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Stephanie Plum mysteries volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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"New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum knows better than to mess with family. But when powerful mobster Salvatore 'Uncle Sunny' Sunucchi goes on the lam in Trenton, it's up to Stephanie to find him. Uncle Sunny is charged with murder for running over a guy (twice), and nobody wants to turn him in--not his poker buddies, not his bimbo girlfriend, not his two right-hand men, Shorty and Moe. Even Trenton's hottest cop, Joe Morelli, has skin in the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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The enchanting story of a shipwrecked family --a minister, his wife, and four sons-- who are cast up on a desert island, build a wonderful house in a tree, and survive so cleverly and happily apart from the world that they never want to be rescued.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Peter finds his demanding two-year-old brother an ever increasing problem. Living with his little brother, Fudge, makes Peter feel like a fourth grade nothing. Fudge is never far from trouble. He's a two-year-old terror who gets away with everything-and Peter's had enough. When Fudge walks off with Dribble, Peter's pet turtle, it's the last straw.
9) Rebound
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Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume Prequel
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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In the summer of 1988, twelve-year-old Chuck Bell is sent to stay with his grandparents, where he discovers jazz and basketball and learns more about his family's past.
10) Hope to die
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Alex Cross novels volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Detective Alex Cross is being stalked by a psychotic genius, forced to play the deadliest game of his career. Cross's family -- his loving wife Bree, the wise and lively Nana Mama, and his precious children -- have been ripped away. Terrified and desperate, Cross must give this mad man what he wants if he has any chance of saving the most important people in his life. The stakes have never been higher: What will Cross sacrifice to save the ones he...
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Boxcar children volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The Alden children travel on a Mississippi paddle-wheel steamer to visit an old family friend in his cabin near Hannibal, Missouri, and try to discover who is responsible for the mysterious activities near the house.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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With love and determination befitting the "world's greatest family," twelve-year-old Deza Malone, her older brother Jimmie, and their parents endure tough times in Gary, Indiana, and later Flint, Michigan, during the Great Depression.
14) Among the hidden
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Shadow children volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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In a future where the Population Police enforce the law limiting a family to only two children, Luke has lived all his twelve years in isolation and fear on his family's farm, until another "third" convinces him that the government is wrong.
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Abram's daughters volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Like her favorite honey locust tree, Leah's love for God and family has grown deep roots as she faces life's seemingly perpetual storms. But now Sadie, the beloved sister whose choices and circumstances drew her far from home and family, has returned to Gobbler's Knob. Yet Sadie is not the only prodigal in the story of the Ebersols....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.
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Boxcar children volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Relates the exploits of the four Alden children as they locate a missing man.
The Boxcar children travel to Maine, take canoes into the wilderness and live in a house exactly like the one on Surprise Island, except the Maine house is brown, not yellow. They then untangle the mystery of the two houses.
19) Singing hands
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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In the late 1940s, twelve-year-old Gussie, a minister's daughter, learns the definition of integrity while helping with a celebration at the Alabama School for the Deaf--her punishment for misdeeds against her deaf parents and their boarders.
20) Double Fudge
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Fudge books volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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I love money, money, money" is Fudge's new theme song. HE's drawing dollar signs for breakfast, thumbing through catalogs at bedtime and making enough "Fudge Bucks" so he can buy the whole world. But life really spins out of control when Peter and his family meet thier long-lost relatives.
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