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1) Shadows reel
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A day before the three Pickett girls come home for Thanksgiving, Joe is called out for a moose poaching incident that turns out to be something much more sinister: a local fishing guide has been brutally tortured and murdered. At the same time, Marybeth opens an unmarked package at the library where she works and finds a photo album that belonged to an infamous Nazi official. Who left it there? And why? She learns that during World War II, several...
2) The Giver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Living in a "perfect" world without social ills, a boy approaches the time when he will receive a life assignment from the Elders, but his selection leads him to a mysterious man known as the Giver, who reveals the dark secrets behind the utopian facade.
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Bear books (Karma Wilson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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One by one, a whole host of different animals and birds find their way out of the cold and into Bear's cave to warm up. But even after the tea has been brewed and the corn has been popped, Bear just snores on! See what happens when he finally wakes up and finds his cave full of uninvited guests, all of them having a party without him!.
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"Eve Dallas is one tough cop. She can deal with a holiday reveler in a red suit who plunges thirty-seven stories and gives new meaning to the term "sidewalk Santa." She can take on purse snatchers, drug dealers, and worse. But when Trudy Lombard - a seemingly ordinary middle-aged lady - shows up at the station, it's all Eve can do to hold it together. Instantly, she is plunged back to the days when she was a vulnerable traumatized young girl - and...
5) Every Breath
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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A story about a chance encounter that becomes a touchstone for two vastly different individuals -- transcending decades, continents, and the bittersweet workings of fate.Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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This is the tale of family, memory, love, and living told by 14-year-old Susie Salmon, who is already in heaven. Through the voice of a precocious teenage girl, Susie relates the awful events of her death and builds out of her family's grief a hopeful and joyful story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 13
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"During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft." "Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage - now reissued in this handsome hard-cover edition, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Noah Calhoun, recently returned from World War II in 1946, buys an old plantation home in rural North Carolina, where he contents himself with memories of his first love, a girl he met fourteen years earlier, but then she unexpectedly arrives at his door.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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It's time for the little red chicken's bedtime story -- and a reminder from Papa to try not to interrupt. But the chicken can't help herself! Whether the tale is "Hansel and Gretel" or "Little Red Riding Hood" or even "Chicken Little," she jumps into the story to save its hapless characters. When it's the little red chicken's turn to tell a story, will her yawning papa make it to the end without his own kind of interrupting?
10) Finding Noel
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A young woman who had been adopted as a child by a loving family has only a Christmas ornament inscribed with the word "Noel" as a keepsake of her birth family about whom she remembers nothing. When long hidden memories resurface, she goes in search of her biological sister-and her past.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed-- within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women on a farm at the...
12) The Maze Runner
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
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Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
13) Ella enchanted
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Ella enchanted volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
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In this novel based on the story of Cinderella, Ella struggles against the childhood curse that forces her to obey any order given to her.
14) The death cure
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Maze runner trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
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As the third Trial draws to a close, Thomas and some of his cohorts manage to escape from WICKED, their memories having been restored, only to face new dangers as WICKED claims to be trying to protect the human race from the deadly FLARE virus.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
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In the Pacific there is an island that look like a big fish sunning itself in the sea. Around it, blue dolphins swim. Once, Indians also lived on the island. When they left and sailed to the east, one young girl was left behind. It is not only an unusual adventure of survival, but also a tale of natural beauty and personal discovery.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 24
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Like the men whose epic stories Jon Krakauer has told in his previous bestsellers, Pat Tillman was an irrepressible individualist and iconoclast. In May 2002, Tillman walked away from his $3.6 million NFL contract to enlist in the United States Army. He was deeply troubled by 9/11, and he felt a strong moral obligation to join the fight against al-Qaeda and the Taliban. Two years later, he died on a desolate hillside in southeastern Afghanistan. Though...
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Bella Vista volume 1
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Tess Delaney makes her living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners. People like Annelise Winther, who refuses to sell her long-gone mother's beloved necklace, found by Tess years after it was stolen during WWII. To Annelise, the jewel's value is in its memories. Tess's own history, however, is filled with gaps. She has a father she's never met, and a mother who spent more time traveling than with her daughter. So Tess is shocked when...
18) Homecoming
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A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history and the possibility of finding his missing father after all these years.
19) The tale of Despereaux: being the story of a mouse, a princess, some soup, and a spool of thread
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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The adventures of Desperaux Tilling, a small mouse of unusual talents, the princess that he loves, the servant girl who longs to be a princess, and a devious rat determined to bring them all to ruin.