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1) Gone too far
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When high school senior Piper Woods finds a notebook with mutilated photographs and a list of student sins, she is sure the book is too gruesome to be true, but when a student from the list dies, and although everyone thinks it is a suicide, she suspects something much worse, and her fears are confirmed when she receives an anonymous text daring her to make things right.
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Cupcake diaries volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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Emma is excited when she is asked to be a junior bridesmaid, but worries that she will not be able to work enough jobs to earn the money for the dress.
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What happens to the twin left behind?
Scottie O'Doul isn't looking forward to starting her senior year. Last May, her identical twin sister, Cait, died in a car crash involving the school's beloved football coach. There's been no official report on the accident yet, but before she died, Cait told Scottie a disturbing secret. When Scottie reveals this secret, half the town turns against her, certain that Scottie is lying to protect her sister and...
6) The new girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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A transfer student and scholarship recipient, sophomore Lia Setiawan is angered when she discovers a cheating ring, but by the time she finds a dead body and shuts down the campus drug dealer, she fears she might be the biggest snake in the Draycott Academy nest of vipers.
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Cupcake diaries volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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When Alexis develops a crush on Emma's brother, she decides to approach this new feeling in her usual organized manner by conducting research and developing a plan.
9) Crazy
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Bestselling author William Peter Blatty, author of "The Exorcist", warms our hearts with a funny yet deeply moving, nostalgic tale of memory, mystery and miracles. New York, 1941, Joe is just a smart-aleck kid, confounding the nuns and bullies at St. Stephen's school when he first meets Jane Bent, a freckle-faced girl who seems to know him better than he knows himself. Jane is like nobody he has ever met. She comes and goes at will, nobody else seems...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
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English
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Sent to a private school after multiple brushes with the law, twelve-year-old Lola Benko recruits classmates to help find her archaeologist father, who disappeared while seeking a powerful mythical stone.
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Keeping your magic a secret is hard. Being in love with your best friend is harder.
Alexis has always been able to rely on two things: her best friends, and the magic powers they all share. Their secret is what brought them together, and their love for each other is unshakeable, even when that love is complicated. Complicated by problems like jealousy, or insecurity, or lust. Or love.
That unshakeable, complicated love is one of the only things...
13) Vanished!
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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In Washington, D.C., twelve-year-old Florian Bates, a consulting detective for the FBI, and his best friend Margaret must uncover the truth behind a series of private middle school pranks that may or may not involve the daughter of the President of the United States.
14) First we were IV
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Izzie loves nothing more than her three best friends, Viv, Graham, and Harry, and the bond the four of them share. And she's terrified of their friendship falling apart next year when they go off to college. To bind them together, she decides to create something that will belong only to them, a special thing that they'll always share between the four of them. And so they dream up the Order of IV, a secret society devoted to mischief that rights wrongs...
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Shamus Khan is professor of sociology and American studies at Princeton University. He is an alumnus and former faculty member of St. Paul's School.
An inside look at how one of the country's most elite private schools prepares its students for success
As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. But times have changed. Today,...
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Cupcake diaries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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When Katie's best friend Callie leaves her for a clique called the Popular Girls Club on the first day of middle school, Katie decides to find a group that she can join.
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Cupcake diaries volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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Moving on with her Cupcake Club friends despite lingering resentment over being ditched by her former best friend for a more popular group, Katie resolves to confront Callie and struggles to find ways to repair the friendship.
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"One of Forbes' Best Higher Education Books of 2020" Derek Bok is the 300th Anniversary University Research Professor at Harvard University. He served as the twenty-fifth president of Harvard from 1971 to 1991, and as interim president from 2006 to 2007. His many books include The Struggle to Reform Our Colleges, Higher Education in America, Our Underachieving Colleges, and The Shape of the River (all Princeton).
How our colleges and universities...
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Ken Bain is an award-winning teacher and the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do and What the Best College Students Do. He taught as a history professor for many years, founded teaching centers at Northwestern, New York, and Vanderbilt universities, and is the president of the Best Teachers Institute. He lives in South Orange, New Jersey. Twitter @KenBain1
From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the...
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