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Since returning from Bosnia, ATF agent Alex "Rocket" Duarte has been slowly reacclimating to life in South Florida. But when a gunrunner's car explodes, Duarte's life kicks into high gear in a high-profile hunt for what appears to be a serial bomber. Teamed up with a lawyer from the Department of Justice who herself is looking into possibly related bombings in Virginia and Seattle, Duarte crisscrosses the country, following the bomber and hoping to...
2) Big trouble
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Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2001, c1999
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Chaos reigns when a couple of hit men decide to make their strike against embezzler Arthur Herk at the same time that teenagers Matt and Andrew set out to "shoot" Arthur's stepdaughter Jenny in a high school squirtgun game called Killer.
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Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 3
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Nick,Julie, Laurie, and their friends try to prevent a hydra from destroying Florida.
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Little Bridge Island volume 1
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English
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When a massive hurricane severs all power and cell service to Little Bridge Island--as well as its connection to the mainland--twenty-five-year-old Bree Beckham isn't worried at first. She's already escaped one storm--her emotionally abusive ex--so a hurricane seems like it will be a piece of cake. But animal-loving Bree does become alarmed when she realizes how many islanders have been cut off from their beloved pets. Now it's up to her to save as...
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Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 2
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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As giants start waking up and destroying everything around their Florida neighborhood, Nick, Laurie, Jules, and Cindy work frantically to find a solution.
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Camino Island novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Bruce Cable owns a popular bookstore in the sleepy resort town of Santa Rosa on Camino Island in Florida. He makes his real money, though, as a prominent dealer in rare books. Very few people know that he occasionally dabbles in the black market of stolen books and manuscripts. Mercer Mann is a young novelist with a severe case of writer's block who has recently been laid off from her teaching position. She is approached by an elegant, mysterious...
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The small town of Lachlan, Florida, was rocked last year when two bodies were uncovered in the roots of a fallen tree. Despite their lack of investigative experience, Sara Medlar; her niece, Kate; and Jack Wyatt found themselves at the center of the mystery, working together to reveal the truth behind a decades-old secret in the sleepy town. After a narrow escape, they vowed to never again involve themselves in something so dangerous - until Janet...
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When a severed hand washes ashore in the wealthy enclave of Palm Beach, Florida, the lives of two women--a lonely writer obsessed with the unsolved murder of her mother's best friend and a panicked wife whose husband has disappeared with their children--collide as the world shutters in the pandemic lockdown of 2020. A young woman's life seems perfect until her family goes missing. A writer lives alone with her dog and collects arcane murder statistics....
12) The yearling
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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A young boy living in the Florida backwoods is forced to decide the fate of a fawn he has lovingly raised as a pet.
13) Flight
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English
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New novel ... told through the shifting voices of a family gathering for Christmas in upstate New York after the death of their beloved matriarch, at odds over the settling of her estate--a novel about art, grief, shame, ambition, joy, and the American safety net. It's December 22nd and siblings Henry, Kate, and Martin have converged with their spouses on Henry's house in upstate New York. This is the first Christmas the siblings are without their...
14) Paper towns
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbor and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventu
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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In this bravura follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize, and National Book Award-winning The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead brilliantly dramatizes another strand of American history through the story of two boys sentenced to a hellish reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida. As the Civil Rights movement begins to reach the black enclave of Frenchtown in segregated Tallahassee, Elwood Curtis takes the words of Dr. Martin Luther King to heart: He is "as...
16) The nixie's song
Author
Series
Beyond the Spiderwick chronicles volume 1
Publisher
Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Nicholas Vargas's life is turned upside-down when his father remarries and moves him and his new family to Florida; but when an expedition to a nearby lake turns up a little nixie, Nick, his brother Julian, and step-sister Laurie have to figure out a way to stop a horde of rampaging giants.
17) The guardians
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
"The newest legal thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham. This masterfully plotted, perfectly paced novel confirms that Grisham remains America's favorite storyteller. In the small north Florida town of Seabrook, a young lawyer named Keith Russo was shot dead at his desk as he worked late one night. The killer left no clues behind. There were no witnesses, no real suspects, no one with a motive. The police soon settled on...
18) The light pirate
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Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
From the author of Good Morning, Midnight comes a hopeful, sweeping story of survival and resilience spanning one extraordinary woman's lifetime as she navigates the uncertainty, brutality, and arresting beauty of a rapidly changing world. Florida as we know it is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels wreak gradual havoc on the state's infrastructure, a powerful hurricane approaches a small town on the southeastern coast....
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Miss Peregrine volume 4
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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"After having saved the peculiar world, Jacob Portman is back in Florida with his peculiar friends, where they set out on a journey across America to discover the truth about Jacob's grandfather"--
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 10
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English
Description
One of the most important works of the twentieth-century American literature, Zora Neale Hurston's beloved 1937 classic, Their Eyes Were Watching God, is an enduring Southern love story sparkling with wit, beauty, and heartfelt wisdom. Told in the captivating voice of a woman who refuses to live in sorry, bitterness, fear, or foolish romantic dreams, it is the story of fair-skinned, fiercely independent Janie Crawford, and her evolving self hood through...
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