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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"An extraordinary debut, a deeply lovely novel that evokes with uncommon deftness the terrible, heartbreaking beauty that is life in wartime. Like the glorious ghosts of the paintings in the Hermitage that lie at the heart of the story, Dean's exquisite prose shimmers with a haunting glow, illuminating us to the notion that art itself is perhaps our most necessary nourishment. A superbly graceful novel." - Chang-Rae Lee, New York Times Bestselling...
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Border trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The third of a three-part saga, following the lives of John Grady Cole and Billy Parham, cowboys and friends in 1952 who must find a way to cope with their changing world.
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These violent delights volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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In 1926 Shanghai, eighteen-year-old Juliette Cai, heir of the Scarlet Gang, and her first love-turned-rival Roma Montagov, leader of the White Flowers, must work together when mysterious deaths threaten their city.--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Gregory Maguire, critically acclaimed author of Wicked, returns with his eagerly anticipated second novel. Using a dazzling reincarnation of the Cinderella story set in 17th century Holland, Maguire deftly weaves together stories of inner and outer beauty. Iris is a plain but intelligent young girl. Forced to flee England with her recently widowed mother, Margarethe, and her older sister, she finds herself swept into a life that becomes a legend....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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The Darcys are looking forward to some peace and quiet as Elizabeth settles into her pregnancy, but when the couple is summoned to Northanger Abbey, they uncover intrigues that threaten the Darcy legacy and good name, as well as their freedom.
9) The prodigal
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Abram's daughters volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Leah, having taken over the care of her younger siblings following the death of her mother, is also having to deal with the return of her sister who was once shunned by the Amish community and is now in a period of Proving, but her faith is sorely tested when she discovers a past betrayal that has robbed her of the happiness she might have had with Jonas.
10) Coal black horse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When Robey Childs's mother has a premonition about her husband, a soldier fighting in the Civil War, she does the unthinkable: she sends her only child to find his father on the battlefield and bring him home.
At fourteen, wearing the coat his mother sewed to ensure his safety-blue on one side, gray on the other- Robey thinks he's off on a great adventure. But not far from home, his horse falters and he realizes the enormity of his task. It takes...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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“Can’t cook but doesn’t bite.” So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an “A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition” that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting, ever-whistling Rose Llewellyn and her font-of-knowledge brother, Morris Morgan, in Marias Coulee along with a
...14) Out of Darkness
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Set against the back drop of one of the worst school tragedies in American history, Out of Darkness is a brutal and gripping novel about race, segregation, love, and the forces that destroy people.
15) Rivers of gold
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Yukon quest volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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In 1898, Miranda Colton, presumed dead by her family and friends, survives after nearly drowning in the Yukon and is drawn to the loner botanist with whom she crosses paths during recovery; meanwhile, the rest of her party, including her pregnant sister-in-law, attempt to survive the winter with inadequate shelter.
16) Gallows thief
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Britain, 1820. After the wars with France, the government lives in mortal fear of social unrest. Rider Sandman is a hero of Waterloo struggling to repay his debts when he becomes involved in the case of a man waiting to be hanged in prison. Given the job by the Home Secretary of investigating the man's guilt, Sandman finds himself knee-deep in labyrinthine plots involving bribes, sedition and a massive conspiracy of silence.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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An atmospheric debut novel set on the gritty streets of Victorian London, Some Danger Involved introduces detective Cyrus Barker and his assistant, Thomas Llewelyn, as they work to solve the gruesome murder of a young scholar in London's Jewish ghetto. When the eccentric and enigmatic Barker takes the case, he must hire an assistant, and out of all who answer an ad for a position with "some danger involved," he chooses downtrodden Llewelyn, a gutsy...
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Tales of the Otori volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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The stage is set: Takeo and his new bride Kaede are on the brink of starting a war to reclaim the lands that are her rightful claim by birth, with a thousand loyal warriors by their side. But much more is at stake, with Takeo sworn to avenge the death of his adoptive father. Kaede, a not-at-all helpless damsel, has also cast a first stone by renouncing the powerful Lord Fujiwara, who considers her his first wife. An imaginary feudal Japan is vividly...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Four fictional characters are interviewed in this profile of the adventurous sleuth, by the New York Times–bestselling author of A Sunlit Weapon.
The historical mystery Maisie Dobbs was first published in 2003, introducing readers to an inquisitive, young, English, working-class woman as she opens her own London detective agency following World War I. Jacqueline Winspear's debut won her the Agatha Award for Best First Novel and led to a New...
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