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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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The #1 New York Times best-selling series.
Bonus features
• Q&A with author Ransom Riggs
• Eight pages of color stills from the film
• Sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits...
Bonus features
• Q&A with author Ransom Riggs
• Eight pages of color stills from the film
• Sneak preview of Hollow City, the next novel in the series
A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs. It all waits...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mistborn series Brandon Sanderson continues the epic adventure he began in Alcatraz vs. the Evil Librarians
So now you've read all about me, Alcatraz Smedry, and how I was swept out of my life in your normal world and into the fight against the Librarians (jerks!). After being all heroic and stuff in that tale, I didn't expect to charge headlong into enemy territory: the Library
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Description
On his thirteenth birthday, foster child Alcatraz Smedry receives a bag of sand which is immediately stolen by the evil Librarians who are trying to take over the world, and Alcatraz is introduced to his grandfather and his own special talent, and told that he must use it to save civilization.
6) Heartbeat
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Annie ponders the many rhythms of life the year that her mother becomes pregnant, her grandfather begins faltering, and her best friend (and running partner) becomes distant.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Trinity Foxx does not believe her grandfather's latest treasure is a real dragon's egg until soldiers invade trying to steal it, a strange boy tells her she must work with him to stop an impending dragon war, and the dragon inside the egg begins telling her what to do.
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Series
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English
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"The Heartlight Saga collects three of Barron's beloved novels into a single volume. The stories follow Kate as she travels to a distant galaxy to save the life of her astronomer grandfather in Heartlight, goes back in time to a lost Native American tribe in The Ancient One, and ultimately down to the very bottom of the sea in The Merlin Effect. Weaving together mystery, mysticism, and magic, and exploring themes of mortality, interconnectedness,...
10) Things hoped for
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery when her grandfather suddenly goes missing.
12) Edgewood
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English
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"In an effort to find her missing grandfather, Emeline enters the forest of Edgewood where she discovers not only that the stories of the fabled Wood King and his mythical court are true, but that her Pa's life is in danger and only she can save him--along with a handsome and brooding tithe collector, a surly blacksmith, and a lost childhood friend."--
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Series
Book of Mormon adventure volume 1
Language
English
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Two orphans flee state authorities to seek refuge in southern Utah with their Mormon relatives. Here they discover a mysterious place in the woods where parallel realities intersect and where an ancient people called Nephites interact with residents of a sleepy Utah town.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate is instructed to be a lady by her mother, learns about love from the older three of her six brothers, and studies the natural world with her grandfather, the latter of which leads to an important discovery.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
After an injury ends former star pitcher Peter Friedman's athletic dreams, he concentrates on photography which leads him to a girlfriend, new fame as a high school sports photographer, and a deeper relationship with the beloved grandfather who, when he realizes he is becoming senile, gives Pete all of his professional camera gear.
17) And We're Off
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Nora Holmes is an artist, a painter from the moment she could hold a brush. She inherited the skill from her grandfather, Robert, who's always nurtured Nora's talent and encouraged her to follow her passion. Still, Nora is shocked and elated when Robert offers her a gift: an all-expenses-paid summer trip to Europe to immerse herself in the craft and to study history's most famous artists. The only catch? Nora has to create an original...
18) Sway With Me
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English
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"Arsalan Nizami has learned all he knows from his 100-year-old great-grandfather, but when Beenish Siraj asks him to be her partner in a dance she's been forbidden to perform at her sister's wedding, Arsalan's world opens up in more ways than he could have imagined"--
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