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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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In his first adventure since the revelation that he’s a parent, Dirk Pitt must uncover the truth behind the myth of another long-lost father-figure, Homer’s Odysseus, if he’s going to stop a dangerous cult from reshaping the earth in their own image.
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 46
Language
English
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Dominick Birdsey, a forty-year-old housepainter living in Three Rivers, Connecticut, finds his subdued life greatly disturbed when his identical twin brother Thomas, a paranoid schizophrenic, commits a shocking act of self-mutilation
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Description
In a tale spanning twenty-five years, a doctor delivers his newborn twins during a snowstorm and, rashly deciding to protect his wife from their baby daughter's affliction with Down Syndrome, turns her over to a nurse, who secretly raises the child.
On a winter night in 1964, Dr. David Henry is forced by a blizzard to deliver his own twins. His son, born first, is perfectly healthy. Yet when his daughter is born, he sees immediately that she has...
Author
Series
Dragonvarld trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Traumatized by the kidnappings of her twin three-year-old girls, only one of whom was recovered, a mother begins a desperate search when her returned daughter claims that the other twin, believed dead, is still alive and in mortal danger.
A pair of twin girls are kidnapped, the ransom paid, but only Kelly is returned, with a note saying Kathy has been killed. When Kelly begins getting telepathic information from Kathy, only their mother believes...
11) Deluge
Author
Series
Twins of Petaybee volume 3
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Overwhelmed by grief and guilt after his twin sister Grace's accidental death, seventeen-year-old Mark Santos is persuaded by his best friend to complete the "bucket list" from Grace's journal.
13) Last pick: [1]
Author
Series
Last pick volume 1
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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In a world where aliens have taken over Earth, abducted every human they deemed useful, and abandoned the rest, twins Sam and Wyatt struggle to start a revolution of the unwanteds.
14) East of Eden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
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This sprawling and often brutal novel, set in the rich farmlands of California's Salinas Valley, follows the intertwined destinies of two families--the Trasks and the Hamiltons--whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich...
15) Maelstrom
Author
Series
Twins of Petaybee volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey/Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sean Shongili and his children, Ronan and Murel, must draw on their changeling ability to transform into seals when a mysterious race of aliens is discovered to be living in the depths of the ocean on the planet Petaybee.
Author
Series
Dangerous girls volume 2
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2004]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Livvy Weller wants her twin sister, Destiny, to join her on the darker side as a vampire, but Destiny is determined to restore Livvy to her human condition and bring her back home to their family.
Author
Publisher
Amy Einhorn Books/G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
In 1925, at her family's suburban Philadelphia estate, 13-year-old Emily Stewart discovers she can make a loud rapping noise with her ankle. With her sly twin brother, Michael, Emily entertains gullible schoolmates with "knockings" that spirits purportedly make to answer questions about the afterlife. When adults who have suffered the loss of loved ones start consulting her as a spirit medium, her efforts to give them consolation begin to seem increasingly...
18) Children of Dune
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
"The sand-blasted world of Arrakis has become green, watered, and fertile. Old Paul Atreides, who led the desert Fremen to political and religious domination of the galaxy, is gone. But for the children of Dune, the very blossoming of their land contains the seeds of its own destruction. The altered climate is destroying the giant sandworms, and this in turn is disastrous for the planet's economy. Leto and Ghanima, Paul Atreides's twin children and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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At age eighty-two and in failing health, Olivia Morrow must decide whether she will expose a long-held family secret and reveal that her cousin, Catherine, gave birth to a son at age seventeen and gave him up for adoption before entering a convent. Now deceased, Sister Catherine is being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church. Catherine' s granddaughter Monica has no idea that her grandfather was the famous doctor Alex Gannon, and Alex's...
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