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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Author
Series
Pendergast novels volume 7
Language
English
Description
The Museum of Natural History receives back a pilfered gem collection, which has been is ground to dust. To quell the PR nightmare the museum decides to reopen the Tomb of Senef; that's when the killings and talk of ancient curse start. FBI agent Pendergast is pitted against his brilliant, psychotic brother Diogenes.
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 20
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe Hardy investigate a mysterious death at the qualifying rounds of a hot dog eating contest.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
Description
Leopold Bloom King, our narrator, is the son of an amiable, loving father who teaches science at the local high school. His mother, an ex-nun, is the high school principal and a well-known Joyce scholar. After Leo's older brother commits suicide at the age of thirteen, the family struggles with the shattering effects of his death. Eventually he becomes part of a tightly knit group of high school seniors that includes friends Sheba and Trevor Poe,...
Author
Publisher
Clarion Books
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old April is delighted when President and Mrs. Hoover build a school near her Madison County, Virginia, home but her family's poverty, grief over the accidental death of her brother, and other problems may mean that April can never learn to read from the wonderful teacher, Miss Vest.
6) Thrill ride
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 4
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe travel to Massachusetts where they investigate a death and other mysterious events occurring at an amusement park.
Author
Series
Hardy boys undercover brothers volume 7
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2005]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Frank and Joe try to determine the cause of recent injuries and deaths at a camp for troubled teens in the wilderness surrounding Moosehead Lake in Maine.
8) Everyman
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Language
English
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The hero of Everyman is obsessed with mortality. As he reminds himself at one point, "I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion when you're seventy-five." But he cannot help himself. He is the ex-husband in three marriages gone wrong. He is the father of two sons who detest him, despite a daughter who adores him. And as his health worsens, he is the envious brother of a much fitter man.
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Series
Language
English
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Catapulted into early adulthood after the death of an older brother he idolized, eight-year-old Matthew Kerney assumes difficult responsibilities to save the family ranch against a backdrop of the Great Depression and a drought-stricken Tularosa Basin.
10) The wonder spot
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Language
English
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Sophie Applebaum, a sarcastic, self-deprecating middle child from a suburban Jewish family who moves from a fish-out-of-water adolescence to a how-did-I-get-here adulthood. Likable Sophie's (mis)adventures in life and love include an attempt to use lyrics from Bob Dylan's It Ain't Me, Babe to argue against the necessity of attending Hebrew school and a penchant for imagining her future life with men she barely knows (a potential beau's ability to...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
"Phoenix, 1933: A young city with big dreams and dark corners Great War veteran and rising star Gene Hammons lost his job as a homicide detective when he tried to prove that a woman was wrongly convicted of murder to protect a well-connected man. Now a private investigator, Hammons makes his living looking for missing persons-a plentiful caseload during the Great Depression, when people seem to disappear all the time. But his routine is disrupted...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
After enduring unspeakable torture, Dean escapes from Hell, rescued by an angel who recruits Sam and Dean into Heaven's battle against Hell for the future of humankind. Amid whispers that a certain Fallen Angel will soon be freed from his prison deep in Hell. If Sam and Dean can't stop Lucifer from walking free, he'll bring on the Apocalypse. Meanwhile, the Winchester brothers reunite and hit the road, battling the supernatural wherever they go. They...
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Publisher
Hyperion Avenue
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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Description
"An epic love story that explores the American Dream between the monolith of Jim Crow, the inflexible world of the original Black upper class, and the violence of 1920s Chicago"--
"When a rich Black debutante enlists the help of a low-level speakeasy manager to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate, the two are thrust into the dangerous world of Prohibition-era Chicago. The year is 1921, and America is burning. A fire of vice and virtue...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The creepy, the demented, the unexplained, the unearthly. Sam Winchester grew up hunting such terrifying things. But that's all in the past. Law school beckons him. So do safety and normalcy. That is, until Sam's estranged brother, Dean, appears with troubling news: Their father, a man who has been hunting evil for 22 years, has disappeared. So now, to find him, they must hunt what their father hunts, and Sam must return to the life he thought he'd...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
It's Elena's first day back at Mystic Falls High School since the tragic death of her parents. Along with her aunt Jenna, Elena tries her best to look after her troubled younger brother, Jeremy, and salvage what family they have left. The first day is already shaping up to be a struggle for Elena until she meets the mysterious new kid at school, Stefan. Elena is touched that he can relate to what she's going through. What Elena doesn't know is that...
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Series
Publisher
Viz Media
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
''Join Monkey D. Luffy and his swashbuckling crew in their search for the ultimate treasure, One Piece! As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber…at the cost of never being able to swim again! Years, later, Luffy sets off in search of the "One Piece," said to be the greatest treasure in the world... Luffy's navigator, Nami, has been working...
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