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81) Cold fire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 23
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The classic story of reporter Holly Thorne, who is intrigued by the strange, quiet Jim Ironheart. Jim has saved 12 lives in three months, and now Holly's falling in love with him. But what power compels an ordinary man to be a hero?
82) Allegiant
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she...
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Song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
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In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty,...
84) The last juror
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before...
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"Based on [the author]s own experiences as a young man, the books two novellas and short story are set in the small towns and mountains of western Montana. It is a world populated with drunks, loggers, card sharks, and whores, but also one rich in the pleasures of fly-fishing, logging, cribbage, and family. By turns raunchy and elegiac, these superb tales express, in [the author]s own words, 'a little of the love I have for the earth as it goes by.'y--...
86) Pinocchio
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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The adventures of the puppet boy created by an old Italian woodcarver from a piece of wood that talked. Includes vocabulary notes in the margin, a brief biography of the author, and instructions for making a hand puppet.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
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When scholars write the history of the world twenty years from now, what will they say was the most crucial development at the dawn of the 21st century--the attacks of 9/11, or the convergence of technology and events that allowed India, China, and so many other countries to become part of the global supply chain for services and manufacturing, creating an explosion of wealth in the middle classes of the world's two biggest nations, and giving them...
88) Catch Me
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Charlene Rosalind Carter Grant believes she will be murdered in four days and she wants Boston's top detective, D.D. Warren, to handle the death investigation. Each year at 8:00 pm on January 21st a woman has died, and all have been childhood friends from a small town in New Hampshire. Grant is the only remaining member of the group, but is she the next victim or the perfect perpetrator?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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This work depicts the heroic young men of Alpha Company as they carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness. They battle the enemy (or maybe more the idea of the enemy), and occasionally each other. In their relationships we see their isolation and loneliness, their rage and fear. They miss their families, their girlfriends and buddies; they miss the lives they...
92) Biscuit
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A little yellow dog wants ever one more thing before he'll go to sleep.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Meet Chet, the wise and lovable canine narrator of "Dog On It", who works alongside Bernie, a down-on-his-luck private investigator. Chet might have flunked out of police school, but he's a detective through and through. In this, their first adventure, Chet and Bernie investigate the disappearance of Madison, a teenage girl who may or may not have been kidnapped, but who has definitely gotten mixed up with some very unsavory characters.
95) The wild robot
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Wild robot volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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When robot Roz opens her eyes for the first time, she discovers that she is all alone on a remote, wild island. She has no idea how she got there or what her purpose is--but she knows she needs to survive. After battling a violent storm and escaping a vicious bear attack, she realizes that her only hope for survival is to adapt to her surroundings and learn from the island's unwelcoming animal inhabitants. As Roz slowly befriends the animals, the...
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A series of unfortunate events volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 6
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On the run after being falsely accused of murder, the three Baudelaire orphans find themselves in the Heimlich Hospital, with the evil Count Olaf in close pursuit.
97) Moonlight mile
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Amanda McCready was four years old when she vanished from a Boston neighborhood twelve years ago. Desperate pleas for help from the child's aunt led investigators Kenzie and Gennaro to take on the case. The pair risked everything to find the young girl, only to orchestrate her return to a neglectful mother and a broken home. Now Amanda is sixteen and gone again. A stellar student, brilliant but aloof, she seemed destined to escape her upbringing....
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Enchanted forest chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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Queen Cimorene sends her sixteen-year-old son, Daystar, into the Enchanted Forest with the only weapon that can combat an evil wizard's magic in an effort to restore the balance of power in the kingdom.
100) Thankless in Death
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Hosting Roarke's big Irish family for Thanksgiving may be challenging, but they are a joyful improvement over Lieutenant Eve Dallas's own childhood. Other couples aren't as lucky as Eve and Roarke. The Reinholds are lying dead in their home. Those who knew them are stunned and heartbroken by the evidence that they were murdered by their own son. Jerry hadn't made a great impression on the bosses who fired him or the girlfriend who dumped him, but...
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