Anne Ursu
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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Marya Lupu's parents has always believed that her older brother Luka is destined to be a sorcerer and make the family's fortune, so when the day he is tested turns into a disaster, and the Guild declares that he has no magical talent, they find it easier to blame Marya for upsetting the test than admit the truth, and she is sent to the Dragomir Academy, a school for wayward girls--but a school where she finds friendship and ultimately discovers her...
2) The real boy
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Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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On an island on the edge of an immense sea there is a city, a forest, and a boy. The city is called Asteri, a perfect city that was saved by the magic woven into its walls from a devastating plague that swept through the world over a hundred years before. The forest is called the Barrow, a vast wood of ancient trees that encircles the city and feeds the earth with magic. And the boy is called Oscar, a shop boy for the most powerful magician in the...
3) Breadcrumbs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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"Hazel and Jack are best friends until an accident with a magical mirror and a run-in with a villainous queen find Hazel on her own, entering an enchanted wood in the hopes of saving Jack's life"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Cronus chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Thirteen-year-old Charlotte must rescue humankind again when the evil Philonecron captures her cousin Zee, and Poseidon himself sends a sea monster to eat the cruise ship on which Charlotte's parents are trapped.
Author
Series
Cronus chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2007, c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Description
After her cousin Zee arrives from England, thirteen-year-old Charlotte and he must set out to save humankind from denizens of the underworld, Nightmares, Death, Pain, and a really nasty guy named Phil.
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Maximilian Funk is the new kid in school, and not much of a baseball fan, a deadly combination. He has to figure out a way to impress Molly Kinsman, the best pitcher in the city and the most beautiful girl he's ever seen. One little lie couldn't hurt, could it? This short story from the collection Guys Read: The Sports Pages is a winner.
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Pub. Date
[2024]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"The house seemed to sit apart from the others on Katydid Street, silent and alone, like it didn't fit among them. For Violet Hart-whose family is about to move into the house on Katydid Street-very little felt like it fit anymore. Like their old home, suddenly too small since her mother remarried and the new baby arrived. Or Violet's group of friends, which, since they started middle school, isn't enough for Violet's best friend, Paige. Everything...
10) The Sports Pages
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A lineman with something to prove a vendetta against a baseball legend The rise of a real-life NHL all-star
The luckiest grapefruit in sports history Open upThe Sports Pages, the third volume in the Guys Read Library of Great Reading, and you're in for all of this and more. From fiction to nonfiction, from baseball to mixed martial arts and everything in between, these are ten stories about the rush of victory and the crush of defeat on and off the...