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1) Led astray
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After his brother Hal dies, Cage Hendren, trying to overcome his reputation as a womanizer, pursues the only woman he has ever loved, Hal's quiet and serious fiancée, and shows her how to explore the wildness in herself.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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By April of 1915, as chaplain Joseph Reavley tends to the soldiers in his care, the nightmare of trench warfare is impartially cutting down Englands youth. On one of his rescue forays into no-mans-land, Joseph finds the body of an arrogant war correspondent, Eldon Prentice. Prentice was despised for his prying attempts to elicit facts that would turn public opinion against the war. Prentice was killed not by German fire but, apparently, by one of...
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Mormon elders in the town of Cottonwoods pressure the widow Jane Withersteen to remarry so that her lands and herds will remain in their control. Gradually they frighten away most of her cowboys, and rustlers steal away her cattle, but the gunfighter Lassiter stands by her as the inevitable confrontation draws near.
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2021.
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When Arnold wishes he had more information for his family tree, Ms. Frizzle revs up the Magic School Bus and the class zooms back to prehistoric times. First stop: 3.5 billion years ago! There aren't any people around to ask for directions. Luckily Ms. Frizzle has a plan, and the class is right there to watch simple cells become sponges and then fish and dinosaurs, then mammals and early primates and, eventually, modern humans. It's the longest class...
9) Middlemarch
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.4 - AR Pts: 64
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Dorothea Brooke is a young woman of fervent ideals who yearns to effect social change yet faces reisistance from the society she inhabits.
10) Ghost
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 6
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"Ghost, a naturally talented runner and troublemaker, is recruited for an elite middle school track team. He must stay on track, literally and figuratively, to reach his full potential"--
11) Dinosaurs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Introduces dinosaurs, including how scientists know they existed, what they ate, how they cared for their young, and what the descendants of dinosaurs may look like today.
12) The chosen one
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 6
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In a polygamous cult in the desert, Kyra, not yet fourteen, sees being chosen to be the seventh wife of her uncle as just punishment for having read books and kissed a boy, in violation of Prophet Childs' teachings, and is torn between facing her fate and running away from all that she knows and loves.
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[2014]
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HORROR & GHOST STORIES. Still wildly popular today, this collection of ghost stories was first published in 1919. Arthur B. Reeves, an American writer who also wrote screenplays, compiled this anthology. His introduction to this anthology is considered by many to be the definitive explanation as to the popularity and diversity of the horror genre. Turn off the lights and prepare to be thrilled and chilled by this unique assemblage of spooky tales!...
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[2017]
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"A talented but overprotective young man has his hands full as trustee of the inheritance of a beautiful blonde but very naive young woman. But his love and her money don't mix. Why would he embezzle a quarter of a million dollars from his client "for her own good?" Perry Mason may be able to prove, in fact, that his client is no embezzler -- but what happens when murder rears its head?" -- from container.
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Do birds of a feather plot murder together?The extraordinary Perry Mason never handles straightforward divorce cases, but this one is an especially strange bird. Rita Swaine is dating her sister's ex-boyfriend. Her sister, Rosalind, is married to shady insurance adjuster Walter Prescott, who's got dollar signs in his eyes and ice water in his veins. When Rita's beau gallantly steps in to warn Rosalind about her heinous husband's designs, Prescott...
18) Dot the Fire Dog
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2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
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Dot the dalmatian that lives at a firehouse accompanies the firefighters when they rush to a burning house.
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[2017]
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"Lorraine Elmore is a well-to-do widow who's ready to marry again. But nervous Linda Calhoun is certain that the man her aunt Lorraine has fallen for is a fortune-hunting Bluebeard who's out to make a killing - in more ways than one. Perry Mason alloys Linda's paranoia - until Detective Paul Drake digs up enough dirt to convince the lawyer that dashing, mysterious Montrose Dewitt is digging a grave for his bride-to-be. When the amorous aunt and her...
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2017
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Helen Cadmus was dead -- but how had it happened? Suicide, most people said. She jumped off that millionaire's yacht in a fit of despair, her body was never found, and the case was closed. The story was too neat to suit Perry Mason. It didn't add up. Somebody was concealing the truth about Helen's death, and he was going to uncover it even if it killed him. That's how Mason fell into a trap set by three killers--two humans and one grinning gorilla!...