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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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A former talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother, each intending to commit suicide, find themselves together on the roof of a London building and begin to contemplate their individual choices and circumstances.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When a plane crash strands thirteen teen beauty contestants on a mysterious island, they struggle to survive, to get along with one another, to combat the island's other diabolical occupants, and to learn their dance numbers in case they are rescued in time for the competition.
Author
Publisher
Ecco
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Denis Cooverman, captain of the debate team, stumbles into the most eventful night of his high school career when he decides to make his graduation speech a confession of love for Beth Cooper, head cheerleader.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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A comic chronicle of a year in the life in the college admissions cycle.
It's spring break of junior year and the college admissions hysteria is setting in. "AP" Harry (so named for the unprecedented number of advanced placement courses he has taken) and his mother take a detour from his first choice, Harvard, to visit Yates, a liberal arts school in the Northeast that is enjoying a surge in popularity as a result of a statistical error that landed...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Good news! Fannie’s back in town—and the town is among the leading characters in her new novel.
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner;...
Along with Neighbor Dorothy, the lady with the smile in her voice, whose daily radio broadcasts keep us delightfully informed on all the local news, we also meet Bobby, her ten-year-old son, destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination; Norma and Macky Warren and their ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner;...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Greg has managed to become part of every social group at his Pittsburgh high school without having any friends, but his life changes when his mother forces him to befriend Rachel, a girl he once knew in Hebrew school who has leukemia.
8) Nature girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Honey Santana–impassioned, willful, possibly bipolar, self-proclaimed “queen of lost causes”–has a scheme to help rid the world of irresponsibility, indifference, and dinnertime sales calls. She’s taking rude, gullible Relentless, Inc., telemarketer Boyd Shreave and his less-than-enthusiastic mistress, Eugenie, into the wilderness of Florida’s Ten Thousand Islands for a gentle lesson in civility.
What she...
What she...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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"Hocus Pocus is beloved by Halloween enthusiasts all over the world. Diving once more into the world of witches, this electrifying two-part young adult novel, released on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the 1993 film, marks a new era of Hocus Pocus. Fans will be spellbound by a fresh retelling of the original film, followed by the all-new sequel that continues the story with the next generation of Salem teens. Shortly after moving from California...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Katie Chandler moves to New York in order to make her mark in the business world, but is unprepared for the adventures she encounters when she is approached by MSI, a company that deals in magic, spells, and illusions.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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From the incomparable Anne Tyler, a wise, gently humorous, and deeply compassionate novel about a schoolteacher, who has been forced to retire at sixty-one, coming to terms with the final phase of his life.
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything...
Liam Pennywell, who set out to be a philosopher and ended up teaching fifth grade, never much liked the job at that run-down private school, so early retirement doesn’t bother him. But he is troubled by his inability to remember anything...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Nearly a year after his brother's suicide, sixteen-year-old Cliff "Neanderthal" Hubbard gets recruited to make life better at Happy Valley High by the school's quarterback, who claims he had a vision from God.
Cliff 'Neanderthal' Hubbard has nobody at school, and life in his trailer-park home has gone from bad to worse ever since his older brother's suicide. Then quarterback Aaron Zimmerman returns to school after a near-death experience with a bizarre...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum rushes to find a killer who has her in his sights, while trying to deal with pressure to finally make a choice between the men in her life--cop Joe Morelli, security expert Ranger, and a former high school football star who has just returned to town.
14) Sizzling sixteen
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Trenton, New Jersey, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum has inherited a "lucky" bottle from her Uncle Pip. Problem is, Uncle Pip didn't specify if the bottle brought good luck or bad luck.... BAD LUCK: Vinnie, of Vincent Plum Bail Bonds, has run up a gambling debt of $786, 000 with mobster Bobby Sunflower and is being held until the cash can be produced. Nobody else will pay to get Vinnie back, leaving it up to Stephanie, office manager Connie, and file...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Lizzie Nichols feels her life is finally on the right track, with a career she loves, the perfect fiance, and a dream wedding in the works, but everything begins to fall apart when she finds herself falling for her fiance's best friend.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 21
Language
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...
19) Princess in pink
Author
Series
Princess diaries volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
In a series of humorous diary entries, high school freshman (and Genovian Princess) Mia tries to get her reluctant boyfriend to take her to the prom.
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Twenty-year-old Pat, working at an Edinburgh art gallery while on sabbatical from college, becomes involved in the lives of her eccentric neighbors at 44 Scotland Street, while trying to solve the mystery of a possible lost masterpiece.
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