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1) Two by two
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Formats
Description
At 32, Russell Green has it all: a stunning wife, a lovable six year-old daughter, a successful career as an advertising executive and an expansive home in Raleigh. He is living the dream, and his marriage to the bewitching Vivian is the center of that. But underneath the shiny surface of this perfect existence, fault lines are beginning to appear...and no one is more surprised than Russ when he finds every aspect of the life he took for granted turned...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South -- and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Formats
Description
A wonderful new novel from one of America's bestselling authors. Exploring the tensions between a local culture and a changing national political agenda; family arguments and love: an instant classic.
4) Fable
Author
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
As the daughter of the most powerful trader in the Narrows, the sea is the only home Fable has ever known. Four years ago she watched her mother drown during a storm-- and the next day her father abandoned her on a legendary island filled with thieves and little food. To survive kept to herself, learned to trust no one and relied on the unique skills her mother taught her. Fable enlists the help of a young trader named West to get her off the island...
Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After his teenage daughter Sydney suddenly vanishes, Tim Blake learns that his suburban Connecticut town is not what it seems, and as he retraces Sydney's steps, Tim discovers he is not alone in his search.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Formats
Description
From New York Times bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a powerful novel that explores the unbreakable bond between parent and child, and questions whether you can reinvent yourself in the course of a lifetime—or if your mistakes are carried forever.Fourteen-year-old Trixie Stone is in love for the first time. She’s also a straight-A high school student, pretty and popular, and the light of her father’s life.... Comic book artist Daniel Stone would...
8) Namesake
Author
Series
Fable volume 2
Publisher
Wednesday Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
The Marigold and its crew were set to start over with Fable free of her father, until she becomes a pawn in a notorious thug's scheme, needing to get him to the notorious gem dealer, Holland. As she learns that her mother was keeping secrets that endanger the people Fable has come to care about, she must risk everything, including the boy she loves and the home she has finally found, in order to save it.
9) March
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Heartdrum, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Lou has enough confusion in front of her this summer. She'll be working in her family's ice-cream shack with...her former best friend, King, who is back in their Canadian prairie town after disappearing three years ago...But when she gets a letter from her biological father...Lou immediately knows that she cannot meet him...While King's friendship makes Lou feel safer...when her family's business comes under threat, she soon realizes that she can't...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ally is focused on college scholarship applications, spending time with her widowed father, friends, and possible boyfriend, when she learns that everything she knows about herself is a lie.
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Verónica has had many surgeries to manage her disability. The best form of rehabilitation is swimming, so she spends hours in the pool, but not just to strengthen her body. Her Florida town is home to Mermaid Cove, a kitschy underwater attraction where professional mermaids perform in giant tanks . . . and Verónica wants to audition. But her conservative Peruvian parents would never go for it. And they definitely would never let her be with Alex,...
15) The usual rules
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's a Tuesday morning in Brooklyn---a perfect September day. Wendy is heading to school, eager to make plans with her best friend, worried about how she looks, mad at her mother for not letting her visit her father in California, impatient with her little brother and with the almost too-loving concern of her jazz musician stepfather. She's out the door to catch the bus. An hour later comes the news: A plane has crashed into the World Trade Center---her...
16) Vanishing acts
Author
Publisher
Washington Square Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meet Thursday Next. She’s “part Bridget Jones, part Nancy Drew, and part Dirty Harry"
(Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant...
(Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).
Welcome to a surreal version of Great Britain, circa 1985, where time travel is routine, cloning is a reality (dodos are the resurrected pet of choice), and literature is taken very, very seriously. England is a virtual police state where an aunt can get lost (literally) in a Wordsworth poem, militant...
18) The Escape
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"Not everyone who goes into the woods comes out ... It was supposed to be a short hike, a way for Fletcher and Adam to kill time one boring afternoon. But when day turns into night and neither boy returns home, their town is thrown into turmoil. Search teams comb the forest. Then Avery, the police chief's daughter, stumbles on a body. It's Fletcher-disoriented, beaten, and covered in blood. He has no memory of the incident, and worse yet, he has no...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"Jessica Verdi, the author of My Life After Now and The Summer I Wasn't Me, returns with a heartbreaking and poignant novel of grief and guilt that reads like Nicholas Sparks for teens.It's all Ryden's fault. If he hadn't gotten Meg pregnant, she would have never stopped her chemo treatments and would still be alive. Instead he's failing fatherhood one dirty diaper at a time. And it's not like he's had time to grieve while struggling to care for their...
Author
Series
Poison diaries volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Jessamine Luxton is heartbroken. Her true love, Weed, the strange but intriguing young man who came into her life so suddenly, has disappeared. How could he have left her with no farewell, and no word since? Jessamine may not know why Weed vanished, but she does suspect that her own father, Thomas, may have had something to do with it. Thomas, who was so obsessed with Weed's secret knowledge of dangerous plants that he would do anything...
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