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22) Blood red road
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IL: UG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 12
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In a distant future, eighteen-year-old Lugh is kidnapped, and while his twin sister Saba and nine-year-old Emmi are trailing him across bleak Sandsea they are captured, too, and taken to brutal Hopetown, where Saba is forced to be a cage fighter until new friends help plan an escape.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 21
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Astrid is the only child of a single mother, Ingrid, a brilliant, obsessed poet who wields her luminous beauty to intimidate and manipulate men. Astrid worships her mother and cherishes their private world full of ritual and mystery - but their idyll is shattered when Astrid's mother falls apart over a lover. Deranged by rejection, Ingrid murders the man, and is sentenced to life in prison. White Oleander is the unforgettable story of Astrid's journey...
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Ellen Foster duology volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 8
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This sequel to Gibbon's beloved classic Ellen Foster stands on its own as an unforgettable portrait of a redoubtable adolescent making herself up out of whole cloth. Now fifteen, Ellen is settled into a permanent home with a new mother. Strengthened by adversity and blessed with enough intelligence to design a salvation for herself, she still feels ill at ease in the world. Her sole surviving ritual - a visit to the county fair - takes on totemic...
25) Gap life
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Cray's expected to go straight to college after high school graduation. After all, he got into his father's alma mater, and his parents were paying his tuition. But Cray's desire to take a year off from school leads him to a job working with developmentally disabled adults. And he learns more about himself and others than any college could ever teach him.
26) Ariel's crossing
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Ariel Rankin seeks to locate and save her unknown father-a man deeply scarred by his secret and brutal role in the history of his country In the sequel to Bradford Morrow's heralded Trinity Fields,young New Yorker Ariel Rankin learns that her birth father is not the man who raised her but rather a soldier named Kip Calder who disappeared into the jungles of Laos during the Vietnam War. Hoping to preserve her otherwise happy life, she pushes the revelation...
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For much of her life, Sally Holt has been mystified by the things her older sister, Kathy, seems to have been born knowing. Kathy has answers for all of Sally’s questions about life, about love, and about Billy Barnes, a rising senior and local basketball star who mans the concession stand at the town pool. The girls have been fascinated by Billy ever since he jumped off the roof in elementary school, but Billy has never shown much interest in them...
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Oliver Nocturne volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
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Oliver, a young vampire, discovers that he is a little more human than his vampire family and classmates.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
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Lida is sent to the Alice Marshall School in the Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area of Idaho in order to come to terms with her "Thing." Some girls are sent for sexual promiscuity, some for theft and crime, but Lida is keeping her "Thing" a secret. When she meets Boone--an arsonist--the generally-mischievous Jules, and Gia--whose glamour seems to invite problems on its own--Lida's secret is threatened to be uncovered and she doesn't know...
30) The neon bible
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The first novel by the Pulizer Prize-winning author of A Confederacy Of Dunces. David is a young boy growing up in a small Southern town in the 1940s. From his porch, David can see the whole valley, including the neon Bible that lights up the sky, emblem of the God-fearing folk who snub his family because Poppa can't afford the church dues.
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"As provincial Sicily bursts into life with the jaunty hum of pop music and the heady scent of wild jasmine, fifteen-year-old Oliva Denaro dares to challenge convention, ignoring the taunts of peers, her mother’s scolds, and her own changing body. Spirited and carefree, she loves to run until her lungs burst: to feel the strength of her lithe limbs, to relish the freedom she cherishes, to honor the friends forced by propriety to conform. Though...
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"This astonishing, devastating debut novel, riven through with mystery and magic, tells the story of a lonely girl living in a small African town and her struggle to free herself from her mercurial, charming mother. Ayosa is a wandering spirit- joyous, exuberant, filled to the brim with longing. Her only companions in her grandmother's crumbling house are as lonely as Ayosa herself: the ghostly Fatumas, whose eyes are the size of bay windows, who...
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""A modern coming-of-age full of love, desperation, heartache, and magic" (Andrew Sean Greer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author) about "the ways in which family, grief, love, queerness, and vulnerability all intersect" (Kristen Arnett, New York Times bestselling author). Perfect for fans of The Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Thirty Names of Night"--
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After years of trouble and rebellion that enraged his father and nearly cost him his life, Chris has a steady job in his father's company, he's seriously dating a woman he respects, and, aside from the distrust that lingers in his father's eyes, his mistakes are firmly in the past. One day on the job, Chris and his partner come across a temptation almost too big to resist. Chris does the right thing, but old habits and instincts rise to the surface,...
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""You'll want to scratch." These spoken words introduce us to the strange and beguiling world of young Rudy Spruance, forced to join the military due to a mysterious past, and sent for some unexplainable reason to a top-secret military hospital in Greenland. There he meets a wide cast of unusual and colorful characters, outcasts and rejects all, begins to fall for the commanding officer's leggy and strong-willed girlfriend, and slowly uncovers the...
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Jessica Darling novels volume 5
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Jessica, young professional, is running very late for her flight to the Virgin Islands, where her best friend is getting married, when she literally runs into her former boyfriend, Marcus Flutie, and misses her flight; Marcus has spent the last three years getting his life together, but he is still drawn to Jessica, who certainly has not forgotten him--and the next eighteen hours will change both their lives.
37) Aim
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 9
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While people are celebrating Yankee Joe DiMaggio's hitting streak and worrying about being drawn into World War II, fourteen-year-old Junior Bledsoe is dealing with his abusive father's death and his cantankerous grandfather who lives with
them. Consumed by unanswered questions surrounding his father's death, Junior begrudgingly makes friends with a boy named Catfish, who promises to help him find some answers. But the road they take comes with trouble....
38) Raging star
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 13
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Saba leads a group of guerrillas against DeMalo and the Tonton, all while contemplating DeMalo's invitation to join him in building a New Eden.
40) The women
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2024.
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Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother ships out to serve in Vietnam, she impulsively joins the...