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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
3) Hero
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Hero (Shotz) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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"Hero, a retired police search-and-rescue dog, is not prepared for a stray puppy to come into his life. But when he and twelve-year-old Ben find Scout injured and afraid, the new addition leads them down an unexpected and dangerous path. When Scout goes missing, it's up to Hero to use his search-and-rescue skills to find Scout and bring him home. Get ready for a canine adventure full of danger, loyalty, and the unbreakable bond between a boy and his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 3
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While fishing with his friends off Honolulu on December 7, l941, teenaged Adam is caught in the midst of the Japanese attack and through the chaos of the subsequent days tries to find his father, a naval officer who was serving on the U.S.S. Arizona when the bombs fell.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
620L
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The long-awaited prophecy surrounding Percy Jackson's sixteenth birthday unfolds as he leads an army of young demigods to stop Kronos in his advance on New York City, while the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster, Typhon.
7) Aim
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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As World War II threatens the United States in 1941, fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe fights his own battles at home. Junior struggles with school and with anger—at his father, his insufferable granddaddy, his neighbors, and himself—as he desperately tries to understand himself and find his own aim in life. But he finds relief in escaping to the quiet of the nearby woods and tinkering with cars, something he learned from his Pop, and a fatherly...
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Nate volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
930L
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An eighth-grader who dreams of performing in a Broadway musical concocts a plan to run away to New York and audition for the role of Elliot in the musical version of "E.T."
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Trials of Apollo volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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The Greek god Apollo, cast down to earth as the ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos, and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor--and an Oracle who speaks in word puzzles--somewhere in the American Southwest.
The Greek god Apollo is still in the persona of ungifted human teenager Lester Papadopoulos. Now Lester and his demigod friends must go through the Labyrinth to find the third emperor-- and an Oracle...
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Pendragon series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 18
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Bobby Pendragon is a seemingly normal fourteen-year-old boy. But there is something very special about Bobby-- he is going to save the world. Bobby is slowly starting to realize that life in the cosmos isn't quite what he thought. Before he can object, he is swept off to an alternate dimension known as Denduron, a territory inhabited by strange beings, ruled by a magical tyrant, and plagued by dangerous revolution.
11) The Boundless
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
730L
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Aboard "The Boundless," the greatest train ever built, on its maiden voyage across Canada, teenaged Will enlists the aid of a traveling circus to save the train from villains.
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Black stallion (Walter Farley) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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Returning home to New York City from a visit to his uncle in India, teenager Alec Ramsay is the sole human survivor of a devastating shipwreck. Trapped on a deserted island, Alec finds his only companion is an Arabian horse, beautiful, unbroken, and savage ... a horse whose beauty matches his wild spirit.
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Trials of Apollo volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
680L
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How do you punish an immortal? By making him human. After angering his father Zeus, the god Apollo is cast down from Olympus. Weak and disoriented, he lands in New York City as a regular teenage boy. Now, without his godly powers, the four-thousand-year-old deity must learn to survive in the modern world until he can somehow find a way to regain Zeus's favor.
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Trials of Apollo volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
700L
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The second title in Rick Riordan's Trials of Apollo series - set in the action-packed world of Percy Jackson. The god Apollo, cast down to earth and trapped in the form of a gawky teenage boy as punishment, must set off on the second of his harrowing (and hilarious) trials. He and his companions seek the ancient oracles - restoring them is the only way for Apollo to reclaim his place on Mount Olympus - but this is easier said than done. Somewhere...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 2
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"Sara Blum lives an idyllic life with her adoring parents in Vichy France. But her world comesc crashing down when the Nazi occupation separates the family and forces the young Jewish girl into hiding. Her classmate Julien and his family will risk everything to ensure her survival, and, together, Sara and Julien manage to find beauty in a secret world of their creation."--
16) Call it courage
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
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Relates how Mafatu, a young Polynesian boy whose name means Stout Heart, overcomes his terrible fear of the sea, which killed his mother when he was a baby, and proves his courage to himself and his people.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
740L
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Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse -- Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half-Blood, a summer camp for...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
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When demonic cheerleaders invade his high school, Percy Jackson hurries to Camp Half Blood, from whence he and his demigod friends set out on a quest through the Labyrinth, while the war between the Olympians and the evil Titan lord Kronos draws near.
"Percy Jackson isn't expecting freshman orientation to be any fun. But when a mysterious mortal acquaintance appears on campus, followed by demon cheerleaders, things quickly move from bad to diabolical....
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Theodore Boone volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
790L
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In the small city of Strattenburg there are many lawyers, and thirteen-year-old Theo Boone thinks he is one of them, but his inside knowledge of the justice system means trouble when a cold-blooded killer is about to go free and only Theo can stop him.
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