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4) Inkheart
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
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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.
5) The hours
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Two women with very different lives are joined together at a party for an ailing poet, and together they realize that even though their lives are different, they are tied together by a common bond.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When the Buccaneer Bunnies receive a note from an unknown enemy, Henry researches and writes a book called "Plan for Impending Danger from the Unknown Enemy Who Wrote the Scary Note," which helps him when the enemy finally arrives.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Named after a character in a Shakespeare play, misfit sixth-grader Hero becomes interested in exploring this unusual connection because of a valuable diamond supposedly hidden in her new house, an intriguing neighbor, and the unexpected attention of the most popular boy in school.
10) Dark fire
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Bestselling author David Rain returns to help Lucy and the Pennykettle dragons try to find and destroy a drop of dark fire before it is discovered and used to birth a darkling, while in the Arctic, enshrouded in mist, hide dragons that have at last returned to Earth.
12) Blinding light
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
Slade Steadman sets out for the jungles of Ecuador with his girlfriend Ava in search of a rare hallucinogenic drug, hoping the substance will cure him of his twenty-year-long writer's block.
Author
Language
English
Description
Meg Wolitzer brings her characteristic wit and intelligence to a provocative story about the evolution of a marriage, the nature of partnership, the question of a male or female sensibility, and the place for an ambitious woman in a man's world.
The moment Joan Castleman decides to leave her husband, they are thirty-five thousand feet above the ocean on a flight to Helsinki. Joan's husband Joseph is one of America's preeminent novelists, about to...
19) The garden angel
Author
Language
English
Description
Set in a Southern, city-swallowed town, The Garden Angel tells the story of two women and their unlikey friendship. Cutter Johanson is plucky and eccentric, nostalgic about her family's once glorious past. She has her hands full warding off potential buyers from the dilapidated homestead she is determined to keep. Though the neighborhood has changed, even grown shabby, Father Bob's Home for Retarded Men across the street has become a sort of extended...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
Novelist Hannah Keller, a former Miami cop, finds a copy of her first book with margin notes that provide clues to the mystery of who killed her parents, but her attempts to investigate put her in the path of FBI agent Frank Sheffield, whose search for a psychopathic hit man seems to mesh with Hannah's case.
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