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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 71
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Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell is a classic novel that has captured the hearts of readers for generations. Set in the American South during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras, the story follows the life of Scarlett O'Hara, a headstrong and determined young woman who is forced to navigate the challenges of war, love, and loss. Throughout the novel, Scarlett's character undergoes significant growth and transformation as she learns to adapt...
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Alex Cross novels volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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With his resignation from the Washington Police interrupted by a case involving a friend who has been framed for murder, Alex Cross and partner John Sampson journey across military lines to confront the most brutal killer of their careers. Alex Cross is plunged into a case where military codes of honor conceal dark currents of revenge and ambition, and the men controlling the moves have the best weapons and training the world can offer.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 29
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The earth has been invaded by a species that take over the minds of their human hosts while leaving their bodies intact, and most of humanity has succumbed. But Melanie Stryder refuses to fade away. Wanderer, the invading "soul" who has been given Melanie's body, knew about the challenges of living inside a human: the overwhelming emotions, the too vivid memories. But there was one difficulty Wanderer didn't expect: the former tenant of her body refusing...
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Revisiting the town of Cedar Cove, Washington, this new novel centers around Corrie McAfee and her husband, a private investigator, as they solve a mystery from their past, while their daughter Linette moves back home and opens a new medical clinic and finds unexpected romance.
7) Babbitt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 22
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Presents the story of George F. Babbitt, the owner of a real estate company in the 1920's. Through the life and times of the main character, the author provides a satirical view of the sociology of American business and middle-class culture.
8) Many waters
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Time quintet volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
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The fifteen-year-old Murry twins, Sandy and Dennys, are accidentally sent back to a strange Biblical time period, in which mythical beasts roam the desert and a man named Noah is building a boat in preparation for a great flood.
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Fear Street. Original series volume 17
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c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
11) Red Lily, book 3
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In the garden trilogy volume 3
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"A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night... Hayley Phillips came to Memphis hoping for a new start, for herself and her unborn child. She wasn't looking for a handout from her distant cousin Roz, just a job at her thriving In the Garden nursery. What she found was a home surrounded...
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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Harry Bosch is in the middle of a major case in Los Angeles when his world is turned upside down with one phone call. His usual Sunday morning call to his daughter, who lives with her mother in Hong Kong, is answered by a stranger. Harry has stumbled into the middle of a kidnapping. His daughter is being held until her mother, Eleanor Wish, can win enough money in the poker rooms of nearby Macau to buy her back. Bosch drops everything to go to his...
13) Rumpelstiltskin
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c1986
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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A strange little man helps the miller's daughter spin straw into gold for the king on the condition that she will give him her first-born child.
15) The last juror
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
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In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details and the paper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt was tried before...
16) Hey, Al
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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A city janitor and his treasured canine companion are transported by a large colorful bird to an island in the sky, where their comfortable paradise existence threatens to turn them into birds as well.
19) The whipping boy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 2
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A bratty prince and his whipping boy have many adventures when they inadvertently trade places after becoming involved with dangerous outlaws.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 13
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They are the same age and they look alike. Tom Canty is a child of the London slums; Edward Tudor is heir to the throne of England. Just how insubstantial this difference is becomes all too clear when a chance encounter leads to an exchange of clothing and roles.