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42) Crooked kingdom
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2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 25
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"Kaz Brekker and his crew have just pulled off a heist so daring even they didn't think they'd survive. But instead of divvying up a fat reward, they're right back to fighting for their lives. Double-crossed and badly weakened, the crew is low on resources, allies, and hope. As powerful forces from around the world descend on Ketterdam to root out the secrets of the dangerous drug known as jurda parem, old rivals and new enemies emerge to challenge...
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"Lin Chong is an expert arms instructor, training the Emperor's soldiers in sword and truncheon, battle axe and spear, lance and crossbow. Unlike bolder friends who flirt with challenging the unequal hierarchies and values of Imperial society, she believes in keeping her head down and doing her job. Until a powerful man with a vendetta rips that carefully-built life away. Disgraced, tattooed as a criminal, and on the run from an Imperial Marshall...
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Geronimo Stilton. Spacemice volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
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Geronimo Stiltonix takes MouseStar 1's broken computer to a distant planet to be repaired by a brilliant inventor, but pirate spacecats attack and steal the device, and the spacemice must retrieve it before the machine can be turned against them.
46) Winter's web
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Winter Black volume 7
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Human webs are the deadliest...When Ryan O'Connelly--the unwilling accomplice of a bank robber turned mass murderer--slipped out of the FBI's grasp, no one expected to hear from him again, much less of his own volition. But when he shows up at the FBI's doorstep after almost a year of successful evasion, he has information to point Special Agent Winter Black in the direction of a brutal serial killer. As Ryan takes the team into the deep, dark web...
47) Three Amigos
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The Three Amigos, a silent screen comedy act, arrive in a remote Mexican hamlet for what they think is a lucrative personal appearance, only to discover that they are expected to save the village from a terrorizing gang of bandits.
48) Sutton
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Born in the squalid Irish slums of Brooklyn, in the first year of the twentieth century, Willie Sutton came of age at a time when banks were out of control. If they weren't taking brazen risks, causing millions to lose their jobs and homes, they were shamelessly seeking bailouts. Trapped in a cycle of bank panics, depressions and soaring unemployment, Sutton saw only one way out, only one way to win the girl of his dreams.So began the career of America's...
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The true story of the world's first robbery of a moving train, and the real origins of the Wild West. They were the first outlaws to rob a moving train. But from 1864 to 1868, the Reno brothers and their gang of counterfeiters, robbers, burglars, and safecrackers also held the town of Seymour, Indiana, hostage, making a large hotel near the train station their headquarters. When the gang robbed the Adams Express car of the Ohio & Mississippi Railroad...
50) Ghostman
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"When a casino robbery in Atlantic City goes horribly awry, the man who orchestrated it is obliged to call in a favor from someone who's occasionally called Jack. While it's doubtful that anyone knows his actual name or anything at all about his true identity, or even if he's still alive, he's in his mid-thirties and lives completely off the grid, a criminal's criminal who does entirely as he pleases and is almost impossible to get in touch with....
51) Stage dreams
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The New Mexico Territory, 1861. Young Grace, a trans runaway, has headed west, fleeing her Georgia home—and conscription into the Confederate Army. But her coach ride to California makes an unplanned stop when notorious outlaw the Ghost Hawk swoops in, shaking down its passengers and stealing away with Grace. The Ghost Hawk—Flor to her friends—means to hold Grace for ransom. But when the two get to talking about Flor's plan to crash a Confederate...
52) Highway robbery
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 2
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On a cold day in eighteenth-century England, a poor young boy agrees to watch a stranger's fine horse for a golden guinea but soon finds himself in a difficult situation when the king's guard appears and wants to use him as bait in their pursuit of a notorious highwayman.
53) Sovay
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 17
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In 1794 England, the rich and beautiful Sovay, disguised as a highwayman, acquires papers that could lead to her father's arrest for treason, and soon her newly-awakened political consciousness leads her and a compatriot to France during the Revolution.
55) Capture the flag
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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When the original Star Spangled Banner is stolen, seventh-graders Anne, Jos�, and Henry, all descendants of the Silver Jaguar Society, pursue suspects on airport carts and through baggage handling tunnels while stranded at a Washington, D.C. airport during a snowstorm.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 33
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Vowing to bring down the crime boss running the city, a group of Gentlemen Bastards, led by Locke Lamora, sets out to beat the Capa at his own game, taking on other thieves, murderers, beggars, prostitutes, and thugs in the process.
57) Ace of shades
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Shadow game trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
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Welcome to the City of Sin, where casino families reign, gangs infest the streets...and secrets hide in every shadow Enne Salta was raised as a proper young lady, and no lady would willingly visit New Reynes, the so-called City of Sin. But when her mother goes missing, Enne must leave her finishing school--and her reputation--behind to follow her mother's trail to the city where no one survives uncorrupted. Frightened and alone, Enne has only one...
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The keepers trilogy (Lian Tanner) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
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Goldie, an impulsive and bold twelve-year-old, escapes the oppressive city of Jewel, where children are required to wear guardchains for their protection, and finds refuge in the extraordinary Museum of Dunt, an ever-shifting world where she discovers a useful talent for thievery and mysterious secrets that threaten her city and everyone she loves.