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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is still learning the ropes at her cousin Vinnie's bail bond office, so when she sets out on the trail of Kenny Mancuso - a suspiciously wealthy working-class Trenton boy who has just shot his best friend - the stakes are higher than ever. That Mancuso is distantly related to vice cop Joe Morelli, who is trying to beat Stephanie to the punch, only makes the hunt more thrilling. Using pointers from her pal, Ranger, and...
22) New tricks
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English
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Advocating on behalf of a puppy whose owner was murdered during a custody fight, Andy Carpenter realizes that the pup possesses a dangerous secret that several people are resorting to violence to obtain.
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Jessica Darling novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
790L
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English
Description
Devasted when her best friend moves away from Pineville, New Jersey, sixteen-year-old Hope has no one to talk to as she struggles with her type-A personality, insomnia, and her mixed-up feelings about Marcus Flutie, the intelligent and mysterious "Dreg" who works his way into her heart.
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Andy Carpenter novels volume 10
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English
Description
Believing that a client whose case he lost nine years earlier is innocent, lawyer Andy Carpenter visits the man's aging uncle, who imparts knowledge about a dangerous, secret-ruled world where the key to Andy's client's freedom may be found.
25) Dunk
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
520L
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English
Description
While hoping to work as the clown in an amusement park dunk tank on the New Jersey shore the summer before his junior year in high school, Chad faces his best friend's serious illness, hassles with police, and the girl that got away.
26) Independence day
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English
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In this visionary sequel to The Sportswriter, Ford deepens his portrait of one of the most indelible characters in recent American fiction. In the aftermath of his divorce and the ruin of his career, Frank Bascombe now sells real estate, as he masters the high-wire act of "normalcy". But during the Fourth of July weekend, Frank is called into sudden, bewildering engagement with life.
27) Hard eight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has a big problem: seven-year-old Annie Soder and her mother, Evelyn, have disappeared. Evelyn's estranged husband is not happy because he and Evelyn signed a child custody bond and Steven wants the money to search for Annie. The money was secured by a mortgage to Evelyn's grandmother's house, and the True Blue Bonds Agency wants to take possession of it. Complicating Stephanie's life further is the fact that Evelyn's...
28) Bluff: a novel
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2018.
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English
Description
"A modern magician who becomes obsessed with magic's dark twin--the underworld of the card cheat."--Provided by publisher.
29) Palisades Park
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English
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"Growing up in the 1930s, there is no more magical place than Palisades Amusement Park in New Jersey--especially for seven-year-old Antoinette, who horrifies her mother by insisting on the unladylike nickname Toni, and her brother, Jack. Toni helps her parents, Eddie and Adele Stopka, at the stand where they sell homemade French fries amid the roar of the Cyclone roller coaster. There is also the lure of the world's biggest salt-water pool, complete...
30) Four to score
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum is on the trail of a waitress-gone-bad in the not so scenic neighborhoods of Trenton, New Jersey. She contends with her own sidekicks as well as a rival bounty hunter and also gets involved again with buff vice cop Joe Morelli."--from NoveList.
31) Dog tags
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A German shepherd police dog has witnessed a murder for which his Iraq war vet/former cop-turned-thief owner is accused. If his owner is convicted, the dog will be put down. Attorney Andy Carpenter doesn't feel this is fair and sets out to convince a judge. In the process, he discovers that the dog and his owner had become involved in something much bigger than murder.
32) First degree
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Series
Andy Carpenter novels volume 2
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English
Description
New Jersey lawyer Andy Carpenter, longing for a case he can sink his legal teeth into, gets more than he bargained for when a once dirty cop is found decapitated and Andy's lady love Laurie is suspected of the crime.
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English
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Frank Bascombe travels to the site of his former home on the shore, visits his ex-wife, who is suffering with Parkinson's, and meets a dying former friend.
Ford reinvents Bascombe in the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy. In four richly luminous narratives, Bascombe attempts to reconcile, interpret and console a world undone by calamity. It is a moving and wondrous and extremely funny odyssey through the America people...
34) Sizzling sixteen
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Intrepid sleuth Stephanie Plum, her grandmother, and her other companions struggle to outmaneuver a killer who is targeting Vinnie, a case that is further complicated by Lula's involvement in a fraudulent investment scheme.
35) To the nines
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
Description
Take a trip down the Jersey Turnpike to the irresistible world of Stephanie Plum - where America's favourite bounty hunter gets into more trouble than ever. This time, Stephanie, Lula, and Grandma have a Vegas-sized problem on their hands. The pursuit of a skip brings Stephanie to Las Vegas, and three mob guys want to make sure it's a one-way ticket. Once there, Stephanie meets up with Sally Sweet as well as a whole cast of characters who could only...
36) The innocent
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
One night, Matt Hunter innocently tried to break up a fight--and ended up a killer. Now, nine years later, he's an ex-con who takes nothing for granted. His wife, Olivia, is pregnant, and the two of them are closing on their dream house. But all it will take is one shocking, inexplicable call from Olivia's cell phone to shatter Matt's life a second time.
38) Ghostman
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English
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When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who's occasionally called Jack. While it's doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identity, or even if he's still alive, he's in his mid-thirties and lives completely off the grid, a criminal's criminal who does entirely as he pleases and is almost impossible to get in touch with. But...
40) Fun house
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John Ceepak volume 07
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English
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"By-the-book officer John Ceepak and his wise-cracking young partner, Danny Boyle, have to baby-sit the buff and boozy kids partying it up in a Jersey shore rental house for TV's summertime hit Fun house while simultaneously trying to stop the rowdy kids from breaking the law up and down the beach. But even Ceepak and Danny can't stop one young cast member from being murdered--and others from being threatened with the same fate"--Flap p. 1 of dust...
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