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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Faced with the difficulties of growing up and choosing a religion, a twelve-year-old girl talks over her problems with her own private God.
"Now a major motion picture starring Rachel McAdams and Kathy Bates! A Time Best YA Book of All Time Celebrate the legacy of the bestselling and iconic Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret with this special edition, featuring a deluxe faux-leather embossed cover that looks and feels as vibrant as the story...
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Working at the local library, Aleisha reads every book on a secret list she found, which transports her from the painful realities she's facing at home, and decides to pass the list on to a lonely widower desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter.
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2000. Bright, ambitious, and yearning for adulthood, fifteen-year-old Vanessa Wye becomes entangled in an affair with Jacob Strane, her magnetic and guileful forty-two-year-old English teacher. 2017. Amid the rising wave of allegations against powerful men, a reckoning is coming due. Strane has been accused of sexual abuse by a former student, who reaches out to Vanessa, and now Vanessa suddenly finds herself facing an impossible choice: remain silent,...
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"A magnificent, beguiling tale winding from the postwar rural provinces to Paris, from an English boarding school, to the quiet Pennsylvania home where a woman can live without her past, The Book of Goose is a story of disturbing intimacy and obsession, of exploitation and strength of will, by the celebrated author Yiyun Li. Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the...
6) The closers
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Harry Bosch mysteries volume 11
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English
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In Los Angeles in 1988 a sixteen-year-old girl disappeared from her home and was later found dead of a gunshot wound. Although a by the book investigation proved it was unlikely a suicide, no one was ever charged. Now Detective Harry Borsch is back with the LAPD with the mission to close unsolved cases. He starts with this girls case. As he begins to reopen the case it ripples resistance...and it's coming from the Police force. Old enemies are close...
7) Lady Bird
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Seventeen-year-old Lady Bird McPherson struggles to balance the challenges of her last year of high school with her family relationships.
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Good girl's guide to murder volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"More dark secrets are exposed in this addictive, true-crime fueled sequel when Pip finds herself in another deadly case. Pip is not a detective anymore. With the help of Ravi Singh, she released a true-crime podcast about the murder case they solved together last year. The podcast has gone viral, yet Pip insists her investigating days are behind her. But she will have to break that promise when someone she knows goes missing. Jamie Reynolds has...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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"With the opening line of Silver Sparrow, My father, James Witherspoon, is a bigamist, author Tayari Jones unveils a ...story about a man s deception, a family's complicity, and two teenage girls caught in the middle. Set in a middle-class neighborhood in Atlanta in the 1980s, the novel revolves around James Witherspoon's two families the public one and the secret one. When the daughters from each family meet and form a friendship, only one of them...
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Best friends Eulabee and Maria Fabiola have a vehement falling out after disagreeing on the nature of an act they witness while walking to their upscale all-girls' school, and Maria Fabiola's sudden disappearance soon after that exposes dark community secrets.
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"Tess has worked hard to keep her past buried, where it belongs. Now sheas the wife to a respected professor at an elite boarding school, where she also teaches. Her seventeen-year-old son, Rudy, whose dark moods and complicated behavior sheas long worried about, seems to be thriving: he has a lead role in the school play and a smart and ambitious girlfriend. Tess tries not to think about the mistakes she made eighteen years ago, and mostly, she succeeds....
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"A new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author and "Queen of Suspense" Mary Higgins Clark. After a party when her parents are away, eighteen-year-old Kerry Dowling is found fully dressed at the bottom of the family pool. The immediate suspect is her boyfriend who had a bitter argument with her at the party. Then there is a twenty-year-old neighbor who was angry because she didn't invite him to the party. Or is there someone else who...
14) Cress
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Lunar chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 22
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English
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Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they're plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and prevent her army from invading Earth. When a daring rescue goes awry, the group is splintered. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a higher price than she'd ever expected. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing prevent her marriage to Emperor Kai, especially the cyborg mechanic.
15) City of bones
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Mortal instruments volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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Discover the world of the Shadowhunters in the first installment of the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and “prepare to be hooked” (Entertainment Weekly)now with a gorgeous new cover, a map, a new foreword, and exclusive bonus content! City of Bones is a Shadowhunters novel.When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murdermuch less a murder committed...
16) The henna wars
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2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Nishat doesn't want to lose her family, but she also doesn't want to hide who she is, and it only gets harder once a childhood friend walks back into her life. Flávia is beautiful and charismatic, and Nishat falls for her instantly. But when a school competition invites students to create their own businesses, both Flávia and Nishat decide to showcase their talent as henna artists. In a fight to prove who is the best, their lives become more tangled--but...
17) Searching
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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After his sixteen-year-old daughter goes missing, a man breaks into her laptop to find clues about her disappearance.
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Hopeless novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Sky, a senior in high school, meets Dean Holder, a guy with a promiscuous reputation that rivals her own. From their very first encounter, he terrifies and captivates her. Something about him sparks memories of her deeply troubled past, a time she's tried so hard to bury. Though Sky is determined to stay far away from him, his unwavering pursuit and enigmatic smile break down her defenses and the intensity of the bond between them grows. But the...
20) Saving Emma
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Mulholland Books, Little Brown, and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"A lawyer's race to reveal a wrongful conviction collides with the dark shadow of a murder in his own home in this propulsive and perfectly-plotted thriller from "one of our best crime writers at the top of his game" (William Kent Krueger, New York Times bestselling author). When Boady Sanden first receives the case of Elijah Matthews, he's certain there's not much he can do. Elijah, who believes himself to be a prophet, has been locked up in a psychiatric...
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