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1) Fast Eddie
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (322 pages)
Language
English
Description
Eddie Maher used to spend every day guarding big bags of someone else's cash. He'd always dreamed about the big house and the sporty car, and working for Securicor wasn't getting him anywhere fast. But all that was to change. The siren song of temptation proved too much. So one day, "Fast" Eddie Maher decided it was his time to live the dream. He reached out his hand and grabbed opportunity' in the form of '1.2 million cash in the back of a security...
2) Oliver Twist
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
Deals with the adventures of a young orphan boy trying to survive amid greed and poverty in 19th-century London.
Author
Publisher
University of Queensland Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (256 pages)
Language
English
Description
Opening with a macabre mid-nineteenth century murder, The Mayne Inheritance unfolds like a gothic thriller.Was it the murder victim's money that founded patriarch Patrick Mayne's Queen Street business empire? Were the whispered accusations of murder and genetic madness true? For 150 years, scandal and mystery have surrounded the Maynes, a wealthy family who donated the magnificent site on which the University of Queensland now stands.'A gothic tale...
Author
Publisher
John Blake
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (288 pages)
Language
English
Description
A fast-paced and funny, honest and uncompromising, this is the story of one of London's most connected crime bossesJimmy Tippett Junior is from gangster aristocracy. Son of the legendary boxer and South London heavy, Jimmy Tippett, he has lives his life rubbing shoulders with the most recognizable faces in British organized crime, including Ronnie and Reggie Kray.'Jimmy is a natural raconteur who has led an incredible life as a career criminal; from...
Author
Series
DC icons volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
"Selina Kyle's coming-of-age-story as she claws her way to the top of Gotham City's criminal underbelly and becomes Catwoman"--
Author
Series
Football genius novels volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Troy always dreamed of meeting his father, but when the man finally appears his mother's anger, his father's shady business dealings, and Troy's own feelings make the reunion difficult and confusing.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lenny Flem Jr. is the only one standing between his evil-genius best friend, Casper, and world domination as Casper uses a spectacularly convincing fake mustache and the ability to hypnotize to rob banks, amass a vast fortune, and run for president.
10) Masterminds
Author
Series
Masterminds trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
730L
Language
English
Description
"A group of kids discovers they were cloned from the DNA of some of the greatest criminal masterminds in history for a sociological experiment"--
11) The Hanging Hill
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Description
During rehearsals for a play based on his stepmother's bestselling children's books, eleven-year-old Zack discovers that the director is planning to raise a horde of evil specters from the dead by offering up a human sacrifice.
12) Lawless
Author
Series
Lawless volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
M Freeman enrolls in Lawless School which provides education for kids on the wrong side of the law. M navigates different criminal cliques and is invited to join the secret society of Masters.
Author
Series
Artemis Fowl series volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
620L
Language
English
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Formats
Description
After Artemis uses stolen fairy technology to create a powerful microcomputer and it is snatched by a dangerous American businessman, Artemis, Juliet, Mulch, and the fairies join forces to try to retrieve it.
15) Ikenga
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In southeastern Nigeria, twelve-year-old Nnamdi is determined to avenge his police chief father, who was murdered while triyng to rid the town of criminals, but Nnamdi feels powerless until he receives a magical object which gives him superpowers.
Author
Series
Daniel X volume 3
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Daniel X continues to hunt for intergalactic aliens, he and his friends go to England searching for Beta, an outlaw who takes the form of fire and who killed Daniel's parents when he was two years old.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
740L
Language
English
Formats
Description
When twelve-year-old aspiring detective Myrtle Hardcastle learns her neighor in quiet Swinburne, England, a breeder of rare flowers, has died she is certain it was murder and that she must find the killer.
18) Minion
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Morn might be a villain, but he's really not a bad guy. When you live in New Liberty, known across the country as the City without a Super, there are only two kinds of people, after all: those who turn to crime and those who suffer. Michael and his adoptive father spend their days building boxes -- special devices with mysterious abilities -- which they sell to the mob at a price. They provide for each other, they look out for each other,...
Author
Language
English
Description
I couldn't stop reading Caitlin Rother's Then No One Can Have Her. It's riveting, revealing, and insightful."--Suzy Spencer, New York Times bestselling author of Wasted She thought she had married her soulmate. But when Carol Kennedy could no longer tolerate her husband's reckless womanizing and out-of-control spending, the artist, therapist and mother of two had to let him go. Just weeks after their divorce, Carol was found in her Arizona ranch...
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