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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Twelve-year-old Myrtle Hardcastle has a passion for justice and a Highly Unconventional obsession with criminal science. Armed with her father’s law books and her mum’s microscope, Myrtle studies toxicology, keeps abreast of the latest developments in crime scene analysis, and Observes her neighbors in the quiet village of Swinburne, England.
When her next-door neighbor, a wealthy spinster and eccentric breeder of rare flowers, dies under Mysterious...
63) Twenty Wishes
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Anne Marie Roche wants to find happiness again. At thirty-eight, her life's not what she'd expected--she's childless, a recent widow, alone. She owns a successful bookstore on Seattle's Blossom Street, but despite her accomplishments, there's a feeling of emptiness. On Valentine's Day, Anne marie and several other widows get together to celebrate--what? Hope, possibility, the future. They each begin a list of twenty wishes, things they always wanted...
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Starry River of the Sky volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Minli, an adventurous girl from a poor village, buys a magical goldfish, and then joins a dragon who cannot fly on a quest to find the Old Man of the Moon in hopes of bringing life to Fruitless Mountain and freshness to Jade River.
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To kill a mockingbird volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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This book is an historic literary event: the publication of a newly discovered novel, the earliest known work from Harper Lee, the beloved, bestselling author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning classic, To kill a mockingbird. Originally written in the mid-1950s, Go set a watchman was the novel Harper Lee first submitted to her publishers before To kill a mockingbird. Assumed to have been lost, the manuscript was discovered in late 2014. Go set a watchman...
66) Sister spirit
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Go girl! (Feiwel and Friends) volume 3
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Feiwel and Friends
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Nine-year-old Cassie, the baby of the family, is convinced her sister Hannah hates her, especially after Hannah cuts off her hair, but the short hair makes Cassie feel differently about herself and more grown up, and soon she and Hannah have developed a brand new relationship.
67) Trace
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Kay Scarpetta mysteries volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 20
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Kay Scarpetta responds to a a request to return to the Richmond medical examiner's office, from which she was fired, to help with the sensitive case of a dead teen. When she and Pete Marino arrive, they find the new medical examiner to be uncooperative, and the office that Kay ran so efficiently in chaos. Two oddly linked murders demand their attention. In the meantime, Lucy, still unsettled despite her success with the Last Precinct investigative...
68) Sold
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 30
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A family of six disintegrates after a daughter is raped by a high-school student. It happens to the wealthy Mulvaneys in upstate New York. The disgrace--there is some question if it was rape--sends the father to drink and financial ruin, the girl leaves home, the others follow. By the author of What I Lived For.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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It is 1946, and Dewey Kerrigan is now living near the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico with the Gordon family. Dewey and her "sister," Suze, share secrets, art, and science as they adjust to high school in an isolated desert town. Then, Dewey's long-lost mother, Rita Gallucci, reappears in their lives.
71) Breaker's reef
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Cape Refuge series volume 4
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Murder and mystery continue in Book Four of the Cape Refuge series A famous mystery writer has just moved to Cape Refuge when a teenage girl is found murdered. Sheila Caruso–ex-con, mother to Sadie and Caleb, and resident of Hanover House–is working for the writer when she discovers that a scene in one of his novels matches the crime scene. When Police Chief Cade and Blair Owens discover a second dead teenager–mirroring a murder
...73) Number the stars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Lexile measure
670L
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 1
Description
When Hana announces that she'll play the violin in the school talent show, her brothers laugh so hard they nearly fall out of a tree. But Hana practices and practices, inspired by memories of time she spent in Japan with her grandfather, a professional violinist. But when the day of the performance arrives, will she be able to overcome a sudden case of nerves?
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Picture Window Books, a Capstone imprint
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"Join Yasmin in four new adventures! At home, Baba's got a mystery ailment, and Nani thinks there's a thief afoot. At the farm, Yasmin is put in charge of the chicks--but one goes missing! And at the ice rink, Yasmin puts on a brave face and tries something new. No matter the challenge, puzzle, or mystery, Yasmin gives her all to figure it out!"--Back cover.
76) Housekeeping
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The story of Ruth and her sister Lucille, who grew up haphazardly. The family house is in the far west town of Fingerbone. Ruth and Lucille's struggle toward adulthood touches themes of loss and survival, and the undertow of transience.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 21
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Description
When she is hired by a preppy college dropout to discover what happened to a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
80) The Testing
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The Testing trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Description
Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Isn't that what they say? But how close is too close when they may be one and the same? The Seven Stages War left much of the planet a charred wasteland. The future belongs to the next generation's chosen few who must rebuild it. But to enter this elite group, candidates must first pass The Testing -- their one chance at a college education and a rewarding career. Cia Vale is honored to be chosen as...
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