Rae
1) Criss cross
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Teenagers in a small town in the 1960s experience new thoughts and feelings, question their identities, connect, and disconnect as they search for the meaning of life and love.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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A fearful sixteen-year-old princess discovers her heroic destiny after being married off to the king of a neighboring country in turmoil and pursued by enemies seething with dark magic.
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English
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Read an essay by Chang-rae Lee here.
The bestselling, award-winning writer of Native Speaker, Aloft, and My Year Abroad returns with his biggest, most ambitious novel yet: a spellbinding story of how love and war echo through an entire lifetime.
With his three critically acclaimed novels, Chang-rae Lee has established himself as one of the most talented writers of contemporary literary...
7) Nuts to you
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The squirrels Jed, TsTs, and Chai are the very best of friends. So when Jed is snatched up by a hawk and carried away to another realm, TsTs and Chai resolve to go after him. New communities are discovered, new friends are made, huge danger is encountered (both man-made and of the fox and bobcat variety) and mysteries are revealed.
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Fire and thorns trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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"Hero. Foreigner. Queen. Elisa, at the age of seventeen, is all three. And all three draw enemies. Faced with assassins, court politics, and the threat of civil war, Elisa despairs of being the ruler her people need. Her only hope is the Godstone. She must master its power once and for all. She finds clues hidden in a long forgotten--and forbidden--scripture. Accompanied by a one-eyed warrior, an enemy defector, and the man she is falling in love...
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Gold seer trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Lee Westfall, a young woman with the magical ability to sense the presence of gold, must flee her home to avoid people who would abuse her powers, so when her best friend Jefferson heads out across Gold Rush-era America to stake his claim, she disguises herself as a boy and sets out on her own dangerous journey.
10) The cliff house
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English
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"After their mother's death, sisters Daisy and Beatriz Davenport found a home with their aunt Stella in the beautiful and welcoming town of Cape Sanctuary on the northern California coast. Now, with Daisy and Bea grown, it's time for Stella to reveal the secret she's been keeping from them--a secret that will change their family forever"--
11) My year abroad
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English
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Tiller is an average American college student with a good heart but minimal aspirations. Pong Lou is a larger-than-life, wildly creative Chinese American entrepreneur who sees something intriguing in Tiller beyond his bored exterior and takes him under his wing. When Pong brings him along on a boisterous trip across Asia, Tiller is catapulted from ordinary young man to talented protégé, and pulled into a series of ever more extreme and eye-opening...
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Series
Fire and thorns trilogy volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Elisa, a fugitive in her own kingdom, faces great challenges to rescue the man she loves from her enemies, prevent a civil war, and take back her throne but as her magic grows, Elisa discovers the shocking truth about her enemy's ultimate goal.
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Hope's Crossing volume 4
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English
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Offered her dream job at an exclusive restaurant, Alexandra McKnight, who prefers work to play, gets involved with construction foreman Sam Delgado, who seems like the perfect man until he wants more than she is willing to give.
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Series
Publisher
HQN Books
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
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"[Thayne] engages the reader's heart and emotions, inspiring hope and the belief that miracles are possible." —Debbie Macomber, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Return to Hope's Crossing this Christmas in New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne's latest heartwarming story of matchmaking at the holidays!
Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father's firm who takes...
Return to Hope's Crossing this Christmas in New York Times bestselling author RaeAnne Thayne's latest heartwarming story of matchmaking at the holidays!
Sage McKnight is an ambitious young architect working at her father's firm who takes...
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English
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"As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up--while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-year-old Cami moved to LA with her attorney father. Nearly twenty years later, when Cami gets the terrible news that Lily has drowned saving a child's life, her mother begs her to return home to help untangle...
17) Leap!
Publisher
The Weinstein Company
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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An orphan girl dreams of becoming a ballerina and flees her rural Brittany for Paris, where she passes for someone else and accedes to the position of pupil at the Grand Opera house.
18) The Unidentified
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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In a futuristic alternative school set in a shopping mall where video game-playing students are observed and used by corporate sponsors for market research, Katey "Kid" Dade struggles to figure out where she fits in and whether she even wants to.
19) Maximum Ride
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Series
Maximum Ride manga volume 5
Publisher
Yen Press
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Yen Press ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
v. : chiefly ill. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride knows what it's like to soar above the world. She and all the members of her 'flock'--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman, and Angel--are just like ordinary kids, except they have wings and can fly! It may seem like a dream come true to some, but for the flock it's more like a living nightmare when the mysterious lab known as the 'School' turns up and kidnaps their youngest member. Now it's up to Max to organize a rescue, but...