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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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The Dunnes have set off on a ten day boat trip, a trip that hopefully will bring them closer together, despite the fact that the father, Stuart is staying behind on land. But only an hour into the trip they're already falling apart. The teenage daughter plans to drown herself, and the teenage boy is high on drugs. Ten-year-old Ernie is near catatonic. But their mother Anne, with the help of her brother-in-law Jeff, is insistent on pulling everyone...
Author
Series
I funny volume 6
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books, Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Comedian Jamie Grimm, accompanied by Uncle Frank, New Aunt Flora, and friends, circles the globe as host of regional competitions, then competes, himself, in the Planet's Funniest Kid Worldwide contest.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When his cousin is accused of a heinous crime, Alex Cross returns to his North Carolina hometown for the first time in over three decades. As he tries to prove his cousin's innocence in a town where everyone seems to be on the take, Cross unearths a family secret that forces him to question everything he's ever known. Chasing a ghost he believed was long dead, Cross gets pulled into a case that has local cops scratching their heads and needing his...
Author
Series
House of robots volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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Description
"Fifth-grader Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez struggles to fit in when his inventor mother requires him to take her latest creation, a robotic 'brother,' to school with him to learn to become a student"--
Author
Series
Doc Savage thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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Description
Prof. Brandt Savage--grandson of the legendary action hero--is forced into a top-secret training program where he discovers his true calling...as the perfect assassin. Dr. Brandt Savage is on sabbatical from the University of Chicago. Instead of doing solo fieldwork in anthropology, the gawky, bespectacled PhD finds himself enrolled in a school where he is the sole pupil. His professor, "Meed," is demanding. She's also his captor. Savage emerges...
6) The red book
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Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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Description
Launching an investigation of his own when his instincts tell him that more is behind a political shooting on Chicago's west side, SOS Detective Billy Harney uncovers a spate of murders connected to his troubled past.
"To Detective Billy Harney, the newest member of Chicago PD's elite strike force--Special Operations Section-- getting shot in the head, stalked by a state's attorney, and accused of murder by his fellow cops is all part of breaking...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
After surviving sixth grade, Rafe expects seventh grade to be a fun zone because he has been accepted to art school in the big city, but when he discovers it is more competitive than he expected, he sets out to turn his boring life into the inspiration for a work of art.
8) First love
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Runaways Axi, sixteen, and Robinson, seventeen, who met on a cancer ward, leave small-town Oregon on a cross-country trip to experience the best of life before it is too late.
Author
Series
Billy Harney volume 1
Language
English
Description
Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of Chicago's Chief of Detectives whose twin sister, Patty, also followed in their father's footsteps, there's nothing Billy won't give up for the job, including his life. Left for dead alongside his tempestuous former partner and a hard-charging assistant district attorney out for blood, Billy miraculously survives. But he remembers nothing about the events leading up to the shootout. Charged with...
10) Criss cross
Author
Series
Alex Cross volume 27
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"In a Virginia penitentiary, Alex Cross and his partner, John Sampson, witness the execution of a killer they helped convict. Hours later, they are called to the scene of a copycat crime. A note signed 'M' rests on the corpse. 'You messed up big time, Dr. Cross.' Was an innocent man just put to death? Alex soon realizes he may have much to answer for, as 'M' lures the detective out of the capital to the sites of multiple homicides, all marked with...
11) Expelled
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2017
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Expelled over The Photo that was posted to his Twitter account, Will Foster, seventeen, is determined to find out who took the picture and why he and three other students were targeted.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"There's a killer on the road, and nobody is safe. Michael and Megan Fitzgerald are siblings who share a terrifying past. Both adopted, and now grown - Michael is a long-haul truck driver, Megan a college student majoring in psychology - they trust each other before anyone else. They've had to. Their parents are public intellectuals, an Ivy League clinical psychologist and a renowned psychiatrist, and they brought up their adopted children in a rarefied,...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
The tree is decorated, the cookies are baked, and the packages are wrapped, but the biggest celebration this Christmas is Gaby Summerhill's wedding. Since her husband died three years ago, Gaby's four children have drifted apart, each consumed by the turbulence of their own lives. They haven't celebrated Christmas together since their father's death, but when Gaby announces that she's getting married, and that the groom will remain a secret until...
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Description
Twins Bick and Beck Kidd and their family of professional treasure hunters race against mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and a lumber baron through the jungles and mountains of Peru in search of Paititi, the legendary lost Inca city of gold, in hope of conserving the archaeological treasure and preventing deforestation of the rain forest.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Rafe Kane enters middle school, he teams up with his best friend, "Leo the Silent," to create a game to make school more fun by trying to break every rule in the school's code of conduct.
16) School of laughs
Author
Series
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
When a new principal threatens to close the school library, Jamie Grimm tries to save the day by teaching a comedy class for his fellow students.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
During the holiday season, a family of three, missing someone very dear to them, find their house filling up with unexpected guests, making Christmas memories to last a lifetime.
After their mother's death on Christmas Day five years ago, Will and Ella Sullivan, and their father, Henry, come to a family agreement: Christmas is a holiday for other people. At their brownstone in Harlem, stockings go unstuffed, tinsel unstrewn, gifts unbought, mistletoe...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Audio
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Brainy twelve-year-old Bart attracts little attention at his new middle school near Hollywood, California, but whenever he can get around his gym-coach father, he secretly hunts electricity-guzzling aliens.
19) Jacky Ha-Ha
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this #1 New York Times bestselling novel, get to know Jacky Ha-Ha, a funny class clown who loves to make people laugh—even when everything else in her life feels anything but silly.
With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation—even when she really, really shouldn't—twelve-year-old Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny...
With her irresistible urge to tell a joke in every situation—even when she really, really shouldn't—twelve-year-old Jacky Ha-Ha loves to make people laugh. And cracking wise helps distract her from thinking about not-so-funny...
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
"James Patterson and award-winning Zambian writer Ellen Banda-Aaku deliver an unforgettable survival story of a Maasai girl who faces down poachers to find a future among the elephants. Clever, sensitive Jama likes elephants better than people. While her classmates gossip - especially about the new boy, Leku - Jama takes refuge at the watering hole outside her village. There the twelve-year-old Maasai girl befriends a baby elephant she names Mbegu,...
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