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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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The Tuck family is confronted with an agonizing situation when they discover that a ten-year-old girl and a malicious stranger now share their secret about a spring whose water prevents one from ever growing any older.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1947, with her jovial stepfather Joe back from the war and family life returning to normal, teenage Evie, smitten by the handsome young ex-GI who seems to have a secret hold on Joe, finds herself caught in a complicated web of lies whose devastating outcome change her life and that of her family forever.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Description
"Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, but he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and- run accident when he was seven, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself and his dad. When Charlie is seventeen, he meets a dog named Radar and her aging master, Howard Bowditch, a recluse in a big house with a locked shed in the backyard. Sometimes strange sounds emerge from it. Charlie starts doing...
Author
Series
Wings of fire. Original series volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
Lexile measure
710L
Language
English
Description
Turtle the SeaWing dragon has long dreamed of being a hero, but when the companions inadvertantly free Darkstalker, the oldest and most powerful dragon, from the spell that has trapped him, the best he can come up with is a spell that prevents the ancientdragon from seeing him or hearing his thoughts--Darkstalker claims he has changed, but Turtle suspects that he still plans to control dragonkind.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Their average age was twenty-five. They came from Berkeley, Cambridge, Paris, London, Chicago--and arrived in New Mexico ready for adventure, or at least resigned to it. But hope quickly turned to hardship as they were forced to adapt to a rugged military town where everything was a secret, including what their husbands were doing at the lab. They lived in barely finished houses with P.O. box addresses in a town wreathed with barbed wire, all for...
Author
Series
Total mayhem volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Dash Candoo is used to really strange, mysterious things happening at his school. But now, really, really, really strange and mysterious things are happening. Dash starts to wonder what's going on when mysterious tire marks and strange sounds start coming from Moremi Forest, next to Swedhump Elementary. When he and his friend Rob go to investigate, they can't work out what's going on. All they know is . . . they're being watched. Soon the weirdness...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"When Sallie tries to teach young Eddie to be more like their father, her daredevil coaching leads to an accident, and Sallie is cast out. Nine years later, she returns, determined to reclaim her place in the family. That's a lot more complicated than Sallie expected, and she enters a world of conflict and lawlessness. Sallie confronts the secrets and scandals that hide in the shadows of the Big House, navigates the factions in the family and town,...
Author
Series
Fruits basket volume 21
Publisher
Tokyopop
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tohru Honda is an orphaned teenager who comes to live with the Sohma family in exchange for housekeeping duties, but she soon comes to know the family secret.
Author
Publisher
Random House Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 7
Physical Desc
274 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's 1953 and 11-year-old Penny dreams of a summer of butter pecan ice cream, swimming, and baseball. But nothing's that easy in Penny's family. For starters, she can't go swimming because her mother's afraid she'll catch polio at the pool. To make matters worse, her favorite uncle is living in a car. Her Nonny cries every time her father's name is mentioned. And the two sides of her family aren't speaking to each other! Inspired by Newbery Honor...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
388 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1940, during the Blitz, Katherine, Robbie and Amelie Bateson are sent north to a private school in Rookskill Castle in Scotland, a brooding place, haunted by dark magic from the past--but when some of their classmates disappear Katherine has to find out if the cause is hidden in the past or very much in the present.
12) Bones of a saint
Author
Publisher
Soho Teen
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1970s northern California, fifteen-year-old RJ Armante must fight to save himself and his disabled brother from the Blackjacks gang, and free his hometown, Arcangel, from its past.
13) River bodies
Author
Series
Northampton County novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Returning home to care for her ailing father, the former police chief, Becca Kingsley is drawn into a murder investigation that is linked to a 20-year-old cold case and that causes her to start questioning all her past relationships as dark secrets come to light.
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
Large type ed.
Physical Desc
596 p. (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a tale set against a backdrop of pre-World War II turbulence in England and Edward VIII's scandalous affair, a fatherless chauffeur shares an undeclared love with a complex Oxford undergraduate, a housekeeper hides her Nazi sympathies and a woman struggles with escalating tensions in her friendship with Wallace Simpson.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Who is Lucie Walker? Even Lucie herself can't answer that question after she comes to, confused and up to her knees in the chilly San Francisco Bay. Back home in Seattle, she adjusts to life with amnesia, growing unsettled by the clues she finds to the selfish, carefully guarded person she used to be. Will she ever fall in love with her handsome, kindhearted fiance, ́Grady? Can he devote himself to the vulnerable, easygoing Lucie 2.0, who is so unlike...
16) Storm and fury
Author
Series
Harbinger (Jennifer L. Armentrout) volume 1
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
504 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Eighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits. Her unique gift is a part of a secret so dangerous that she's been in hiding for years in an isolated compound fiercely guarded by Wardens-gargoyle shapeshifters who protect humankind from demons. If the demons discover the truth about Trinity, they'll devour her, flesh and bone, to enhance their own powers. When Wardens from another clan...
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