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1) Strangelets
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Forcibly sucked into an abyss at the moment of their deaths, six smarter-than-most teenagers wake up in a deadly, desolate future world, where only one of them holds the key to getting everyone back home.
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English
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They busted out of McAlester State Penitentiary—three escaped convicts going to ground in a world unprepared for anything like them....
Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars—for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose....
Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him....
Richard's survival...
Lamar Pye is prince of the Dirty White Boys. With a lion in his soul, he roars—for he is the meanest, deadliest animal on the loose....
Odell is Lamar's cousin, a hulking manchild with unfeeling eyes. He lives for daddy Lamar. Surely he will die for him....
Richard's survival...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Overview: Now a major motion picture. To five-year-old-Jack, Room is the world. It's where he was born, it's where he and his Ma eat and sleep and play and learn. At night, his Ma shuts him safely in the wardrobe, where he is meant to be asleep when Old Nick visits. Room is home to Jack, but to Ma it's the prison where she has been held for seven years. Through her fierce love for her son, she has created a life for him in this eleven-by-eleven-foot...
Author
Series
Hat trilogy (Jon Klassen) volume 2
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A tiny minnow wearing a pale blue bowler hat has a thing or two up his fins in this underwater light-on-dark chase scene.
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English
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Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist at the prisoner-of-war...
7) Mila 2.0
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Series
Mila 2.0 trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Mila was living with her mother in a small Minnesota town when she discovered she was also living a lie. She was never meant to learn the truth about her identity. She was never supposed to remember the past -- that she was built in a computer science lab and programmed to do things real people would never do. Now she has no choice but to run -- from the dangerous operatives who want her terminated because she knows too much, and...
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English
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An imprisoned IRA soldier sets out to make a daring heist-with the fate of Northern Ireland's Republican cause resting in the balance Seven years ago, Sean Rogan's dedication to the Irish Republican Army landed him in a high-security prison. When the organization needs his help again, Rogan stages a daring jailbreak, determined to intercept an armored truck and deliver its payload to IRA leader Colum O'More. But the IRA of years past is long...
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Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
During World War II in the Netherlands, a ten-year-old boy's dream of skating in a famous race allows him to help two children escape to Belgium by ice skating past German soldiers and other enemies.
11) Stolen children
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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"Hugh's anger boiled as he hurried down the gravel road. He was angry at Darielle for breaking up with Smokey; he was angry at Smokey for not telling him, and for not having the sense to adjust their plans when his girlfriend backed out. Most of all, he was angry at Amy for making a fool of him by running away. Smokey intended to use his gun on Amy, and Hugh would not stop him. When it was time to collect the money and go, they would leave Amy behind--but...
12) Wild Ride
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Swindle meets Adventures in Babysitting in this action-filled comedy!
Charley Decker is about to have the wildest night of her life! With her mom on a romantic weekend getaway, Charley has plans to spend her free time watching bad movies with older brother Greg, and friends Wade and Oona (if Charley can get Wade and Oona to stop fighting long enough to pay attention.) But then, Greg ditches Charley for a date night downtown, borrows their mom's boyfriend's...
13) Night of the fox
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English
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When an American officer who knows the time and place of the D-Day invasion disappears on German-occupied Jersey, the Allies choose Harry Martineau to direct the rescue mission.
14) Hurt people
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Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
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"A novel about two brothers growing up in the prison town of Leavenworth, Kansas"--
15) Escape goat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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From the creators of Lambslide, comes a hilarious children's story about a scapegoat who escapes blame just in time. The Farmer family has a big problem! Every day their goat escapes, and every day, Mr. Farmer brings him back. So when things start to go awry on the farm, it must be the goat's fault. Who's to blame when Mrs. Farmer's petunias are trampled? Or when all the cupcakes for Archie's party disappear? And when the whole bucket of paint is...
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Ryan Quinn volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When his father disappears and his mother is abducted, Ryan learns that his missing parents are secret agents and that he must undertake a perilous mission to rescue them.
Ryan Quinn, the son of a United Nations worker, has traveled around the world but is finally settled at a great school in New York. But when his father disappears and his mother is abducted, Ryan discovers his parents actually work with an underground organization that has performed...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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The compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native...
18) Rope burn
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English
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"When a barroom brawl lands Ace and Chance Jensen in jail, it's just the beginning of a nightmare that will never end. Their jail mates are army deserters. Even worse, their jailers assume Ace and Chance are deserters, too. Which earns them even more hard time - on a brutal prison chain gang... Things go from bad to worse awfully fast. One prisoner tries to escape and gets blasted in the back. Others face horrific torture at the hands of sadistic...
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English
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"The bestselling author of A Gentleman in Moscow and Rules of Civility and master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon...
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