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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
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Few works in literature have received as much popular and critical attention as Nobel Laureate William Golding's Lord of the Flies. Since its publication in 1954, it has amassed a cult following, and has significantly contributed to our dystopian vision of the post-war era. When responding to the novel's dazzling power of intellectual insight, scholars and critics often invoke the works of Shakespeare, Freud, Rousseau, Sartre, Orwell, and Conrad....
83) La carretera
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Pub. Date
2008.
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Set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity.
85) Twister
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Series
Pub. Date
[2012]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.4 - AR Pts: 1
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Antonio slid down the rope. He held on for dear life. It got darker as the twister moved closer. It was loud. Like a giant freight train!
86) Then
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 5
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In early 1940s Poland, ten-year-old Felix and his friend Zelda escape from a cattle car headed to the Nazi death camps and struggle to survive, first on their own and then with Genia, a farmer with her own reasons for hating Germans.
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 5
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The Kidd family--including twelve-year-old twins Beck and Bick--races to Moscow, Russia, to prevent the biggest art heist in history but it's too late. Instead, the Kidds are accused of being the thieves! They must follow clues to the Arctic Circle to recover the stolen treasure and prove their innocence.
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I survived volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
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On May 18, 1980, eleven-year-old Jessie Marlowe and her best friends, Eddie and Sam, are in a forest near Mount St. Helens when the months of wondering whether the volcano will erupt are finally answered, all three are badly burned, but it is up to Jessie to protect the boys as best she can and hope that somebody comes to rescue them.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 7
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When soldiers attack a small village in Zimbabwe, Deo goes on the run with Innocent, his older, mentally disabled brother, carrying little but a leather soccer ball filled with money, and after facing prejudice, poverty, and tragedy, it is in soccer that Deo finds renewed hope.
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Across the universe trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Description
Leaving the walls of the spaceship Godspeed behind, Amy and Elder are ready to build a home on Centauri-Earth, but they must race to discover who--or what--else is out there if they are to have any hope of saving their struggling colony and building a future together.
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Series
Forsaken trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 15
Description
After the formation of the United Northern Alliance--a merger of Canada, the United States, and Mexico into one nation--sixteen-year-old Alenna is sent to an desolate prison island for teenagers believed to be predisposed to violence.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
After a devastating earthquake destroys the West Coast, causing seventeen-year-old Penelope to lose her home, her parents, and her ten-year-old brother, she navigates a dark world, holding hope and love in her hands and refusing to be defeated.
93) Malka
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Pub. Date
2003.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Description
In the winter of 1943, a Polish physician and her older daughter make a dangerous and arduous trek to Hungary while seven-year-old Malka, who they were forced to leave behind when she became ill, fends for herself in a ghetto.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012
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By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion. Text presented in Spanish.
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Series
Passage trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
In the present, three individuals--Lila, a pregnant doctor, Kittridge, a loner, and April, a teenager caring for her younger brother--struggle to survive as a man-made apocalypse unfolds. While, one hundred years in the future, Amy and others support the Twelve as they fight a dark enemy with plans for humankind that are worse than extinction.
96) The Great Death
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Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
As their Alaskan village's only survivors of sickness brought by white men one winter early in the twentieth century, sisters Millie, aged thirteen, and Maura, ten, make their way south in hopes of finding someone alive.
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©2014.
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Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a Victor's Tour of the districts. Along the way Katniss senses that a rebellion is simmering, but the Capitol is still very much in control as President Snow prepares the 75th Annual Hunger Games, The Quarter Quell, and announces a...
98) Hunger Games
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Pub. Date
©2009
Description
In a future North America, the rulers maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
Author
Series
Hunger Games volume 1
Pub. Date
[2009], c2008
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"In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol is harsh and cruel and keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV. Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward...