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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 15
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Description
Auden gets a chance to recapture the carefree teen life she missed while her parents were going through a divorce when she goes to spend the summer with her dad and his new family in a charming beach town and meets fellow insomniac Eli, an intriguing loner fighting demons of his own.
2) Ash
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
A variation on the Cinderella story in which a girl named Ash grows up believing in the fairy realm that the king and his philosophers have sought to suppress, until one day she must choose between a handsome fairy cursed to love her and the King's Huntress, whom she loves.
3) Cinder
Author
Series
Lunar chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 14
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Description
As plague ravages the overcrowded Earth, observed by a ruthless lunar people, Cinder, a gifted mechanic and cyborg, becomes involved with handsome Prince Kai and must uncover secrets about her past in order to protect the world in this futuristic take on the Cinderella story.
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 12
Formats
Description
In the last months of high school, charismatic eighteen-year-old Sutter Keely lives in the present, staying drunk or high most of the time, but that could change when starts working to boost the self-confidence of a classmate, Aimee.
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Series
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Detective William Murdoch is called in to investigate the apparent suicide of Constable Oliver Wicken, and as Murdoch begins to collect additional evidence, he starts to wonder whether the man took his own life or if something more sinister is the cause for his death.
10) Family matters
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Pub. Date
c2002
Description
Nariman Vakeel, the elderly patriarch of a small, discordant family in Bombay, finds himself at the mercy of his ungrateful stepchildren when an injury requires him to have constant care, but as he struggles to put his family life back together, he learns some important lessons about familial love.
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Series
Where are the children? volume 2
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"Now, more than four decades since readers first met Nancy and her children, comes the thrilling sequel to the groundbreaking book that set the stage for future generations of psychological suspense novels. A lawyer turned successful podcaster, Melissa has recently married a man whose first wife died tragically, leaving him and their young daughter, Riley, behind. While Melissa and her brother, Mike, help their mom, Nancy, relocate from Cape Cod to...
13) White noise
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"Winner of the 1985 National Book Award from the author of "Zero K" Winner of the National Book Award, "White Noise" tells the story of Jack Gladney, his fourth wife, Babette, and four ultramodern offspring as they navigate the rocky passages of family life to the background babble of brand-name consumerism. When an industrial accident unleashes an "airborne toxic event," a lethal black chemical cloud floats over their lives. The menacing cloud is...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
Twelve-year-old Frankie Joe Huckaby, forced to live with the father he never knew, a stepmother, and four half-brothers in Illinois, starts a delivery service to finance his escape back to his mother in Texas, not realizing he is making a better life for himself than he ever had with her.
16) The wyrm king
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Nick, Julies, Laurie, and their friends try to prevent a hydra from destroying Florida.
18) Black River
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Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A former prison guard and talented fiddler returns to his Montana hometown to bury his wife and confront the inmate who, twenty years ago, held him hostage during a prison riot.
19) After Anna
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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Nobody cuts deeper than family... Noah Alderman, a doctor and a widower, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie, and for the first time in a long time he and his son are happy. But their lives are turned upside down when Maggie's daughter Anna moves in with them. Anna is a gorgeous seventeen-year-old who balks at living under their rules though Maggie, ecstatic to have her daughter back, ignores the red flags that hint at the trouble that is brewing....
20) Bounce
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Thirteen-year-old Evyn's world is turned upside-down when her father, widowed since she was a toddler, suddenly decides to marry a woman with six children, move with Ev and her brother from Maine to Boston, and enroll her in private school.