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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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The aliens must come together because their power is in numbers.
The third installment in the action-packed Lorien Legacies series that launched with "I Am Number Four" and "The Power of Six", finds the stakes higher than ever as John, Number Six, and Number Seven desperately try to find the rest of the Lorien Nine before it's too late.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 6
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In San Francisco Bay there was a United States Navy base called Port Chicago. During World War II, it was a busy port where young sailors loaded bombs and ammunition into ships bound for American troops in the Pacific. Like the entire Navy, Port Chicago was strictly segregated. All the officers giving orders were white; all the men loading bombs were black. On July 17, 1944, a massive explosion rocked Port Chicago, killing 320 servicemen and injuring...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
750L
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Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
24) The Boundless
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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Even though it is now 1901, the people of Buxton, Canada (originally a settlement of runaway slaves) and Chatham, Canada are still haunted by two events of half a century before--the American Civil War, and the Irish potato famine, and the lasting damage those events caused to the survivors.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
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Irish orphans Molly, fourteen, and Kip, ten, travel to England to work as servants in a crumbling manor house where nothing is quite what it seems to be, and soon the siblings are confronted by a mysterious stranger and secrets of the cursed house.
28) Rain Reign
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Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
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Rose Howard has OCD, Asperger's, and is obsessed with homonyms. She even purposely gave her dog Rain a name with two homonyms (Reign, Rein), which, according to Rose?s rules of homonyms, is very special. When a storm hits Rain goes missing. Rose?s father accidentally let Rain out. Now Rose has to find her dog, even if it means leaving the safety of her routines and safe places to search for her missing dog. Rose finds the dog as well as Rain?s original...
30) Rise and fall
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 7
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"Deep in the desert there sits a beautiful oasis, ruled by a monarch unlike any other in Erdas. His name is Cabaro, the Great Lion, and he reigns over a kingdom of animals, jealously guarding his golden talisman. No human has ever set foot on the Great Beast's territory. The journey to his oasis is impossible. As a team, Conor, Abeke, Meilin, and Rollan have achieved the impossible before. But now that team is broken--the friends scattered by a devastating...
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Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
520L
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"The magic tree house has taken Jack and Annie back in time to England in 1944. England is fighting for its life in World War II. Before long, Jack and Annie find themselves parachuting into Normandy, France, behind enemy lines. The date is June 5. Will the brave brother and sister team be able to make a difference during one of the darkest times in history?"--
32) I was here
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Pub. Date
2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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In an attempt to understand why her best friend committed suicide, eighteen-year-old Cody Reynolds retraces her dead friend's footsteps and makes some startling discoveries.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 12
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When Nic, a slave in the mines outside of Rome, is forced to enter a sealed cavern containing lost treasures of Julius Caesar, he finds himself in possession of an ancient amulet filled with magic once reserved for the Gods, and becomes the center of a conspiracy to overthrow the emperor and destroy Rome.
34) Mission Titanic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
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The Outcast recreates the conditions for the Titanic disaster and gives Dan and Amy Cahill just days to stop the shipwreck from taking place.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
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As spring arrives on Gardam Street, there are surprises in store for each Penderwick, from neighbor Nick Geiger's expected return from the war to Batty's new dog-walking business, but her plans to use her profits to surprise her family on her eleventh birthday go astray.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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Two new detectives join Calder, Petra, and Tommy to track down a mysterious museum's 13 stolen artworks, deal with a ghost among the museum guards, and unravel the mystery behind the black-jacketed bystanders who seem to be tracking their every move.
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"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...
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A collection of stories tell of two sisters: one trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. The janitor at the local school has his faith tested in an encounter with an isolated man he has come to help; a grown daughter longs for mother love even as she comes to accept her mother's happiness in a foreign country; and the adult Lucy Barton returns to visit her siblings...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
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Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive by unemployment and the surrounding wilderness. A victory like this would draw national attention to the ailing town: it could attract government funding and an influx of talented athletes who would choose Beartown over the big nearby cities. A victory like this would certainly...