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2) Plugged
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times–bestselling author: "Outrageous characters, uproariously funny plot twists, and brutal, nonstop action . . . a sure-fire winner." -Publishers Weekly (starred review)
Daniel McEvoy has a problem. Well, really, he has several, but for this Irish ex-pat bouncer at a seedy, small-time casino, the fact that his girlfriend was just murdered in the parking lot is uppermost in his mind. That is until lots of people around him...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Real-estate agent Lacey Farrell, accidently walked in on a murder. The dying victim entrusts her with a journal that contains information so damaging that even the government's witness protection program can not keep Lacey safe.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Kevin Kerney, deputy chief of the State Police in New Mexico, is assigned to investigate the murder of a police officer in nearby Mountainair, but his efforts are hindered by the fact that his best witness is a schizophrenic.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Twenty years after her sister, Lila, is murdered, Ellie Enderlin has a chance encounter with the man accused of the crime, who gives Ellie her sister's notebook, filled with mathematical equations and clues that will lead Ellie on a journey into the past that offers startling revelations about her sister's life.
7) The amateurs
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Four teens who met on an online cold-case solving forum attempt to solve another teen's murder"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Four fan-girls of The Ruperts, sneak away to a hotel in Manhattan to see their favorite boy band, but when one of them literally drags Rupert Pierpont to their room and they tie him up, things get complicated--and when Rupert is killed things go from bad to worse.
10) She's Gone
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A new page-turning thriller from USA Today bestselling author David Bell.
When a girl disappears, who do you suspect?
When 17-year-old Hunter Gifford wakes in the hospital on the night of homecoming, he's shocked to learn he and his girlfriend, Chloe Summers, have been in a terrible car accident. Hunter has no memory of the crash, and his shock turns to horror when he is told Chloe's blood has been found in the car-but she has disappeared.
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11) Ten big ones
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
She's accidentally destroyed a dozen cars. She's a target for every psycho and miscreant this side of the Jersey Turnpike. Her mother's convinced she'll end up dead . . . or worse, without a man. She's Stephanie Plum, and she kicks butt for a living (well, she thinks it sounds good to put it that way. . . .). It begins as an innocent trip to the deli-mart, on a quest for nachos. But Stephanie Plum and her partner, Lula, are clearly in the wrong place...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking portrait of Vincent Chin and the murder case that took America's Asian American community to the streets in protest of injustice. America in 1982. Japanese car companies are on the rise and believed to be putting American autoworkers out of their jobs. Anti-Asian American sentiments simmer, especially in Detroit. A bar fight turns fatal, leaving Vincent Chin-a Chinese American man-beaten to death at the hands of two white men, autoworker...
13) The stranger
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Amelia Peabody and her family arrive in Egypt in 1911 for their annual excavation and to celebrate the wedding of Amelia's niece Lia to David, an Egyptian artist; but Amelia's attention is diverted from the dig when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts, and she must work fast to clear his name.
17) Ghostly echoes
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
"The highly anticipated third volume of the paranormal detective series perfect for "readers who enjoy Doctor Who, Supernatural, Grimm...and of course, Sherlock Holmes stories, and who are ready to say up into the wee hours." Jenny Cavanaugh, the ghostly landlord of 926 Augur Lane, has enlisted the services of her detective-agency tenants to solve a decade-old murder--her own. Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, dive into the cold...
18) The new girl
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
A transfer student and scholarship recipient, sophomore Lia Setiawan is angered when she discovers a cheating ring, but by the time she finds a dead body and shuts down the campus drug dealer, she fears she might be the biggest snake in the Draycott Academy nest of vipers.
Lia Setiawan is the new girl at school: she won a full ride to prestigious Draycott Academy on a track scholarship. She's determined to make it work, but feels out of place. But...
19) Far from you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"After Sophie Winters survives a brutal attack in which her best friend, Mina, is murdered, she sets out to find the killer. At the same time she must prove she is free of her past Oxy addiction and in no way to blame for Mina's death"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
"It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found dead near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. The official state newspaper reports their death as accidental. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo's dictatorship. It doesn't have to. Everybody knows of Las...
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