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Percy Jackson and the olympians volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Percy and his friends set out to find his best friend, Grover, who is held prisoner on an island somewhere in the Bermuda Triangle, before heading out to save Camp Half-Blood from mythological monsters.
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In Underland, Macfarland delivers his masterpiece: an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory, and the land itself. He takes us on an extraordinary journey into our relationship with darkness, burial, and what lies beneath the surface of both place and mind. Traveling through "deep time" - the dizzying expanses of geologic time that stretch away from the present - he moves from the birth of the universe...
3) The burning
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Guardians of Ga'Hoole volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Soren and the rest of the band of owls in the great tree must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms in order to prepare for the deadly attack against them, but St. Aggie has fallen to the Pure Ones and without Soren and his allies, their enemies will prevail.
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Guardians of Ga'hoole volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Nyroc, son of the evil Kludd and Nyra, is forced to fufill his dead father's destiny and oppress all of owldom, but when doubt grows in Nyroc's heart he must make an ultimate decision between good and evil.
5) The ancient
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Bransen Garibond, in search of his father, journeys to the land of Vanguard, where he plays a central role in a war against the cruel leader Ancient Bradden.
6) The rescue
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Guardians of Ga'hoole volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Soren goes on a perilous quest in order to rescue his mentor, a journey which leads him to a truth that threatens to destroy the owl kingdom.
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Percy Jackson and the olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
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With the same dazzling imagination and love of language that have made Salman Rushdie one of the great storytellers of our time, Luka and the Fire of Life revisits the magic-infused, intricate world he first brought to life in the modern classic Haroun and the Sea of Stories. This breathtaking new novel centers on Luka, Haroun's younger brother, who must save his father from certain doom. For Rashid Khalifa, the legendary storyteller of Kahani, has...
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Sixteen-year-old Margo Crane, family ties severed with the violent death of her father, takes to the Stark River in a rowboat left to her by her grandfather and sets out to find her runaway mother, using her knowledge of the natural world and ability to see into the hearts of men and women to survive.
10) Past tense
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Jack Reacher novel volume 23
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English
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"Jack Reacher has extended his thumb and hit the pavement. His plan is to follow the autumn sun on an epic trip across America, from Maine to California. He doesn't get far. On a country road in rural New Hampshire, deep in the New England woods, he sees a sign to a place he has never been: The town where his father was born. He thinks, What's one extra day? and takes the detour. At the same moment, in the same isolated area, a car breaks down. Two...
12) Sanctuary
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In 2032, when sixteen-year-old Vali's mother is detained by the Deportation Forces, Vali must flee Vermont with her little brother, Ernie, hoping to reach their Tía Luna in the sanctuary state of California.
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Young CIA agent Switters, hindered by a shaman's curse that keeps him from allowing his feet to touch earth, continues his adventures around the world in a wheelchair and on stilts, lusting after his teenage stepsister, consorting with nuns and rebels, and challenging the Vatican.
14) Mosquitoland
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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"When she learns that her mother is sick in Ohio, Mim confronts her demons on a thousand-mile odyssey from Mississippi that redefines her notions of love, loyalty, and what it means to be sane"--
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Franny K. Stein mad scientist volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Franny K. Stein jumps into action as a mad scientist when Igor swallows the doomsday device.
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In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her relatives in San Antonio. Four years earlier, a band of Kiowa...
17) The road
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Traces the journey of a father and his son as they walk alone after a great fire has consumed the nation and left everything in ashes.
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"Quichotte, an aging traveling salesman obsessed with the "unreal real" of TV, falls in impossible love with a queen of the screen; while obsessively writing her love letters, he wishes an imaginary son, Sancho, into existence. Together they set off across America in Quichotte's trusty Chevy Cruze to find her and convince her of his love. Meanwhile, Quichotte's tragicomic story is being told by the author who created him: Brother, a mediocre spy novelist...
19) Torn
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Missing volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Time travelers Jonah and Katherine arrive in 1611 to rescue John Hudson, the missing son of explorer Henry Hudson, but just as the mutiny on the "Discovery" is supposed to start, Jonah and Katherine's knowledge of history is tested once again and they fear that more is at stake than just one boy's life. Includes facts about Henry Hudson's explorations.
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Cliff, a retired Michigan high school teacher, cheated out of his family farm by Vivian, his ex-wife of thirty-eight years, embarks on a journey of discovery when he sets out on a road trip across America, determined to rename all the states and state names, and reconnect with his son and other people from the past.
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