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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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A circus known as Le Cirque des Rêves features two illusionists, Celia and Marco, who are unknowingly competing in a game to which they have been irrevocably bound by their mercurial masters, and as the two fall deeply and passionately in love with each other, their masters intervene with dangerous consequences.
2) After Alice
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William Morrow
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English
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"When Alice toppled down the rabbit-hole 150 years ago, she found a Wonderland as rife with inconsistent rules and abrasive egos as the world she left behind. But what of that world? How did 1860s Oxford react to Alice's disappearance? Ada, a friend of Alice's mentioned briefly in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, is off to visit her friend, but arrives a moment too late--and tumbles down the rabbit-hole herself. Ada brings to Wonderland her own imperfect...
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"Young Hiram Walker was born into bondage--and lost his mother and all memory of her when he was a child--but he is also gifted with a mysterious power. Hiram almost drowns when he crashes a carriage into a river, but is saved from the depths by a force he doesn't understand, a blue light that lifts him up and lands him a mile away. This strange brush with death forces a new urgency on Hiram's private rebellion. Spurred on by his improvised plantation...
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Viking
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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In the land of Fillory, Quentin Coldwater, now a king, feels restless, but after a royal hunting excursion ends on a sinister note, Quentin and Julia, a high school friend and a Fillory queen, charter a ship and set sail for adventure--which sends them straight to Quentin's parents' house in Massachusetts, where they uncover a new threat more dangerous than anything they have faced before.
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"Zachary Ezra Rawlins is a graduate student in Vermont when he discovers a rare book hidden in the stacks. As he turns the pages, entranced by tales of lovelorn prisoners, key collectors, and nameless acolytes, he reads something strange: a story from his own childhood. Bewildered by this inexplicable book and desperate to make sense of how his own life came to be recorded, Zachary uncovers a series of clues--a bee, a key, and a sword--that lead him...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Two men---Seth Walker, a teenager trying to understand the genetic nature of his mother's early onset Alzheimer's, and Abel Haggard, an elderly hunchback who spends his days alone on the family farm thinking about the past--are linked by their mothers' stories of a fantasy world in which the lack of memory is a blessing.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
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English
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"The first publication of a previously unknown work of fantasy by J.R.R. Tolkien. Kullervo, son of Kalervo, is perhaps the darkest and most tragic of all J.R.R. Tolkien's characters. "Hapless Kullervo," as Tolkien called him, is a luckless orphan boy with supernatural powers and a tragic destiny. Brought up in the homestead of the dark magician Untamo, who killed his father, kidnapped his mother, and tried three times to kill him when he was still...
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Fifteen-year-old Bernie Karp inadvertently thaws out the frozen body of a nineteenth-century rabbi who had been encased in ice for over one hundred years and protected by Bernie's family, and, while the rabbi attempts to enjoy life in 1999, Bernie sets out on his own journey to understand his heritage.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Sent away to a home for children who have tumbled into fantastical other worlds and are looking for ways to return, Nancy trigers dark changes among her fellow schoolmates and resolves to expose the truth when a child dies under suspicious magical circumstances.
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Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
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English
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Gonzo Lubitsch and his friends, the Haulage & HazMat Emergency Civil Freebooting Company, are called into action on a mission to save humanity when the Jorgmund Pipe, the only thing keeping the Livable Zone safe from the bandits, monsters, and nightmares left in the wake of the Go Away War, becomes engulfed by fire.
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Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2010
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English
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Museum curator Billy Harrow, a cephalopod specialist, attempts to find the rare specimen--a giant squid--that disappeard from London's Natural History Museum, but his search uncovers a maze of warring cults, apostates, and assassins.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"From the creators of the wildly popular Welcome to Night Vale podcast comes an imaginative mystery of appearances and disappearances that is also a poignant look at the ways in which we all struggle to find ourselves ... no matter where we live. Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It...
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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Master thief Coop and his DOPS teammates trigger unexpected chaos when they steal a not-quite-dead and very lovesick Egyptian mummy that wields terrifying magic.
"Coop, a master thief sort of gone legit, saved the world from an ancient doomsday device--heroism that earned him a gig working for the Department of Peculiar Science, a fearsome top secret government agency that polices the odd and strange. Now Woolrich, Coop's boss at the DOPS, has Coop...
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"In the wake of an insignificant battle between two long-forgotten kingdoms in fourteenth-century southern India, a nine-year-old girl has a divine encounter that will change the course of history. After witnessing the death of her mother, the grief-stricken Pampa Kampana becomes a vessel for the goddess Parvati, who begins to speak out of the girl's mouth. Granting her powers beyond Pampa Kampana's comprehension, the goddess tells her that she will...
15) The bird king
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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English
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"One of NPR's 50 Best Science Fiction and Fantasy Books of the Decade: A fifteenth-century palace mapmaker must hide his powers in the time of the Inquisition... Award-winning author G. Willow Wilson's debut novel Alif the Unseen was an NPR and Washington Post Best Book of the Year and established her as a vital American Muslim literary voice. Now she delivers The Bird King , an epic journey set during the reign of the last sultan in the Iberian peninsula...
16) Updraft
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Tor Doherty Associates
Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"Welcome to a world of wind and bone, songs and silence, betrayal and courage. Kirit Densira cannot wait to pass her wingtest and begin flying as a trader by her mother's side, being in service to her beloved home tower and exploring the skies beyond. When Kirit inadvertently breaks Tower Law, the city's secretive governing body, the Singers, demand that she become one of them instead. In an attempt to save her family from greater censure, Kirit must...
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Tor
Pub. Date
[2016].
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English
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"From the editor-in-chief of io9.com, a stunning novel about the end of the world--and the beginning of our future. Childhood friends Patricia Delfine and Laurence Armstead didn't expect to see each other again, after parting ways under mysterious circumstances during middle school. After all, the development of magical powers and the invention of a two-second time machine could hardly fail to alarm one's peers and families.But now they're both...
19) Gingerbread
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Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
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"Perdita Lee may appear to be your average British schoolgirl; Harriet Lee may seem just a working mother trying to penetrate the school social hierarchy; but there are signs that they might not be as normal as they think they are. For one thing, they share a gold-painted, seventh-floor walk-up apartment with some surprisingly verbal vegetation. And then there's the gingerbread they make. Londoners may find themselves able to take or leave it, but...
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In an unnamed city slick with rain, Charles Unwin toils as a clerk at an imperious detective agency. His job: writing reports on cases solved by the palindromic Detective Travis Sivart. When Sivart goes missing and his supervisor is murdered, Unwin is promoted to detective, a rank for which he is woefully unprepared. His only guidance comes from his sleepy new assistant and the pithy yet profound Manual of Detection. Unwin mounts his search for Sivart...
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