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1) The Pearl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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"For the diver Kino, finding a magnificent pearl means the promise of a better life for his impoverished family. His dreams blind him to the greed that the pearl arouses in him and his neighbors. Baring the fallacy of the American dream-that wealth erases all problems-Steinbeck's classic illustrates our fall from innocence."--Pub.desc.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis' parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there's no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents - telekinesis and telepathy - who got to this place the same...
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Series
Dark is rising sequence volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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With the final battle between the Light and the Dark soon approaching, Will sets out on a quest to call for aid. Hidden within the Welsh hills is a magical harp that he must use to wake the Sleepers - six noble riders who have slept for centuries. But an illness has robbed Will of nearly all his knowledge of the Old Ones, and he is left only with a broken riddle to guide him in his task.
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Song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
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English
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In a land where summers can last decades and winters a lifetime, trouble is brewing. The cold is returning, and in the frozen wastes to the north of Winterfell, sinister and supernatural forces are massing beyond the kingdom's protective Wall. At the center of the conflict lie the Starks of Winterfell, a family as harsh and unyielding as the land they were born to. Sweeping from a land of brutal cold to a distant summertime kingdom of epicurean plenty,...
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Chronicles of Narnia volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Four children help Prince Caspian and his army of talking beasts to free Narnia from evil.
Four English children return to Narnia to help the dwarfs battle the evil forces which have seized the kingdom.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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A mass-market paperback edition of The Horse and His Boy, book three in the classic fantasy series, The Chronicles of Narnia, featuring cover art by Cliff Nielsen and black-and-white interior artwork by the original illustrator of Narnia, Pauline Baynes.On a desperate journey, two runaways meet and join forces. Though they are only looking to escape their harsh and narrow lives, they soon find themselves at the center of a terrible battle. It is a...
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His dark materials volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 26
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English
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Lyra and Will find themselves at the center of a battle between the forces of the Authority and those gathered by Lyra's father, Lord Asriel.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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Robert Louis Stevenson originally wrote "Dr. Jekyll And Mr Hyde" as a " chilling shocker." He then burned the draft and, upon his wife's advice, rewrote it as the darkly complex tale it is today. Stark, skillfully woven, this fascinating novel explores the curious turnings of human character through the strange case of Dr. Jekyll, a kindly scientist who by night takes on his stunted evil self, Mr. Hyde. Anticipating modern psychology, "Jekyll And...
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Fablehaven volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When Kendra and Seth go to stay at their grandparents' estate, they discover that it is a sanctuary for magical creatures and that a battle between good and evil is looming.
11) Year One
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English
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"A stunning new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author--an epic of hope and horror, chaos and magic, and a journey that will unite a desperate group of people to fight the battle of their lives... It began on New Year's Eve. The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed--and more...
12) The stand
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 72
Language
English
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In 1985, after an accident at an army laboratory lets loose a virus that kills nearly the entire U.S., the survivors cross vast, horrifying wastelands to band together in Boulder, Colorado, and Las Vegas, facing off to decide the fate of the human race. Contains the unabridged text and includes illustrations.
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Mortal instruments volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Still pursuing a cure for her mother's enchantment, Clary uses all her powers and ingenuity to get into Idris, the forbidden country of the secretive Shadowhunters, and to its capital, the City of Glass, where with the help of a newfound friend, Sebastian, she uncovers important truths about her family's past that will not only help save her mother but all those that she holds most dear.
14) Throne of Glass
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Series
Throne of glass novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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In a land without magic, where the king rules with an iron hand, an assassin is summoned to the castle. She comes not to kill the king, but to win her freedom. If she defeats twenty-three killers, thieves, and warriors in a competition, she is released from prison to serve as the king's champion. Her name is Celaena Sardothien. The Crown Prince will provoke her. The Captain of the Guard will protect her. But something evil dwells in the castle of...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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It began for our narrator forty years ago when the family lodger stole their car and committed suicide in it, stirring up ancient powers best left undisturbed. Dark creatures from beyond the world are on the loose, and it will take everything our narrator has just to stay alive: there is primal horror here, and menace unleashed - within his family and from the forces that have gathered to destroy it. His only defense is three women, on a farm at the...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
With the future of the wizard world at stake, teenaged wizard Harry Potter enters into his final battle against the evil Lord Voldemort. Potter turns to friends, teachers, and other members of the Order of the Phoenix for help in defeating Voldemort's forces. The discovery of spies within the Order forces Harry and the others to choose their allies carefully.
17) The awakening
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Series
Dragon heart legacy volume 1
Language
English
Description
In the realm of Talamh, a teenage warrior named Keegan emerges from a lake holding a sword--representing both power and the terrifying responsibility to protect the Fey. In another realm known as Philadelphia, a young woman has just discovered she possesses a treasure of her own ...
Breen makes a leap into the unknown with a summer trip to Ireland - her father's homeland. Little does she know how much of a leap until a walk in the woods leads her...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Juvenile fiction
Adolescence
This is the second of five chronicles of Prydain in which Taran, the assistant-pig-keeper, longs to enter the world of men, but when he achieves his desire, he finds there is treachery as well as friendship
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Time quintet volume 3
Time quartet volume Bk. 4
Time quartet volume no. 3
[Wrinkle in time series ; v. 2]
Time quartet volume Bk. 4
Time quartet volume no. 3
[Wrinkle in time series ; v. 2]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Charles Wallace and the unicorn Gaudior undertake a perilous journey through time in a desperate attempt to stop the destruction of the world by the mad dictator Mad Dog Branzillo.
20) The High King
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In the fifth and final book of the chronicles of Prydain, Taran and Prince Gwydion rally an army to stand up to Arawyn, Lord of the Land of death for the ultimate confrontation of the forces of good and evil.