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Mysterious Benedict Society volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
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Reynie, Kate, Sticky, and Constance, all graduates of the Learning Institute for the Very Enlightened and members of the Benedict Society, embark on a scavenger hunt that turns into a desperate search for the missing Mr. Benedict.
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Vega Jane volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.
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Maximum Ride volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Max boldly navigates post-apocalyptic regions with her broken flock in search of answers about what has happened to their world.
85) Silver canyon
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Only moments after arriving, Matt Brennan was warned to leave Hattan's Point. But Matt wasn't going anywhere. Not until he found out why everyone wanted him out of the way. And not until he got to know Moira Maclaren. Moira was the daughter of one of the most powerful men in Hattan's Point. And she didn't believe Matt when he said he'd come to stay - and survive. Especially when Matt decided to take on both sides in the fierce conflict over a key...
86) The assassin
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"As Van Dorn private detective Isaac Bell strives to land a government contract to investigate John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil monopoly, the case takes a deadly turn. A sniper begins murdering opponents of Standard Oil, and soon the assassin-shooting with extraordinary accuracy at seemingly impossible long range-kills Bell's best witness, a brave and likable man. Then the shooter detonates a terrible explosion that sets the victim's independent...
87) Prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 15
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In the Nevada desert, an experiment has gone horribly wrong. A cloud of nanoparticles -- micro-robots -- has escaped from the laboratory. This cloud is self-sustaining and self-reproducing. It is intelligent and learns from experience. For all practical purposes, it is alive. It has been programmed as a predator. It is evolving swiftly, becoming more deadly with each passing hour. Every attempt to destroy it has failed. And we are the prey.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 16
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The first and best of the Tarzan novels, of which Edgar Rice Burroughs eventually wrote several dozen, Tarzan of the Apes remains one of the signature stories of American popular literature, as readable as it is famous. Tarzan himself, in the words of Arthur C. Clarke, is "the best known character in the whole of fiction." As John Taliaferro asserts in his Introduction to this Modern Library Paperback Classic, "There is no question that [Tarzan of...
90) The outcasts
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
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In a society that values strength over intellect, Hal's ingenuity, combined with the fact that his mother was a slave, sets him apart from other boys his age. As he and his peers compete in training designed to test their strength and endurance, Hal realizes he is not the only outcast and struggles to carve out a place for himself.
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Wings of fire. Original series volume 8
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Dangerous dragon Peril is on a mission to find and stop her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy, and she is not sure if the SeaWing, Turtle, who is accompanying her, will be a help or a hindrance.
Peril is possibly the most dangerous dragon in Pyrrhia, because she has firescales that can kill an opponent with a touch, but now she has a mission--find her former queen, Scarlet, who is threatening the Jade Mountain Academy,...
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Brotherband chronicles volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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Hal and the Herons embark on a new mission to track down a long-time rival and bitter enemy--pirate Tursgud, leader of the Shark Brotherband, who has captured twelve Araluen villagers for his slave trade.
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Candy shop war volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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When fifth-graders Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon meet the owner of the new candy store in town and are given a magical candy that endows them with super powers, they find that along with its benefits there are also dangerous consequences.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 12
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"With talons united ... Luna has always wanted to change the world -- to fix it, to free it -- even if she's never actually known how. Now that all of dragon - and humankind are in mortal danger, Luna is flying back home to Pantala with a team of dragons on a rescue mission, determined to be brave and useful. But saving a continent isn't as easy as a prophecy makes it sound, and "facing a great evil" definitely requires more than the fiery silk that...
95) Darkstalker
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Long before the SandWing and the Dragonet Prophecy, Darkstalker, half NightWing and half IceWing, is hatched under the three moons--born into a divided heritage, he is destined to become the most powerful and dangerous dragon Pyrhhia will ever know, and it will take the combined efforts of a SeaWing named Fatham and a NightWing seer named Clearsight to come up with a way to save all the kingdoms from his anger.
96) The Last
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Endling volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
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"Byx is the youngest member of her dairne pack. Believed to possess remarkable abilities, her mythical doglike species has been hunted to near extinction in the war-torn kingdom of Nedarra. After her pack is hunted down and killed, Byx fears she may be the last of her species. The Endling. So Byx sets out to find safe haven, and to see if the legends of other hidden dairnes are true. Along the way, she meets new allies--animals and humans alike--who...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 15
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The first and most successful in the Baroness's series of books that feature Percy Blakeney, who leads a double life as an English fop and a swashbuckling rescuer of aristocrats, The Scarlet Pimpernel was the blueprint for what became known as the masked-avenger genre. As Anne Perry writes in her Introduction, the novel "has almost reached its first centenary, and it is as vivid and appealing as ever because the plotting is perfect. It is a classic...
98) Ralph S. Mouse
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
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Presents the further adventures of a motorcycle-riding mouse who goes to school and becomes the instigator of an investigation of rodents and the peacemaker for two lonely boys.
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Maximum Ride volume 3
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
100) Angels & demons
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Robert Langdon novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is summoned to Switzerland when the dead body of a physicist turns up bearing the distinguishing mark of the ancient brotherhood of the "Illuminati." Soon, Langdon suspects this mysterious cult is determined to destroy Catholicism with an unimaginably powerful new weapon.