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21) Catching fire
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Hunger Games trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
820L
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English
Description
"Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has won the annual Hunger Games with fellow district tribute Peeta Mellark. But it was a victory won by defiance of the Capitol and their harsh rules. Katniss and Peeta should be happy. After all, they have just won for themselves and their families a life of safety and plenty. But there are rumors of rebellion among the subjects, and Katniss and Peeta, to their horror, are the faces of that rebellion. Nothing is...
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Does the uncertainty and chaos of life keep you up at night? Chances are, you or someone you know seriously struggles with anxiety. Lucado invites readers to delve into Philippians 4:6-7: Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God. Lucado explains the scripture, and shows that, though anxiety comes with life, it doesn't have to dominate your life.
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Heroes of Olympus volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
640L
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English
Description
Demigod Percy Jackson, still with no memory, and his new friends from Camp Jupiter, Hazel and Frank, go on a quest to free Death, but their bigger task is to unite the Greek and Roman camps so that the Prophecy of Seven can be fulfilled.
24) Coming out
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Chaos erupts in the Rubinstein household when Olympia's twin daughters are invited to New York's most exclusive debutante ball--with one twin and Olympia's current husband refusing to attend, and the other young woman and Olympia's snobbish ex-husband already shopping for the event.
25) The subtle knife
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His dark materials volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Lexile measure
890L
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English
Description
Lost in a new world, Lyra finds Will--a boy on the run, a murderer--a worthy and welcome ally. For this is a world where soul-eating Specters stalk the streets and witches share the skies with troops of angels. Each is searching--Lyra for the meaning of dark matter, Will for his missing father--but what they find instead is a deadly secret, a knife of untold power. And neither Lyra nor Will suspects how tightly their lives, their loves, their destinies...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
A masterpiece of satire, this classic has entertained and enlightened readers the world over with its sly and ironic portrayal of human life and foibles from the vantage point of Screwtape, a highly placed assistant to "Our Father Below." At once wildly comic, deadly serious, and strikingly original, C.S. Lewis gives us the correspondence of the worldly-wise old devil to his nephew Wormwood, a novice demon in charge of securing the damnation of an...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 65
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English
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“Follett risks all and comes out a clear winner,” extolled Publishers Weekly on the release of The Pillars of the Earth. A departure for the bestselling thriller writer, the historical epic stunned readers and critics alike with its ambitious scope and gripping humanity. Today, it stands as a testament to Follett’s unassailable command of the written word and to his universal appeal. The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior...
29) The walk
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Alan Christoffersen is living the American Dream. Only 28-year-old, Alan is heading up his own successful advertising firm. However, when his loving wife McKale suffers from a fall while horseback riding and becomes paralyzed, Alan leaves his business in his partner's hands so that he may be by her side. But when his partner betrays him and his wife dies, an inconsolable Alan leaves most of his worldly possessions behind and sets off on a soul searching...
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"In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
31) Carve the mark
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Carve the mark volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
HL 780L
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English
Description
Living on a violent planet where everyone develops a unique power meant to shape the future, Akos and Cyra, youths from enemy nations, resent gifts that render them vulnerable to others' control before they become unlikely survival partners.
32) Shadows reel
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"Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his wife Marybeth, each confront sinister surprises in their community: he finds a fishing guide who has been brutally murdered, while she opens an unmarked package at their local library to find a phot album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official. Then, when a close neighbor is killed, Joe and Marybeth face new questions: who is after the album, and how will they solve its mystery before someone hurts them...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
1000L
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English
Description
For Milo, everything's a bore. When a tollbooth mysteriously appears in his room, he drives through only because he's got nothing better to do. But on the other side, things seem different. Milo visits the Island of Conclusions (you get there by jumping), learns about time from a ticking watchdog named Tock, and even embarks on a quest to rescue Rhyme and Reason! Somewhere along the way, Milo realizes something astonishing. Life is far from dull....
35) Memory in death
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The #1 New York Times -bestselling author of Survivor in Death has Lieutenant Eve Dallas walking a tightrope between her professional duties and her private demons. Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She's got no problem dealing with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." But when she gets back to the station and Trudy Lombard shows up, it's all Eve can do to hold it together....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
1000L
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English
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From back cover: "In the Pacific there is an island that looks like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it blue dolphins swim, otters play, and sea birds abound. Once, Indians also lived on the island. And when they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind.".
37) Poseidon's arrow
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Ruthless Austrian entrepreneur Edward Bolcke has managed to steal a crucial component of the U.S. Navy's latest submarine technology--and he has found a way to hijack the world's supply of rare earth minerals. The three Pitts, along with longstanding sidekick Al Giordino, use their usual mix of brains and brawn to see that justice is served.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Lexile measure
810L
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English
Description
THE TWO TOWERS, the second part of Tolkien's LOTR trilogy, takes the reader on a remarkable, almost breathless journey: chasing orcs who have captured Merry and Pippen; galloping across the plains of Rohan with Riders of the Rohirrim; the bloody battle of Helm's Deep; the vast wasteland of Isengard; the perilous journey of Frodo and Sam to the borders of Mordor, accompanied by a most unlikely ally. Unlike "The Fellowship of the Ring," Tolkien's first...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
1040L
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English
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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. At the...
40) D. C. dead
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Stone Barrington novels volume 22
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English
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"Stone Barrington, his former NYPD partner Dino Bachetti and CIA agent Holly Barker investigate a possible serial killer with ties to the White House"-- Provided by publisher.
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