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801) Zen shorts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
540L
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When Stillwater the bear moves into the neighborhood, the stories he tells to three siblings teach them to look at the world in new ways. "Michael," said Karl. "There's a really big bear in the backyard." To Addie he tells a story about the value of material goods. To Michael he pushes the boundaries of good and bad. And to Karl he demonstrates what it means to hold on to frustration. With graceful art and simple stories that are filled with love...
802) Snowbound mystery
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 3
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A family, snowbound in a vacation cabin, discovers adventure in surrounding wild life, three children they find in the snow, and a search for a lost recipe.
803) Root magic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"From debut writer Eden Royce comes a wondrous historical ghost story set in South Carolina in the 1960s - an unforgettable tale of courage, friendship, and Black Girl Magic. It's 1963, and things are changing for Jezebel Turner. Her beloved grandmother has just passed away. The local police deputy won't stop harassing her family. With school integration arriving in South Carolina, Jez and her twin brother, Jay, are about to begin the school year...
804) Texas homecoming
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Night riders volume 1
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During the bitter War Between the States, the Night Riders were an elite Confederate unit known for daring raids behind enemy lines. Now that the war is over, Captain Cade Wheeler is coming home to his grandfather's Texas ranch. But what should be a happy homecoming has a bitter purpose, for Cade and his five surviving comrades have come only to hunt Leveau diViere, the traitor who'd betrayed them to the enemy. But fate has other plans for these bold...
805) The lost
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control of America's most vibrant city, Miami. The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon's back yard. He's always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, and, as a Miami PD officer, protecting the city's most vulnerable. Now, as the new leader of an FBI task force called "Operation Guardian," it's his mission to...
806) Ender in exile
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
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At the close of Ender's Game, Andrew Wiggin, called Ender by everyone, is told that he can no longer live on Earth, and he realizes that this is the truth. He has become far more than just a boy who won a game: he is the Savior of Earth, a hero, a military genius whose allegiance is sought by every nation of the newly shattered Earth Hegemony. He is offered the choice of living in isolation on Eros, at one of the Hegemony's training facilities, but...
807) The great destroyers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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Jo Linden lives in a world where there are no atomic weapons, and the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union is played out in the Pax Games, fought with powerful robotic mecha war machines operated by young pilots; Jo needs the prize money to save her father's mecha repair shop, and keep what is left of her family together, but when competing pilots start dying from poisoning, Jo finds herself caught up in Cold War politics and political...
808) Changelings
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Twins of Petaybee volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
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When a visiting scientist to the planet of Petaybee discovers the shapeshifting talents of the Shongili twins, who are able to transform between human and seal bodies, the twins are in danger of being kidnapped and must flee their home.
809) Shooting the moon
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
890L
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When her brother is sent to fight in Vietnam, twelve-year-old Jamie begins to reconsider the army world that she has grown up in.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 22
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Colonel Pyncheon does well in denouncing Old Matthew: he founds a New England dynasty and builds a remarkable mansion; but on its opening day he is found dead, slaked in his own blood. By 1840, that dynasty is almost spent; amid the dust and decay of the Seven Gables, Clifford and Hepzibah believed in their own continued nobility as much as they believe in the mysterious curse still tracking the Pyncheons.
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"Growing up on their hardscrabble farm in rural Kentucky, fifteen-year-old Albertina "Bertie" Winslow has learned a lot from her mama, Polly. She knows how to lance a boil, make a pie crust, butcher a pig, and tend to every chore that needs doing. What she doesn't know, but is forced to reckon with all too soon, is how to look after children as a mother should ...When Polly succumbs to a long illness, Bertie takes on responsibility for her four younger...
813) A harvest of hope
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Blessing, North Dakota, 1905. Just a few short weeks into her year-long nurse training assignment at the Blessing Hospital, Miriam Antonio is called home to Chicago, where her mother is gravely ill. With siblings to care for, Miriam pleads to be allowed to finish her training in Chicago. Her nursing supervisor grants her a brief reprieve but extracts a promise that Miriam will soon return to Blessing and fulfill her commitment. While in Chicago, Miriam...
814) Wild Texas Rose
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Twenty-five-year-old Rose McMurray may be beautiful, smart, and capable of running her family's ranch at Whispering Mountain, but she's backed away from marriage three times without giving anyone reasons. Everyone thinks she is a coward, afraid of any adventure, including falling in love. She's never done a single wild or reckless thing in her life...until now. Duncan McMurray, like Rose, was adopted into the family. As a Texas Ranger, he swears...
815) The maze of bones
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Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Minutes before she died Grace Cahill changed her will, leaving her descendants an impossible decision: "You have a choice - one million dollars or a clue." Grace is the last matriarch of the Cahills, the world's most powerful family. Everyone from Napoleon to Houdini is related to the Cahills, yet the source of the family power is lost. 39 clues hidden around the world will reveal the family's secret, but no one has been able to assemble them. Now...
816) Mystery ranch
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Description
"The Aldens spend the summer on their aunt's ranch! The ranch is a beautiful place, but it's also the source of trouble between Aunt Jane and Grandfather. As the Boxcar Children explore the land, they make an amazing discovery. Will it help mend Aunt Jane and Grandfather's relationship?"--Publisher's description.
817) The sword thief
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The 39 clues. Main series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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"Amy and Dan Cahill have been located once again, this time in the company of the notoriously unreliable Alistair Oh. Could they have been foolish enough to make an alliance? Spies report that Amy and Dan seem to be tracking the life of one of the most powerful fighters the world has ever known. If this fearsome warrior was a Cahill, his secrets are sure to be well-guarded . . . and the price to uncover them just might be lethal."--Publisher.
818) The silent unseen
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In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kamińska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission.
Poland, July 1944. Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a war between the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Lexile measure
720L
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Discovering that a treasure has been bequeathed to her family, Colophon Letterford explores clues hidden in antique paintings, secret passages, and a locked mausoleum to discover a link between her family's legacy and William Shakespeare.
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Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson's brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail of a self-help manual, the Guidebook, whose anonymous author promised to make her life soar to heights beyond her wildest dreams. The Guidebook's missives have remained a constant in Abi's life--a befuddling yet oddly comforting voice through her family's...
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