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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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Lucas Ray is shocked when an adorable puppy jumps out of an abandoned building and into his arms. Though the apartment he shares with his mother, a disabled veteran, doesn't allow dogs, Lucas can't resist taking Bella home. Bella is inexplicably drawn to Lucas, even if she doesn't understand the necessity of games like No Barks. As it becomes more difficult to hide her from the neighbors, Lucas begins to sneak Bella into the VA where he works. There,...
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Dog's purpose volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Believing that he has achieved his purpose throughout several eventful lives, Buddy the dog is drawn to a vibrant but troubled teen who he struggles to help until they are separated.
3) Lone Wolf
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Pub. Date
2021.
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Fleeing her mother's killer, Esther Marist ends up at a rugged stranger's cabin. A wildlife rehabilitator with a menagerie that includes an elderly wolf, Matthews isn't the type to turn any creature away. As Esther heals, she realizes how much danger she's brought to his door-and how far he'll go to protect her. The Wolf On Her Doorstep By Kate Pearce Beth Baker senses her grumpy summer tenant must be in trouble when his pet wolf shows up at her...
4) Deeplight
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 19
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The gods are dead. Decades ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. When 15-year-old Hark finds the still-beating heart of a terrifying deity, he risks everything to keep it out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists, and a secret fanatical cult so that he can use it to save the life of his best friend, Jelt. But with the heart, Jelt gradually and eerily transforms. How long should Hark stay loyal to his friend when he's...
5) Furysong
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Aurelian cycle volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
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"Annie and Lee are fighting for their lives--and for each other--as invading dragonfire threatens to burn their home to the ground"--
6) Allegiant
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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The faction-based society that Tris Prior once believed in is shattered -- fractured by violence and power struggles and scarred by loss and betrayal. So when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. Perhaps beyond the fence, she and Tobias will find a simple new life together, free from complicated lies, tangled loyalties, and painful memories. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
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Leto II, God Emperor of Dune, trades his humanity for immortality. As the despotic sandworm of Dune, he desperately attempts to save humankind, in spite of a rising rebellion led by Siona, a member of the Atreides, who is unaware of her own destined role in preserving the future.
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Pub. Date
2018.
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"When Angela met Jason Powell while catering a dinner party in East Hampton, she assumed their romance would be a short-lived fling, like so many relationships between locals and summer visitors. To her surprise, Jason, a brilliant economics professor at NYU, had other plans, and they married the following summer. For Angela, the marriage turned out to be a chance to reboot her life. She and her son were finally able to move out of her mother's home...
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Queen's thief volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
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Eugenides, still known as a Thief of Eddis, faces palace intrigue and assassins as he strives to prove himself both to the people of Attolia and to his new bride, their queen.
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When the renowned poet Fiona Skinner is asked about the inspiration behind her iconic work, The Love Poem, she tells her audience a story about her family and a betrayal that reverberates through time. It begins in a big yellow house with a funeral, an iron poker, and a brief variation forever known as the Pause: a free and feral summer in a middle-class Connecticut town. Caught between the predictable life they once led and an uncertain future that...
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Queen's thief volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Kidnapped and sold into slavery, Sophos, an unwilling prince, tries to save his country from being destroyed by rebellion and exploited by the conniving Mede empire.
12) Gunslinger girl
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Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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In a post-Second Civil War lawless West, sharpshooter Serendipity "Pity" Jones stars in, and lives at, the Theater Vespertine, but there is a dark cost to her freedom that Pity may not be willing to pay.
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US President Keegan Barrett has swept into office on his success as Director of the CIA. Six months into his first term, he devises a clandestine power grab with deadly consequences. Barrett personally orders Special Agents Liam Grey and Noa Himel to execute his plan, but their loyalties are divided. The CIA serves at the pleasure of the president, yet they've sworn to support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign...
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To save himself from the hangman's noose, John Wesley Hawkins agrees to infiltrate the Irish resistance against English rule by seducing the rebels' secrets from Caitlin MacBride, a headstrong Irishwoman who spurns his advances, making no secret of her loyalty to her countrymen.
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Infinity ring volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
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As thousands of Viking warriors attack Paris, Sera, Riq, and all the people of the city struggle to defend themselves and Dak remains a prisoner, forced to work for the invading army.
16) The son: a novel
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Spring, 1849. The first male child born in the newly established Republic of Texas, Eli McCullough is thirteen years old when a marauding band of Comanches storms his homestead and brutally murders his mother and sister, taking him captive. Brave and clever, Eli quickly adapts to life among the Comanches, learning their ways and language, answering to a new name, becoming the chief's adopted son, and waging war against their enemies, including white...
17) Loyalty
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"Loyalty can save a soul--or destroy one. Franco Fiorvanti is a handsome lemon grower toiling on the estate of a baron. He dreams of owning his own grove, but the rigid class system of Sicily thwarts his ambition. Determined to secure a better future, Franco will do anything to prove his loyalty to the baron. But when the baron asks him to kidnap a little boy named Dante, Franco makes a decision that will change his life--and even the history of Sicily--forever....
18) Come home
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Jill Farrow is a typical suburban mom who has finally gotten her and her daughter's lives back on track after a divorce. She is about to remarry, her job as a pediatrician fulfills her--though it is stressful--and her daughter, Megan, is a happily over-scheduled thirteen-year-old juggling homework and the swim team. But Jill's life is turned upside down when her ex-stepdaughter, Abby, shows up on her doorstep late one night and delivers shocking news:...
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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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In this gender-flipping reimagining of S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders" set in 1964 Houston, Evie must redefine what it means to be a bad girl and rethink everything she knows about loyalty after she is saved from the unimaginable by a good girl from the "right" side of the tracks.
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Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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"Thelonius Mitchell is tired of being labeled. Hes in special ed, separated from the znormaly kids at school who dont have any zissues.y Thats enough to make all the teachers and students look at him and his friends with a constant side-eye. (Although his disruptive antics and pranks have given him a rep too.) When a gun is found at a neighborhood hangout, Thelonius and his pals become instant suspects. Thelonius may be guilty of pulling crazy stunts...