Christopher Evan Welch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Nearing the end of his life, Enzo, a dog with a philosopher's soul, tells his story of trying to bring together the family who have been pulled apart by a three year custody battle between daughter Zoe's maternal grandparents and her father Denny, a race car driver.
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Last apprentice volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties."
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English
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Set against the gorgeous backdrop of Rome, Tom Rachman's wry, vibrant debut follows the topsy-turvy private lives of the reporters, editors, and executives of an international English-language newspaper as they struggle to keep it-and themselves-afloat. Many changes have ensued since an enigmatic millionaire founded the paper 50 years ago, and now the staff's personal dramas seem more important than the headlines. Kathleen, the imperious editor in...
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Last apprentice volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Provides insights into the life of Grimalkin, one of the deadliest witches in the country, if not the world, whose uneasy truce with the Spook's apprentice, Tom, unites them against the ultimate evil of the Fiend.
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Last apprentice volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When witches steal Tom's inheritance and kidnap his relatives, Tom, the Spook, and Alice set out for Pendle Hill, a particularly dangerous district, in hopes of preventing the three witch clans from uniting to raise the Fiend, the Devil himself, thus bringing about an age of darkness.
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Last apprentice volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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As creatures of the dark hunt for the witch assassin Grimalkin, who carries the captured Fiend's head, Spook's apprentice Tom tries to find a way to finish this terrifying evil once and for all.
8) InterWorld
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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At nearly fifteen years of age, Joey Harker learns that he is a Walker, able to travel between dimensions, and soon joins a team of different versions of himself, each from another dimension, to fight the evil forces striving to conquer all the worlds.
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Last apprentice volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Tom is reunited with his mother and must return to Greece to face a new and terrible threat from the dark forces, and a momentous decision must be made, causing a serious rift between Tom and the Spook that threatens to separate them forever.
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Last apprentice volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The continuing adventures of Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son and apprentice to the local Spook, who faces danger and death daily in his job protecting the region from evil.
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Last apprentice volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The Spook and his apprentice, Thomas Ward, have been successful in ridding the county of witches, ghosts, and boggarts, but they face a much more formidable task when they travel to Priestown to confront the Bane and the Quisitor.
12) Winter chill
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English
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The moment Marian Larsen sees the patrol car stop outside her house, she feels a shiver of foreboding. The news is even worse than she feared. Marian's husband and young daughter have been in a snowmobile crash. Dan is paralyzed and Laura is dead, her body broken on the icy ground. Friends and colleagues in Marian's MInnesota hometown rally around to try and ease her grief. But soon there are more horrible accidents. Then the rumors start - that there...
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Last apprentice volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Returning from Greece, Tom and the Spook find that their home, including the Spook's precious library of knowledge, has been burned to the ground, and that their battle against the denizens of the dark must continue.
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Last apprentice volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Tom is dismayed when his master the Spook decrees that they will be spending the winter on gloomy and forbidding Anglezarke Moor but soon discovers the reason for his master's decision, as they tangle with two dangerous witches and struggle to keep a dark mage from resurrecting an ancient evil.
15) The big field
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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When fourteen-year-old baseball player Hutch feels threatened by the arrival of a new teammate named Darryl, he tries to work through his insecurities about both Darryl and his remote and silent father, who was once a great ballplayer too.
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Last apprentice volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Apprentice Tom and the Spook for whom he works flee to Ireland, where a powerful witch has joined forces with the dark mages trying to call forth ancient powers to destroy Tom.
17) Slither
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Last apprentice volume 11
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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A nightmare-plagued eldest farmer's daughter, Nessa, is sacrificed to the blood-drinking Slither, who agrees to help guide Nessa's younger sisters to safety in return.
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When the FBI turned an Irish mobster into an informant, they corrupted the entire judicial system and sanctioned the worst crime spree Boston has ever seen. This is the true story behind the major motion picture.
James "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a childhood friend. John Connolly a rising star in the Boston FBI office, offered Bulger protection in...
James "Whitey" Bulger became one of the most ruthless gangsters in US history, and all because of an unholy deal he made with a childhood friend. John Connolly a rising star in the Boston FBI office, offered Bulger protection in...
19) Fitz: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Fifteen-year-old Fitz kidnaps the father he has never known, taking him from his St. Paul apartment building at gunpoint, in an attempt to address his bewildering mix of resentment and yearning.
20) The Juvie three
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Gecko, Arjay, and Terence, all in trouble with the law, must find a way to keep their halfway house open in order to stay out of juvenile detention.