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1) Wereling
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IL: MG+ - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
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One day Trey Laporte wakes up in agony, with his clothes torn and his room trashed. Now, demons are closing in on him, and he is falling for a girl who is half vampire and half human. But above all, Trey must face one question: is he a boy, or is he a werewolf?
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"Not since American Pie has there been a more honest portrayal of the American teenage boy and his desires."-- Honor Elspeth "Honey" Black "Fantasy and reality are all the same to Jonah Black. Freud would have had a field day."-- Dr. Leonard Larue, Ph. D. "And all this time I thought Honah didn't even like girls. The man's a Casanova!"-- Thorne Wood "Jonah Black has no idea what a stud he really is."-- Posie Hoff Volume I details Jonah's crash-and-burn...
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"Jonah still doesn't know who I am, and it's driving me crazy."-- Northgirl999"Watch it, Jonah Black. You're a good diver, but you're not that good."-- Lamar Jameson "My son's diary is a testament to the fact that young people today need to be nicer to themselves. We all do."-- Dr. Judith Black, Radio Personality and Teen Sexpert "I love Jonah Black. I still can't believe he's real."-- Sophie O'Brien In Volume III, Jonah hooks up with the girl he...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 13
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In the summer of 1979, Andy and Tom are two twelve-year-old boys--best friends, expert cave explorers, and crack shots with their Springfield M-6 Scout rifles. In rural southern Indiana they are blissfully unaware of the local labor strife surrounding the Borden Casket Company. The fact that Andy's dad is a manager and Tom's dad is a union laborer has no bearing on their fun and adventure.
7) The servants
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"A hefty lot for any author to manage, but Smith does it both subtly and charmingly." - Santa Fe New Mexican on THE SERVANTS
9) Jubal
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A black man's entanglement with a white family leads to trouble in this historical novel set in Depression Era Mississippi.
To everyone in the small town of Linville, Mississippi, Jubal Jefferson is known simply as Dummy. A large black man who almost never speaks, he is forever pulling his mother's laundry wagon around town. Little else is known about him-apart from the fact that his father disappeared after the flood of 1927.
For as long as...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 19
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Three voices are heard in this tale of a venerable English boys' school. One belongs to Roy Straitley, a veteran teacher of classics. Another is that of a teacher who has just arrived at St. Oswald's with the malicious intent of bringing it down through well-placed rumor and cunning innuendo. The third is that of a child from 14 years earlier who loves the school but does not belong to it. He even assumes an alter identity, Julian Pinchbeck, complete...
11) Try
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Third in the George Miles Cycle.
Simultaneously deadpan and queasily raw, Try is the story of Ziggy, the adopted teenage son of two sexually abusive fathers. He turns from both of these men to his uncle, who sells pornographic videos on the black market, and to his best friend, a junkie whose own vulnerability inspires in Ziggy a fierce and awkward devotion.
Terminally insecure and yet inured to sexual brutality, Ziggy questions his two fathers,...
12) Lost Eden
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Soulkeepers volume 5
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Rules. Balance. Consequences. War.
Book 5 of 6 in The Soulkeepers Series
When Fate gave Dane the water from Eden to drink, she did more than save his life. She changed his destiny.
Since the beginning, a covenant between God and Lucifer has maintained a tenuous peace, balancing Soulkeepers and Watchers and the natural order of things. Dane upset that balance the day he became a Soulkeeper. Fate broke the rules.
Now, Lucifer is demanding a consequence,...
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Master caterer Sarah Laden is barely holding her life together as a widow with two difficult sons recalcitrant teen Nate and troubled fifth-grader Danny when the unthinkable happens. Her best friend and neighbor, Courtney Kendrick, is arrested in a child sex abuse scandal. Courtney's husband has vanished; their 11-year-old son, Jordan, is in the hospital recovering from a suicide attempt; and across the street Nate is finding, in Jordan's backpack,...
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Samuel Johnson tales volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 11
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Young Samuel Johnson and his dachshund, Boswell, are trying to show initiative by trick-or-treating a full three days before Halloween, which is how they come to witness strange goings-on at 666 Crowley Road. The Abernathys don't mean any harm by their flirtation with the underworld, but when they unknowingly call forth Satan himself, they create a gap in the universe, a gap through which a pair of enormous gates is visible. The gates to Hell. And...
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Karen and Rob Burrows have always handled just about everything well - but what about divorce? Karen and Rob were always great partners, and together they built a life filled with success, good friends, and a beautiful son, Tommy. But as they each get caught up in the stresses of their careers, they realize they lack one thing - real, enduring love for each other. Can two parents who respect each other manage a pain-free separation? Mr. and Mrs. Burrows...
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Soulkeepers trilogy volume 6
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The end is near.
Book 6 of 6 in the bestselling Soulkeepers Series.
Just when the Soulkeepers think they've established a foothold in the war between Heaven and Hell, the playing field shifts. Enraged by Cord's disappearance, Lucifer replaces his right-hand man with the Wicked Brethren, three Watchers so formidable even their own kind fears them.
The Soulkeepers struggle to survive in an increasingly deadly world while continuing to defend human...
17) Soul catcher
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Soulkeepers trilogy volume 4
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A murder. A mission. A mystery.
Book 4 in the bestselling Soulkeepers Series.
Dane Michaels has been to Hell and back and isn't interested in repeating the experience. But as a human caught up in the Soulkeeper's world, his life isn't exactly his own. No one can explain why Dane was allowed through the gates of Eden, but it's changed everything. Now, the only one who can make him feel safe is Ethan, the telekinetic Soulkeeper with a dark past and...
18) Decline and fall
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Everyman's library volume no. 156
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The "enormously funny" satire of prewar British society by the New York Times–bestselling author of Brideshead Revisited (The Telegraph).
Theology student Paul Pennyfeather has been unceremoniously ejected from Scone College after the rambunctious members of the elite Bollinger Club deprived him of his trousers, leaving him to run across campus in a highly inappropriate manner. As a result, his allowance is cut off, and he has no choice but...
19) Harrison squared
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
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When his mother disappears at sea, a teenage boy, who is attuned to the supernatural world, attempts, along with an unusual group of allies, to solve the mystery of her accident.
20) Drift
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This story is an unflinching vision of the menace of adolescence, the hard edge of physical labor, and the debts we owe to family.