Todd Haberkorn
1) Monument 14
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Monument 14 volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 10
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Six high school kids, two eighth-graders, and six little kids trapped together in a chain superstore build a refuge for themselves inside. Outside, a series of escalating disasters, beginning with a monster hailstorm and ending with a chemcial weapons spill, seem to be tearing the world -- as they know it -- apart.
2) Choke point
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Hired to investigate allegations of a sweat-shop operation in Amsterdam that is enslaving young girls, Knox and tech information expert Grace Chu embark on a rescue mission that is challenged by a crime organization that has seduced local neighborhoods with showy goodwill practices.
3) Sky on Fire
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Monument 14 volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 8
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After repairing a school bus, the group of survivors splits in two, with one group heading to the airport in hopes of reuniting with their parents and saving their dying friend and the other trying to rebuild the community they lost.
A group of survivors, originally trapped together in a superstore by a series of escalating disasters, has split in two -- one group heading to Denver airport on a repaired school bus, the other remaining in the Sanctuary...
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A Chinese national working for an American-owned construction company is grabbed off a Shanghai street in broad daylight. His one-man security detail goes missing. Rutherford Risk is a firm specializing in the negotiation for and recovery of hostages. With private investigation illegal in today's China, the operation will be difficult at best. So the firm hires two unique outsiders to do their bidding: forensic accountant Grace Chu to follow the money;...
5) Quicksilver
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Pub. Date
2022.
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Raised in an orphanage, Quinn Quicksilver had a happy if unexceptional life. Until the day of "strange magnetism." It compelled him to drive out to the middle of nowhere. It helped him find a coin worth a lot of money. And it practically saved his life when two government agents showed up in the diner in pursuit of him. Now Quinn is on the run from those agents, fleeing for his life. During a shoot-out at a forlorn dude ranch, he finally meets his...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
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In this hilarious novel, written in the voice of eighth-grader Wyatt Palmer, Dave Barry takes us on a class trip to Washington, DC. Wyatt, his best friend, Matt, and a few kids from Culver Middle School find themselves in a heap of trouble-not just with their teachers, who have long lost patience with them-but from several mysterious men they first meet on their flight to the nation's capital. In a fast-paced adventure with the monuments as a backdrop,...
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"In 1979, Vincent Bianco has just graduated high school. His only desire: collect a little beer money and enjoy his final summer before college. So he lands a job as a laborer on a construction crew. Working alongside two Vietnam vets, one suffering from PTSD, Vincent gets the education of a lifetime. Now forty years later, with his own son leaving for college, the lessons of that summer - Vincent's last taste of innocence and first taste of real...
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Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A powerful story set in small-town Arkansas in the 1950s that illuminates the friendship surrounding the arrival of Chinese immigrants in the segregated south.
Azalea is not happy about being dropped off to look after Grandmother Clark. Even if she didn't care that much about meeting the new sixth graders in her Texas hometown, those strangers seem much preferable to the ones in Paris Junction. Talk about troubled Willis DeLoach or gossipy Melinda...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Explores the vital ties between fathers and sons, sharing tales of a boy who seeks to understand the wishes of his father's ghost and a boy who makes surprising discoveries while camping with the eccentric grandfather he just met.
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The worst-- (Dave Barry) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Wyatt Palmer is just another undersized freshman hoping to fit in at high school, but when his best friend Matt Diaz's pet ferret ends up in the hands of the Bevins, the most popular boys at Coral Cove High, Wyatt and Matt try to get the animal back by attending a party for the cool clique and stumble onto the Bevin family's dark secret.
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Gabriel's angel: All artist Gabriel Bradley wants is solitude. But when a very pregnant--and very beautiful--woman ends up at his remote cabin during a blizzard, desperate, alone and on the run, the modern-day Scrooge can't bring himself to turn her away. Despite her intrusion, Laura Malone brings Gabriel the gifts of passion, hope and life--he just needs to find the courage to reach for them. Home for Chrismas: After years spent abroad, reporter...
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[2016]
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In an attempt to revive his dearly departed friend, young medical student John Watson becomes obsessed with replicating the work of Dr. Victor Frankenstein; the legendary corpse engineer whose research produced the only re-animated corpse to possess a soul. But when his illegal experiments put him at odds with the British government, Watson is drafted into a worldwide race to find the lost research notes of Victor Frankenstein before the secrets of...
14) Out of the black
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Pub. Date
p2013
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After Matt Caine loses his wife in a car accident, all he has left is his daughter, Anna. But just as the little girl, who survived the accident, finally starts thriving, Matt's former in-laws threaten to take her away via a bitter custody battle. Desperate to keep Anna and in debt to some dangerous local thugs, Matt has no good options. But he does have Jay, one very bad friend. Just out of jail and plagued by drug addiction, Jay tempts Matt with...
15) King of thieves
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[2015], p2014
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Captain Morgan Passer commands the Rogue Class destroyer Autolycus, charged with an interstellar recon mission to detect traces of the repelled enemy while gathering information for the fortification of Earth's defenses. What the expedition finds instead is a deeply disturbing mystery: a discovery that redefines everything they tought they knew about Earth's place in the galaxy--and reveals deadly new horrors. Former enemies unite for their own survival,...
16) Other worlds
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Guys read volume 4
Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
An anthology of original science fiction and fantasy stories.