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41) Dune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
This Hugo and Nebula Award winner tells the sweeping tale of a desert planet called Arrakis, the focus of an intricate power struggle in a byzantine interstellar empire. Arrakis is the sole source of Melange, the "spice of spices." Melange is necessary for interstellar travel and grants psychic powers and longevity, so whoever controls it wields great influence. The troubles begin when stewardship of Arrakis is transferred by the Emperor from the...
42) Little night
Author
Language
English
Description
Clare Burke's life took a devastating turn when she tried to protect her sister, Anne, from an abusive and controlling husband and ended up serving prison time for assault. The verdict largely hinged on Anne's defense of her spouse, all lies, and the sisters have been estranged ever since. Nearly twenty years later, Clare is living a quiet life in Manhattan as an urban birder and nature blogger, when her niece, Grit, turns up on her doorstep. The...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Promising to be the debut novel of the season The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman's act of violence against her husband?and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive... Alicia Berenson's life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London's most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel...
44) The outsiders
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The struggle of three brothers to stay together after their parent's death and their quest for identity among the conflicting values of their adolescent society.
"No one ever said life was easy. But Ponyboy is pretty sure that he's got things figured out. He knows that he can count on his brothers, Darry and Sodapop. And he knows that he can count on his friends—true friends who would do anything for him, like Johnny and Two-Bit. But not on much...
45) The pack
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Akhil Vyas, a new boy in school, reluctantly decides that in order to prevent a violent crime, he must tell Omar and Becky his secret.
48) Irish gold
Author
Series
Nuala Anne McGrail novels volume 1
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
52) Shattering glass
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When Rob, the charismatic leader of the senior class, turns the school nerd into Prince Charming, his actions lead to unexpected violence.
53) The string
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
A sociopath is running a deadly social experiment on a university campus. Markus Haas is the first to refuse to play the game. What unravels is a sequence of impossible decisions and a race against time to stop the sociopath before others pay the ultimate price.
54) After
Author
Pub. Date
2004, c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In the aftermath of a nearby school shooting, a grief and crisis counselor takes over Central High School and enacts increasingly harsh measures to control students, while those who do not comply disappear.
Author
Series
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Miles wants to move away after his cousin Keisha is accidentally shot in their neighborhood park, but Keisha and Miles' father work with others to make their community a safer place. Includes reader's note with discussion questions and advice for caregivers.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
At the end of high school, Johanna finally begins dating the girl she has loved from afar, but Reeve is as much trouble as she claims to be as she and her twin brother damage Johanna's self-esteem, friendships, and already precarious relationship with her sister.
57) The outcasts
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"What was Marko thinking training for the track meet alone in the early hours of the morning? The suspicions and accusations began to fly around Tubman High when he was attacked with a baseball bat and left for dead. Kevin Walker made no secret about his hate. And Trevor Jenkins was spotted at the scene ..."--Page 4 of cover.
58) Vigil Harbor
Author
Publisher
Random House Large Print
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A decade in the future, in the historic town of Vigil Harbor, there's been a rash of divorces among the yacht-club set; a marine biologist despairs at the state of the world; a spurned wife is bent on revenge; and the renowned architect Austin Kepner pursues a passion for building homes to withstand the escalating fury of coastal storms...When two outsiders come to town--one a woman determined to solve the disappearance of a long-lost lover who links...
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
�2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Destini Fletcher hates Tubman High from day one. When Tyron Becker singles her out, Destini is thrilled to be a part of Tyron's crowd. But he scorns her budding friendships with Alonee, Jaris, and Sami, and mocks her attempts to earn good grades. Do her excuses for Tyron's increasingly brutal behavior and bad attitude put her at risk?"--Publisher's web site.
60) Shadows of guilt
Author
Series
Publisher
Saddleback Educational Publishing
Pub. Date
�2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After a young girl is shot in what appears to gang-related violence, Jaris Spain decides to take a closer look and discovers a trail leading to another Tubman High School student, DeWayne Pike, who may be covering up something in his past.
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