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22) Fatal fried rice
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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When her cooking instructor is found murdered after class, Lana Lee falls under suspicion and launches her own investigation that results in odd, threatening packages sent to Ho-Lee Noodle House from the killer.
23) Skippy dies
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English
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Why does Skippy, a student at Dublin's venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop? Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory? Or Carl, the teenage drug dealer who is Skippy's rival in love?
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
After winning the New York state finals in the Planet's Funniest Kid Comic Contest, Jamie's off to Boston to compete in the national semi-finals. But when one of his best buddies runs into trouble at school and a sudden family health scare rears its head, Jamie has to put his comedic ambitions on hold and stand by the people he cares about.
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Class Mom volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"As a new Mat Mom of the Pioneer Middle School (PMS) Wrestling team, Jen Dixon finds herself thrown in the middle of the "guerrilla war against so-called perfect mothers," armed only with her cutting wit and acerbic sense of humor (New York Times Book Review). Handling a whole host of new challenges, from the dreaded seventh-grade science fair to a school fundraiser (again!), Jen faces the somewhat-terrifying new social dynamics of the wrestling moms...
26) Waiting for you
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old high school sophomore Marisa, who has an anxiety disorder, decides that this is the year she will get what she wants--a boyfriend and a social life--but things do not turn out exactly the way she expects them to.
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Series
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English
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When bullying threatens to destroy a teen's life, painful memories resurface for dedicated high school teacher Laura Reed and pediatrician J. C. Fullerton. With the support of the Sweet Magnolias, they bring the town together to ensure that a promising student's future isn't ruined. And to establish once and for all that bullying has no place in Serenity, South Carolina. Both J.C.'s and Laura's passion for the cause is deeply personal, and their growing...
29) Invision
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Chronicles of Nick volume 7
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English
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Now in possession of the Eye of Ananke, Nick battles the demons within him all while his archnemesis is intent on reclaiming his place as the harbinger of Armageddon.
30) Emory's gift
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Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1974, when thirteen-year-old Charlie Hall's mother dies and his father retreats into silent grief, Charlie finds himself drifting, nearly friendless, through a northern Idaho junior high school but when a grizzly bear saves his life, Charlie forms an unusual friendship that changes his life.
31) Smiles to go
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Publisher
Joanna Cotler Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Will Tuppence's life has always been ruled by science and common sense but in ninth grade, shaken up by the discovery that protons decay, he begins to see the entire world differently and gains new perspective on his relationships with his little sister and two closest friends.
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Wayward children volume 5
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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"Come Tumbling Down picks up the threads left dangling by Every Heart a Doorway and Down Among the Sticks and Bones-it's both a standalone delight and a treat for longtime fans of the series. When we Jack left Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children she was carrying the body of her deliciously deranged sister-whom she had recently murdered in a fit of righteous justice-back to their home on the Moors. But death in their adopted world isn't always...
33) The Furies
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In 1990s England, at an elite boarding school connected to seventeenth-century witch trials, troubled sixteen-year-old Violet is drawn into a circle of friends dabbling in witchcraft to avenge wrongs done to them.
34) Some girls do
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English
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"Morgan, an elite track athlete, is forced to transfer high schools late in her senior year after it turns out being queer is against her private Catholic school's code of conduct. There, she meets Ruby, who has two hobbies: tinkering with her baby blue 1970 Ford Torino and competing in local beauty pageants, the latter to live out the dreams of her overbearing mother. The two are drawn to each other and can't deny their growing feelings. But while...
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Golden Age (Carrie Vaughn) volume 2
Publisher
Tor Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Anna, the daughter of a telepath and a powerful businesswoman and granddaughter of two famous superheroes, has trouble hiding her own superpowers as she and her friends train to become the next great team of masked vigilantes.
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Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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"Portals and danger, and a girl who can find both in the next book in the Hugo and Nebula Award-Winning Wayward Children series from Seanan McGuire. Antsy is the latest student to pass through the doors at Eleanor West's School for Wayward Children. When the school’s (literally irresistible) mean girl realizes that Antsy's talent for finding absolutely anything may extend to doors, Antsy is forced to flee in the company of a small group of friends,...
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Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"When Sarah Taylor arrives at the exclusive St. Ambrose School, she's carrying more baggage than just what fits in her suitcase. She knows she's not like the other girls-if the shabby, all-black, non-designer clothes don't give that away, the bottle of lithium hidden in her desk drawer sure does. St. Ambrose's queen bee, Greta Stanhope, picks Sarah as a target from day one-the most popular, powerful, horrible girl at school is relentless in making...
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English
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Now a major motion picture by Lynne Ramsay, starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly, Lionel Shrivers resonant story of a mothers unsettling quest to understand her teenage sons deadly violence, her own ambivalence toward motherhood, and the explosive link between them reverberates with the haunting power of high hopes shattered by dark realities. Like Shrivers charged and incisive later novels, including So Much for That and The Post-Birthday World,...
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Alex Cross novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Alex Cross is a homicide detective with a Ph.D. in psychology. He works and lives in the ghettos of D. C. and looks like Muhammad Ali in his prime. He's a tough guy from a tough part of town who wears Harris Tweed jackets and likes to relax by banging out Gershwin tunes on his baby grand piano. But he also has two adorable kids of his own, and they are his own special vulnerabilities.Jezzie Flanagan is the first woman ever to hold the highly sensitive...
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