Jenn Bennett
2) Starry eyes
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When teens Zorie and Lennon, a former couple, are stranded in the California wilderness together, they must put aside their differences, and come to terms with lingering romantic feelings, in order to survive.
Ever since last year's homecoming dance, best friends-turned-best enemies Zorie and Lennon have made an art of avoiding each other. When a group camping trip goes south, Zorie and Lennon find themselves stranded in the wilderness. Alone. Together....
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Budding photographer Josie Saint-Martin has spent half her life with her single mother, moving from city to city. When they return to her historical New England hometown years later to run the family bookstore, Josie knows it's not forever. Her dreams are on the opposite coast, and she has a plan to get there. What she doesn't plan for is a run-in with the town bad boy, Lucky Karras. Outsider, rebel...and her former childhood best friend. Lucky makes...
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Zorie y Lennon solían ser inseparables, pero desde hace un tiempo se han vuelto expertos en ignorarse.Cuando sus amigos los llevan engañados a acampar, la estratagema sale mal y de pronto los dos se encuentran atrapados en lo salvaje. Solos, lejos y sin hablarse. Sentimientos ocultos, secretos y heridas del pasado saldrán a la luz durante el peligroso viaje de regreso a la civilización, y los viejos amigos deberán volver a confiar el uno en el...
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Biddy Mason's life began as an enslaved person. She had to walk 2000 miles to reach California, but once there, she gained her freedom. She became a successful nurse, midwife, and land owner, and left behind a legacy of caring and charity. This primary source reader integrates literacy and social studies content knowledge, and uses maps, letters, images, and photographs to engage students and develop their curiosity about the people and the world...
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Astrid Magnusson, une jeune étudiante hardie et fougueuse, rentre à la maison pour les Fêtes de n d'année, habitée par le désir ardent d'obtenir la seule chose qui a toujours été hors limite: Bo Yeung, le commandant en second de son frère, un célèbre contrebandier. Malheureusement, son rêve de belles retrouvailles tombe en miettes au cours d'une violente tempête, lorsqu'un yacht se fracasse contre les quais des Magnusson. Pire, encore,...
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Ce sont les Années folles, et San Francisco est le nid d'accueil du commerce de l'alcool illégal, de la lubricité et de la magie noire. La région de la baie couverte de brume peut se révéler être une scène enivrante, particulièrement si les esprits constituent votre spécialité... Aida Palmer donne un spectacle de médium spirite sur la scène du Gris-Gris, l'illustre bar clandestin du quartier chinois de San Francisco. Toutefois, sa capacité...
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In 1937, teenaged Theodora Fox and her crush, Huck, set out through the Carpathian Mountains seeking her missing father and the cursed ring of Vlad the Impaler, which he was seeking.
"1937. Theodora has read every book in her father's library, has an impressive knowledge of the world's most sought-after relics, and has all the ambition in the world. What she doesn't have is her father's permission to join him in his treasure hunts. His protégé,...
9) Grim Shadows
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Archaeologist Lowe Magnusson is packing something everyone wants. The djed amulet, a priceless Egyptian artifact, will fetch Lowe a hefty paycheck from one of San Francisco's wealthiest. But when the handsome Swede runs into his patron's uptight daughter, what he once considered easy money becomes maddeningly complicated. Cursed with deadly spirits as her constant companions, curator Hadley Bacall must keep calm to hold her dangerous specters at bay...
10) Bitter Spirits
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Aida Palmer performs a spirit medium show onstage at Chinatown's illustrious Gris-Gris speakeasy. However, her ability to summon (and expel) the dead is more than just an act. Winter Magnusson is a notorious bootlegger who's more comfortable with guns than ghosts. Unfortunately for him, he's the recent target of a malevolent hex that renders him a magnet for hauntings. After Aida's supernatural assistance is enlisted to banish the ghosts, her spirit-chilled...
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Mystery-book aficionado Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. Raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents, she's cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. But her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college, working the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel.
In her new job, Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to...