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1) The Wright 3
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Chasing Vermeer volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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In the midst of a series of unexplained accidents and mysterious coincidences, sixth-graders Calder, Petra, and Tommy lead their classmates in an attempt to keep Frank Lloyd Wright's famous Robie House from being demolished.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
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In 1893, thirteen-year-old Rosie and members of her family travel from their Illinois farm to Chicago to visit Aunt Euterpe and attend the World's Columbian Exposition which, along with an encounter with Buffalo Bill and Lillian Russell, turns out to be a life-changing experience for everyone.
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Chicagoland detective agency volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
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As the founders of the Chicagoland Detective Agency, a haiku-writing girl and a boy with a talking dog have more than enough cases on their hands (and paws) when a friend vanishes, a mummy's amulet disappears, and an evil scientist stalks human brains and hearts.
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Sugar Creek Gang volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 4
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Thanks to Old Man Paddler the gang is off to Chicago, where they minister at a rescue mission, perform on the radio at Moody Bible Institute, see the sights and have a run-in with Bob Till.
8) Ghost boys
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"After seventh-grader Jerome is shot by a white police officer, he observes the aftermath of his death and meets the ghosts of other fallen black boys including historical figure Emmett Till"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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930L
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When two teens, one gay and one straight, meet accidentally and discover that they share the same name, their lives become intertwined as one begins dating the other's best friend, who produces a play revealing his relationship with them both.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Maya Aziz, seventeen, is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil, when a terrorist attack changes her life forever.
Maya Aziz is caught between her India-born parents' world of college and marrying a suitable Muslim boy, and her dream world of film school and dating her classmate, Phil. In the aftermath of a terrorist attack hundreds...
11) Hold Fast
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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On a cold winter day in Chicago, Early's father disappeared, and now she, her mother and her brother have been forced to flee their apartment and join the ranks of the homeless--and it is up to Early to hold her family together and solve the mystery surrounding her father.
From NYT bestselling author Blue Balliett, the story of a girl who falls into Chicago's shelter system, and from there must solve the mystery of her father's strange disappearance.
Where...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 8
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When some quirky art donated to a school fundraising effort to help a Pakistani American family, victims of a possible hate crime, is revealed to be an unknown work by a famous outsider artist, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, adults and teenagers alike debate who should get the money and begin to question each other's motivations.
14) Divergent
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Series
Divergent trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
In a future Chicago, sixteen-year-old Beatrice Prior must choose among five predetermined factions to define her identity for the rest of her life, a decision made more difficult when she discovers that she is an anomaly who does not fit into any one group, and that the society she lives in is not perfect after all.
15) Virtuosity
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Just before the most important violin competition of her career, seventeen-year-old prodigy Carmen faces critical decisions about her anti-anxiety drug addiction, her controlling mother, and a potential romance with her most talented rival.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
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When seventh-grader Bette finds an angel coin she puts it in her pocket and forgets it but soon the mysterious and kind Gabby moves into her building and helps her face her major losses, and then the coin connects her with three classmates who all find new ways to believe in themselves.
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Told in alternating voices, years after it began, seventeen-year-old Ivy and her mom Dana's shared story comes down to a reckoning among a daughter, a mother, and the dark forces they never should have messed with.
Ivy's summer break kicks off with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger whose appearance in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, heralds a string of increasingly unsettling events. As the days pass, Ivy grapples...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Zan is baffled when her best friend, Priya, stops answering her emails after moving to California, but new friend, Logan, presents the disturbing possibility that Priya cannot answer.
Zan's best friend Priya has moved to California-- and now her social media has turned into a stream of ungrammatical posts chronicling a sunny, vapid new life that doesn't sound like her at all. When Zan meets Logan, the new guy in Spanish class, he's willing to throw...
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Maya and the rising dark volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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In this highly anticipated sequel, Maya and the godlings must return to the sinister world of The Dark to retrieve the one thing keeping the veil between the worlds from crumbling: her father's soul. Perfect for fans of Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky and Willa of the Wood.
20) Bang
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Visions (Lisa McMann) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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"A teen who used to see a vision of a crash must help her boyfriend as he is now seeing a vision of a school shooting"--Publisher's description.
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