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701) Bog child
Author
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
702) The ritual
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The chosen one. Barrington University is home of the Lords, a secret society that requires their blood in payment. They are above all--the most powerful men in the world. They devote their lives to violence in exchange for power. And during their senior year, they are offered a chosen one. I vow. You vow. We vow. People think growing up with money is freeing, but I promise you, it's not. My entire life has been planned out for me. I never got the...
703) The canyon's edge
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Formats
Description
A year after the death of her mother in a restaurant shooting, Nora is left struggling to stay alive when a climbing trip with her father goes terribly wrong.
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In this collection of articles, readers will encounter the best of The New York Times's reporting on school shootings, including a survey of the history of school shootings in the United States and reflections on why they've become a political hot-button topic. Through these pieces, readers are exposed to the many sides of the debate that rages against a backdrop of senseless violence against young people and educators."--
Author
Pub. Date
2013, c2012
Description
In the wake of a series of baffling murders committed by children, anthropologist Hesketh Lock investigates a scandal in the Taiwan timber industry and wonders at his stepson's odd behavior before making a shocking connection upon the death of his Taiwan contact.
708) Splintering
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Relates, in a series of poems from different perspectives, the events and aftereffects of an intruder's violent attack on a family.
709) Hunting Adeline
Author
Series
Cat and mouse duet volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
The conclusion to the Cat and Mouse Duet is here... The Diamond. Death walks alongside me, but the reaper is no match for me. I'm trapped in a world full of monsters dressed as men, and those who aren't as they seem. They won't keep me forever. I no longer recognize the person I've become, and I'm fighting to find my way back to the beast who hunts me in the night. They call me a diamond, but they've only created an angel of death. The Hunter....
711) Drakon
Author
Series
Draka series volume 4
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Accidentally hurled into our parallel Earth, Gwendolyn Ingolfsson, the master of the genetically engineered Draka Master Race, seeks to bridge the known world and her own in order to dominate the unmodified human race.
713) Past forgiving
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 4
Description
Fifteen-year-old Alexandra finds that her boyfriend Cliff demands all her time, isolates her by his jealousy, and finally becomes physically abusive.
Author
Series
Tarakan chronicles volume 1
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
More than a hundred years have passed since the Catastrophe brought humanity to the brink of extinction. Those who survived are changed. The Wildeners have reverted to the old beliefs--but with new Gods--while others place their faith in the technology that once powered their lost civilization. In the mysterious City of Towers, the center of the destroyed Tarakan empire, a lowly scribe of the Guild of Historians is charged with a dangerous assignment....
715) This is not a test
Author
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Barricaded in Cortege High with five other teens while zombies try to get in, Sloane Price observes her fellow captives become more unpredictable and violent as time passes although they each have much more reason to live than she has.
716) Vicious Circle
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Hector Cross left behind a career of high risks and warfare when he married Hazel Bannock. But after his new life is tragically upended, he recognizes the ruthless hand of an old enemy behind the attack. Determined to fight back, Hector draws together a team of his most loyal friends and fellow warriors to hunt down those who pursue him and his loved ones. For he and Hazel have a child, a precious daughter, whom he will go to the ends of the Earth...
717) Bad Cree: a novel
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Description
"When Mackenzie wakes up with a severed crow’s head in her hands, she panics. Only moments earlier she had been fending off masses of birds in a snow-covered forest. In bed, when she blinks, the head disappears. Night after night, Mackenzie’s dreams return her to a memory from before her sister Sabrina’s untimely death: a weekend at the family’s lakefront campsite, long obscured by a fog of guilt. But when the waking world starts closing in,...
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Description
"An acclaimed expert on violence and seasoned peacebuilder explains the five reasons why conflict (rarely) blooms into war, and how to interrupt that deadly process. It's easy to overlook the underlying strategic forces of war, to see it solely as a series of errors, accidents, and emotions gone awry. It's also easy to forget that war shouldn't happen-and most of the time it doesn't. Around the world there are millions of hostile rivalries, yet only...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
This title examines an important historic even--the April 15, 2013, bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon in Boston, Massachusetts. Easy-to-read, compelling text explores the men behind the bombing, brothers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the emergency response to the attack, how the events were communicated and reported through traditional media and social media, the manhunt for the Tsarnaev brothers, and the response of the city of Boston and...