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1) Toys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
James Bond and Jason Bourne have just been topped! A battle for the world is set into unstoppable motion and Hays Baker is the only one who can save it. Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans...
2) Holes
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generations of Yelnatses. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the boys build character by spending all day, every day digging holes exactly five feet wide and five feet deep. There is no lake at Camp Green Lake. But there are an awful lot of holes. It doesn't...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Contains four short stories by Stephen King, including "1922," in which James' wife's suggestion that they sell the family homestead and move to Omaha leads to a murderous chain of events, along with "Big Diver" and "Fair Extension."
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
Researcher Marina Singh is sent by her boss at Vogel, a drug manufacturer, to the jungles of Brazil following the death of a co-worker. It is there that the company is looking into a miracle drug based on a tree bark used by a native tribe. Upon her arrival, Marina must find out the circumstances of her colleague's death, as well as find out why work has slowed to a crawl on the drug. That means dealing with Annick Swenson, a determined researcher...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.
Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and...
Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Presents the adventures of a young boy raised by the animals in an Indian jungle. Includes illustrations and extended captions providing background information on history, geography, social customs, animals, architecture, literature, and science pertinent to the story.
9) The choice
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In this deeply moving #1 New York Times bestseller, Nicholas Sparks turns his unrivaled talents to a tale about love found and lost, and the choices we hope we'll never have to make.
Travis Parker has everything a man could want: a good job, loyal friends, even a waterfront home in small-town North Carolina. In full pursuit of the good life - boating, swimming, and regular barbecues with his good-natured buddies -- he holds the vague conviction that...
Author
Language
English
Description
A woman steps over the line into the unthinkable in this brilliant, powerful, and unforgettable new novel by the author of The Lovely Bones and Lucky.
For years Helen Knightly has given her life to others: to her haunted mother, to her enigmatic father, to her husband and now grown children. When she finally crosses a terrible boundary, her life comes rushing in at her in a way she never could have imagined. Unfolding over the next twenty-four hours,...
11) The innocent
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
America's best hitman was hired to kill--but when a D.C. government operation goes horribly wrong, he must rescue a teenage runaway and investigate her parents' murders in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
It begins with a hit gone wrong. Robie is dispatched to eliminate a target unusually close to home in Washington, D.C. But something about this mission doesn't seem right to Robie, and he does the unthinkable. He refuses to pull the...
12) Big sky
Author
Series
Jackson Brodie volume 5
Language
English
Description
Jackson Brodie has relocated to a quiet seaside village, in the occasional company of his recalcitrant teenage son and an aging Labrador, both at the discretion of his ex-partner Julia. It's picturesque, but there's something darker lurking behind the scenes. Jackson's current job, gathering proof of an unfaithful husband for his suspicious wife, is fairly standard-issue, but a chance encounter with a desperate man on a crumbling cliff leads him into...
13) Charlotte's web
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Description
Wilbur, the pig, is desolate when he discovers that he is destined to be the farmer's Christmas dinner until his spider friend, Charlotte, decides to help him.
14) Inkheart
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Twelve-year-old Meggie learns that her father Mo, a bookbinder, can "read" fictional characters to life when an evil ruler named Capricorn, freed from the novel "Inkheart" years earlier, tries to force Mo to release an immortal monster from the story.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • #1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The thrilling first book in the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo series featuring Lisbeth Salander: “Combine the chilly Swedish backdrop and moody psychodrama of a Bergman movie with the grisly pyrotechnics of a serial-killer thriller, then add an angry punk heroine and a down-on-his-luck investigative journalist,...
17) Zero day
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Military investigator John Puller is called out to a remote, rural area far from any military outpost to investigate the brutal murder of a family in their home. The dead husband was in the army and the wife worked for a Pentagon contractor. The local homicide detective, a woman with personal demons of her own, clashes with Puller over the investigation. What neither of them knows is what is waiting for them across the street from the murdered family's...
18) The witches
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A young boy and his Norwegian grandmother, who is an expert on witches, together foil a witches' plot to destroy the world's children by turning them into mice.
19) Mistress
Author
Language
English
Description
"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone...
20) Anne of Avonlea
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Anne, mischievous and spirited as ever, returns to Avonlea to teach in the village school where she herself was taught.
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