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1) The innocent
Author
Series
Will Robie novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Will Robie, a freelance hitman working for the government, rescues a teenage girl whose parents' disappearance may be linked to a vast, high-level cover-up.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Description
In an epic trilogy, Philip Pullman unlocks the door to a world parallel to our own, but with a mysterious slant all its own. Dm̆ons and winged creatures live side by side with humans, and a mysterious entity called Dust just might have the power to unite the universes--if it isn't destroyed first. Here, the three paperback titles in Pullman's heroic fantasy series are united in one dazzling boxed set. Join Lyra, Pantalaimon, Will, and the rest as...
3) Brother Odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 15
Formats
Description
Odd Thomas meets his most fearsome enemy yet as he goes to stay in a monastery to recover after the death of Stormy, the love of his life.
4) Paper towns
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
850L
Appears on list
Description
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
Author
Series
Joe Pickett novels volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
Description
"Ranch owner and matriarch Opal Scarlett has vanished under suspicious circumstances during a bitter struggle between her sons for control of her million-dollar empire. Joe Pickett is convinced one of them have done her in, and when he becomes the victim of a series of wicked and increasingly violent pranks, Joe wonders if what's happening has less to do with Opal's disappearance than with the darkest chapters of his own past. Whoever is after him...
6) Forever odd
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 13
Formats
Description
In the unique world of Pico, Odd--a hero who lives between the living and the dead--takes a stand against evil in a battle where there are no innocent bystanders.
7) The silkworm
Author
Series
Cormoran Strike novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
Description
When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 19
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Thirty-four years after Violet Sullivan's unexplained disappearance, Daisy--the not-quite-seven-year-old daughter she left behind--enlists the assistance of private detective Kinsey Millhone to help her find the truth.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Before Owen Michaels disappears, he manages to smuggle a note to his beloved wife of one year: Protect her. Despite her confusion and fear, Hannah Hall knows exactly to whom the note refers--Owen's sixteen-year-old daughter, Bailey. Bailey, who lost her mother tragically as a child. Bailey, who wants absolutely nothing to do with her new stepmother. As Hannah's increasingly desperate calls to Owen go unanswered, as the FBI arrests Owen's boss, as...
10) Private Berlin
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The Berlin office of the world's most renowned investigation firm looks into the disappearance of an agent, Chris Schneider, whose last case involved an unfaithful billionaire, a cheating soccer player and a seedy nightclub owner.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 21
Description
"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...
12) Kiss of death
Author
Series
Morganville vampires volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Vampire musician Michael Glass has attracted the attention of a big-time producer who wants to cut a demo and play some dates. Which means that Michael will have to enter the human world. For this, he's been assigned escorts that include both a dangerous immortal as well as Michael's all-too-human friends. And with that mix of personalities, this is going to be a road trip from hell.
13) The Broken gun
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Formats
Description
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 ...
14) Just one look
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
Description
When Grace Lawson picks up a newly developed set of family photographs, there is a picture that doesn't belong -- a photo from at least twenty years ago. In the photo are five people: four Grace can't recognize and one that looks strikingly like her husband, Jack ...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Formats
Description
Meghan Collins, a television news reporter, is covering a story in the emergency room of a large metropolitan hospital when a young woman is rushed in, victim of a stabbing. A chain of discovery begins that exposes the secret lives of the people closest to her.
16) Children of Dune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Description
The Children of Dune are twin siblings Leto and Ghanima Atreides, whose father, the Emperor Paul Muad'Dib, disappeared into the desert wastelands of Arrakis nine years ago. Like their father, the twins possess supernormal abilities -- making them valuable to their manipulative aunt Alia, who rules the Empire in the name of the House Atreides. Facing treason and rebellion on two fronts, Alia's rule is not absolute. The displaced house Corrino is plotting...
17) NYPD Red 3
Author
Series
NYPD red novels volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Description
"Protect the rich. Serve the famous. Hunt the guilty. Hunter Alden, Jr., a billionaire businessman, has it all: a sexy wife, a brilliant teenage son, and an ever-growing fortune. But his perfect life shatters one horrific night when he discovers the severed head of his chauffeur, stuffed in a bag marked, in blood, with his son's initials. Now his son is missing, and the price to get him back might be too high--even for one of the world's richest men....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Description
In a novel that reaffirms her reputation as "America's Queen of Suspense," Mary Higgins Clark delivers a gripping tale of deception and tantalizing suspense. Nicholas Spencer, charismatic head of the medical research company Gen-stone, involved in the development of an anticancer vaccine, suddenly disappears. His private plane crashes en route to Puerto Rico, but his body is not found. Early results of the vaccine seemed highly promising. Yet, coinciding...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Sixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there's a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her best and most fearless friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett's son, Davis. Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective,...
20) 7th heaven
Author
Series
Women's Murder Club volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Investigating the arson deaths of a wealthy couple, San Francisco detective Lindsay Boxer and Assistant DA Yuki Castellano find the case further complicated by the disappearance of a former governor's son, internal pressure, and the media.
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