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21) Spy: a novel
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"At eighteen, Alexandra Wickham is presented to King George V and Queen Mary in an exquisite white lace and satin dress her mother has ordered from Paris. With her delicate blond looks, she is a stunning beauty who seems destined for a privileged life. But fate, a world war, and her own quietly rebellious personality lead her down a different path. By 1939, Europe is on fire and England is at war. From her home in idyllic Hampshire, Alex makes her...
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Fantastic Beasts volume 2
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After Newt Scamander helps to capture Gellert Grindelwald, the criminal soon escapes custody and begins gathering followers under his ideology of keeping magic for pure-blood wizards only. Albus Dumbledore, Grindelwald's truest friend, has no choice but to resist the charismatic leader and asks Newt to help thwart the plans for (wizarding) world domination.
23) King of the wind
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IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
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Follows the adventures of the Arabian stallion brought to England to become one of the founding sires of the Thoroughbred breed and the mute Arab stable boy who tended him with loyalty and devotion all his life.
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Narwhal and Jelly volume 1
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IL: LG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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A happy-go-lucky, waffle-loving narwhal and a cynical, no-nonsense jellyfish forge an unlikely friendship and share adventures while exploring the ocean together.
25) Into the wild
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IL: MG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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Greetings from Fairbanks! This is the last you shall hear from me, Wayne. Arrived here 2 days ago. It was very difficult to catch rides in the Yukon Territory. But I finally got here. Please return all mail I receive to the sender. It might be a very long time before I return South. If this adventure proves fatal and you don't ever hear from me again I want you to know you're a great man. I now walk into the wild. --Alex. (Postcard received by Wayne...
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"Celebrating her forty-fifth birthday at her local pub, popular podcaster Alix Summers crosses paths with an unassuming woman called Josie Fair. Josie, it turns out, is also celebrating her forty-fifth birthday. They are, in fact, birthday twins. A few days later, Alix and Josie bump into each other again, this time outside Alix's children's school. Josie has been listening to Alix's podcasts and thinks she might be an interesting subject for her...
27) The kingdom
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Sam and Remi Fargo are used to hunting for treasure, not people; but a Texas oil baron contacts them with a personal plea. An investigator friend of the Fargos was on a mission to find the oil baron's missing father, and now the investigator is missing too. On a journey that takes them to Tibet, Nepal, Bulgaria, India, and China, the Fargos will find themselves embroiled with black market fossils, a centuries-old puzzle chest, the ancient Tibetan...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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When Grandma sets her noodle pudding on the sill to cool, its wonderful aroma drifts out to sea -- and attracts soe very hungry pirates! Soon they're ashore, snatching the pudding and Grandma and her parrot Ollie, too! Melissa wants to rescue them. But is she clever enough to foil these silly pirates?
29) Sharks
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1993
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IL: LG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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From the tiny dwarf shark to the giganic whale shark, this tape and book acquaint the listener with these fascinating creatures.
30) High country
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Anna Pigeon mysteries volume 12
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IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 14
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When four young employees of Yosemite National Park disappear, ranger Anna Pigeon goes undercover as a waitress at the Ahwahnee Lodge to investigate. Living in the staff dorm, she soon discovers there's a connection between at least one of the missing girls, a crashed plane containing a fortune in drugs, and the outsiders who've moved into the tent cabin last occupied by a skilled climber who's also among the disappeared. The first attempt on her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 8
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James Qwilleran and his talented team of feline sleuths, Koko and Yum Yum, investigate the supposedly accidental death of a cast member in a car crash on the eve of the Theatre Club's performance of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest."
33) The plague
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IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 16
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A coastal city in Algeria is struck by bubonic plague and is shut off from the world for months.
35) Through My Eyes
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IL: MG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 16
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One of the best quarterbacks in the history of college football traces his path to success, discussing his childhood as the son of Christian missionaries and how his faith combined with his drive to succeed have made him the person he is today.
36) Skyfire
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.6 - AR Pts: 1
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Bear had never seen a rainbow and when he did he thought it was the sky on fire. A bird he met told him it was a rainbow with a pot of gold at the end but bear did not believe him. Bear took a pot of water to put out the fire and bird goes to find the pot of gold.
38) Outside, Inside
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Pub. Date
1997
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Takes you through a rain storm and compairs the activities of Molly and her pets inside the house during the storm.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 29
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This is a tale "told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the...
40) Mooncake
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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One fine summer evening, a hungry bear decides that he would like to taste a piece of the moon and builds a rocketship to get there.