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1) Velocity
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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The Fast and the Furious meets The Hunger Games in acclaimed author Chris Wooding's blistering vision of the future. Buckle up for a fast-paced, high-octane thrill ride! Cassica and Shiara are best friends. They couldn't be more different, but their differences work to their advantage -- especially when they're drag racing. Cassica is fearless and determined, making her the perfect driver for daring, photo-finish victories. Shiara is intelligent and...
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English
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Seventeen-year-old Delilah Green wouldn't have chosen to do her last year of school this way, but she figures it's working fine. While her dad goes on a trip to fix his broken heart after her mom left him for another man, Del manages the family cafe. Easy, she thinks. But what about homework? Or the nasty posse of mean girls making her life hell? Or her best friend who won't stop guilt-tripping her? Or her other best friend who might go to jail for...
4) Convictions
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Publisher
Coteau Books
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English
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After being found guilty of stealing, fourteen-year-old Jennie Lawrence must battle crooked jailers, criminals, and the tempestuous sea as she fights for her life on one of the few women-only convict ships, destined for Australia.
9) The Assault
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Series
Recon team angel volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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It's 2030, and humanity is losing the war against alien invaders. A Band of Brothers meets Ender's Game in this sci-fi military thriller.
A team of six has been chosen . . .
. . . to infiltrate the enemy's headquarters in the heart of the Australian Outback. The six teens have been modified to look like aliens. They have spent years mastering alien culture so that they can talk, act—even think—like their enemies. But...
A team of six has been chosen . . .
. . . to infiltrate the enemy's headquarters in the heart of the Australian Outback. The six teens have been modified to look like aliens. They have spent years mastering alien culture so that they can talk, act—even think—like their enemies. But...
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English
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Since the sudden death of his younger sister, Evie, sixteen-year-old Munro Maddux has been having flashbacks and anger-management issues. He has a constant ache in his right hand. And there's a taunting, barking, biting voice he calls "the Coyote." Munro knows a six-month student exchange will not be the stuff of teenage dreams, but in Brisbane he intends to move beyond his troubled past. It is there, at an assisted living residence called Fair Go...
11) Mirror
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Language
English
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In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping. Readers are invited to compare illustrations in two wordless stories that are intended to be read one from left to right and the other from right to left.
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Magic bone volume 11
Publisher
Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Random House
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
14) Splatypus
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Publisher
Two Lions
Language
English
Description
Lonely Platypus tries looking for animals to play with, but he cannot find where he belongs until he happens upon the seashore.
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English
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A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year
"Profoundly moving . . . Will take your breath away." —Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces
A stunningly gorgeous and deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice.
Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And...
A Chicago Public Library Best of the Best of the Year
"Profoundly moving . . . Will take your breath away." —Kathleen Glasgow, author of Girl in Pieces
A stunningly gorgeous and deeply hopeful portrayal of living with mental illness and grief, from an exceptional new voice.
Biz knows how to float. She has her people, her posse, her mom and the twins. She has Grace. And...
16) The bone sparrow
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Disney-Hyperion
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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"Subhi's contained world as a refugee in an Australian permanent detention center rapidly expands when Jimmie arrives on the other side of the fence and asks him to read her late mother's stories to her"-- Provided by publisher.
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Series
Tomorrow series volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When Ellie and six of her friends return home from a camping trip deep in the bush, they find things hideously wrong - their families gone, houses empty and abandoned, pets and stock dead. Gradually they begin to comprehend that their country has been invaded and everyone in the town has been taken prisoner. As the horrible reality of the situation becomes evident they have to make a life-and-death decision: to run back into the bush and hide, to...
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Series
Middle school (James Patterson) volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
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The trip to Australia Rafe has won starts badly, but after connecting with a group of misfits he finds a way to do what he does best--create mayhem.
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English
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A fiercely funny, queer romantic comedy about two girls who can't stand each other, but join forces in a grand feminist plan to expose harassment and inequality at their elite private school.
Harriet Price is the perfect student: smart, dutiful, over-achieving. Will Everhart is a troublemaker who's never met an injustice she didn't fight. When their swim coach's inappropriate behavior is swept under the rug, the unlikely duo reluctantly team up to...
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