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IL: UG - BL: 7.7 - AR Pts: 14
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An Artist's Life: Historical Fiction about Art
Art & Artist Fiction
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Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist infatuated by Dorian's beauty. Through Basil, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, and he soon is enthralled by the aristocrat's hedonistic worldview: that beauty and sensual fulfilment are the only things worth pursuing in life. Suddenly understanding that his beauty will fade, Dorian expresses the desire to sell his soul, to ensure that the picture, rather than...
2) Dragonflight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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On the beautiful planet Pern, colonized for centuries, Land Holders and Craftsmen have traditionally tithed food and supplies to the dragonweyrs to which they are bound. In times past, the mighty telepathic dragons and their riders were the only protection from the dreaded, life-threatening Thread.But it has been over 400 years since the last Threadfall, and some people have come to doubt that the menace will every strike again. But F'lar, rider of...
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IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 35
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This novel of awesome beauty and power is a moving saga about people, relationships, and the boundaries of love. Through Jean M. Auel's magnificent storytelling we are taken back to the dawn of modern humans, and with a girl named Ayla we are swept up in the harsh and beautiful Ice Age world they shared with the ones who called themselves the Clan of the Cave Bear. A natural disaster leaves the young girl wandering alone in an unfamiliar and dangerous...
4) Storm front
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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A modern-day mage and consultant to the police finds his stale life suddenly enlivened by the presence of a rival in the black arts.
5) Watchers
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 28
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English
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Two creatures, the end result of experiments in genetic engineering and enhanced intelligence, escape from a government laboratory and bring either doom or a touching new kind of love to those they encounter. On his thirty-sixth birthday, Travis Cornell hikes into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. But his path is soon blocked by a bedraggled Golden Retriever who will let him go no further into the dark woods. That morning, Travis had been...
6) Unwind
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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In a world where parents can choose to have their teenagers unwound and harvested for transplants, teens must be on their best behavior, at least until their 18th birthday. Once 18, teens are free from the chains of the Bill of Life. So when Connor discovers that his parents have signed him away to the unwinding process, he knows he must escape.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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Eighty years into the future, the United States is a no-man's-land: its landscape blighted by chemical warfare, pollution, and plague; its government collapsed; its citizens adrift, desperate, fighting to stay alive. In fortified compounds, survivors hold the line against wandering predators, rogue militias, and hideous mutations spawned from the toxic environment, while against them all stands an enemy neither mortal nor merciful: demons and their...
8) Hold tight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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"Tia and Mike Baye never imagined theyd become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hillthe latest in a string of issues at schoolthey cant help but worry. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adams computer, and within days are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their...
9) Odd hours
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Haunted by dreams of a powerful red tide, Odd Thomas, accompanied by two otherworldly sidekicks--his dog Boo and the Chairman of the Board--is drawn to a small California coastal town, where nothing is at it appears and where he confronts overwhelming and sinister forces out to stop his quest.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 13
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When wealthy, seemingly perfect Brittany and Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, develop a relationship after Alex discovers that Brittany is not exactly who she seems to be, they must face the disapproval of their schoolmates--and others.
When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created "perfect" life is about to unravel before her eyes. She's forced to...
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Magic Kingdom of Landover volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 18
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Headstrong fifteen-year-old Mistaya is kicked out of her prestigious boarding school and assigned by her father, Ben, to reopen the kingdom's abandoned library, a task she avoids before discovering a magical plot against Landover.s
Ben Holiday, High Lord of the magic kingdom of Landover, and his wife Willow have sent their 15-year-old daughter Mistaya to our world to attend a prestigious girls' boarding school. Mistaya, Misty to her friends, is not...
12) Rejoice
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Brooke and Peter are struggling in their marriage when they're faced with a tragedy. As three-year-old Hayley fights for her life, the Baxter family draws together, not sure how to pray. Peter distances himself and finds illegal ways to ease his pain that could destroy his marriage and his life. A Baxter wedding takes place that gives all of them a reason to smile again. What will it take for Brooke and Peter and all of the Baxter's to move past the...
13) Reunion
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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In the conclusion to the Redemption series, the Baxter family weathers the worst of times, while simultaneously relishing their blessings. As Elizabeth battles cancer, Ashley prepares for her wedding, and John supports them both. This final book in the series deftly underlines this family's faith in God and their undying love for each other.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.
Heroic young men carry the emotional weight of their lives to war in Vietnam in a patchwork account of a modern journey into the heart of darkness.
15) Dead or alive
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 34
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English
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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.
16) Dragongirl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 24
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English
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Young Fiona, rider of the gold queen dragon Talenth, has returned from spending three years in the past, where she helped sick and injured dragons and riders to heal in order to return to the present to fight Thread. She is three years older and wiser, but all around her dragons are falling ill and dying, and she and the others are still no closer to uncovering a cure.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 52
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Ayla is training to become a Zelandoni, one of the community's spiritual leaders and healers. She becomes the acolyte to the Zelandoni for the Ninth Cave and begins the series of intensive journeys that are part of the sacred training. But as she struggles to find a balance between her calling and her duties as a new mother, her pursuits begin to take a toll on her relationship with Jondalar.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Despite the medical miracle that has bought her a few more years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, but when Augustus Waters suddenly appears at the Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be rewritten.
Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly...
19) Sphere
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 16
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In the middle of the South Pacific, a thousand feet below the surface of the water, a huge vessel is discovered resting on the ocean floor. Rushed to the scene is a group of American scientists who descend together into the depths of the sea to investigate this astonishing discovery. What they find defies their imaginations and mocks their attempts at logical explanations. It is a spaceship.
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2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Returning to Boston for her senior year of high school after the sudden death of her older sister, seventeen-year-old Vanessa must ward off her transformation into a full-fledged siren while also trying to handle applying to college, a long-distance relationship, and the mysterious return of the sirens she thought she had killed.
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