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Song of Acadia volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Oceans and circumstances have forced families apart. For the banished French Acadians drifting in exile, the shore means safety. For the lonely British nobleman, the shore holds a single chance to secure his legacy. For Andrew and Catherine Harrow, the shore marks a tragic separation.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Stephen Hawking's classic work has become a landmark volume in scientific writing, with more than nine million copies in forty languages sold worldwide. The intervening years have seen extraordinary advances in the technology of observing both the micro- and the macrocosmic worlds. These observations have confirmed many of Professor Hawking's theoretical predictions in the first edition of his book, including the recent discoveries of the Cosmic Background...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard re-create the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After thirty-eight jetliners were rerouted to Newfoundland on September 11, 2001 because the United States' airspace was closing, the townspeople of Gander came to the aid of six thousand travelers, offering food, lodging, and other comforts.
5) 1776
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Based on extensive research in both American and British archives, 1776 is the story of Americans in the ranks, men of every shape, size, and color, farmers, schoolteachers, shoemakers, no-accounts, and mere boys turned soldiers. And it is the story of the British commander, William Howe, and his highly disciplined redcoats who looked on their rebel foes with contempt and fought with a valor too little known. But it is the American commander-in-chief...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the aging Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. There the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, become enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"A sinful act ruins the lives of three people, especially that of Hester Prynne, a young, beautiful, and dignified woman, who has conceived a child out of wedlock and receives a public punishment of having to wear a scarlet "A" on her clothing. Despite Hester's attempts through the years to distance herself from her past and repent for her sins, she continues to be rejected by society. A best-seller upon its publication in 1850, The Scarlet Letter's...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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"My father and mother should have stayed in New York where they met and I was born. Instead, they returned to Ireland when I was four ... When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I managed to survive at all. It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood." So begins the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 39
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English
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Cordelia Carstairs has lost everything that matters to her. In only a few short weeks, she has seen her father murdered, her plans to become parabatai with her best friend, Lucie, destroyed, and her marriage to James Herondale crumble before her eyes. Even worse, she is now bound to an ancient demon, Lilith, stripping her of her power as a Shadowhunter.
After fleeing to Paris with Matthew Fairchild, Cordelia hopes to forget her sorrows in the city’s...
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Notable Book List volume 2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.4 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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"For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times--the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-class boys from the American West showed the world at the 1936 Olympics in Berlin what true grit really meant. It was an unlikely quest from the start. With a team composed of the sons of loggers, shipyard workers, and farmers, the University...
13) Lady of Avalon
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Avalon series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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A multi-generation story of three priestesses in legendary Britain. Caillean veils the land in everlasting mist to protect it from enemies, Teleri tries to save it by marriage to a Roman general, and Viviane must safeguard the Grail in preparation for the king to come. Adventure, magic, romance.
14) The hiding place
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland and her family who helped hide Jewish people. The account of a Dutch girl growing up in Nazi-occupied Holland & her family who helped hide Jewish people. Corrie Ten Boom stood naked with her older sister Betsie, watching a concentration camp matron beating a prisoner."Oh, the poor woman," Corrie cried."Yes. May God forgive her," Betsie replied. And, once again, Corrie realized that it...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"The year is 1792. The French Revolution, driven to excess by its own triumph, has turned into a reign of terror. Daily, tumbrels roll over the cobbled streets of Paris bearing new victims to the insatiable Madame Guillotine."--Back cover
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Cicero trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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A tale inspired by the writings of Tiro, Cicero's confidential secretary, traces the life of the Roman orator from his beginnings as a lawyer through his competitions with Pompey, Caesar, and Crassus in the political arena.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In the autumn of 1846 in Ireland, twelve-year-old Lorraine and her family struggle to survive during the Irish potato famine, but when Lorraine meets Miss Susannah, the daugher of the wealthy English landowner who owns Lorraine's family's farm, they form an unlikely friendship that they must keep secret due to the deep cultural divide between their two families.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee Brown's eloquent, fully documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. For this elegant thirtieth anniversary hardcover edition, Brown has contributed an incisive...
19) One for all
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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In 1655 sixteen-year-old Tania is the daughter of a retired musketeer, but she is afflicted with extreme vertigo and subject to frequent falls; when her father is murdered she finds that he has arranged for her to attend Madame de Treville's newly formed Académie des Mariées in Paris, which, it turns out, is less a school for would-be wives, than a fencing academy for girls--and so Tania begins her training to be a new kind of musketeer, and to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"A definitive encyclopedic reference to the Twilight Saga, providing readers with everything they need to further explore the unforgettable world Stephenie Meyer created in Twilight, New Moon, Eclipse, Breaking Dawn, and The Short Second Life of Bree Tanner. This comprehensive handbook--perfect for every Twilight Saga fan--is full-color throughout, with nearly one hundred gorgeous illustrations and photographs, character profiles, genealogical charts,...
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