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1) True blue
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
Fresh out of prison, disgraced ex-cop Mason "Mace" Perry, along with the help of her police chief sister, aids Roy Kingman, a lawyer trying to track down the killer of one of his law partners, all while a U.S. attorney looks for any reason to put Mace back behind bars.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.3 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Perhaps the most haunting and tragic love story ever written, Wuthering Heights is the tale of Heathcliff, a brooding, troubled orphan, and his doomed love for Catherine Earnshaw. His desire for her leads him to madness when Catherine is made to marry a wealthy lord, sending Heathcliff on a lifelong quest to avenge himself upon those who stole his only love and his life. In this gripping chronicle of the never-ending conflict between the heart and...
Author
Series
Millennium volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 33
Language
English
Formats
Description
While recovering in the hospital, Lisbeth Salander enlists the aid of journalist Mikael Blomkvist to prove her innocent of three murders and identify the corrupt politicians who have allowed her to suffer.
Author
Series
Kinsey Millhone volume 22
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
California PI Kinsey Millhone investigates the death of Audrey Vance, a woman she helped arrest for shoplifting, and antagonizes just about everyone, including Audrey's fiance, several loan sharks, a stone-cold killer, and a hapless burglar who knows more than is healthy for him.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
"When Billy Summers was twelve years old, He shot and killed his mother's boyfriend after he kicked Billy's sister to death. At 17, he enlisted in the army. At 18, he was a sniper in Iraq and involved in the deadly battle to recapture Fallujah. For nearly twenty years, he's worked as a paid assassin. He's a good guy in a bad job, and he wants out. He takes on a very complicated, very lucrative job that he hopes will be his last. He's got a perfect...
6) Ten
Author
Publisher
Balzer + Bray
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
294 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ten teens head to a house party at a remote island mansion off the Washington coast--only for them to picked off by a killer one by one.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2014]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
267 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Okiku has wandered the world for centuries, freeing innocent ghosts and taking the lives of killers, but when she meets Tark she knows the moody teen is not a monster and needs to be freed from the demon that clings to him.
8) Flamecaster
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
535 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thrown together by chance and united by their hatred of the king, Ash, a gifted healer, and Jenna, a girl abandoned at birth, find themselves on the run from the King's Guard.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The year is 2008 and Samantha Kofer's career at a huge Wall Street law firm is on the fast track -- until the recession hits and she gets downsized, furloughed, escorted out of the building. Samantha, though, is one of the "lucky" associates. She's offered an opportunity to work at a legal aid clinic for one year without pay, after which there would be a slim chance that she'd get her old job back. In a matter of days Samantha moves from Manhattan...
10) The last juror
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Convicted of the murder of a young mother in a 1970 trial that ended with his threat to seek revenge against the jurors, Danny Padgitt is paroled after nine years in prison and returns to the scene of the trial in Ford County, Mississippi.
11) A time to kill
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
When a ten-year-old Black girl is brutally raped by two drunken white men in the small Southern town of Clanton, Mississippi, the ensuing tension and violence threatens to destroy the town.
Author
Publisher
Harper Collins
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Edgar Tobbit meets Neal Kraft at a group session arranged by their psychotherapist and their friendship ends up thwarting the plans of an eccentric widow to get revenge on the town.
Author
Publisher
Marvel
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
438 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
With Black Widow and and her fledgling hero-in-training Red Widow on mission in South America, the Red Room marks them for death and the two assassins are forced into a mission of vengeance.
14) Leading lady
Author
Series
Tales of London volume 3
Publisher
Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 21
Physical Desc
432 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Tales of London is set in the fascinating world of the London theatre at the close of the nineteenth century. Wardrobe mistress Bethia Rayborn incites the wrath of Muriel Pearce Holt, the new leading lady at London's Royal Court Theatre. Muriel plots revenge, but in scheming to steal Bethia's true love, she may lose the truest love she has ever known.
Author
Series
Girls with Sharp Sticks volume 2
Publisher
Simon Pulse
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Simon Pulse hardcover edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Mena and the other girls of Innovations Academy enroll in Stoneridge Prep, seeking revenge against the corporation that traumatized them at Innovations Academy, but they still face many obstacles.--
Author
Series
Young Elites volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2015
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 15
Physical Desc
395 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Adelina Amouteru's heart has suffered at the hands of both family and friends, leading her down the bitter path of revenge. Now known and feared as the White Wolf, she and her sister flee Kenettra to find other Young Elites in the hopes of building her own army of allies.
17) Supernova
Author
Series
Renegades volume 3
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Nova and Adrian find it harder to conceal their secret identities while the battle rages on in Gatlon City between their alter egos, their allies, and their greatest fears come to life.
18) Lady midnight
Author
Series
The dark artifices volume 1
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 32
Physical Desc
668 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emma resolves to avenge the deaths of her parents and foil a demonic plot while her parabatai, Julian, struggles to bond with a returned brother who does not recognize him.
19) Long way down
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Sixty seconds. Seven floors. Three rules. One gun.
Will's older brother, Shawn, has been shot. Dead. Will feels a sadness so great he can't explain it. But in his neighborhood there are THE RULES: No. 1: Crying. Don't. No matter what. No. 2: Snitching. Don't. No matter what. No. 3: Revenge. Do. No matter what.
But bullets miss. You can get the wrong guy. And there's always someone else who knows to follow the rules.
20) I Am Still Alive
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 12
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jess hadn't seen her survivalist, off-the-grid dad in over a decade. But after a car crash killed her mother and left her injured, she was forced to move to his cabin in the remote Canadian wilderness. Just as Jess was beginning to get to know him, a secret from his past paid them a visit, leaving her father dead and Jess stranded. With only her father's dog for company, Jess must forage and hunt for food, build shelter, and keep herself warm. Some...