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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 13.5 - AR Pts: 25
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Gulliver has an itch to travel around the world, but whenever he steps on a ship, bad luck seems to find him. He is shipwrecked, abandoned, marooned, and mutinied against, and each time lands in a strange and curious place. First he discovers the kingdom of the six-inch-tall Lilliputians, then the country of the giant Brobdingnagians, then the island of the academic Laputans, which floats in the sky, and finally the noble realm of the horselike Houyhnhnms....
83) The Broken gun
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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Dan Sheridan, Vietnam veteran and writer of Westerns and history, had come to Arizona to research the Toomey brothers, who had vanished there 90 years earlier with 4,000 head of cattle and 27 hands. He was about to give up and go home when someone was killed. Then someone tried to kill him, which, naturally, got his attention and riled his curiosity. Now he wouldn't go until he found the truth ...
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Homelanders volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
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When eighteen-year-old Charlie West finds the one person who knows what happened to him a year earlier, he learns that remembering is painful as well as dangerous, and figuring out what to do with the new knowledge may be his toughest challenge yet.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 10
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In this twist on Edgar Allen Poe's gothic short story, a wealthy teenaged girl who can afford a special mask to protect her from the plague that decimated humanity in the mid-1800s, falls in love, becomes caught up in a conspiracy to overthrow an oppressive government, and faces the threat of a new plague.
86) Neanderthal
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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When a paleoanthropologist mysteriously disappears in the remote upper regions of the Pamir Mountains in Tajikistan, two of his former students, once lovers and now competitors, set off in search of him. Along the way, they make an astounding discovery: a remnant band of Neanderthals, the ancient rivals to Homo sapiens, live on. The shocking find sparks a struggle that replays a conflict from thirty thousand years ago and delves into the heart of...
87) Aurora rising
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Aurora cycle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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Told in separate voices, eighteen-year-old Tyler Jones, top graduate of Aurora Academy, and a group of misfits and troublemakers embark on their first mission with Auri, a stowaway from the distant past.
88) The darkening
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Darkening volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
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"Vesper Vale is the daughter of revolutionaries. Failed revolutionaries. When her mother was caught by the queen's soldiers, they gave her a choice: death by the hangman's axe, or death by the Storm that surrounds the city and curses anyone it touches. She chose the Storm. And when the queen's soldiers--led by a paranoid prince--catch up to Vesper's father after twelve years on the run, Vesper will do whatever it takes to save him from sharing that...
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Bantam Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
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It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and the Emperor, and driven out the remnants of the old Imperial Starfleet to a distant corner of the galaxy. Princess Leia and Han Solo are married and expecting Jedi Twins. And Luke Skywalker has become the first in a long-awaited line of Jedi Knights. But thousand of light-years away, the last of the emperor's warlords has taken command...
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Robert Langdon novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 27
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Symbologist Robert Langdon returns in this new thriller follow-up to The Da Vinci Code.
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Border trilogy (Cormac McCarthy) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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John Grady Cole, a 16-year-old dispossessed Texan, crosses the Rio Grande into Mexico in 1949, accompanied by his pal Lacey Rawlins. The two precocious horsemen pick up a sidekick--a laughable but deadly marksman named Jimmy Blevins--encounter various adventures on their way south and finally arrive at a paradisiacal hacienda where Cole falls into an ill-fated romance.
92) Dead or alive
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
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Jack Ryan, Jr. and his Campus colleagues John Clark and Ding Chavez, go after a vicious terrorist mastermind--the Emir--and they will bring him in ... dead or alive.
93) See how they run
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Embassy Row novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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Grace Blakely believed that finding the truth about her mother's murder would finally give her peace, but now she knows that it is only the beginning of the secrets that will dominate her life--and make her a target on Embassy Row in Adria.
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NUMA files volume 1
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Pocket Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 25
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870L
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Underwater divers Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala battle a secret Spanish brotherhood which is plotting to regain Spanish territory taken by the U.S. The action ranges from the decks of a sunken passenger liner in the Atlantic to an underwater Mayan temple. By the author of Flood Tide.
95) Allegiant
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Divergent trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered--fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left...
96) Medusa
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
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Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on a case involving a hideous series of medical experiments, an extraordinarily ambitious Chinese criminal organization, and a secret new virus that threatens to set off a worldwide pandemic. In this eighth NUMA File novel, Kurt Austin and his National Underwater and Marine Agency Special Projects team return, squaring off with the elusive and dangerous Pyramid Triad organization of China in a race to acquire the antidote...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
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In Washington State, a widowed doctor suffering from cancer takes a hunting trip, the real purpose of which is to commit suicide, which he will masquerade as an accident. But Dr. Ben Givens' resolve is tested by several events which reaffirm the joy of living--he cheats death by fighting off wolves and helps a girl give birth.
98) Rule of Wolves
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 25
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As Fjerda's massive army prepares to invade, Nikolai Lantsov will summon every bit of his ingenuity and charm to win this fight, and Zoya Nazyalensky must embrace her powers to become the weapon her country needs, meanwhile Nina Zenik risks discovery and death as she wages war on Fjerda from inside its capital.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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While fleeing from Mozambique to Zimbabwe to escape an unwanted marriage, Nhamo, an eleven-year-old Shona girl, struggles to escape drowning and starvation and in so doing comes close to the luminous world of the African spirits.
100) The traitor's game
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Traitor's game volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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After three years in exile Kestra Dallisor has been summoned back to Antora by her father, right-hand man of the seemingly immortal king, Lord Endrick, but she is intercepted and kidnapped by the Coracks who want to use her to get the Olden Blade, which they believe can be used to kill the despot--Simon, one of the rebels with his own grudge against the Dallisors, is assigned to accompany her, but Kestra has her own plans and she does not intend to...
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