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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Called upon by The Hammond Museum and renowned art scholar Dr. Ashton Prince, Boston PI Spenser accepts his latest case: to provide protection during a ransom exchange-money for a stolen painting. The case becomes personal when Spenser fails to protect his client and the valuable painting remains stolen.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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In a race against time, a group of American and British museum directors, curators, art historians, and others, called the Monuments Men, risked their lives scouring Europe to prevent the destruction of thousands of years of culture. Focusing on the period between D-Day and V-E Day, this book follows the Monuments Men on their impossible mission to save the world's great art from the Nazis. These unlikely heroes, mostly middle-aged family men, walked...
4) Lifeguard
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Everything is going right for lifeguard Ned Kelley. He is involved with Tess, the most beautiful woman he has ever seen and what's more, a million dollars is within touching distance--his share of the score for the robbery of some world-class art. All he has to do is trigger alarms to throw the cops off the scent. But when Tess is brutally murdered and the others involved in the robbery are massacred, Ned is the prime suspect. He has been set...
6) Artifice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Isa de Smit grew up in her parents' art gallery in Amsterdam, but in the middle of the war she survives by selling fake paintings to the Nazis while trying to help her friend, Truus, smuggle Jewish babies to safety--but in 1943 it is hard to know who to trust.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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The action kicks off in modern-day Paris with the murder of the Louvre's chief curator, whose body is found laid out in symbolic repose at the foot of the Mona Lisa. Seizing control of the case are Sophie Neveu, a lovely French police cryptologist, and Harvard symbol expert Robert Langdon, reprising his role from Brown's last book. The two find several puzzling codes at the murder scene, all of which form a treasure map to the fabled Holy Grail. As...
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44 Scotland Street volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Pat rents a room from the handsome and cocky Bruce, at 44 Scotland Street, and discovers that she has also acquired some colorful new neighbors, including Domenica, an eccentric widow.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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The "story of Henry DeTamble, a dashing, adventuresome librarian who travels involuntarily through time, and Clare Abshire, an artist whose life takes a natural sequential course. Henry and Clare's passionate love affair endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and bask in the bonds of love."--Page 4 of cover.
10) Whirligig
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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New to town, Brent longs to stroll around school with the popular Brianna on his arm. But when Brianna begs him at a party full of schoolmates to stop hounding her, Brent's hopes are shattered. Trying to escape his humiliation, he attempts to destroy himself in a car crash-and ends up killing Lea, an innocent teen unfortunate enough to cross his path. Lea's mother asks one thing of Brent: that he create four whirligigs from a picture of Lea and...
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Robert Langdon novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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The Da Vinci Code has intrigued and thrilled millions of readers around the world. Now all the artwork, symbols, architecture, and historic locations, over 160 images, are beautifully compiled in this full-color collector's edition. A mind-bending code hidden in the works of Leonardo da Vinci. A desperate race through the cathedrals and castles of Europe. An astonishing truth concealed for centuries, unveiled at last. While in Paris on business, Harvard...
12) Iced
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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It's Christmas in Aspen and P.I. Regan Reilly is vacationing with her parents and hoping to meet an unmarried man. Soon, however, all thoughts of romance turn to sleuthing when million-dollar paintings start disappearing, along with an old friend of Regan's--who happens to be an ex-con. The snow is falling, the plot is thickening, and the danger is closing in on Regan.
13) Debating Darcy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Leela Bose is a debater on her public high school team and wants to beat the team at elite Netherfield Academy, which includes Firoze Darcy--a handsome boy also from a Bengali American family--but the more they debate, the more Leela finds herself attracted to Darcy.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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"Myra has a gift...she's a portrait artist whose paintings alter people's bodies... But one frigid night, the governor's wife discovers the truth and threatens to expose Myra if she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the governor's dead son. Once she arrives at the legendary stone mansion, however, it becomes clear the boy's death was no accident. A killer stalks these halls--one disturbingly obsessed with portrait magic."--...
16) Chill
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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"Chill's foot dragged behind him like a murder victim being taken to a shallow grave by a killer too weak to do the job-but he still stood straighter than any other kid in school." CHILL HAS ALWAYS BEEN different, but the way he deals with his disability, and his art, have given him the power to survive the horrors of high school. When a new teacher arrives, determined to crush his students' spirit, Chill decides to fight back and risk everything....
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Pantheon Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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A memoir of Vladek Spiegleman, a Jewish survivor of Hitler's Europe, and about his son, a cartoonist who tries to come to terms with his father, his story, and history. Cartoon format portrays Jews as mice, Nazis as cats. Using a unique comic-strip-as-graphic-art format, the story of Vladek Spiegelman's passage through the Nazi Holocaust is told in his own words. Acclaimed as a "quiet triumph" and a "brutally moving work of art," the first volume...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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After he takes a photograph of a woman who is living on the streets and discovers it to be the meth-addicted mother of his closest friend Marissa, Blake finds himself spending more time with Marissa than with his girlfriend.
19) Zee's way
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When a store owner catches him painting graffiti on the store's wall, Zee must choose between making a statement and making art.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"An evocative story of the thrills of first love and the anguish of first loss. This will break you and heal you." -Julie Murphy, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dumplin'
Not to be missed by fans of Nina LaCour and Becky Albertalli, this powerful novel-from the acclaimed author of Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit-paints a poignant portrait of love in the past, grief in the now, and the healing power of art.
Before: Jess has always...
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