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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Five months ago, Liv's big brother, Jonah, shot himself. It was an accident. He didn't know that the gun was loaded. But the damage was done. Now he won't ever be leaving their small mill town like he planned. Jonah can't speak, can't walk, can't take care of himself at all. Their house is full of machines and nurses working around the clock to keep Jonah alive. Liv's mom is struggling to cope with the aftermath, so Liv ends up being the one to soothe...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
During Mile's in-school suspension, he finds himself in a fierce battle with a classmate turned insidious termite who is determined to destroy books and the Black and Brown history they contain, and only Miles can stop him.
5) The patient
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Dr. Jessie Copeland, having pioneered a tiny robot designed to excise tumors that had previously been considered inoperable, draws the attention of remorseless mercenary Claude Malloche who thinks nothing of threatening the lives of thousands of people in order to get Copeland to use her technology on his brain tumor.
Author
Series
Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 6th
Publisher
Dutton Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
"The last thing Jacob Portman saw before the world went dark was a terrible, familiar face. Suddenly, he and Noor are back in his grandfather's house. Jacob doesn't know how they escaped from V's loop, but he does know one thing for certain: Caul has returned. Risen from the Library of Souls, Caul and his apocalyptic agenda seem unstoppable. Only one hope remains--deliver Noor to the meeting place of the seven prophesied ones, if they can decipher...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Investigative reporter Fran Simmons puts her own life in danger when she sets out to discover who really killed Dr. Gary Lasch, a murder for which his wife, Molly, has spent years in jail, even though she has no memory of the night of his death.
9) Life sucks
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Teen vampire Dave Miller, facing the prospect of eternity stocking shelves at an all-night, vampire-owned convenience store in Los Angeles, becomes involved with Rosa, a mortal with a fascination for the dark side, only to find himself in competition for her attentions with a psychotic surfer-vamp.
Author
Series
Publisher
First Second, an imprint of Roaring Book Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Join Taako the elf wizard, Merle the dwarf cleric, and Magnus the human warrior for an adventure they are poorly equipped to handle AT BEST, guided ("guided") by their snarky DM, in a graphic novel that, like the smash-hit podcast it's based on, will tickle your funny bone, tug your heartstrings, and probably pants you if you give it half a chance." --
11) Rebecca
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
1993
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
For months after her death, the memory of Rebecca de Winter continues to dominate everyone at her former home, Manderley, one of the most famous English country houses.
12) Gallant
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Olivia Prior has grown up at the grim Merilance School for Girls with no no past except for her one treasure, her mother's journal, so when a letter arrives inviting her to come home to ruinous manor, Gallant, she seizes the chance to find out about her family.
Author
Publisher
Jimmy Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe - witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family's renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin...desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister's killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that's been long forbidden. Then Emilia...
15) Sadie
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Told from the alternating perspectives of nineteen-year-old Sadie who runs away from her isolated small Colorado town to find her younger sister's killer, and a true crime podcast exploring Sadie's disappearance.
Sadie's been raising her sister Mattie in an isolated Colorado town, trying her best to provide a normal life and keep their heads above water. When Mattie is found dead, and the police investigation is botched, Sadie is determined to bring...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Recreates the 1912 sinking of the Titanic as observed by millionaire John Jacob Astor, a beautiful young Lebanese refugee finding first love, "Unsinkable" Molly Brown, Captain Smith, and others including the iceberg itself.
17) The poet X
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Ever since her body grew into curves, Xiomara Batista has learned to let her fists and her fierceness do the talking. She pours all her frustration and passion onto the pages of a leather notebook, reciting the words to herself like prayers-- especially after she catches feelings for a boy in her bio class named Aman, who her family can never know about. Mami is determined to force her daughter to obey the laws of the church, and Xiomara understands...
18) Turtle moon
Author
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
A transplanted New York woman is determined to start a new life with her twelve-year-old son, Keith in Verity, Florida.
19) Ready player two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--
20) Port mortuary
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
Kay Scarpetta, stationed at Dover Air Force Base to learn about CT-assisted virtual autopsy, finds her personal and professional life threatened when the body of a young man is found near her home and she uncovers evidence that links his death to a potential conspiracy to cause mass casualties.
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