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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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In 1943, during the German occupation of Denmark, ten-year-old Annemarie learns how to be brave and courageous when she helps shelter her Jewish friend from the Nazis.
"The unforgettable Newbery Medal–winning novel from Lois Lowry. As the German troops begin their campaign to "relocate" all the Jews of Denmark, Annemarie Johansen’s family takes in Annemarie’s best friend, Ellen Rosen, and conceals her as part of the family. Through the eyes...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
For years, Jack Ryan, Jr. and his colleagues at the Campus have waged an unofficial and highly effective campaign against the terrorists who threaten Western civilization. The most dangerous of these is the Emir. This sadistic killer has masterminded the most vicious attacks on the West and has eluded capture by the world's law enforcement agencies. Now the Campus is on his trail.
Author
Series
Aimee Leduc investigations volume 6
Publisher
Soho Press
Language
English
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Description
Parisian P.I. Aimée Leduc strives to clear the name of a childhood friend, now a policewoman, who's charged with shooting her partner
Aimée Leduc is having a bad day. First, she comes home from work at her Paris detective agency to learn that her boyfriend is leaving her. She goes out for a drink with her friend Laure, a police officer, but Laure’s patrol partner, Jacques, interrupts, saying he needs to talk to Laure...
Aimée Leduc is having a bad day. First, she comes home from work at her Paris detective agency to learn that her boyfriend is leaving her. She goes out for a drink with her friend Laure, a police officer, but Laure’s patrol partner, Jacques, interrupts, saying he needs to talk to Laure...
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English
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A special holiday gift edition of the farcical tale by the author of Fluke follows what happens when a none-too-clever angel overhears a little boy, who, having witnessed Santa taking a shovel to the head, prays for Santa to return from the dead, in a volume with a new bonus chapter.
Author
Series
Vampirates volume 2
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[2006]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
In the sequel to Vampirates: Demons of the Ocean, Connor must learn the pirate way aboard the Diablo, or face dangerous consequences, while his twin sister Grace senses that something is very wrong on the vampirate ship she left behind. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.
7) 24: Season 5
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
"Eighteen months after faking his own death, Jack Bauer returns to L.A. when it becomes clear that the only four people who know he is still alive are being targeted for assassination. The killings coincide with the signing of an anti-terrorism treaty with Russia, leading Jack to suspect a link between the assassinations, the treaty, and a group of Russian terrorists. But as the terror unfolds, Jack learns the day's events were set in motion by...
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Series
Publisher
Henry Holt
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Los Angeles superhero Melvin Beederman starts receiving mysterious, threatening emails, he and Candace, his partner in uncrime, must figure out who is out to get him and then do something about it.
9) Allies
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
June 6, 1944: The Nazis are terrorizing Europe, on their evil quest to conquer the world. The only way to stop them? The biggest, most top-secret operation ever, with the Allied nations coming together to storm German-occupied France.Welcome to D-Day.Dee, a young U.S. soldier, is on a boat racing toward the French coast. And Dee -- along with his brothers-in-arms -- is terrified. He feels the weight of World War II on his shoulders.But Dee is not...
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Scooby and the gang's favorite bakery, Le Grand Chien, is being terrorized by the Doughy Creature. With the customers terrified and the bakery in trouble, it's up to the gang to solve the mystery.
11) Mudshark
Author
Publisher
Wendy Lamb Books
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Principal Wagner confidently deals with a faculty washroom crisis, a psychic parrot, and a terrorizing gerbil, but when sixty-five erasers go missing, he enlists the help of the school's best problem solver and locator of lost items, twelve-year-old Lyle Williams, aka Mudshark.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 23
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2001]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Jack and Annie travel back to the Kansas prairie in search of "something to learn," they gain an understanding of how hard life was for pioneers and they experience the terror of a tornado.
15) Bog child
Author
Publisher
David Fickling Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
In 1981, the height of Ireland's "Troubles," eighteen-year-old Fergus is distracted from his upcoming A-level exams by his imprisoned brother's hunger strike, the stress of being a courier for Sinn Fein, and dreams of a murdered girl whose body he discovered in a bog.
Author
Series
Song of ice and fire volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 45
Language
English
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NYT - Combined Hardcover & Paperback Fiction
Read Alikes for Dune
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Description
Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings...
17) Bearwalker
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Although the littlest student in his class, thirteen-year-old Baron Braun calls upon the strength and wisdom of his Mohawk ancestors to face both man and beast when he tries to get help for his classmates, who are being terrorized during a school field trip in the Adirondacks.
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
p2011
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious threat reenters the lives of twins Ben and Sheere, separated as babies and reunited as teenagers in 1930s Calcutta, the siblings must confront an unspeakable terror, with the help of their secret society of fellow orphans.
19) True blue
Author
Language
English
Description
Fresh out of prison, disgraced ex-cop Mason "Mace" Perry, along with the help of her police chief sister, aids Roy Kingman, a lawyer trying to track down the killer of one of his law partners, all while a U.S. attorney looks for any reason to put Mace back behind bars.
A former Washington D.C. police cop out to prove herself and a young lawyer from aprestigious law firm meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
Español
Description
A Mark la tía le regala una cabeza humana reducida de la isla selvática de Baladora. La cabeza le da a Mark un extraño poder, algo mágico y peligrosa a la vez.
Mark's Aunt Benna presents him with a gift of a shrunken head from the jungle island of Baladora, and it is giving him a strange, dangerous power.
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