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1) Graceling
Author
Series
Graceling Realm volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a world where some people are born with extreme and often-feared skills called Graces, Katsa struggles for redemption from her own horrifying Grace, the Grace of killing, and teams up with another young fighter to save their land from a corrupt king.
Author
Series
Seven Realms novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Relates the intertwining fates of former street gang leader Han Alister and headstrong Princess Raisa, as Han takes possession of an amulet that once belonged to an evil wizard and Raisa uncovers a conspiracy in the Grey Wolf Court.
3) Killer Pizza
Author
Series
Killer Pizza volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
While working as summer employees in a local pizza parlor, three teenagers are recruited by an underground organization of monster hunters.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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Middle Zone Mysteries
Newbery Award Winners
Newbery Winners 1922-2023
Middle Zone Mysteries
Newbery Award Winners
Newbery Winners 1922-2023
Description
As her mother prepares to be a contestant on the 1980s television game show, "The $20,000 Pyramid," a twelve-year-old New York City girl tries to make sense of a series of mysterious notes received from an anonymous source that seems to defy the laws of time and space.
Author
Series
Calpurnia Tate volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Formats
Description
In central Texas in 1899, eleven-year-old Callie Vee Tate learns about love from the older three of her six brothers and studies the natural world with her grandfather which leads to an important discovery.
Author
Series
Prophecy of the sisters trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In late nineteenth-century New York state, wealthy sixteen-year-old twin sisters Lia and Alice Milthorpe find that they are on opposite sides of an ancient prophecy that has destroyed their parents and seeks to do even more harm.
10) Bull rider
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When his older brother, a bull-riding champion, returns from the Iraq War partially paralyzed, fourteen-year-old Cam takes a break from skateboarding to enter a bull-riding contest, in hopes of winning the $15,000 prize and motivating his depressed brother to continue with his rehabilitation.
11) The season
Author
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Showing no interest in the sumptuous balls, lavish dinner parties, and country weekends enjoyed by the rest of early nineteenth-century London society, seventeen-year-old Lady Alexandra Stafford seeks adventure as she investigates the puzzling murder of the Earl of Blackmoor, father of devilishly handsome Gavin.
12) Pop
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Lonely after a midsummer move to a new town, sixteen-year-old high-school quarterback Marcus Jordan becomes friends with a retired professional linebacker who is great at training him, but whose childish behavior keeps Marcus in hot water.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
This book reports on the work of forensic scientists who are excavating grave sites in James Fort, in Jamestown, Virginia, to understand the people who lived in the Chesapeake Bay area in the 1600s and 1700s.
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