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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She's even started to feel like she knows them. "Jess and Jason," she calls them. Their life -- as she sees it -- is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost. And then she sees something shocking. It's only a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In the early years of the 18th century, a band of French scientists set off on a daring, decade-long expedition to South America in a race to measure the precise shape of the earth. Like Lewis and Clark's exploration of the American West, their incredible mission revealed the mysteries of a little-known continent to a world hungry for discovery. Scaling 16,000 foot mountains in the Peruvian Andes, and braving jaguars, pumas, insects, and vampire bats...
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Greenwillow Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The Girl from Everywhere, the first of two books, blends fantasy, history, and a modern sensibility. Its sparkling wit, breathless adventure, multicultural cast, and enchanting romance will dazzle readers of Sabaa Tahir and Leigh Bardugo.
As the daughter of a time traveler, Nix has spent sixteen years sweeping across the globe and through the centuries aboard her father’s ship. Modern-day New York City, nineteenth-century Hawaii,
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels. One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new...
6) Night watch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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One moment, Sir Sam Vimes is in his old patrolman form, chasing a sweet-talking psychopath across the rooftops of Ankh-Morpork. The next, he's lying naked in the street, having been sent back thirty years courtesy of a group of time-manipulating monks who won't leave well enough alone. This Discworld is a darker place that Vimes remembers too well, three decades before his title, fortune, beloved wife, and impending first child. Worse still, the murderer...
7) Kindred
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A young African-American woman is mysteriously transfered back in time leading to an irresistable curiosity about her family's past.
8) 11/22/63
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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When English teacher Jake Epping discovers a portal to the past he decides to use it to prevent the John F. Kennedy assassination.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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Miss Rachel Vinrace, aged twenty-four and previously interested only in music, is on a voyage both literal and metaphorical. An ocean cruise with her father leaves her for the summer at her Aunt’s villa in an unnamed South American country, where she meets the English inhabitants of the local town’s hotel. As the season progresses she starts to become entangled in their own lives and passions, and through those burgeoning acquaintances and friendships...
10) Defy the stars
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Teenaged soldier Noemi and an enemy robot, Abel, who is programmed to obey her commands, set out on an interstellar quest to save her home planet, Earth colony Genesis.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"Mark Twain's classic satirical tale of time travel and Arthurian legend Hank Morgan is a supervisor at a firearms factory in Hartford, Connecticut. Following a violent argument with a man named Hercules, Hank is surprised to find himself under an oak tree, staring up at a man on horseback in full armor. The year is 528, and Hank has somehow landed in King Arthur's Court in Camelot. Worse still, Hank is ridiculed by the boorish knights, brought in...
12) Defy the worlds
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Shunned after a trip through the galaxy with Abel, the most advanced cybernetic man ever created, Noemi Vidal dreams of traveling through the stars one more time. When a deadly plague arrives on Genesis, Noemi is the only soldier to have ever left the planet. It's up to her to save its people-- if only she wasn't flying straight into a trap. On the run to avoid his creator, Burton Mansfield, Abel hears that Noemi has been captured-- by Mansfield....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Nix has finally taken the helm of her father's time-traveling ship. Her future lies bright before her-- until she learns she is destined to lose Kashmir, her best friend and a thief. She sails her crew to a mythical utopia to meet another Navigator who promises to teach her how to manipulate time. But nothing is what it seems. Nix must learn to harness her abilities-- before her time runs out.
14) Tempest: A Novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy... he's in college, has a girlfriend... and he can travel back through time. But it's not like the movies — nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there's no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors — it's just harmless fun.
That is... until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally...
15) Vortex
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Jackson Meyer has thrown himself into his role as an agent for Tempest, the shadowy division of the CIA that handles all time-travel-related threats. Despite his heartbreak at losing the love of his life, Jackson has proved himself to be an excellent agent. However, after an accidental run in with Holly-the girl he altered history to save-Jackson is once again reminded of what he's lost. And when Eyewall, an opposing division of the CIA, emerges,...
16) Game changer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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After an especially rough tackle on the football field, Ash thinks he might be suffering some permanent damage, because suddenly stop signs are blue and always have been. After the second universe-altering hit, he drives a Beemer instead of a Dodge, and a pair of interdimensional twins promises him answers. The more universes he visits, the more Ash has to face perspectives he never thought to consider before, and the closer the universe gets to complete...
17) Catacomb
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HarperCollins
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Dan, Abby, and Jordan embark on a senior road trip to New Orleans, but as creepy occurrences escalate into near-death experiences, the trio realizes they will be lucky to make it out of this senior trip alive.
18) Early Departures
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Justin A. Reynolds, author of Opposite of Always, returns with another charming and powerful YA contemporary novel with a speculative twist, perfect for fans of Nicola Yoon, Becky Albertalli, and Adam Silvera.
What if you could bring your best friend back to life—but only for a short time?
Jamal's best friend, Q, doesn't know that he died, and that he's about to die . . . again. He doesn't know that Jamal tried to save him. And that the reason...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Award-winning filmmaker and writer Sophia Al-Maria's The Girl Who Fell to Earth is a funny and wry coming-of-age memoir about growing up in between American and Gulf Arab cultures. Part family saga and part personal quest, The Girl Who Fell to Earth traces Al-Maria's journey to make a place for herself in two different worlds.
When Sophia Al-Maria's mother sends her away from rainy Washington State to stay with her husband's desert-dwelling Bedouin...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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For fans of literary classics such as The Catcher in the Rye and The Perks of Being a Wallflower comes a stirring new thought-provoking novel from debut author Sam Miller about a loss shrouded in mystery with twists and turns down every railway.
Arthur Louis Pullman the Third is on the verge of a breakdown. He's been stripped of his college scholarship, is losing his grip on reality, and has been sent away to live with his aunt and uncle.
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