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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.4 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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For two thousand years, cadavers – some willingly, some unwittingly – have been involved in science’s boldest strides and weirdest undertakings. They’ve tested France’s first guillotines, ridden the NASA Space Shuttle, been crucified in a Parisian laboratory to test the authenticity of the Shroud of Turin, and helped solve the mystery of TWA Flight 800. For every new surgical procedure, from heart transplants to gender confirmation surgery,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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In the old house on a hill, where the city meets the rainforest, Yejide's mother is dying. She is leaving behind a legacy that now passes to Yejide: one St Bernard woman in every generation has the power to shepherd the city's souls into the afterlife. But after years of suffering her mother's neglect and bitterness, Yejide is looking for a way out. Raised in the countryside by a devout Rastafarian mother, Darwin has always abided by the religious...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
New York Times bestselling series. The first book in the New York Times bestselling series The Lying Game, by author of the bestselling Pretty Little Liars series, Sara Shepard. Shortly before her seventeenth birthday, Emma discovers she has a long-lost twin named Sutton Mercer. She contacts Sutton, who agrees to a rendezvous, but never shows up. Curious at first, Emma slips into Suttons ultra-glamorous life, assuming her identity. When it becomes...
4) Suburbicon
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
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A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
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Publisher
Entangled Teen, an imprint of Entangled Publishing LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
A sound awakens her. There's darkness all around. And then she's falling... She has no idea who or where she is. Or why she's dead. The only clue to her identity hangs around her neck: a single rusted key. This is how she and the others receive their namesfrom whatever belongings they had when they fell out of their graves. Under is a place of dirt and secrets, and Key is determined to discover the truth of her past in order to escape it. She needs...
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English
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Estranged from Gabriel when his past mistakes come to light, Olivia Taylor-Jones receives a sinister warning in the form of a murder victim dressed to look like her and struggles to learn the truth about the victim, the role of her new home and her susceptibility to old enemies.
Publisher
Gaiam Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2012.
Language
English
Description
After celebrating her 25th wedding anniversary, Audrey is stunned when her husband tells her he wants a divorce and is in love with another woman. As if things couldn't get worse, Audrey awakens one night to discover her husband's dead body and becomes the number one suspect in a murder investigation. With no one else to turn to, Audrey enlists herself as her own private investigator with a single mission, to solve the crime and clear her name.
Author
Series
Wells of Sorcery volume 1
Publisher
Tor Teen, a Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Isoka, an eighteen-year-old ward boss in the great port city, Kahnzoka, is sent on an impossible mission to steal Soliton, a legendary ghost ship, or her sister will be killed.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
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Hank is stranded on a deserted island, having given up all hope of ever making it home again. One day everything changes when a corpse names Manny washes up onshore. The two become fast friends, and ultimately go on an epic adventure that will bring Hank back to the woman of his dreams.
11) Replicas
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
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After his family dies in a car accident, a research scientist becomes obsessed with bringing them back to life.
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Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Angelito Diaz is afraid of walking among the Living on the Day of the Dead, especially with his older sister, Estrellita, teasing him, but once in the Land of the Living, he quickly makes a new friend.
Author
Series
Last kids on Earth volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
The zombies are disappearing. This might seem like a good thing, since zombies eat your brains, but normal human kid Jack Sullivan is suspicious. He keeps hearing an eerie shrieking noise that seems to be almost summoning the zombies?but to where, and for what (probably) foul purpose? Jack, his three best friends (maybe the only people left on Earth), and their pet monster Rover need to get to the bottom of this. Along the way they encounter a lot...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
After crossing the bridge into the afterlife, a place called Here where the time is always Now, Riley's existence continues in much the same way as when she was alive until she is given the job of Soul Catcher and, together with her teacher Bodhi, returns to earth for her first assignment, a ghost called the Radiant Boy who has been haunting an English castle for centuries and resisted all previous attempts to get him across the bridge.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Eleanor, Chidi, Tahani, and Jason are four cosmically bound friends in the fight for their eternity, alongside their former torturer, Michael. Michael, in a fit of panic, had relinquished his role as the Architect to Eleanor, so that she and the gang could help four new residents become better people. Unfortunately, the Bad Place doesn't exactly make their task easy, and its latest move places Chidi in a dire situation, putting his relationship with...
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Publisher
Roaring Brook
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Inspired by Mexican culture and perfect for fans of the hit movies Coco and The Nightmare Before Christmas, Skeletina and the In-Between World is the first book in a series that combines kooky characters and a spooky story with important and resonant themes about empathy, bravery, self-esteem, and the enduring power of love. Meet Skeletina, a fun-loving, fearless little girl who lives in the in-between world with her friends, who include monsters,...
Author
Publisher
Crown Archetype
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"[This] is the wild, funny, heartbreaking, and often unbelievable (yet completely true) story of an American icon. Born into a powerful Wyoming political family, John Perry Barlow wrote the lyrics for thirty Grateful Dead songs while also running his family's cattle ranch ... Blessed with an incredible sense of humor and a unique voice, Barlow was a born storyteller in the tradition of Mark Twain and Will Rogers. Through intimate portraits of friends...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Traces the struggles of a Dutch couple who shelter a Jewish man during the Nazi occupation and dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia.
"A penetrating study of ordinary people resisting the Nazi occupation—and, true to its title, a dark comedy of wartime manners—Comedy in a Minor Key tells the story of Wim and Marie, a Dutch couple who first hide a Jew they know as Nico, then must dispose of his body when he dies of pneumonia. This novella,...
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