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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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HL 500L
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"In this enduring and internationally popular novel, Mark Twain combines social satire and dime-novel sensation with a rhapsody on boyhood and on America's pre-industrial past. Tom Sawyer is resilient, enterprising, and vainglorious. In a series of adventures along the banks of the Mississippi, he usually manages to come out on top. From petty triumphs over his friends and over his long-suffering Aunt Polly, to his intervention in a murder trial,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
Lexile measure
1190L
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English
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Contemporary fiction. 'I walk'd about on the shore, lifting up my hands, and my whole being, as I may say, wrapt up in the contemplation of my deliverance . . . reflecting upon all my comrades that were drown'd, and that there should not be one soul sav'd but my self . . . ' Who has not dreamed of life on an exotic isle, far away from civilization? Here is the novel which has inspired countless imitations by lesser writers, none of which equal the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
750L
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English
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"Offred is a Handmaid in the Republic of Gilead. She may leave the home of the Commander and his wife once a day to walk to food markets whose signs are now pictures instead of words because women are no longer allowed to read. She must lie on her back once a month and pray that the Commander makes her pregnant, because in an age of declining births, Offred and the other Handmaids are valued only if their ovaries are viable. Offred can remember the...
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The members of the Swisher family were murdered in their beds with brutal, military precision. The state-of-the-art security was breached, and the killers used night-vision equipment to find their way through the cozy, middle-class house. Clearly, Dallas is dealing with pros. It seems the only mistake they made was to overlook the nine-year-old girl cowering in the darkened kitchen. Now Nixie Swisher is an orphan -- and the sole eyewitness to a seemingly...
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"Shows you what would happen if Buffy got married and kept her past a secret. It's a hoot." - Charlaine Harris
Retired demon hunter Kate Connor must go back to work when she spots a demon lurking in the local Wal-Mart. But she'd better not arouse suspicion. This kind of thing could really hurt her husband's political career.
6) Cold service
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"When his friend, Hawk, is brutally injured after helping protect another man, bookie Luther Gillespie, Boston private detective Spenser throws himself into Hawk's rehabilitation and investigates the Ukrainian mob he believes is responsible for the attack, a case that is complicated by local police force corruption."--from noveList.
7) Evan blessed
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Two weeks before the big day, Welsh Constable Evans is ready to be done planning for his wedding. Just as he's unloading the last boxes into the new home he and his bride, Bronwen, have chosen, he runs into a teenager whose girlfriend has gone missing on Mt. Snowdon. Despite his apprehensions about getting involved in a new case, Evans cannot resist helping the worried hiker. A search yields no trace of the girl but does turn up a well-stocked bunker,...
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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....
10) School days
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Lily Ellsworth the grand dame of Dowling, Massachusetts hires Spenser to investigate her grandson Jared Clark's alleged involvement in a school shooting. Though seven people were killed in cold blood, and despite Jared's being named as a co-conspirator by the other shooter, Mrs. Ellsworth is convinced of her grandson's innocence.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
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English
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Contains an overview of the global political and economic change since the turn of the twenty-first century, discussing the rapid developments in technologies that has allowed India and China to become part of a growing supply chain of manufacturing impacting global markets.
12) Blue screen
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"Hired to protect a spoiled actress, Boston private investigator Sunny Randall teams up with chief of police Jesse Stone when the actress's sister is murdered, a partnership that reveals seedy complications behind the actress's lifestyle."--from NoveList.
13) Born in death
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With help from her husband, Roarke, Lt. Eve Dallas investigates a double murder, a tax evasion and money laundering scheme in a high profile accounting firm, a missing person, and a mysterious death while planning a baby shower for her friend, Mavis.
14) Dark Harbor
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"Stone Barrington hasn't heard from his cousin, Dick Stone, in years-though he has fond memories of a teenage summer spent at his house in Maine. Then, Lance Cabot of the CIA interrupts an otherwise pleasant meal at Elaine's with news of Dick's death-apparently by his own hands. It seems that Dick Stone, a quiet family man who doubled as a CIA agent, methodically executed his wife, daughter, and then himself-or did he? What would cause a loving father...
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After calling off her engagement, Emmy Everett left New York and moved to a tiny fishing village in Rhode Island. When she returns to her hometown for her brother's wedding and finds that he has a case of cold feet, she takes him on a road trip to help him figure out what he wants from life.
17) Morrigan's cross
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Circle trilogy (Nora Roberts) volume 1
Circle trilogy) volume 1
The circle trilogy volume 1
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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Circle trilogy) volume 1
The circle trilogy volume 1
Brilliance Audio on compact disc
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"In the last days of high summer, with lightning striking blue in a black sky, the sorcerer stood on a high cliff overlooking the raging sea ... Belting out his grief into the storm, Hoyt Mac Cionaoith rails against the evil that has torn his twin brother from their family's embrace. Her name is Lilith. Existing for over a thousand years, she has lured countless men to an immortal doom with her soul-stealing kiss. But now, this woman known as vampire...
18) Promise me
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Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 8
Myron Bolitar novel volume 07
Thorndike Press large print core
Myron Bolitar novel volume 08
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Myron Bolitar novel volume 07
Thorndike Press large print core
Myron Bolitar novel volume 08
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Entertainment agent Myron Bolitar offers a ride home to a young girl to prevent her from accepting a ride from a drunk driver, but when the girl disappears, he is forced to rescue her to prove his innocence.
19) The tenth circle
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
890L
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English
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Trixie Stone is only a freshman in high school when Jason, the junior she thinks she loves, dumps her. Then one night at a party, their paths cross again. A few hours later, a visibly shaken Trixie comes home to tell her father that Jason sexually assaulted her. Daniel Stone has always done everything in his power to keep his daughter safe. But he never imagined anything so devastating could happen to Trixie--and now he's not sure how to help her....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
960L
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English
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The Zombie War came unthinkably close to eradicating humanity. Max Brooks, driven by the urgency of preserving the acid-etched first-hand experiences of the survivors from those apocalyptic years, traveled across the United States of America and throughout the world, from decimated cities that once teemed with upwards of thirty million souls to the most remote and inhospitable areas of the planet. He recorded the testimony of men, women, and sometimes...
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