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1) Rogue lawyer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Sebastian Rudd is not your typical street lawyer. He works out of a customized bulletproof van, complete with Wi-Fi, a bar, a small fridge, fine leather chairs, a hidden gun compartment, and a heavily armed driver. He has no firm, no partners, no associates, and only one employee, his driver, who's also his bodyguard, law clerk, confidant, and golf caddy. He lives alone in a small but extremely safe penthouse apartment, and his primary piece of furniture...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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This book tells the story of Esperanza Cordero, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, whose neighborhood is one of harsh realities and harsh beauty. Esperanza doesn't want to belong, not to her run-down neighborhood, and not to the low expectations the world has for her. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father--a former concert pianist and teacher--moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alienated from her parents, especially her father ... until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. An unforgettable story of love on...
4) Red queen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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Mare Barrow's world is divided by blood -- those with common, Red blood serve the Silver-blooded elite, who are gifted with superhuman abilities. Mare is a Red, scraping by as a thief in a poor, rural village, until a twist of fate throws her in front of the Silver court. Before the king, princes, and all the nobles, she discovers she has an ability of her own. To cover up this impossibility, the king forces her to play the role of a lost Silver princess...
5) Promise me
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Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 14
Description
After six years of relative peace from the more physically demanding aspects of his career, entertainment agent Myron Bolitar offers a ride home to a young girl to prevent her from accepting a ride from a drunk driver, but when the girl disappears, he is forced to rescue her to prove his innocence.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Elsa is seven years old and different. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy as in standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-strangers crazy. She is also Elsa's best, and only, friend. At night Elsa takes refuge in her grandmother s stories, in the Land-of-Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas, where everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. When Elsa's grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing...
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Prairie Legacy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
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A girl on the Prairies is torn between loyalty to her parents and to a friend. Virginia is very much taken by adventurous Jenny, but her parents consider Jenny a bad influence and wish she would end the friendship. Virginia keeps stalling and is dragged into trouble by Jenny.
8) Ellen Foster
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Having suffered abuse and misfortune for much of her life, a young child searches for a better life and finally gets a break in the home of a loving woman with several foster children.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...
10) Graceling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
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In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
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"For more than a decade, Jenna Metcalf has never stopped thinking about her mother, Alice, who mysteriously disappeared in the wake of a tragic accident. Refusing to believe she was abandoned, Jenna searches for her mother regularly online and pores over the pages of Alice?s old journals. A scientist who studied grief among elephants, Alice wrote mostly of her research among the animals she loved, yet Jenna hopes the entries will provide a clue to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
600L
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During their first summer apart, four teenage girls, best friends since earliest childhood, stay in touch through a shared pair of secondhand jeans that magically adapts to each of their figures and affects their attitudes to their different summer experiences.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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Brutally raped and murdered by a deceptively mild-mannered neighbor, Susie begins with a compelling description of her death. During the next ten years, she watches over her family and friends as they struggle to cope with her murder. She observes their disintegrating lives with compassion and occasionally attempts, sometimes successfully, to communicate her love to them. Although the lives of all who knew her well are shaped by her tragic death,...
14) The bluest eye
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
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The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove. Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom....
15) Glass sword
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Red queen (Victoria Aveyard) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Description
Mare's blood is red -- the colour of common folk -- but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red and Silver fighters...
16) Deenie
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A thirteen-year-old girl seeemingly destined for a modeling career finds she has a deformation of the spine called scoliosis.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Determined to get to Nashville to find her mother in 1963, nine-year-old spitfire Starla Claudelle runs away from her strict grandmother's Mississippi home, eventually accepting a ride from a Eula, a black woman traveling alone with a white baby.
18) Fifteen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Jane longs for a more interesting boy friend than George, dependable and an inch shorter than she. And then she meets the boy who works as delivery man for the Doggy Diner.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 22
Description
In the summer of 1935 Briony Tallis misinterprets a moment's flirtation between her sister and the son of a servant. A crime occurs soon after, the repercussions of which are followed through the chaos and carnage of World War II and into the close of the 20th century.
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