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1) She's gone
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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When 17-year-old Hunter Gifford wakes in the hospital on the night of homecoming, he's shocked to learn he and his girlfriend, Chloe Summers, have been in a terrible car accident. Hunter has no memory of the crash, and his shock turns to horror when he is told Chloe's blood has been found in the car--but she has disappeared. Back at school, his fellow students taunt him, and his former best friend starts making a true-crime documentary about the case--one...
2) Toys
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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James Bond and Jason Bourne have just been topped! A battle for the world is set into unstoppable motion and Hays Baker is the only one who can save it. Hays Baker and his wife Lizbeth possess super-human strength, extraordinary intelligence, stunning looks, a sex life to die for, and two beautiful children. Of course they do--they're Elites, endowed at birth with the very best that the world can offer. The only problem in their perfect world: humans...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
"Ten years after her teenage daughter disappears, a woman crosses paths with a charming single father whose young child feels eerily familiar. Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter. She was fifteen, the youngest of three. She was beloved by her parents, friends, and teachers. She and her boyfriend made a teenaged golden couple. She was days away from an idyllic post-exams summer vacation, with her whole life ahead of her. And then she was gone. Now,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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"Piper Sullivan was in a strange hiking accident last month and has been in a coma ever since. Her older sister, Savannah, can't pretend to be optimistic about it--things look bad. Piper will likely never wake up, and Savannah will never get any answers about what exactly happened. But then Savannah finds a note in Piper's locker inviting Piper to a meeting of their school's wilderness club...at the very place and on the very day she fell. Which means...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Alicia Berenson is a famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, living in a posh area of London. One evening, her husband Gabriel returns home late. Alicia shoots him five times in the face and then never speaks another word.
6) Awake
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Don't miss the latest gripping, high-stakes thriller from Wattpad sensation Natasha Preston, author of the runaway hit The Cellar. Of course, the dress was white. This is what I'm supposed to die in, I thought. Not many people knew what their last outfit would be. I pulled it over my head. It fit me perfectly. It had long, loose fitting sleeves, a modest neckline, and waves of material on the skirt. I hated it. There were no shoes, and I was afraid...
7) Ninth house
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Series
Alex Stern volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school early and into a world of shady drug-dealer boyfriends, dead-end jobs, and much, much worse. In fact, by age twenty, she is the sole survivor of a horrific, unsolved multiple homicide. Some might say she's thrown her life away. But at her hospital bed, Alex is offered a second chance: to attend...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
It's Father's Day weekend—a tough time for Charlie D, host of a late-night radio call-in show that offers supportive advice to troubled listeners. For years Charlie has been alienated from his father—a retired politician who was always too busy for his son when Charlie was growing up. The trouble is, his dad has chosen this weekend to attempt to reconcile with his son. Charlie is not keen to forgive. But Charlie's personal issues suddenly...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Charlie D is the host of a successful late-night radio call-in show. His listeners have a particularly intimate relationship with him and often reveal much about themselves, confident that he will honor their trust and that he can save them. In their minds, he is perfect: one of life's winners. But Charlie feels he's something of a fake. His easy confidence on-air belies the reality for a man born with a wine-colored birthmark that covers half his...
11) When I kill you
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
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Gina Lopez is twenty-six, a postal worker during the week, a mud wrestler on weekends. She's also a recent widow, though she is not exactly mourning the death of her abusive husband Chico. Instead, she's anxiously awaiting the life-insurance settlement that will pay off his gambling debts. After that, she's hoping to take her mud-wrestling skills out of small-town-Ontario bars and down to the more lucrative US circuit.
And then Marcia Beekland enters...
12) Zero Day
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Series
John Puller novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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Combat veteran and U. S. Army investigator John Puller is on the hunt for justice with the help of a homicide detective--but as they face deceptions and dead ends, a powerful force threatens to stop them forever in this #1 New York Times bestselling thriller.
John Puller is a combat veteran and the best military investigator in the U.S. Army's Criminal Investigative Division. His father was an Army fighting legend, and his brother is serving a life...
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Series
Bird Box novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
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Written with the narrative tension of The Road and the exquisite terror of classic Stephen King, Bird Box is a propulsive, edge-of-your-seat horror thriller, set in an apocalyptic near-future world-a masterpiece of suspense from the brilliantly imaginative Josh Malerman. Something is out there . . . Something terrifying that must not be seen. One glimpse and a person is driven to deadly violence. No one knows what it is or where it came from. Five...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Charlie D is back doing his late-night radio call-in show. It's Halloween—The Day of the Dead. Not a day filled with good memories for Charlie, but the show must go on. His studio guest this evening is Dr. Robin Harris, an arrogant and ambitious "expert in the arts of dying and grieving," who also seems to be auditioning for her own radio talk show. Charlie and Dr. Harris do not hit it off. Things go from bad to worse when the doctor's ex-lover,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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"Part ghost story, part coming-of-age story, John Searles' Help for the Haunted is a dazzling, dark portrait of a troubled family beset by the supernatural. Searles ratchets up the tension with every passing chapter, and delivers authentic and well-earned scares--all written through the lens of a lonely teenager searching for answers. The result is a novel both frightening and beautiful."
- Gillian Flynn
An unforgettable story of a most...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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Cowboy drifter Rick Cooper is on the run in the California desert when he meets Gladys Ryan, an eccentric widow who offers him a ride in her classic 1970 Mustang. Before long she convinces him to accompany her to Northern Ontario to help refurbish her hunting lodge, promising him a share of the upcoming season's profits and hinting at more. The offer is too good to pass up. Rick takes to life in the bush, working hard to make the lodge successful....
17) Mortal
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Series
Books of mortals volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Centuries have passed since civilization's brush with apocalypse. The world's greatest threats have all been silenced. There is no anger, no hatred, and no war. There is only perfect peace...and fear. A terrible secret was closely guarded for centuries: every single soul walking the earth, though in appearance totally normal, is actually dead, long ago genetically stripped of true humanity.
Nine years have gone by since an unlikely hero named Rom...
18) Kiss
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Is dying for the truth really better than living with a lie? Find out in this gripping psychological thriller from New York Times bestselling author Ted Dekker and Erin Healy.
Let me tell you all I know for sure. My name: Shauna.
I woke up in a hospital bed missing six months of my memory. In the room was my loving boyfriend-how could I have forgotten him?-my uncle and my abusive stepmother. Everyone blames me for the tragic car accident that left...
19) The spider bites
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
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When detective Rick Montoya returns to the city to try to clear his name after being accused of taking a bribe, he discovers someone is living in his apartment. Before he can find out who it is, the apartment house goes up in flames. Rick watches covertly as the police remove two bodies. Was the firebombing meant for him? Who exactly was killed in the fire? And why? What was his landlady Cheryl doing at home in the middle of the afternoon? And why...
20) Saint
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Carl Strople was covertly recruited to Black Ops and given the most brutal kind of training any man or woman could endure. Now he belongs to The X Group. But why do they call him "Saint"?
An assassin. The most effective killer in the world. And yet . . . Carl Strople struggles to retain fleeting memories that betray an even more ominous reality. He's been told part of the truth--but not all of it.
Invasive techniques have stripped him of his identity...
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