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21) Sheep
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 4
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After a fire destroys the farm where he was born, a young border collie acquires a series of owners and learns about life as he seeks a home and longs to fulfill his life's purpose of shepherding sheep. Finally, he arrives at the Good Shepherd Home for Boys, where he finds a friend in Luke, who is also alone in the world and looking for a home.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 42
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"A swashbuckling epic of chivalry, honor, and derring-do, it is set in France during the 1620s and richly populated with romantic heroes, unattainable heroines, kings, queens, cavaliers, and criminals in a whirl of adventure, espionage, conspiracy, murder, vengeance, love, scandal, and suspense. Dumas transforms major and minor historical figures into larger-than-life characters: the brave d'Artagnan, an impetuous young man in pursuit of glory; the...
23) The unyielding
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In order to save the other clans, angry Viking Stieg Engstrom join forces with Erin Amsel, a pain-in-the-neck Crow, but the two must resist each other's charms in order to complete the mission.
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Sigma Force novels volume 9
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Dead men tell many tales, though Commander Gray Pierce, Sigma, and Vatican historians could do without the twisted history lesson when a pair of disturbing artifacts sent by a missing colleague point to a tomb said to hold riches and the secret behind an ancient empire.
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Warriors (Erin Hunter). Super editions volume 2
Warriors. Super editions volume 2
Warriors super edition volume 2
Warriors. Super editions volume 2
Warriors super edition volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
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Bluefur, a warrior of ThunderClan, struggles under the weight of a prophecy that promises her glory as Clan leader, but also spells out her ultimate demise.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 14
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Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes-and promises to revolutionize science forever. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer-her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul- escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him. Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 7
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One day Milo finds an enormous and mysterious package in his room. A phantom tollbooth, with a map to a weird world beyond! So Milo sets off on a fantastic voyage in which he meets: the not so wicked Witch, Faintly Macabre, Alec Bings who sees through things, and the watchdog, Tock, who ticks.
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Candy shop war volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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When fifth-graders Nate, Summer, Trevor, and Pigeon meet the owner of the new candy store in town and are given a magical candy that endows them with super powers, they find that along with its benefits there are also dangerous consequences.
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Nicholas Bryson, an agent for a covert American group called the Directorate, comes out of retirement after learning the Directorate is actually a traitorous group and joins forces with the CIA to put a stop to their actions. Robert Ludlum is the acknowledged master of suspense and intrigue. This is his first hardcover novel in three years, and he is at the pinnacle of his craft. His latest character, Nicholas Bryson is a retired deep cover operative...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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When young magicians Carter and Sadie Kane learned how to follow the path of the ancient Egyptian gods, they knew they would have to play an important role in restoring Ma'at order to the world. What they didn't know is how chaotic the world would become. The Chaos snake Apophis is loose and threatening to destroy the earth in three days' time. There is, possibly, one way to stop Apophis, but it is so difficult it might cost Carter and Sadie their...
31) Rook
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 21
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In the Sunken City that was once Paris the guillotine rules again, while Sophia Bellamy from the Commonwealth across the Channel Sea tries to rescue as many of the revolution's victims as she can smuggle out, and some prisoners disappear from their cells, with a red-tipped rook feather left in their place--but who is the mysterious Red Rook and where does Sophia's wealthy fiance,�� Ren�� Hasard, fit in?
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 7
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Who else but Mary Poppins can lead the Banks children--Jane, Michael, and the twins--on such extraordinary adventures? Together they all meet the Goosegirl and the Swineherd, argue with talking cats on a distant planet, make the acquaintance of the folks who live under the dandelions, and celebrate a birthday by dancing with their own shadow.
33) Showoff
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Swindle mysteries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
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Accused of ruining a champion dog's career after an unfortunate incident at a mall show, Luthor is sent to the pound, prompting a skeptical Griffin to hatch a daring plan involving a sinister saboteur, a reclusive trainer, and large supply of red dye.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 16
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Publisher Annotation: Ever since she used the Firebird, her parent?s invention, to cross through alternate dimensions, Marguerite has been at the center of a cross-dimensional feud. Now she has learned that the evil Triad Corporation plans to destroy hundreds of universes, using their ultimate weapon: another dimension?s Marguerite who is wicked, psychologically twisted, and always one step ahead. Even though her boyfriend Paul has always been at...
35) Solo
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Dr. Katherine Riley is in love with two men who are determined to destroy each other, a top international hit man and the soldier who is pursuing him.
36) The cat's table
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In the early 1950's, an eleven-year-old boy in Colombo boards a ship bound for England, At mealtimes he is seated at the "cat's table" - - as far from the Captain's Table as can be -- with a ragtag group of "insignificant" adults and two other boys, Cassius and Ramadhin. As the ship makes its way across the Indian Ocean, through the Seuz Canal, into the Mediterranean, the boys tumble from one adventure to another, bursting all over the place like...
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"An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay. . ." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
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"Harvey Cheyne, the pampered fifteen-year-old son of an American millionaire, is sailing to Europe when he falls overboard. Saved from drowning by a New England fishing schooner, he finds his rough new companions unimpressed by his wealth and shocked by his ignorance. He will have to prove his worth in the only way the captain and crew will accept: through the slow and arduous mastery of skills upon which their common survival depends."--Back cover....
39) On blazing wings
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Formats
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Embittered by past failures and broken dreams, American fighter pilot David Duane believes in but one cause-his own. Europe is at war, and he'll fight it for a price, selling his deadly flying skills to the highest bidder. Just as Bogart came to Casablanca to escape his past, Duane has come to the icy white wastes of Scandinavia to wage a private war in the skies. But he's about to take off on a flight and undertake an unforgettable journey-On Blazing...
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Amelia Peabody mysteries volume 13
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 23
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Amelia Peabody and her family arrive in Egypt in 1911 for their annual excavation and to celebrate the wedding of Amelia's niece Lia to David, an Egyptian artist; but Amelia's attention is diverted from the dig when David is accused of selling ancient artifacts, and she must work fast to clear his name.