Andrew Eiden
1) Grenade
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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On April 1, 1945 with the battle of Okinawa beginning, fourteen-year-old native Okinawan Hideki, drafted into the Blood and Iron Student Corps, is handed two grenades and told to go kill American soldiers; small for his age Hideki does not really want to kill anyone, he just wants to find his family, and his struggle across the island will finally bring him face-to-face with Ray, a marine in his very first battle--and the choice he makes then will...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"Mason Buttle is the biggest, sweatiest kid in his grade, and everyone knows he can barely read or write. Masons learning disabilities are compounded by grief. Fifteen months ago, Masons best friend, Benny Kilmartin, turned up dead in the Buttle familys orchard. An investigation drags on, and Mason, honest as the day is long, cant understand why Lieutenant Baird wont believe the story Mason has told about that day. Both Mason and his new friend, tiny...
Author
Series
The Keepers (Ted Sanders) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
For centuries, the Keepers and the Wardens have been guarding the mysterious Mothergates, a source of incredible power. But now the Mothergates are dying, and Horace and his fellow Keepers know that the weakened gates may unleash a dangerous force that will consume the worldand destroy everyone in it. While their enemies are willing to take this careless risk, Horace and his friends are prepared to sacrifice themselves for the preservation of the...
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife offers invaluable advice for addressing the health of our bodies and the health of the planet by identifying common products and behaviors that are harmful and providing alternatives that are non-toxic and life-enhancing"--
"The New York Times bestselling author of SuperLife and cohost with Zac Efron of the hit Netflix series Down to Earth, Darin Olien offers invaluable advice for addressing the...
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English
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"The New York Times bestselling YA author of the beloved Gallagher Girls series bursts onto the adult scene with a fast-paced, hilarious road trip rom-com about a woman with amnesia who discovers she’s the identical twin sister of a rogue spy… and must team up with a rugged, grumpy operative to stay alive. It’s the middle of the night in the middle of Paris and a woman just woke up with no memory. She only knows three things for certain: ...
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Series
Divide (Dewes) volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The Divide. It's the edge of the universe. Now it's collapsing-and taking everyone and everything with it. At the Divide, Adequin Rake commands the Argus. She has no resources, no comms-nothing, except for the soldiers that no one wanted. Her ace in thehole could be Cavalon Mercer--genius, asshole, and exiled prince who nuked his grandfather's genetics facility for "reasons." She knows they're humanity's last chance"--
"The Expanse meets Game of...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"On a bone-chilling October night, Medical Examiner Rowan Winthorp investigates the death of her daughter's best friend. Hours later, the tragedy hits even closer to home when she makes a devastating discovery--her daughter, Chloe, is gone. But, not without a trace. A morbid mosaic of clues forces Rowan and her husband to question how deeply they really knew their daughter. As they work closely to peel back the layers of this case, they begin to unearth...
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Ashley Poston, acclaimed author of Heart of Iron, returns with a dark, lush fairy tale–inspired fantasy for fans of Sara Raasch and Susan Dennard.
Cerys is safe in the Kingdom of Aloriya. Here there are no droughts, disease, or famine, and peace is everlasting. It has been this way for hundreds of years, since the first king made a bargain with the Lady who ruled the forest that borders the kingdom. But as Aloriya prospered,
...11) Game changer
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Transported into other dimensions by a seemingly random hit, a young football player visits alternate worlds that evolved differently in accordance with respective belief systems.
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
Caroline George once again transports readers with lush, evocative prose, leading them to ask the question: what happens when we can't even trust ourselves?
Some memories are better left forgotten.
Darby and Morgan haven't spoken for two years, and their friend group has splintered. But when the body of their former science teacher is found in the marsh where they attended camp that summer, they realize
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Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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A #1 New York Times Bestseller!
Based on the New York Times bestselling picture book sensation The Bad Seed, Jory John and Pete Oswald present: The Good, the Bad, and the Spooky!
Halloween is the Bad Seed's favorite holiday of the year. But what's a seed to do when he can't find a show-stopping costume for the big night? Postpone trick-or-treating for everyone, of course!
Can
...14) The exiled fleet
Author
Series
Divide (Dewes) volume 2
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"The Sentinels narrowly escaped the collapsing edge of the Divide. They have mustered a few other surviving Sentinels, but with no engines, they have no way to leave the edge of the universe before they starve. Adequin Rake has gathered a team to find thematerials they'll need to get everyone out. To do that they're going to need new allies and evade a ruthless enemy. Some of them will not survive"--
"J. S. Dewes continues her fast paced, science...
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Language
English
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"A linguistic exploration of the speech habits we love to hate-and why our "um"s, "like"s, and "you know"s actually make us better communicators. Do you hate that you say "like" too much? Do you go over your email drafts to remove excess "so"s and "really"s? Do you wish your presentation at work wasn't so full of "um"s and "uh"s? Do you get tripped up by slang, overly familiar greetings, or new pronouns? What if these features of our speech weren't...
16) The good girls
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Language
English
Description
Targeted as suspects in the shocking murder of a high school senior, three teens—including a notorious party girl, a head cheerleader and a would-be valedictorian—race to expose long-buried secrets and identify the real killer.
17) Obsidio
Author
Series
Illuminae files volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Kady, Ezra, Hanna, and Nik narrowly escaped with their lives from the attacks on Heimdall station and now find themselves crammed with 2,000 refugees on the container ship, Mao. With the jump station destroyed and their resources scarce, the only option is to return to Kerenza--but who knows what they'll find seven months after the invasion? Meanwhile, Kady's cousin, Asha, survived the initial BeiTech assault and has joined Kerenza's ragtag underground...