past, or a proper home. She lives alone in a swamp made of ink, but with the help of Polaris, a will-o'-the-wisp, she embarks for the fabled Northern Kingdom, where she might find people like her. The only way to get there, though, is to travel the strange and dangerous Blue Road that stretches to the horizon like a mark upon a page. Along the way, Lacuna must overcome trials such...
4095) The way we roll
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Beta Gamma Pi volume 2
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English
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Malloy Murray reluctantly decides to join a sorority to please her mother, but someone is trying to make trouble for her.
4097) Cy in chains
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In the post-Civil War South, a seventeen-year-old African American boy, accused of a crime, is living in a labor camp where brutality, near starvation, humiliation, and rape are commonplace.
4098) Second chance
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Drama High volume 2
Lexile measure
780L
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English
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Back for another dose of high drama, Compton's sassiest, Jayd Jackson, is about to discover it really is a different world when she starts dating South Bay High's finest white boy. . .
All Jayd Jackson wants is a drama-free year at South Bay High, a.k.a. Drama High. But it doesn't seem she's going to get it. It's only the second week of Junior year and already, Misty, her nemesis, has almost gotten her killed after instigating a fight between Jayd...
4099) 21 questions: a novel
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In Laguna Beach, California, sixteen-year-old Kendra Dimes is preparing for the 2010 USA Surfing Prime West. She'll be competing this year in honor of her brother, who was a surfer too, but who died from a drug overdose. Kendra has suffered anxiety attacks ever since her brother's death, and surfing is what's been helping her heal. Brock Parker is the new bad boy at school; he deals drugs to the high school clientele for his parents, who work for...
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The sea is inside his blood. Cursed, or blessed, on both sides. When sixteen-year-old Rudra Solace dredges up a long-hidden secret in his father's trawl net, his life in the sleepy fishing village of Patonga shifts dramatically. It is not long before Rudra is leaving Australia behind, bound for India on a journey of discovery and danger. A wonderfully compelling tale of belonging and loss, of saltwater and mangroves, of migration and accepting change;...
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