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The Case That Shocked The World
In 1991, an 11-year-old-girl was abducted in broad daylight. Eighteen years later, a policewoman at UC Berkeley confronted a deranged man accompanied by two young girls. During questioning the next day, the girls' mother blurted: "I am Jaycee Lee Dugard." Her companion was identified as Phillip Craig Garrido-a convicted drug user, rapist and sexual predator. An astonishing story was about to unfold...
The Evil That...
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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...
3) Cruel Death
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"Phelps is one of America's finest true-crime writers." --Vincent Bugliosi "Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers." -Allison Brennan It was Memorial Day weekend, the start of the summer season. Thousands headed to Ocean City, Maryland, to enjoy its scenic beaches, lively boardwalk, and trendy nightclubs. Among the bright-spirited vacationers was a couple with a much darker idea of fun. Erica Sifrit, a former honor student, was packing...
4) Hamlet
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 1
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"One of the most frequently read and performed of all stage works, Shakespeare's Hamlet is unsurpassed in its complexity and richness. Now the most extensively annotated version of Hamlet to date makes the play completely accessible to readers in the twenty-first century. It has been carefully assembled with students, teachers, and the general reader in mind." "Eminent linguist and translator Burton Raffel offers generous help with vocabulary and...
5) Monster
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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670L
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While on trial as an accomplice to a murder, sixteen-year-old Steve Harmon records his experiences in prison and in the courtroom in the form of a film script as he tries to come to terms with the course his life has taken.
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Raskolnikov commits murder. He then must deal both with the police, and his own guilty conscience. Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excrutiating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost...
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Boy Sherlock Holmes volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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A woman is found stabbed to death in London. A young boy is drawn to the scene to investigate the murder and becomes a suspect himself.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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When thirteen-year-old Logan and his family move into a run-down old house in rural Virginia, he discovers that a woman was murdered there and becomes involved with his neighbor Arthur in a dangerous investigation to try to uncover the killer.
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Truly Devious volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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HL 670L
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When Stevie Bell is finally able to return to Ellingham Academy after identifying the culprit in the murder of a classmate, she begins to wonder if the case was really resolved and attempts to uncover the truth about the school's founder.
10) All fall down
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Embassy Row novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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There are many powerful people along Embassy Row who want Grace to block out all her unpretty thoughts. But Grace will not stop until she finds out who killed her mother and make the killer pay.
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Echo Falls mystery volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 8
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Thirteen-year-old Sherlock Holmes aficionado Ingrid Levin-Hill tries to clear her grandfather's name when he is accused of murdering an environmental activist found dead on his farm.
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Archer legacy volume 3
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IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
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Gerald, Sam, and Ruby are attending the murder trial of Sir Mason Green, hoping to see their longtime enemy put away for good. But just as the trial is about to begin, Mason Green is killed--and Gerald is framed for the murder. And he has only one choice: to run
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Truly Devious volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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After another death, Stevie must navigate mysterious riddles and track down a missing David at the same time a massive storm forces her to confront a killer.
14) Death in the air
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Boy Sherlock Holmes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
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After losing his mother while solving a brutal murder, young Sherlock Holmes commits himself to fighting crime. While visiting his father at work, Sherlock watches a dangerous trapeze performance. When the troupe's star drops to his death, Sherlock notices something is amiss and realizes it was foul play.
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Dr. Daniel Rinaldi is a psychologist who consults with the Pittsburgh Police. His specialty is treating victims of violent crime. Kevin Merrick, a college student and victim of an armed assault, is one of these people. A fragile, troubled kid desperate for a role model and a sense of identity, Kevin has begun dressing like Rinaldi, acting like him, even mirroring his appearance. Before Daniel has a chance to work this through with his patient, he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 10
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790L
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When her caretaker father is wrongly blamed for a deadly house fire, Pearl befriends its only survivor and his friends in hopes of getting answers about what happened that night, but what she uncovers will change her life and the entire town forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 8
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As he grieves his best friend Benny's death, Mason and his friend Calvin, who are targeted by the neighborhood bullies, create an underground haven for themselves, but when Calvin goes missing Mason finds himself in trouble.
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