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When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
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Victoria Oliver will do anything to ensure that her troubled son has some semblance of a childhood. Danielle Burton is a dedicated nurse at a locked-down pediatric psych ward. But she remains haunted by a family tragedy. The dark anniversary is approaching, and when veteran Boston police detective D. D. Warren shows up at the facility, Danielle realizes it has started again. The lives of these three women unfold and connect in unexpected ways, as...
43) Embassytown
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Avice Benner Cho, a human colonist on a distant planet populated by the Ariekei, sentient beings famed for their unique language, returns to Embassytown after many years of deep space exploration to find she has become a living simile in the Ariekei language even though she cannot speak it, and she is torn by competing loyalties when hostilities erupt between humans and aliens.
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[2015]
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Prequel to The Green Ember. A century before Heather and Picket's adventures in The Green Ember, a displaced community fights for hope on the ragged edge of survival. Whitson Mariner and Fleck Blackstar face old fears and new enemies, forging a legend that will echo through the ages. Old wars haunt. New enemies threaten. An oath is born. A hero rises.
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Cloak Society volume 1
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c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 10
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Alex Knight, a twelve-year-old in training to be a supervillain in the elite Cloak Society, becomes friends with a young superhero and begins to question where his loyalty lies.
46) Ignite the stars
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Ignite the stars volume 1
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2018.
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"When the notorious I.A. Cōcha is captured by the Olympus Commonwealth and revealed to be a sixteen-year-old girl, she is sentenced to correctional rehabilitation at a training ground for the elite Star Force where she forms unlikely alliances"--
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"Hollywood. The city where dreams are made. On the losing side of a bloody East Coast crime war, Danny Ryan is now on the run. The Mafia, the cops, the FBI all want him dead or in prison. With his little boy, his elderly father and the tattered remnants of his loyal crew of soldiers, he makes the classic American migration to California to start a new life. A quiet, peaceful existence. But the Feds track him down and want Danny to do them a favor...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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It was the time of the French Revolution - a time of great change and great danger. It was a time when injustice was met by a lust for vengeance, and rarely was a distinction made between the innocent and the guilty. Against this tumultuous historical backdrop, Dickens' great story of unsurpassed adventure and courage unfolds.Unjustly imprisoned for 18 years in the Bastille, Dr. Alexandre Manette is reunited with his daughter, Lucie, and safely transported...
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Warriors (Erin Hunter). Omen of the stars volume 5
Warriors. Omen of the stars volume 5
Warriors omen of the stars volume 5
Warriors.Omen of the stars volume 5
Warriors. Omen of the stars volume 5
Warriors omen of the stars volume 5
Warriors.Omen of the stars volume 5
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IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Dovewing face their destinies and when an outsider appears in ThunderClan's midst, turning Clanmates against one another,it drives the Clans further apart and as tension mounts the warrior cats must decide who they can trust before it is too late.
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2013.
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IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Sally Gifford, a Patriot shoemaker's daughter, tries to maintain her close friendship with Kitty Lawton, the daughter of a Loyalist official, as pre-Revolutionary War tensions in 1773 Boston increase and push them apart.
51) Bat's big game
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[2008]
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IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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A simplified retelling of the classic Aesop's fable about a ball game between the birds and the animals, and Bat, who wants to play on the winning team.
52) My father's son
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[2008]
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IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 8
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Kevin's life of high school classes, crushes, basketball, and shuttling between his parents' homes falls apart when his father is arrested as a suspected serial killer, leading Kevin to a new understanding of his family and himself.
53) A thousand fires
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2019.
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IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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"10 years. 3 gangs. 1 girl's epic quest...Valerie Simons knows the Wars are dangerous -- her little brother was killed by the Boars two years ago. But nothing will sway Valerie from joining the elite and beautiful Herons to avenge his death - a death she feels she is responsible for. When Valerie is instead recruited by the mysterious Stags, their charismatic leader, Jax, promises to help her get revenge. Torn between old love and new loyalty, Valerie...
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[2018]
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In the last days of the world, the walls of Viyara are still falling, and the dead are rising faster than ever. Juliet is trapped-ordered by Lord Ineo of the Mahyanai to sacrifice the remaining members of her family, the Catresou, to stave off the end of the world. Though theyre certain his plan is useless, Juliet and her former friend Runajo must comply with Lord Ineos wishes-unless they can discover a different, darker path to protecting Viyara....
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2023.
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Compelling and perceptive, Tomb Sweeping probes the loyalties we hold: to relatives, to strangers, and to ourselves. In stories set across the US and Asia, Alexandra Chang immerses us in the lives of immigrant families, grocery store employees, expecting parents, and guileless lab assistants. A woman known only to her neighbors as “the Asian recycling lady” collects bottles from the streets she calls home. A young college grad ponders the void...
56) Dark of the west
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Glass alliance volume 1
Pub. Date
2020
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Athan, the youngest son of General Dakar of Savient, wants nothing to do with his father's military and political ambitions, but when his mother is murdered, he is ordered to go undercover in the kingdom of Etania, befriend Princess Aurelia, and gather intelligence about her indomitable mother, who stands between the general and his ultimate goals of conquest
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Nevermoor volume 2
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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"Morrigan Crow is now a proud scholar in the elite Wundrous Society, but must prove that she belongs in the Society, while battling a new evil"--
59) Burning season
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Alayna Curry volume 1
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2023.
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Set your schemes . . .A volunteer Virginia Beach firefighter, Alayna Curry faces death every day--and is proud to carry on her retired father's legacy. But with cash always tight and her long-time boyfriend Levi pressuring her to give up what she loves to make more money, she knows she needs more cash flow to stay afloat. . . Set your traps . . .All Alayna has to do is keep quiet about a scheme to burn down buildings for insurance-hungry "clients."...
60) Eternal
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"Elisabetta, Marco, and Sandro grow up as the best of friends despite their differences. Elisabetta is a feisty beauty who dreams of becoming a novelist; Marco the brash and athletic son in a family of professional cyclists; and Sandro a Jewish mathematics prodigy, kind-hearted and thoughtful, the son of a lawyer and a doctor. Their friendship blossoms to love, with both Sandro and Marco hoping to win Elisabetta's heart. But in the autumn of 1937,...
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