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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “When it comes to creating character, evoking place, and writing crackling and convincing dialogue, Sara Paretsky has no peer—and Hard Time proves it once again.”—Chicago Tribune
“Terrific . . . expertly plotted . . . This book [is] her best.”—The New York Times Book Review
In an instant, the lives of two women...
“Terrific . . . expertly plotted . . . This book [is] her best.”—The New York Times Book Review
In an instant, the lives of two women...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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The incomparable master of the legal thriller takes us deeper into the labyrinth that is the American justice system, always drawing us in with an irresistible hook, pulling the thread of tension tighter and tighter, and then knocking us out with a conclusion that's never "by the book."
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Dresden files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Wizard Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. It comes with the territory when you're the only professional wizard in the Chicago-area phone book. But in all Harry's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world has gone postal. All over Chicago, ghosts are causing trouble--and not just of the door-slamming, boo-shouting...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Returning to the village of her childhood, Jennifer discovers letters that reveal a relative's decades-long relationship with a secret love, a correspondence from which Jennifer draws wisdom when she falls in love herself.
From the author of "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas." When Jennifer, a grieving widow and columnist for the Chicago Tribune, hears that her grandmother Samantha has fallen and is in a coma, she races to Sam's town of Lake Geneva,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Lala Reyes' grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala's possession. The novel opens with the Reyes' annual car trip—a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels—from Chicago to "the other side," Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family's...
7) Storm front
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival in the black arts.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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The story of a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago. Capturing her thoughts and emotions in poems and stories, she is able to rise above hopelessness and create a quiet space for herself in the midst of her oppressive surroundings.
For Esperanza, a young girl growing up in the Hispanic quarter of Chicago, life is an endless landscape of concrete and run-down tenements, and she tries to rise above the hopelessness.
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