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To kill a mockingbird volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
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A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel--a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with rich humor and unswerving honesty the irrationality of adult attitudes toward race and class in the Deep South of the 1930s. The conscience of a town steeped in prejudice, violence, and hypocrisy is pricked by the stamina and quiet...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 32
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Fourteen-year-old Harry Potter joins the Weasleys at the Quidditch World Cup, then enters his fourth year at Hogwarts Academy where he is mysteriously entered in an unusual contest that challenges his wizarding skills, friendships and character, amid signs that an old enemy is growing stronger.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
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"For Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls' bathroom. But then real trouble begins--someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects ... Harry Potter himself?"--Page...
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Hank the Cowdog volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
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When Hank the Cowdog is accused of murder, he resigns his position as Head of Ranch Security and joins a gang of outlaw coyotes.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 19
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in...
A brutal murder leaves the town seething in...
7) Inner harbor
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"Phillip Quinn has done everything to make his life seem perfect. With his career on the fast track and a condo overlooking the Inner Harbor, his life on the street is firmly in the past. But one look at Seth and he's reminded of the boy he once was ... Phillip intended to fulfill his father's dying request and considered Seth to be a duty. He never expected he would grow to love Seth, and soon his promise to his father becomes more than just obligation....
8) High five
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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 5
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IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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In her fifth high-octane thriller, bounty hunter Stephanie Plum sets out to find her missing uncle -- and along the way smacks slam-bang into: a dead body, a nasty bookie, her stun-gun-toting grandmother, two very sexy men, an angry little man who won't leave her apartment, and a Mafia wedding. Jersey's favorite bounty hunter has never been better! With high hair, street smarts and plenty of attitude, Steph's sure to nail this case -- or risk life...
9) Lone eagle
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Kate Jamison is a lovely young debutante who is self-assured, confident, and bright. Joe Allbright is a young protǧ ̌of Charles Lindbergh, a flying ace whose skill and acumen have already become legendary. When these two meet, they discover a love that is both powerful and painful -- powerful because it cannot be resisted and painful in the high price it so often demands. The first crisis comes with the U.S. involvement in World War II when Joe...
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 15
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IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
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PI Kinsey Millhone of California discovers an undelivered letter exonerating her first husband of beating a man to death, for which she left him. Kinsey goes after the real killer, a probe that takes her back to Vietnam War days.
13) My gal Sunday
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Henry and Sunday mysteries volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Four stories on Henry and Sandra Britland, husband-and-wife team of sleuths, he a former U.S. president, she a former congresswoman. In A Crime of Passion, they investigate a murder for which his former secretary of state is falsely accused, while in They All Ran After the President's Wife, she is kidnaped in exchange for a terrorist.
15) Where you belong
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American war photographer Valentine Denning, stunned to learn that her lover, Tony, who was killed while taking pictures in Kosovo, was still married and not divorced as he had told her, soon realizes that the true love of her life is her best friend, Jake.
16) Timeline
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 21
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A Yale history professor travels back in time to 15th century France and gets stuck, unable to return to the present. His colleagues organize a rescue and on landing in France become involved in the Hundred Years War.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
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An adaptation for children of the tale of a girl's experiences while lost on the Appalachian Trail, certain she is being followed by some beastly thing, but comforted by imaginary conversations with her favorite baseball player.
18) Temptation
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It is l909 and Temperance O'Neil is a woman ahead of her time. She's happy and devoted to her career helping single mothers on the streets of New York. But her new stepfather, Angus McCairn, does not approve. He makes her an unlikely offer: to go to Scotland, pose as housekeeper to his nephew James, and find him a wife, secretly. If she succeeds, he'll allow her back to New York.Temperance -- smart, passionate, as stubborn as her stepfather -- is...
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Ya-Yas volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 14
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Siddalee, a grown woman living in New York, reminisces about her childhood growing up in a dysfunctional Southern family.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day contains far more than just the funniest collection of autobiographical essays - it quite well registers as a manifesto about language itself. Wherever there's a straight line, you can be sure that Sedaris lurks beneath the text, making it jagged with laughter; and just where the fault lines fall, he sits mischievously perched at the epicenter of it all.
David Sedaris's new collection, Me Talk Pretty One Day, tells a most unconventional...
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