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121) Daughter of the deep
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
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Ana Dakkar is a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world. Ana's parents died while on a scientific expedition two years ago, and the only family's she's got left is her older brother, Dev, also a student at HP. Ana's freshman year culminates with the class's weekend trial at sea, the details of which have been kept secret....
123) The Scorpio Races
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Description
Nineteen-year-old returning champion Sean Kendrick competes against Puck Connolly, the first girl ever to ride in the annual Scorpio Races, both trying to keep hold of their dangerous water horses long enough to make it to the finish line.
124) The miserable mill
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Series
A series of unfortunate events volume 4
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Accidents, evil plots, and general misfortune abound when, in their continuing search for a home, the Beaudelaire orphans are sent to live and work in a sinister lumber mill.
125) Prodigal son
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Series
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As a boy, Evan Smoak was pulled out of a foster home and trained in an off-the-books operation known as the Orphan Program. He was a government assassin, perhaps the best, known to a few insiders as Orphan X. He eventually broke with the Program and adopted a new name--The Nowhere Man--and a new mission, helping the most desperate in their times of trouble. But the highest power in the country has made him a tempting offer--in exchange for an unofficial...
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Pub. Date
[2021]
Description
"A woman whose name shouldn't be Linda stands inside the locked front door of her apartment, listening. Footsteps: a neighbor, walking. Linda knows her neighbors only from names on lobby mailboxes and glances through the peephole, doesn't care to meet them, can't chance being known. She gives the footsteps enough time to reach the elevator. To press the button, to step in and begin their descent. Then she unlocks the door, exhales the breath she was...
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Series
Boxcar children volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 2
Description
A summer spent in doing light housekeeping in a lighthouse proves to be a happy and adventurous time for the Boxcar children, as well as for their neighbor, Larry Cook, who does not want any friends.
130) Great expectations
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 35
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Description
Great Expectations is Charles Dickens's thirteenth novel. It is his second novel, after David Copperfield, to be fully narrated in the first person. Great Expectations is a bildungsroman, or a coming-of-age novel, and it is a classic work of Victorian literature. It depicts the growth and personal development of an orphan named Pip. The novel was first published in serial form in Dickens's weekly periodical All the Year Round, from 1 December 1860...
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Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"From the internationally best-selling author, a twisted, multi-layered spin on the classic horror novel In the wake of his parents' tragic deaths in a house fire, fourteen-year-old Richard Elauved has been sent to live with his aunt and uncle in the remote, insular town of Ballantyne. Richard quickly earns a reputation as an outcast, and when a classmate named Tom goes missing, everyone suspects the new, angry boy is responsible for his disappearance....
132) Slob
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Picked on, overweight genius Owen tries to invent a television that can see the past to find out what happened the day his parents were killed.
133) Schoolhouse mystery
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 3
Description
"People say nothing interesting happens in the village of Port Elizabeth but, on a visit there, the Boxcar Children find a big mystery at the schoolhouse. Adapted from Gertrude Chandler Warner's story of the same name, this early reader allows children to start reading by themselves with a Boxcar Children classic."--Amazon.
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Series
White rabbit chronicles volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 15
Description
"Alice 'Ali' Bell thinks the worst is behind her. She's ready to take the next step with boyfriend Cole Holland, the leader of the zombie slayers. But Anima Industries, the agency controlling the zombies, launches a sneak attack, killing four of her friends. It's then she realizes that humans can be more dangerous than monsters... and the worst has only begun. As the surviving slayers prepare for war, Ali discovers she, too, can control the zombies....
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Series
The 39 clues. Main series volume 11
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 8
Description
Fourteen-year-old Amy Cahill and her younger brother Dan thought they could return to their regular lives when they found the 39 clues. But the Vespers, powerful enemies will stop at nothing to get the clues. And with the Vespers rising, the world is in jeopardy.
136) Mystery ranch
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
"The Aldens spend the summer on their aunt's ranch! The ranch is a beautiful place, but it's also the source of trouble between Aunt Jane and Grandfather. As the Boxcar Children explore the land, they make an amazing discovery. Will it help mend Aunt Jane and Grandfather's relationship?"--Publisher's description.
137) Aria: a novel
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Iran in the 1950s is wealthy in oil but riven by divisions of class, ethnicity, and religion, and its corrupt government is under foreign influence. At this volatile moment, an illiterate driver rescues a redheaded, blue-eyed baby girl who has been abandoned in a Tehran alley and names her Aria. When he can no longer care for her, he finds her a new home, setting her on an unlikely path from extreme deprivation to a life of privilege. Along the way,...
138) Paint the wind
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
After her overprotective grandmother has a stroke, Maya, an orphan, leaves her extremely restricted life in California to stay with her mother's family on a remote Wyoming ranch, where she discovers a love of horses and encounters a wild mare that her mother once rode.
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Series
Dragon slippers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Orphaned after a fever epidemic, Creel befriends a dragon and unknowingly inherits an object that can either save or destroy her kingdom.
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Series
Molly Moon volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Unlucky and unloved, Molly Moon, living in a dreary orphanage in a small English town, discovers a hidden talent for hypnotism and hypnotizes her way to stardom in New York City.