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21) Finn: a novel
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Finn sets a tragic figure loose in a landscape at once familiar and mythic. It begins and ends with a lifeless body-flayed and stripped of all identifying marks-drifting down the Mississippi. The circumstances of the murder, and the secret of the victims identity, shape Finns story as they will shape his life and his death. Along the way Clinch introduces a cast of unforgettable characters: Finns terrifying father, known only as the Judge; his sickly,...
22) The maze
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
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Rick, a fourteen-year-old foster child, escapes from a juvenile detention facility near Las Vegas and travels to Canyonlands National Park in Utah where he meets a bird biologist working on a project to reintroduce condors to the wild.
23) Sons of Liberty
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Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
No one knows the American Revolution better than Rock Kindle. Rock takes pride in his patriotic forefathers, and his belief that he himself could brave any combat helps him through the bad times, when Rock's father wages small wars on the rest of the family.
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Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Description
"Jason has just learned that his Afghan mother has been living illegally in the United States since his father was killed in Afghanistan ... when he sees his mother being escorted from her workplace by two officers, Jason feels completely alone. He boards a train with the hope of finding his aunt in New York City, but as soon as he arrives in Penn Station, the bustling city makes him wonder if he's overestimated what he can do"--Amazon.com.
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Sam Krupnik volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 3
Description
Sam Krupnik, mad at his mother because she won't let him wear his new plastic fangs in the house, decides to run away to Alaska.
31) The maestro
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Pub. Date
1996.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Fleeing from his brutal father, fourteen-year-old Burl arrives at the remote cabin of an eccentric genius who in just one day changes the young man's life forever.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
"The exasperating Gingerbread Man, famous for leading a host of townsfolk and animals in a wild chase about the countryside, lives at 398.2 on the library shelves. But the Gingerbread Man is not the type of cookie that stays in one place for very long, and one day he just can't help himself. With a leap and a whoosh, he escapes the librarian's grasp, and the chase for the wily Gingerbread Man is on again!"--p. [2] of jacket.
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It's been two months since private investigator Cal Weaver's teenage son Scott died in a tragic accident. Ever since, he and his wife have drifted apart, fracturing a once-normal life. Cal is mired in grief, a grief he can't move past. And maybe his grief has clouded his judgment. Because driving home one night, he makes his first big mistake. A girl drenched in rain taps on his car window and asks for a ride as he sits at a stoplight. Even though...
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Series
Lost journals of Ven Polypheme volume 2
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Young Ven Polypheme is sent on a secret mission within the walls of the Gated City, a former penal colony in the land of Serendair, where he and his friends face kidnapping and even worse dangers from the ruthless Thief Queen, who is trying to reclaim her runaway daughter.
37) 13 1/2 : a novel
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In 1971, the state of Minnesota was rocked by the "Butcher Boy" incident, as coverage of a family brutally murdered by one of their own swept across newspapers and television screens nationwide. Now, in present-day New Orleans, Polly Deschamps finds herself at yet another lonely crossroads in her life. No stranger to tragedy, Polly was a runaway at the age of fifteen, escaping a nightmarish Mississippi childhood. Lonely, that is, until she encounters...
40) Indigo
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 2
Description
Oak Grove is a dry, dusty town haunted by memories of a past flood. Everyone dreads the water-except for two brothers, Trevor and Eli McGill. Nicknamed Trout and Eel for their darting quickness and the thin webbing between their fingers and toes, the boys dream of the farthest seas of a mysterious past they barely remember.