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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
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An aviator whose plane is forced down in the Sahara Desert encounters a little prince from a small planet who describes his adventures in the universe seeking the secret of what is really important in life. The anniversary edition includes original reviews of the novel, information about the author's life and work and the making of the story
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 34
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During WWII, on board a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experienced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it comes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny is a criminal act or an act of courage to save...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
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In a future totalitarian state where books are banned and destroyed by the government, Guy Montag, a fireman in charge of burning books, meets a revolutionary schoolteacher who dares to read and a girl who tells him of a past when people did not live in fear.
"The sixtieth-anniversary edition commemorates Ray Bradbury's masterpiece with a new introduction by Neil Gaiman; personal essays on the genesis of the novel by the author, a wealth of critical...
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It's America in 1962. Slavery is legal once again. The few Jews who still survive hide under assumed names. In San Francisco, the I Ching is as common as the Yellow Pages. All because some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war -- and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
6) First blood
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Vietnam veteran John Rambo arrives in Madison, Kentucky, and finds himself in a life-and-death struggle with the sadistic chief of police, who is determined to rid the town of him.
7) Ghost story
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"What was the worst thing you've ever done? In the sleepy town of Milburn, New York, four old men gather to tell each other stories--some true, some made-up, all of them frightening. A simple pastime to divert themselves from their quiet lives. But one story is coming back to haunt them and their small town. A tale of something they did long ago. A wicked mistake. A horrifying accident. And they are about to learn that no one can bury the past forever...
8) Shadowland
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Two apprentices studying under a master magician spend a season residing in a dark house located in the deep recesses of the Vermont forest. Learning secrets best left unlearned, they enter a world of incalcuable evil and terror. Only one of them will survive the ordeal.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the beloved Pulitzer Prize–winning author, a “funny, heart-hammering, wise” (The New York Times) portrait of a family that will remind you why "to read a novel by Anne Tyler is to fall in love" (PEOPLE).
Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their...
Abandoned by her wanderlusting husband, stoic Pearl raised her three children on her own. Now grown, the siblings are inextricably linked by their...
10) The sisterhood
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Inside Boston Doctors Hospital, patients are dying. In the glare of the operating room, they survive the surgeon's knife. But in the dark, hollow silence of the night, they die. Suddenly, inexplicably, horribly. A tough, bright doctor will risk his very life for a dedicated young nurse who unknowingly holds the answers.
12) Temptation
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Faced with orchard owner Chase Elliott's roguish charm, former Philadelphia socialite Eden Carlbough, who is now trying to run a struggling summer camp for girls, finds that romance is sure to follow temptation.
13) Koko
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It's ten years after Vietnam. Four ex-soldiers reunite at the dedication of the Vietnam Memorial. A missing member of their squad is a suspect in several torture murders in the Far East, and his friends try to save him from his crimes.
14) The mask
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A childless couple are drawn to a beautiful teenager they find in the middle of traffic. She has no past, no family and no memories when they take her home. The ghastly sounds in the night and the nightmares soon haunt them.
15) Cold harbour
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As D-day approaches, the Allied forces learn of a German staff conference where the Nazis will discuss strategy. But before the Allied spy operation can discover the coveted information, disaster strikes.
16) Mystery
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On a lush Caribbean island, ten-year-old Tom Pasmore is almost killed in an accident. As he grows, Tom develops an obsession with death and plunges into an investigation of two murders, one in the present and one from the past.
17) Secret song
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Roland de Tournay is a handsome rogue with a subtle wit and quick tongue. But he meets his destiny when he must resuce Daria of Fortesque--as daring, as clever, as fascinating as he is himself.
18) Presumed guilty
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A fan-favorite novel by internationally bestselling author Tess Gerritsen
Miranda Wood thinks she has seen the last of Richard Tremain, her rich and married ex-lover--until she discovers him stabbed to death in her bed. With her knife.
Miranda is the obvious suspect, and she looks even guiltier when her bail is posted by an anonymous donor. Was this an act of kindness designed to buy her time to clear her name? Or is someone
...19) The throat
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Tim Underhill comes back to his hometown to investigate the murder of a childhood friend's wife.