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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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Inertia — Friends Claire and Matt stopped speaking six months ago. When Matt gets into a car accident and his end looks certain, he requests a visitation, a procedure which allows him and Claire to revisit shared memories and a chance to discover what went wrong.
The Spinners — Bounty hunter Atleigh Kent tracks and kills leeches, a predatory extraterrestrial race which illegal absorbs human host bodies. But death begets all death, and Atleigh...
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A new collection of stories by National Book Award winner Joyce Carol Oates. In the suspenseful "Strip Poker," a reckless adolescent girl must find a way of turning the tables on a gathering of increasingly threatening young men. Can she outplay them? In the award-winning "Smother!" a young woman's nightmare memory of childhood brings trouble on her professor-mother. Which of them will win? In "Split/Brain" a woman who has blundered into a lethal...
83) Oddly enough
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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A collection of nine short stories featuring an angel, unicorn, vampire, werewolf, and other unusual creatures.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
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Twelve tales, twelve dangerous tales of mystery, magic, and rebellious hearts. Each twists like a spindle to reveal truths full of warning and triumph, truths that free hearts long kept tame, truths that explore life, and death. A prince has a surprising awakening. A beauty fights like a beast. A boy refuses to become prey. A path to happiness is lost, then found again. Author Soman Chainani respins old stories into fresh fairy tales for a new era...
85) M is for magic
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
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Eleven stories that involve strange and fantastical events.
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Bunjitsu Bunny volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
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As Isabel, the best bunjitsu artist in her class, continues to practice her skills, she also grows in her understanding of how to use her strongest weapon--her mind.
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In this 3-in-1 novella collection, "Karen Witemeyer presents the new story 'A Texas Christmas Carol,' in which a town's wealthy, Scrooge-like bachelor finds his world invaded by a woman set on earning his donation for helping the local poor, and by the penetrating questions of three mysterious visitors. It also includes, for the first time in print, 'An Archer Family Christmas.' When the Archer clan gathers for the Christmas holiday, an unexpected...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Join detective Judy Drewdy to create a way-official detective kit, solve six mini-mysteries, and sharpen real-and-actual sleuth skills. Chock-full of advice for the would-be sleuth and bursting with activities, here is an uber RARE diversion for fans of Judy and for anyone who loves a good mystery. "The Great Class Heist" is just one of the whodunits tackled by Judy Drewdy and agents Dills Pickle (aka Frank), Spuds Houdini (Rocky), and James Madagascar...
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For more than fifty years Ray Bradbury has regaled us with wonders, enabled us to view from fresh perspectives the world we inhabit, and see others we never dreamed existed. Here are eighteen brand-new stories and seven previously published but never before collected stories -- proof positive that Bradbury's magic is as potent as ever. Sip the sweet innocence of youth, the wisdom - and folly - of age. Taste the warm mysteries of summer and bitterness...
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Weenies short story collections volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Thirty-one creepy stories about vampires, transmutations, dreadful fairylands, and other terrifying things. Includes author's notes on how he got his ideas for these stories.
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"In this stirring, reflective collection of short stories, Joyce Carol Oates ponders alternate destinies: the other lives we might have led if we'd made different choices. An accomplished writer returns to her childhood home of Yewville, but the homecoming stirs troubled thoughts about the person she might have been if she'd never left. A man in prison contemplates the gravity of his irreversible act. A student's affair with a professor results in...