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Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Olivia Morrow, old and in failing health, must choose whether or not to reveal an explosive family secret--that her deceased cousin Catherine, a nun being considered for beatification by the Catholic Church, gave birth to a child and gave him up for adoption.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Description
Robert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend the unveiling of a discovery that "will change the face of science forever". The evening's host is his friend and former student, Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old tech magnate whose dazzling inventions and audacious predictions have made him a controversial figure around the world. This evening is to be no exception: he claims he...
Author
Series
Odd Thomas volume 5
Publisher
Bantam Books
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
Odd Thomas and his companion Annamaria, temporarily taking refuge at Roseland, the opulent estate of a reclusive billionaire, discover that the estate and its masters are hiding deep and dreadful secrets.
Author
Series
DC Icons volume 2
Publisher
Random House
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
After making an impulsive choice on his way home from his birthday party, Bruce Wayne must do community service at Arkham Asylum, where he encounters Madeleine Wallace, a killer with ties to the Nightwalkers terrorizing Gotham.
6) Safe haven
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"When a mysterious young woman named Katie appears in the small North Carolina town of Southport, her sudden arrival raises questions about her past. Beautiful yet self-effacing, Katie seems determined to avoid forming personal ties until a series of events draws her into two reluctant relationships: one with Alex, a widowed store owner with a kind heart and two young children; and another with her plainspoken single neighbor, Jo. Despite her reservations,...
Author
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
426 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Two years ago, a misunderstanding between the leaders of Earth and the invading Ilori resulted in the deaths of one-third of the world's population. Seventeen-year-old Janelle "Ellie" Baker survives in an Ilori-controlled center in New York City. With humans deemed dangerously volatile because of their initial reaction to the invasion, emotional expression can be grounds for execution. Music, art and books are illegal, but Ellie breaks the rules by...
8) Five survive
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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"Red Kenny is on a road trip for spring break with five friends: Her best friend - the older brother - his perfect girlfriend - a secret crush - a classmate - and a killer. When their RV breaks down in the middle of nowhere with no cell service, they soon realize this is no accident. They have been trapped by someone out there in the dark, someone who clearly wants one of them dead. With eight hours until dawn, the six friends must escape, or figure...
9) Fairy Tale
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes into the deepest well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher--for that world or ours." --
Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident...
Author
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Grace, an only child who was adopted at birth, discovers that she is the middle child in her biological family after she gives up her own child for adoption, and she struggles to find belonging as she tries to bond with her stoic older brother and outspoken younger sister.
11) What we harvest
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
The farms of Hollow's End were blessed with miracle crops, especially the shimmering, iridescent wheat of Wren's family farm, but then the black mercury blight came, and the blight destroys everything: crops turned to silver-black sludge, animals sickened and blinded, even people; Wren believes she is responsible, and desperate to save Hollow's End she turns to her ex-boyfriend--but they find that there is a lot they do not know about their town and...
12) Loveboat reunion
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
After their disastrous summer in Taipei, Sophie Ha and Xavier Yeh must come together once more to help each other pursue the futures they want.
Author
Series
A Good Girl's Guide to Murder volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
As her senior capstone project, Pippa Fitz-Amobi is determined to find the real killer in a closed, local murder case, but not everyone wants her meddling in the past.