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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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For Dr. David Beck, the loss was shattering. And every day for the past eight years, he has relived the horror of what happened. The gleaming lake. The pale moonlight. The piercing screams. The night his wife was taken. The last night he saw her alive.
Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and...
Everyone tells him it's time to move on, to forget the past once and for all. But for David Beck, there can be no closure. A message has appeared on his computer, a phrase only he and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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When a woman goes missing on her fifth wedding anniversary, her diary reveals hidden turmoil in her marriage, while her husband, desperate to clear himself of suspicion, realizes that something more disturbing than murder may have occurred.
4) Hour game
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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A man accused of burglary seems innocent . . . but in this #1 New York Times bestseller, two ex-Secret Service agents quickly learn that nothing is more dangerous than the truth.
A woman is found murdered in the woods. It seems like a simple case but it soon escalates into a terrible nightmare. Someone is replicating the killing styles of the most infamous murderers of all time. No one knows this criminal's motives...or who will die next.
Two...
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Stephanie Plum novel volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Stephanie Plum, the sassiest, spunkiest female bounty hunter in America (or at least New Jersey) is back to take on her second case. She's armed with attitude and outrageous fashion sense-not to mention stun guns, defense sprays, killer flashlights, and her trusty .38-and all the determination a neophyte bounty hunter can muster. In Two for the Dough, she's after a ruthless bail jumper who has an affection for mailing Stephanie deadly notes and pickled...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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To Officer Bernadette Manuelito, the man curled up on the truck seat was just another drunk-which got Bernie in trouble for mishandling a crime scene-which got Sergeant Jim Chee in trouble with the FBI-which drew Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn out of retirement and back into the old "Golden Calf" homicide, a case he had hoped to forget.
Nothing had seemed complicated about that earlier one. A con game had gone sour. A swindler had tried to sell wealthy...
8) The silkworm
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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When novelist Owen Quine goes missing, his wife calls in private detective Cormoran Strike. At first, Mrs. Quine just thinks her husband has gone off by himself for a few days--as he has done before--and she wants Strike to find him and bring him home. But as Strike investigates, it becomes clear that there is more to Quine's disappearance than his wife realizes. The novelist has just completed a manuscript featuring poisonous pen-portraits of almost...
9) Hot six
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum and her sometimes lover, Trenton vice cop Joe Morelli, team up to find the killer of the youngest son of international black-market arms dealer Alexander Ramos, but Stephanie has mixed feelings about her search when she learns that Ranger, her fellow bounty hunter and mentor, is the main suspect.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Biographer and amateur sleuth Cece Caruso, researching the life of author Carolyn Keene, heads for the annual Nancy Drew convention in Palm Springs where she plans to stay at the vacation home of a collector of original volumes of the mystery series, but her trip takes a deadly turn when she arrives to find a corpse in the pool.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
An alternate history novel in which Alaska was established as the Jewish homeland after World War II and fifty years later the inhabitants are being forced to leave their neighborhoods, but before moving, detective Meyer Landsman is determined to find his neighbor's murderer and uncover the truth behind his sister's accidental death.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Jacob, having traveled to a remote island after a family tragedy, discovers an abandoned orphanage, and, after some investigating, he learns the children who lived there may have been dangerous and quarantined and may also still be alive.
13) In plain sight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett becomes so caught up in the bitter feud that has erupted between the sons of missing ranch owner Opal Scarlett that he almost fails to notice that he and his family have been targeted by a more deadly enemy.
14) Amethyst dreams
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Hallie Knight is invited to Topsail Island by the ailing Nicholas Trench who wants her to try and find out what happened to his grandaughter Susan, a dear college friend of Hallie's who disappeared two years earlier, but there are people who are not pleased to have Hallie around and soon she begins to fear her own life is in danger.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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The vision has haunted him for four years--a young woman lying crumpled in death, her hand outstretched in silent supplication. Harry Bosch was taken off the Angella Benton murder case when the production assistant's death was linked with the violent theft of two million dollars from a movie set. Both files were never closed. Now retired from the L.A.P.D., Bosch is determined to find justice for Angella. Without a badge to open doors and strike fear...
16) Hunting badger
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Navajo Tribal Police officers, Sergeant Jim Chee and retired Lieutenant Joe Leaphorn, are called to investigate when the FBI, looking into the robbery of the Ute tribe's gamblinb casino, identify a wounded deputy sheriff as a suspect.
17) Deep South
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Park Ranger Anna Pigeon moves to Mississippi to accept a promotion, but she begins to think she has made a big mistake when the body of a young girl is found near an overgrown country cemetery, and her attempts to find answers are met with silence, hostility, and violence.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Minnesota detective Jake Hines, called away from a poker game to investigate a report of a body lying in the snow near the river, learns that the dead man was a truck driver whose partner is now missing along with their million-dollar freight.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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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.
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