Emily Rankin
21) After the end
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Series
After the end volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
World War III has left the world ravaged by nuclear radiation. A lucky few escaped to the Alaskan wilderness. They've survived for the last thirty years by living off the land. When Juneau returns from a hunting trip to discover that everyone in her clan has vanished, she sets off to find them. Leaving the boundaries of their land for the very first time, she learns something horrifying: There never was a war. Cities were never destroyed. The world...
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Series
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English
Description
"In Gatefather, the third installment in the Mithermages series, New York Times bestselling author Orson Scott Card continues his fantastic tale of the Mages of Westil who live in exile on Earth. Danny North is the first Gate Mage to be born on Earth in nearly 2000 years, or at least the first to survive to claim his power. Families of Westil in exile on Earth have had a treaty that required the death of any suspected Gate Mage. The wars between the...
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English
Description
Esme Cahill thinks she has failed spectacularly: fired from her New York City publishing job, divorced from her husband, and possessing little more than a broken-down car and a pile of unfinished manuscripts, she drives home to Asheville at the request of her late grandmother, Adele, who had begged her, just before she died, to return to the place she grew up. There she discovers the once-charming lakeside retreat run by her family is sliding toward...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
810L
Language
English
Description
Imagines the coming-of-age story of young Julia, whose world is thrown into upheaval when it is discovered that the Earth's rotation has suddenly begun to slow, posing a catastrophic threat to all life.
25) Marrow Island
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Language
English
Description
"A new novel from a former bookseller, author of the acclaimed Glaciers, tracks a young woman's return home to investigate a secretive community that has mysteriously rescued an island devastated by natural and chemical disaster -- and taken hold of one of her oldest friends. Twenty years ago Lucie Bowen left Marrow Island; along with her mother, she fled the aftermath of an earthquake that compromised the local refinery, killing her father and ravaging...
27) The fates divide
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
HL 810L
Language
English
Description
"The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable. Akos is in love with Cyra, in spite of his fate: He will die in service to Cyra's family. And when Cyra's father, Lazmet Noavek - a soulless tyrant, thought to be dead - reclaims the Shotet throne, Akos believes his end is closer than ever. As Lazmet ignites a barbaric war, Cyra and Akos are desperate...
28) Nemesis
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Series
Project Nemesis volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
HL 540L
Language
English
Description
As the Anvil, an enormous asteroid, threatens to end all life on Earth, sixteen-year-old Min begins to uncover a lifetime of lies, a sinister conspiracy involving all students in her sophomore class in Fire Lake, Idaho.
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Language
English
Description
A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge--and is quite the cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school...
30) What comes after
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
800L
Language
English
Description
When her veterinarian father dies, sixteen-year-old Iris Wight must move from Maine to North Carolina where her Aunt Sue spends Iris's small inheritance while abusing her physically and emotionally, but the hardest thing to take is her mistreatment of the farm animals.
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English
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Duty. Honor. Country. That's West Point's motto, and every cadet who passes through its stone gates vows to live it. But on the eve of 9/11, as Dani, Hannah and Avery face four grueling years ahead, they realize they'll only survive if they do it together. Everyone knows Dani is going places. With athletic talent and a brilliant mind, she navigates West Point's predominantly male environment with wit and confidence, breaking stereotypes and embracing...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
In 1966 Illinois, twelve-year-old Wilhelmina, convinced that she, her parents, and sisters are Abraham Lincoln's family reincarnated, determines to keep them from suffering the same fates, which is complicated when she and her father become involved in the civil rights movement.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
Lexile measure
900L
Language
English
Description
While working on a project translating letters from sixteenth-century Prague, high school senior Nora Kane discovers her best friend murdered with her boyfriend the apparent killer. She is caught up in a dangerous web of secret societies and shadowy conspirators, all searching for a mysterious ancient device purported to allow direct communication with God.
34) Providence
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English
Description
Escaping after four years of captivity by a Lovecraft-inspired mad scientist, Jon manifests uncontrollable powers that endanger the woman he loves at the same time a detective puts everything on the line to solve a bizarre string of deaths.--
35) Diamond fire
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Series
Hidden Legacy novels volume 4
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English
Description
Catalina Baylor is looking forward to wearing her maid of honor dress and watching her older sister walk down the aisle. Then the wedding planner gets escorted off the premises, the bride's priceless tiara disappears, and Rogan's extensive family overruns his mother's home. Someone is cheating, someone is lying, and someone is plotting murder. To make this wedding happen, Catalina will have to do the thing she fears most: use her magic. But she's...
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English
Description
Herman uncovers the bedroom secrets and sex scandals of American presidents, and explores the surprising ways voters have reacted to their leaders' sex scandals. Does rampant adultery show a lack of character-- or the stamina needed to run the country? What is sex like with the most powerful man in the world? And when America finally elects a female president, will she, too, have sexual escapades in the Oval Office? -- adapted from jacket
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Language
English
Description
Delilah "Spunky" Spunk is invited to conduct a genome study in a small North Carolina town to discover if there is a genetic influence on one's desire to remain in a community. She unexpectedly finds herself in the cross hairs of a feud between rival Christmas pageants, and along the way discovers she is falling in love.
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Series
Language
English
Description
The small town of Miller's Point is known across the country for their annual Dickensian Christmas festival. When the celebration is threatened by Clark Woodward, a miserly, big-city businessman, Kate Buckner steps up to save her hometown, their traditions and her favorite holiday. But, along the way, she realizes that the man she's trying to protect her town from might need some rescuing of his own."
39) Ruins
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 21
Lexile measure
HL 790L
Language
English
Description
Rigg, Umbo, and Param have crossed the Wall and entered a new and dangerous world. They learn that Vadesh, a human-shaped machine adept at deception, is no longer to be trusted, and that trust amongst themselves may be waning as well. If Rigg cannot make it into the past and stop the chain of events that he has seen destroying Garden in the future, then there will be no future at all.
Author
Series
Piper Reed volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 2
Lexile measure
590L
Language
English
Description
While her father, a Navy Chief, is on ship duty for six months, nine-year-old Piper stays busy with new neighbors, Christmas at a spaceship beach house, a trip to New Orleans, and especially the upcoming Gypsy Club pet show.