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2) Scythe
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 17
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"A world with no hunger, no disease, no war, no misery: humanity has conquered all those things, and has even conquered death. Now Scythes are the only ones who can end life-and they are commanded to do so, in order to keep the size of the population under control. Citra and Rowan are chosen to apprentice to a scythe-a role that neither wants. These teens must master the 'art' of taking life, knowing that the consequence of failure could mean losing...
3) Bison
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 1
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Discusses the history of the American bison, commonly called the buffalo, its physical characteristics and habits, and efforts to preserve the species.
4) Beach music
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Jack McCall, a writer who moved to Rome to flee his family, returns to South Carolina where his mother is dying and makes peace with them, including Jewish in-laws he couldn't stand and who blamed him for his wife's suicide.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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Halt, Will, and Horace set out for Hibernia, where a quasi-religious group, the Outsiders, is sowing confusion and sedition, and they find that secrets from Halt's past may hold the key to restoring order before the last kingdom is undermined.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
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Publisher Annotation: When he decides to tag along with his brother Rodrick's band, Loded Diper, Greg doesn't realize what he's getting into. But he soon learns that late nights, unpaid gigs, fighting between band members, and money troubles are all part of the rock 'n' roll lifestyle. Can Greg help Loded Diper become the legends they think they are? Or will too much time with Rodrick's band be a diper overlode?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
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Boy, Roald Dahl's bestselling autobiography, is full of hilarious anecdotes about his childhood and school days. With fabulous new line drawings by Quentin Blake. "An autobiography is a book a person writes about his own life and it is usually full of all sorts of boring details. This is not an autobiography". (Roald Dahl). This reissue includes 30 delightful new line drawings by the inimitable Quentin Blake. Throughout his young days at school and...
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Snow like ashes trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
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Orphaned Meira, a fierce chakram-wielding warrior from the Kingdom of Winter, must struggle to free her people from the tyranny of an opposing kingdom while also protecting her own destiny.
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Diary of a wimpy kid volume 18
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 3
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When the town threatens to close their crumbling middle school and Greg realizes he'd have to go to a different school than his best friend, he rallies his classmates to save their school before it's shuttered for good.
13) Dragonhaven
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 21
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When Jake Mendoza, who lives in the Smokehill National Park where his father runs the Makepeace Institute of Integrated Dragon Studies, goes on his first solo overnight in the park, he finds an infant dragon whose mother has been killed by a poacher.
14) Insomnia
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 39
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"Ralph Roberts never expected to live out his remaining golden years mourning the death of his beloved wife. He also never expected to begin suffering from chronic insomnia for the first time in his life. Each night he wakes up a little bit earlier, until he's barely sleeping at all. During his overnight walks, he's now observing some strange things going on here in Derry, Maine--and they're more than sleep-deprived hallucinations. There's definitely...
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How to train your dragon volume 1
Pub. Date
2004.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 5
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Chronicles the adventures and misadventures of Hiccup Horrendous Haddock the Third as he tries to pass the important initiation test of his Viking clan, the tribe of the hairy hooligans, by catching and training a dragon.
16) Zeroboxer
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 14
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"As seventeen-year-old Carr 'the Raptor' Luka rises to fame in the weightless combat sport of zeroboxing, he learns a devastating secret that jeopardizes not only his future in the sport, but interplanetary relations"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
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A comic novel of three young men who "borrow" an automobile for a hilarious journey in Memphis. Wild humor and frenetic action do not, however, obscure the development of moving and tender human relationships and moral insights into human conduct.
19) Oh, rats!
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"A New Jersey squirrel named Phoenix teams up with a pack of rats in New York City to save their riverside home from being demolished and turned into a high-rise"--Provided by publisher.
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Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
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"Hit the road with author and illustrator Jeff Kinney and get a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the latest 20th Century Fox movie, Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Long Haul. Find out what it takes to film a flock of seagulls invading a minivan. Learn about a robot pig and an animatronic three-year-old. And discover everything that goes into making a feature film"--Amazon.com.