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41) The terrorist
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Laura, an American living in London, tries to find the person responsible for the death of her younger brother Billy, who has been killed by a terrorist bomb.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Gigi, Bea, and Neerja are best friends and total overachievers. Even if they aren't the most popular girls in school, they aren't too worried. They know their real lives will begin once they get to their Ivy League colleges. There will be ivy, and there will be cute guys in the libraries (hopefully with English accents)! But when an unexpected event shows them they're missing out on the full high school experience, it's time to come out of the honors...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
From the much-buzzed-about author of THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB (already blurbed by Stephenie Meyer, Lauren Myracle, and Jen Calonita), a prom-season delight of Jane Austen proportions.It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single girl of high standing at Longbourn Academy must be in want of a prom date. After winter break, the girls at the very prestigious Longbourn Academy become obsessed with the prom. Lizzie Bennet, who attends Longbourn...
44) Enchanted Ivy
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
What Lily Carter wants most in the world is to attend Princeton University just like her grandfather. When she finally visits the campus, Grandpa surprises her: She has been selected to take the top-secret Legacy Test. Passing means automatic acceptance to Princeton. Sweet!
Lily's test is to find the Ivy Key. But what is she looking for? Where does she start? As she searches, Lily is joined by Tye, a cute college boy with orange and black hair who...
Author
Publisher
WaterBrook
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"First, he was a beloved college football champion, media sensation, and best-selling author drafted in the first round of the 2010 Draft. Then he had a miracle playoff run with the Denver Broncos before being traded to the New York Jets. After one season he was cut by New York, next signed by the New England Patriots, then let go after training camp. Tim Tebow has achieved big victories and plunged the depths of failure, all while holding firm to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bank Street College Best Book of the Year (Historical Fiction, 2019)
Drawing from historical journals and letters, New York Times bestselling author Laura Elliot weaves a richly detailed tale about the extraordinary Peggy Schuyler and her revolutionary friendship with Alexander Hamilton. Perfect for fans of the smash Broadway musical sensation Hamilton.
Peggy Schuyler has always felt like she's existed in the shadows of her beloved sisters: the...
48) Lush
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Unable to cope with her father's alcoholism, thirteen-year-old Sam corresponds with an older student, sharing her family problems and asking for advice.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
Bestselling Divergent and Carve the Mark author Veronica Roth delivers a stunning collection of novella-length stories set in the future, illustrated with startling black-and-white artwork.
No world is like the other. Within this masterful collection, each setting is more strange and wonderful than the last, brimming with new technologies and beings. And yet, for all the advances in these futuristic lands, the people still
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A hilarious new novel from Elizabeth Eulberg about taking the wall out of the wallflower so she can bloom.
Don't mess with a Girl with a Great Personality.Everybody loves Lexi. She's popular, smart, funny ... but she's never been one of those girls, the pretty ones, who get all the attention from guys. And on top of that, her seven-year-old sister, Mackenzie, is a terror in a tiara, part of a pageant scene where she gets praised for her beauty (with...
51) Since You Asked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
No, no one asked, but Holly Kim will tell you what she thinks anyway.
Fifteen-year-old Holly Kim is the copyeditor for her high school's newspaper. When she accidentally submits an article that rips everyone to shreds, she gets her own column and rants her way through the school year. Can she survive homecoming, mean-girl cliques, jocks, secret admirers, Valentine's Day, and other high school embarrassments, all while struggling to balance her family's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
A return to the world of THE LONELY HEARTS CLUB -- in a novel that gets to the heart of how hard relationships can be . . . and why they are sometimes worth all the drama and comedy they create.
When Penny Lane started The Lonely Hearts Club, the goal was simple: to show that girls didn't need to define themselves by how guys looked at them, and didn't have to value boyfriends over everything else. Penny thought she'd be an outcast for life . . ....
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Formats
Description
James Patterson returns to the genre that made him famous with a #1 New York Times bestselling teen detective novel about the mysterious Angel family . . . and the dark secrets they're keeping from one another.
On the night Malcolm and Maud Angel are murdered, Tandy Angel knows just three things: 1) She was the last person to see her parents alive. 2) The police have no suspects besides Tandy and her three siblings. 3) She can't trust anyone-maybe...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
"We Are Power brings to light the incredible individuals who have used nonviolent activism to change the world. The book explores questions such as what is nonviolent resistance and how does it work? In an age when armies are stronger than ever before, when guns seem to be everywhere, how can people confront their adversaries without resorting to violence themselves? Through key international movements-from the freedom of India from British rule to...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Moving halfway across the country to Colorado right before senior year isn't Maya's idea of a good time. Leaving behind Pratt School for the Deaf where she's been a student for years only to attend a hearing school is even worse. Maya has dreams of breaking into the medical field and is determined to get the grades and a college degree to match, and she's never considered being Deaf a disability. But her teachers and classmates at Engelmann High don't...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
You resent her.You can't stand her.You might even hate her.But you don't know her at all.
Hope knows there's only one thing coming between her and her longtime crush: his girlfriend, Parker. She has to sit on the sidelines and watch as the perfect girl gets the perfect boy . . . because that's how the universe works, even though it's so completely wrong. Parker doesn't feel perfect. She knows if everyone knew the truth about her, they'd never be...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"The best Vietnam War novels yet for this age range." -- Kirkus Reviews
Morris, Rudi, Ivan, and Beck are best friends for life. So when one of the teens is drafted into the Vietnam War, the others sign up, too. Although they each serve in a different branch, they are fighting the war together -- and they promise to do all they can to come home together.Of the four, it's Beck that has the most to lose. He's the smart one of the bunch, and he could...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
A one-handed pitcher who became one of the select few to pitch a no-hitter in Major League Baseball explains how he rose above his disability to excel at the sport he loved in high school, college, and adulthood.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
The fascinating, little-known story of how two brilliant female physicists' groundbreaking discoveries led to the creation of the atomic bomb.
In 1934, Irène Curie, working with her husband and fellow scientist, Frederic Joliot, made a discovery that would change the world: artificial radioactivity. This breakthrough allowed scientists to modify elements and create new ones by altering the structure of atoms. Curie shared a Nobel Prize with her...
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