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Maximum Ride volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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The time has come for Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel to face their ultimate enemy and, despite many obstacles, try to save the world from a sinister plan to re-engineer a select population into a scientifically superior master race.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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Each Bendon Junior Classic has been adapted and illustrated with care to introduce young readers (and the young at heart!) to a world of famous authors, characters, ideas, and stories that have been loved for generations. Collect all of our Adapted Junior Classics to build your young reader's library! The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by author Mark Twain - An 1876 novel by Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer tells the tale of An imaginative and mischievous boy growing...
3) Kim
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An orphaned Irish waif's friendship with a mysterious holy man leads to adventure in India.
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Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. Published in French as L'Île Mystérieuse in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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The young and headstrong D'Artagnan, having proven his bravery by dueling with each, becomes a friend of Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, members of the King's Musketeers. He is in love with Constance Bonancieux and, at her urging, he and his friends head for England to reclaim two diamond studs that the Queen has imprudently given to her lover, the Duke of Buckingham. Richelieu, the chief minister of King Louis XIII, will resort to anything, even murder,...
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Maximum Ride volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After a short stay with an FBI agent who gives them a chance to attend school and live a normal life, the six genetically altered, winged youths head toward Florida and Max's ultimate destiny -- to save the world, whether she wants to or not.
8) The chase
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Isaac Bell thrillers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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In April 1950, the rusting hulk of a steam locomotive rises from the waters of a Montana lake, revealing the remains of three men who died 44 years before and astonishing all those who look on. In 1906, the American West has been suffering a two-year crime spree: a string of bank robberies committed by one man who murders all witnesses, and then vanishes without a trace. The US government brings in the best man they can find - a no-nonsense detective...
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Maximum Ride volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After the mutant Erasers abduct the youngest member of their group, the "bird kids," who are the result of genetic experimentation, take off in pursuit and find themselves struggling to understand their own origins and purpose.
10) The cat's table
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In the early 1950s, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England. At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table"--as far from the Captain's Table as can be--with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Suez Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like freed...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 33
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English
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If and when Lisbeth Salander recovers, she'll be taken back to Stockholm to stand trial for three murders. With the help of her friend, journalist Mikael Blomkvist, she will not only have to prove her innocence, but also identify and denounce those in authority who have allowed the vulnerable, like herself, to suffer abuse and violence. And, on her own, she will plot revenge--against the man who tried to kill her, and the corrupt government institutions...
12) Jubal Sackett
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The Sacketts volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Relates the story of Jubal Sackett, a wilderness explorer, whose courage and determination to blaze new trails makes him a legend in the wild West.
13) The search
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Eve Duncan novels volume 3
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • He strikes without warning. He kills without mercy. He’s only just begun. A “thoroughly gripping” (New York Post) novel in the Eve Duncan series from renowned author Iris Johansen.
As part of an elite K-9 search and rescue team, Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty, have a gift for finding what no one else can. But their latest assignment is not like the others....
As part of an elite K-9 search and rescue team, Sarah Patrick and her golden retriever, Monty, have a gift for finding what no one else can. But their latest assignment is not like the others....
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Ranger in time volume 3
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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This time the mysterious box that Ranger the Golden retriever found transports him to a Maryland plantation before the Civil War, where he must help a young house slave named Sarah and her younger brother Jesse find their way to the underground railroad and North to freedom, before Jesse is sold to a plantation further South.
15) Trojan odyssey
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Dirk Pitt adventures volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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In his first adventure since the revelation that he’s a parent, Dirk Pitt must uncover the truth behind the myth of another long-lost father-figure, Homer’s Odysseus, if he’s going to stop a dangerous cult from reshaping the earth in their own image.
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
Fraternal twins, Summer Pitt and Dirk Pitt, Jr., are working to determine the origin of a strange brown tide infesting the ocean off the shore of Nicaragua when...
16) Fourth wing
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Empyrean volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 29
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English
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"Twenty-year-old Violet Sorrengail was supposed to enter the Scribe Quadrant, living a quiet life among books and history. Now, the commanding general--also known as her tough-as-talons mother--has ordered Violet to join the hundreds of candidates striving to become the elite of Navarre: dragon riders. But when you're smaller than everyone else and your body is brittle, death is only a heartbeat away ... because dragons don't bond to 'fragile' humans....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 42
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English
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Embark on a thrilling high-sea adventure with Captain Ahab and his relentless pursuit of the legendary white whale, Moby Dick. Set sail on the whaling ship, the Pequod, as the crew grapples with the dangers of the deep and the madness of their vengeful captain. A timeless tale of obsession, courage, and the ultimate battle of man versus nature unfolds on the vast ocean expanse. Brimming with rich symbolism and unforgettable characters, "Moby-Dick"...
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13th reality volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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When an all-consuming void from the Fourth Dimension opens up, unleashing monsters throughout the Realities, Mister George has one last weapon at his disposal--the mysterious and powerful Karma button, which might be even more dangerous than anyone imagined.
20) Treasure Island
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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When young Jim Hawkins finds a mysterious map in a dead sailor's sea trunk, it marks the start of a thrilling treasure hunt and a very dangerous adventure. Accompanied by the local doctor and squire, he sets off on the high seas as a cabin-boy, determined to find the buried hoard. But they are not alone in their quest, a band of pirates -- led by the enigmatic, one-legged Long John Silver -- will stop at nothing to take back what they believe is theirs....