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"From bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. North Carolina, 2018: Morgan Christopher's life has been derailed. Taking the fall for a crime she did not commit, she finds herself serving a three-year stint in the North Carolina Women's Correctional Center. Her dream of a career in art is put on hold-until a mysterious visitor makes her an offer that will see her released immediately. Her assignment: restore an old post...
3) Elevation
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
"Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The latest from legendary master storyteller Stephen King, a riveting, extraordinarily eerie, and moving story about a man whose mysterious affliction brings a small town together--a timely, upbeat tale about finding common ground despite deep-rooted differences. Although Scott Carey doesn't look any different, he's been steadily losing weight. There are a couple of other odd things, too. He weighs...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Zelie, her older brother Tzain, and rogue princess Amari fight to restore magic to the land and activate a new generation of magic, but they are ruthlessly pursued by the crown prince, who believes the return of magic will mean the end of the monarchy.
6) Witness
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
A series of poems expresses the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.
Author
Publisher
Magic Attic Press
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
76 p. : col. ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Keisha is thrilled to be a lifeguard at an exclusive country club, but when another lifeguard's neglect causes a little boy almost to drown it is up to Keisha to rescue him.
11) Saving Shiloh
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Sequel to Shiloh season. Sixth-grader Marty and his family try to help their rough neighbor, Judd Travers, change his mean ways, even though their West Virginia community continues to expect the worst of him.
Author
Publisher
Random
Pub. Date
[c1994]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
528p
Language
English
Description
In 2003, a Constitutional crisis threatens to destroy the American political system, as a disabled president and his vice-president--armed with a Twenty-fifth Amendment that allows a White House takeover in the event of presidential inability--compete for ultimate power
14) Linked
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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When swastikas begin appearing all over town, Link, Michael, and Dana, the only Jewish girl in town, must face crimes both past and present to find the truth.
15) Hattie & Hudson
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 30 cm
Language
English
Description
When Hattie's singing rouses a giant beast from the lake, everyone in town is terrified except Hattie, who works to convince the townsfolk that Hudson is not dangerous.
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Series
Publisher
American Girl
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Struggling to stand out in a family of five brothers and sisters, Maryellen draws more attention than she wants with a cartoon of her teacher on the first day of fourth grade.
17) Poppy's return
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Poppy, accompanied by her troublesome son Junior, his skunk friend, and Uncle Ereth the porcupine, responds to a summons to return to her ancestral home, Gray House, to save the mice there from destruction by a bulldozer.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Aria and Perry, two teens from radically different societies--one highly advanced, the other primitive--hate being dependent on one another until they overcome their prejudices and fall in love, knowing they can't stay together"-- Provided by publisher.
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English
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"[This novel] tells the story of Moshe Fisher, a man who was "born without skin," so that no one is able to tell what race he belongs to; and Arrienne Christie, his quixotic soul mate who makes it her duty in life to protect Moshe from the social and emotional consequences of his strange appearance. The narrative begins with Moshe's birth in the late 1950s, four years before Jamaica's independence from colonial rule, and ends in the era of what Forbes...