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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute. The odds are against him. He's been given...
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
3) Mockingjay
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Hunger Games volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and it is up to Katniss to accept responsibility for countless lives and to change the course of the future of Panem.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss's skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister's place.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 16
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English
Description
Chronicles the adventures of Bilbo Baggins, who embarks on a quest to reclaim stolen treasure from the dragon Smaug, along with his dwarve companions and the wizard Gandalf, and unwittingly returns to the Shire with a Ring of Power.
7) Oliver Twist
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Oliver Twist is a poor orphan boy cruelly treated in the public workhouse. Pennyless and hungry, he runs away to London, only to fall into the clutches of a gang of thieves and pickpockets led by the master criminal, Fagin. Befriended by a man robbed by the gang, Oliver ultimately learns his true identity and gains a home, a fortune, and a family. --Amazon.com
8) Hatchet
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
Headed for Canada to visit his father for the first time since his parents' divorce, thirteen-year-old Brian is the sole survivor of a plane crash, with only the clothes he has on and a hatchet to help him live in the wilderness. .
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Description
By winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.
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Death-Cast volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In a near-future New York City, a service alerts people on the day they will die. Teenagers Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio meet using the Last Friend app and are faced with the challenge of living a lifetime on their End Day.
"On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both...
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Percy Jackson has recently discovered that he is the son of Poseidon, making him half human and half god, and along with a demigod and a satyr friend, must save his beloved Camp Half-Blood from evil forces determined to destroy it.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Originally published in 1864, this Jules Verne classic has wowed generations of readers with its portrayal of an imaginary odyssey into a subterranean wonderland. When Axel deciphers an old parchment describing a secret passage through a volcano to the center of the earth, nothing will stop his eccentric Uncle Lidenbrock from setting out at once. With silent Hans as guide, the two men encounter natural hazards, prehistoric beasts, and other curiosities...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The night after a shooting star is seen streaking through the sky from Mars, a cylinder is discovered on Horsell Common in London. At first, naïve locals approach the cylinder armed just with a white flag - only to be quickly killed by an all-destroying heat-ray, as terrifying tentacled invaders emerge. Soon the whole of human civilisation is under threat, as powerful Martians build gigantic killing machines, destroy all in their path with black...
16) Messenger
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
In this novel that unites characters from "The Giver" and "Gathering Blue," Matty, a young member of a utopian community that values honesty, conceals an emerging healing power that he cannot explain or understand.
17) The testing
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Malencia (Cia) Vale is chosen to participate in The Testing to attend the University; however, Cia is fearful when she figures out her friends who do not pass The Testing are disappearing.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Formats
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n the vaulted Gothic towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral lives Quasimodo, the hunchbacked bellringer. Mocked and shunned for his appearance, he is pitied only by Esmerelda, a beautiful gypsy dancer to whom he becomes completely devoted. Esmerelda, however, has also attracted the attention of the sinister archdeacon Claude Frollo, and when she rejects his lecherous approaches, Frollo hatches a plot to destroy her, that only Quasimodo can prevent. Victor...