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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 8
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The summer after her first year of college, Isobel "Belly" Conklin is faced with a choice between Jeremiah and Conrad Fisher, brothers she has always loved, when Jeremiah proposes marriage and Conrad confesses that he still loves her.
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Twilight saga volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 28
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In the explosive finale to the epic romantic saga, Bella has one final choice to make. Should she stay mortal and strengthen her connection to the werewolves, or leave it all behind to become a vampire?
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you...
When you loved the one who was killing you, it left you no options. How could you run, how could you fight, when doing so would hurt that beloved one? If your life was all you had to give, how could you not give it? If it was someone you...
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Mackenzie Blue volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 4
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Mackenzie and her friends create a new online social networking site which creates some unforeseen problems, as she is also trying to figure out if she has a crush on one of her best friends, how to deal with the jealousy of one of her bandmates, and her fears over her mother's pregnancy.
7) Anya's ghost
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Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
221 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
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Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse.
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Fallen novels (Lauren Kate) volume 2
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
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452 p. ; 22 cm.
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When Daniel, Luce's fallen angel boyfriend, tells her that he must depart in order to hunt the Outcasts--immortals who wish him dead, he hides Luce at a school for the gifted on the California coast, where she learns that Daniel may be hiding dangerous secrets about his past.
11) Silver bells
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[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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When an ambitious businessman gets in a scuffle with a ref at his son's basketball game, he is suspended from his job and sentenced to community service, manning a red kettle and ringing bells for the Salvation Army for the rest of the Christmas season. At first he finds this humiliating, and in his self-pity determines to be the world's worst bell ringer. But as he encounters the people behind the kettle, his life, and especially his relationship...
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Randi Pink's The Angel of Greenwood is a historical YA novel that takes place during the Greenwood Massacre of 1921, in an area of Tulsa, OK, known as the "Black Wall Street."
"Seventeen-year-old Isaiah Wilson is, on the surface, a town troublemaker, but is hiding that he is an avid reader and secret poet, never leaving home without his journal. A passionate follower of W.E.B. Du Bois, he believes that black people should rise up to claim their place...
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Pub. Date
[2019]
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333 pages ; 22 cm.
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"Machines Like Me occurs in an alternative 1980s London. Britain has lost the Falklands War, Margaret Thatcher battles Tony Benn for power, and Alan Turing achieves a breakthrough in artificial intelligence. In a world not quite like this one, two lovers will be tested beyond their understanding. Charlie, drifting through life and dodging full-time employment, is in love with Miranda, a bright student who lives with a terrible secret. When Charlie...
14) Copyboy
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 10
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Newspaper copyboy Victor Vollmer sets out from Memphis to spread the ashes of Mr. Spiro, his friend and mentor, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, and with the help of new friend Philomene he may meet the challenge.
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Serwa Boateng volume 2
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After a lifetime of fighting creatures of black magic, twelve-year-old Serwa Boateng has just learned a devastating secret: she herself is half vampire! Now not only is she dealing with vampire puberty, she’s on the run from the organization of Slayers she trained her whole life to join. Serwa's only ally is her aunt Boahinmaa, an obayifo who urges Serwa to embrace her vampire side. Boahinmaa and her underlings are on the hunt for the Midnight Drum,...
17) Nigeria Jones
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Pub. Date
[2023]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 22 cm.
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Warrior Princess. That’s what Nigeria Jones’s father calls her. He has raised her as part of the Movement, a Black separatist group based in Philadelphia. Nigeria is homeschooled and vegan and participates in traditional rituals to connect her and other kids from the group to their ancestors. But when her mother—the perfect matriarch of their Movement—disappears, Nigeria’s world is upended. She finds herself taking care of her baby brother...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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388 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
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Zelda is stuck in a dream. A very strange dream, where people can fly, bears sneeze money, and her childhood cat, Patches, is somehow alive - despite being run over years ago. Things only get stranger when Zelda meets Langston, a sweet if overly timid guy who feels more real to her than anyone she’s ever met. As Zelda and Langston explore the far reaches of the dreamscape together, they find themselves growing closer and closer. But what they uncover...
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Pub. Date
[2023]
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x, 306 pages ; 25 cm
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As David Brooks observes, “There is one skill that lies at the heart of any healthy person, family, school, community organization, or society: the ability to see someone else deeply and make them feel seen—to accurately know another person, to let them feel valued, heard, and understood.” And yet we humans don’t do this well. All around us are people who feel invisible, unseen, misunderstood. In How to Know a Person, Brooks sets out to help...
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