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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Ember, built as a last refuge for the human race, is running out of power two hundred years later, but twelve-year-old Lina thinks there may yet be hope when she finds part of an ancient message that may hold a key to getting out of the city.
82) 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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I survived volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
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Max and Zena Rosen are struggling to live in a Polish ghetto after the Nazis take away their father. Max and Zena escape the Nazi soldiers into a forest that is nearby. They are found and taken to a safe camp by Jewish resistance fighters. However bombs start falling. Can Max and Zena survive?
85) Sunny
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Track (Jason Reynolds) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
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"Sunny is the best runner on the Defenders, but he hates running. What he really loves is dancing. Can he find a way to fulfill his passion without letting down the team?"--
"Sunny tries to shine despite his troubled past in this third novel in the critically acclaimed Track series from National Book Award finalist Jason Reynolds. Ghost. Patina. Sunny. Lu. Four kids from wildly different backgrounds, with personalities that are explosive when they...
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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: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
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Anne Shirley is an eleven-year-old orphan who has hung on determinedly to an optimistic spirit and a wildly creative imagination through her early deprivations. She erupts into the lives of aging brother and sister Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a girl instead of the boy they had sent for. Thus begins a story of transformation for all three; indeed the whole rural community of Avonlea comes under Anne's influence in some way. We see her grow from a...
89) Code of honor
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Bravelands. Original series volume 2
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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"After an act of betrayal rocks the Bravelands, baboon Thorn must find a way to confront treachery in his own troop, while elephant Sky searches for answers and lion Fearless contends with the usurper who conquered his father's pride"--
90) Finding Langston
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Finding Langston volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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Discovering a book of Langston Hughes' poetry in the library helps Langston cope with the loss of his mother, relocating from Alabama to Chicago as part of the Great Migration, and being bullied.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Eighth-grade star quarterback Nate Brodie's family is feeling the stress of the troubled economy, and Nate is frantic because his best friend Abby is going blind, so when he gets a chance to win a million dollars if he can complete a pass during the halftime of a New England Patriot's game, he is nearly overwhelmed by the pressure to succeed.
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Adventurer's guide volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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"In a magickal world of floating tiers, mischievous dragons, and endless bureaucracy, Anne and her friends embark on a Rightful Heir Quest to claim her place in the Hierarchy and escape horrible consequences"--
93) Little Women
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 33
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1300L
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For generations, children around the world have come of age with Louisa May Alcott's March girls: hardworking eldest sister Meg, headstrong, impulsive Jo, timid Beth, and precocious Amy. With their father away at war, and their loving mother Marmee working to support the family, the four sisters have to rely on one another for support as they endure the hardships of wartime and poverty. We witness the sisters growing up and figuring out what role...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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When lonely Ravani Foster discovers his new friend Virginia and her six mysterious runaway companions are in danger, he must fight to keep them safe, or lose the only person who has ever understood him.
In the dead of night, a truck arrives in Slaughterville, a small town curiously named after its windowless slaughterhouse. Seven mysterious kids with suitcases step out of the vehicle and into an abandoned home on a dead-end street, looking over their...
96) Rise and fall
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Pub. Date
2015.
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...
97) The hero two doors down: based on the true story of friendship between a boy and a baseball legend
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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Eight-year-old Steve Satlow is thrilled when Jackie Robinson moves into his Jewish neighborhood in Brooklyn in 1948, although many of his neighbors are not, and when Steve actually meets his hero he is even more excited--and worried that a misunderstanding over a Christmas tree could damage his new friendship.
98) Beyond the grave
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 5
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A Clue found in Book 3 sends Amy and Dan jetting off to find out just what's behind the fierce rivalry between the Tomas and Ekaterina branches of the Cahill family. Was a Clue stolen from the Tomas branch? Where is it now? And most important, can Amy and Dan get their hands on it before their rivals do?
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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In 1989 someone is threatening to steal the crown jewels, so the Queen of England summons Mac B. to England to protect them--and when they are stolen from a locked dungeon cell, where Mac and Holcroft, one of the warders, are supposed to be guarding them, it's up to Mac to figure out how they were stolen, and whether the thief is the descendant of an Irish soldier-of-fortune who tried to steal them in 1671, or someone else entirely.
100) Broken pride
Author
Series
Bravelands. Original series volume 1
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
For generations, the animals of the African plains have followed a single rule: only kill to survive. But when an unthinkable act of betrayal shatters the peace, the fragile balance between predators and prey will rest in the paws of three unlikely heroes.