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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.9 - AR Pts: 23
Description
After the death of her beloved grandfather, nineteen-year-old Maya Vidal, turning to drugs, alcohol, and petty crimes, becomes trapped in a war between assassins, the police, the FBI, and Interpol, until her grandmother helps her escape to the remote island of Chiloé, off coast of Chile where she tries to make sense of her life. Maya, a young American on the run records in her diary her adjustment to a new country, her drug problems, her romantic...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Description
"Trixie Stone is fourteen years old and in love for the first time. She's also the light of her father's life - a straight-A student; a freshman in high school who is pretty and popular; a girl who's always looked up to Daniel Stone as a hero. Until, that is, her world is turned upside down with a single act of violence ... and suddenly everything Trixie has believed about her family - and herself - seems to be a lie." "For fifteen years, Daniel Stone...
Author
Series
Gooney Bird volume 3
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Gooney Bird Greene takes charge of a class project as she and her fellow students in Mrs. Pidgeon's second grade class learn about fables by each making up their own based on an animal that begins with the same letter as their first name.
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Formats
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Margo Solovei, a brilliant young writer-director has rejected her rabbinical father's strict Jewish upbringing to pursue a career in the arts. When an Australian multi-billionaire promises to finance a movie about Moses if the script meets certain standards, Margo does everything she can to land the job, including a reunion with her estranged first love, an influential lawyer with whom she still has unfinished business.
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Pub. Date
2009
Description
In a famous but declining Hollywood bar works a barman. Morbidly amused by the decadent decay of his surroundings, he watches the patrons fall into their nightly oblivion, making notes for his novel. In the hope of uncovering their secrets and motives. But as his tenure at the bar continues, he finds himself serving more drinks to himself than his patrons. He is trapped by his loneliness and his habits.
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Series
Interred with their bones volume 1
Description
"A long-lost work of Shakespeare, newly found. A killer who stages the Bard's extravagant murders as flesh-and-blood realities. A desperate race to find literary gold, and just to stay alive." "On the eve of the Globe's production of Hamlet, Shakespeare scholar and theater director Kate Stanley's eccentric mentor gives her a mysterious box, claiming to have made a groundbreaking discovery. Before she can reveal it to Kate, however, terrifying echoes...