Nick Cordero
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 19
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English
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When his father and sister are injured in an accident that has rendered his father comatose, estranged son Edward decides to stop his father's life support so that his organs can be donated, a choice his sister urges him to reconsider.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old half-Inuit Nick and his white brother, Ryan, meet and share an adventure on the Firth River in the Canadian Arctic, facing white water, wild animals, and fierce weather as Ryan documents the effects of climate change on caribou for National Geographic magazine.
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A young man goes from Ivy League to international intrigue: "A spy who could have easily walked off the pages of le Carré's better works."-Publishers Weekly
Mike Teak has a classic Harvard profile. He's a twenty-five-year-old scholar/athlete from an upper-class family who was recruited by his godfather to work for a U.S. intelligence agency. On a covert mission in a Somali village, he delivers cash and cell phones to Hatashil, a legendary orphan...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Delilah reads a fairy tale she found in the school library multiple times and feels as though it is more than words on a page. One day she finds out that the handsome prince, castle and evil villain are real, but from a different world, and she wonders how this meeting of fantasy and reality can work.
5) Invasion
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Josiah Wedgewood and Marcus Perry are on their way to an uncertain future. Their whole lives are ahead of them, yet at the same time, death's whisper is everywhere.
One white, one black, these young men have nothing in common and everything in common as they approach an experience that will change them forever.
It's May 1944. World War II is ramping up, and so are these young recruits, ready and eager. In small towns and big cities all over the...
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English
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Featured in the bestselling book Born to Run, coach and performance guru Eric Orton has spent a lifetime learning and thinking about running and about the limitless possibilities of the human body and mind. In The Cool Impossible, Orton shares his wealth of knowledge in an inspiring step-by-step guide that will open up a new world of achievement for runners of all levels of ability and experience. The truth is: Athleticism is awareness. That simple...
7) Still Waters
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English
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Jason Roberts knows how to take a hit, and he has taken plenty: both from the boys at his high school, and from his deadbeat, drug-dealing father. But Jason has learned to give as good as he gets, and his reputation as the school tough guy has made him something of a legend. It isn't his rep that concerns him, though-all he really wants to do is get himself and his sister Janie out of this life and move to a place where his father can't hurt them...
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Best-selling author Carol Plum-Ucci received the Michael L. Printz Honor for The Body of Christopher Creed. In this intense follow-up, Plum-Ucci returns to Steepleton, where the disappearance of Christopher Creed exposed the town's darkest secrets and moral failings. Still devastated by the loss of his brother, Justin Creed continues to search for an explanation, even as his fragile mental state continues to disintegrate.
9) Arrows
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English
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Aaryn, son of Cupid and Psyche, is determined to follow in his father's footsteps. On the night of his first assignment, without first logging into the high-tech compatibility database, he shoots a ballet prodigy named Karma. Aaryn realizes too late the other arrow in his pack is useless. He can't shoot Danny, Karma's date, which makes the enchantment tragically one-sided.
In the year that follows, Karma's destiny is derailed. One pregnancy was confirmed....
10) A Stand Up Guy
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Language
English
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A low-level mobster tries to disappear in the Witness Protection Program, only to become an internet celebrity when his open-mic set goes viral.
11) Off the page
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Prince Oliver had to swap places with real-life Edgar in order to be taken from the pages of a fairy tale and transported into Delilah's world, but just when it seems the plan will work, everything gets turned upside down.