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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
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"Clay has lived his whole life under the mountain. The MudWing dragonet knows war is raging between the dragon tribes in the world outside - a war that he and four other dragonets are destined to end, according to the mysterious prophecy they have been taught. The five "chosen" dragonets were stolen from their homes while they were still in their eggs - and hidden away for years - all to fulfill the prophecy. But not every dragonet wants a destiny....
2) Prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
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In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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When the NSA invincible code-breaking machine encounters a code it connot break, the agency calls in head cryptographer, Susan Fletcher. What she uncovers sends shock waves through the corridors of power. Caught in a tempest of secrecy and lies, Fletcher battles for her country, her life and the life of the man she loves.
4) The Guardian
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 19
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ulie Barenson's young husband left her two unexpected gifts before he died - a Great Dane puppy named Singer and the promise that he would always be watching over her. Now four years have passed. Still living in the small town of Swansboro, North Carolina, twenty-nine-year-old Julie is emotionally ready to make a commitment to someone again. But who? Should it be Richard Franklin, the handsome, sophisticated engineer who treats her like a queen? Or...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 14
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"With fierce intelligence and emotional intensity, Alice Sebold brings us a searing portrait of a mother-daughter bond that descends into murder. Clair and Helen Knightly are a parent and child locked in a relationship so unrelenting that they have become the center of each other's worlds. But as this novel opens, Helen crosses a boundary she never thought she would approach. And while her act is almost unconscious, it somehow seems like the fulfillment...
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Left Behind series. Main series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
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Airline captain Rayford Steele, stunned when over one hundred passengers vanish from his plane in the blink of an eye, quickly realizes the Rapture his wife had been telling him about--an event in which Jesus would return to take his followers to Heaven before they die--had happened and he had been left behind.
7) Bleachers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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High school all-American Neely Crenshaw was probably the best quarterback ever to play for the legendary Messina Spartans. Fifteen years have gone by since those glory days, and Neely has come home to Messina to bury Coach Eddie Rake, the man who molded the Spartans into an unbeatable football dynasty. Now, as Coach Rake's "boys" sit in the bleachers waiting for the dimming field lights to signal his passing, they replay the old games, relive the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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From America's "Queen of Suspense" comes a riveting new thriller about a young girl's murder and a sister's search to find the killer. When she returns to her childhood home to re-examine her memories of the crime, Trish Duncan does not realize that she is putting innocent lives, including her own, in danger.
9) Hard Eight
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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Stephanie Plum finds herself in over her head once again when she agrees to look into the disappearance of Evelyn Soder and her seven-year-old daughter as a favor to Evelyn's mother, who has guaranteed a child-custody bond with the mortgage on her house.
10) The library book
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2018.
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Reopens the unsolved mystery of the most catastrophic library fire in American history, the 1986 Los Angeles Public Library fire, while exploring the crucial role that libraries play in modern American culture
12) Dear John
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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John, a high school dropout, enlists in the Army not knowing what else to do with his life. While in the Army he meets Savannah, they fall in love and she awaits his return from the Army. After 9/11 John feels it's his duty to re-enlist. During their long separation Savannah falls in love and marries someone else.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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In the future, in a place called Satellite City, fourteen-year-old Cosmo Hill enters the world, unwanted by his parents. He's sent to the Clarissa Frayne Institute for Parentally Challenged Boys Freight class. At Clarissa Frayne, the boys are put ot work by the state, testing highly dangerous products. At the end of most days, they are covered in burns, bruises and sores. Cosmo realizes that if he doesn't escape, he will die at this so-called orphanage....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 23
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An operation to abduct a Somali warlord in 1993 Mogadishu leaves 18 Americans dead, 70 wounded and several helicopters destroyed. Filled with imagery--a Somali gunman attacks, riding a cow, a gunwoman fights with a baby on her arm--the book is based on interviews with participants on both sides. The testimony illustrates the military's arrogance and the hate it engendered in the population. By a reporter for The Philadelphia Inquirer, author of Bringing...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 41
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Hank and Little Alfred get into trouble while playing pirates.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 10
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The latest installment of the Stephanie Plum series comes complete with non-stop action, mayhem, hot sexual tension, plenty of junk food, exploding cars, pot roast with the Plum family, and a viewing at the Burg's premier funeral home.