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Beartown volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry, and Britt-Marie Was Here, comes a poignant, charming novel about a forgotten town fractured by scandal, and the amateur hockey team that might just change everything. Winning a junior ice hockey championship might not mean a lot to the average person, but it means everything to the residents of Beartown, a community slowly being eaten alive...
Author
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Six short stories with subjects ranging from a dejected teenager who discovers that the universe is communicating with him through talismanic objects left behind in a seagull's nest to two vampires in a sun-drenched lemon grove who try helplessly to slake their thirst for blood.
Author
Series
Prince Edward Island shores volume 1
Language
English
Description
When Meg Whitaker's father decides to sell the family's lobster-fishing business to her high school nemesis, she sets out to prove she should inherit it instead. Though she's never had any interest in running the small fleet--or even getting on a boat due to her persistent seasickness--she can't stand to see Oliver Ross take over. Not when he ruined her dreams for a science scholarship and an Ivy League education ten years ago.Oliver isn't proud of...
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English
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The #1 New York Times Have you ever seen a town fall? Ours did. Have you ever seen a town rise? Ours did that, too. A small community tucked deep in the forest, Beartown is home to tough, hardworking people who don't expect life to be easy or fair. No matter how difficult times get, they've always been able to take pride in their local ice hockey team. So it's a cruel blow when they hear that Beartown ice hockey might soon be disbanded. What makes...
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Language
English
Description
Britt-Marie can't stand mess. She eats dinner at precisely the right time and starts her day at six in the morning because only lunatics wake up later than that. And she is not passive-aggressive. Not in the least. It's just that sometimes people interpret her helpful suggestions as criticisms, which is certainly not her intention. But at sixty-three, Britt-Marie has had enough. She finally walks out on her loveless forty-year marriage and finds a...
8) Linger
Author
Series
Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
As Grace hides the vast depth of her love for Sam from her parents and Sam struggles to release his werewolf past and claim a human future, a new wolf named Cole wins Isabel's heart but his own past threatens to destroy the whole pack.
9) Bats
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Explores the physical characteristics, habitat, behavior, and habits of bats, with photographs and a learning activity.
10) A drop of venom
Author
Publisher
Hyperion
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
The legend of Medusa is retold as an empowering feminist tale in an Indian-mythology-inspired world--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
Ten-year-old Albie has never been the smartest, tallest, best at gym, greatest artist, or most musical in his class, as his parents keep reminding him, but new nanny Calista helps him uncover his strengths and take pride in himself.
15) Greywaren
Author
Series
Dreamer trilogy (Maggie Stiefvater) volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
This is the story of the Lynch family. Niall and Mor escaped their homeland for a few start, and lost themselves in what they found. Declan has grown up as the responsible son, the responsible brother-only to find there is no way for him to keep his family safe. Ronan has always lived on the edge between dreams and waking.... but now that edge is gone, and he is falling. Matthew has been the happy child, the brightest beam. But rebellion beckons,...
16) Forever
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Series
Wolves of Mercy Falls trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Description
A human girl and her werewolf boyfriend must fight for their love as death comes closing in.
Author
Series
Dreamer trilogy (Maggie Stiefvater) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
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Description
Ronan, Hennessy, and Bryde are dreamers; Ronan's dreams always seem to end in random destruction, using up the power of the ley lines he cannot even sense; Hennessy makes multiple copies of herself, dreaming them into reality in search of her own fragileidentity, and Bryde dreams of power and reordering his companions and the world to his own specifications; their families and duplicates are the collateral damage of their dreams--and meanwhile they...
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Language
English
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The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable structures to define a modern city. Yet, for author Kevin Hines, the bridge is not merely a marker of a place or a time. Instead, the bridge marks the beginning of his remarkable story. At nineteen years old, Kevin Hines attempted to take his own life by jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge-a distance that took four seconds to fall. Recently diagnosed with bipolar disorder, Kevin had begun to hear...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
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It's the most sensational case of the decade. Fifteen-year-old Jessica Silver, heiress to a billion-dollar real estate fortune, vanishes on her way home from school. Her teacher Bobby Nock, a twenty-five-year-old African American man, is the prime suspect after illicit text messages are discovered between them--and Jessica's blood is found in his car. The subsequent trial taps straight into America's most pressing preoccupations: race, class, sex,...