Jonathan Todd Ross
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 21
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English
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"The definitive account of the FIFA scandal, the biggest international corruption case of recent years, touching dozens of countries and spearheaded by U.S. investigators, published on the eve of the biggest sporting event on the planet, soccer's World Cup"--
The FIFA case began with an IRS agent's review of an American soccer official's tax returns. It led to a huge worldwide corruption scandal that crossed continents and reached the highest levels...
2) Here to stay
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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When a cyberbully sends the entire high school a picture of basketball hero Bijan Majidi, photo-shopped to look like a terrorist, the school administration promises to find and punish the culprit, but Bijan just wants to pretend the incident never happened and move on.
3) Hero-type
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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Feeling awkward and ugly is only one reason sixteen-year-old Kevin is uncomfortable with the publicity surrounding his act of accidental heroism, but when a reporter photographs him apparently being unpatriotic, he steps into the limelight to encourage people to think about what the symbols of freedom really mean.
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Necromancer (Lish McBride) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Sam LaCroix, a Seattle fast-food worker and college dropout, discovers that he is a necromancer, part of a world of harbingers, werewolves, satyrs, and one particular necromancer who sees Sam as a threat to his lucrative business of raising the dead.
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Necromancer (Lish McBride) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Six weeks after escaping from the necromancer Douglas, Sam LaCroix is under the protection of the Blackthorn pack of werewolves and fey hounds and unsure if his necromancer rival is dead.
6) Camp Valor
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Series
Camp Valor novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Fourteen-year-old Wyatt avoids a prison sentence by agreeing to spend three months in a secret government training camp for teenage agents, but when enemies try to root out Camp Valor's secrets, Wyatt and his friends have to put their training into practice to protect their country.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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A collection of short stories features characters confronting the concerns of both classic literature and contemporary life, from an aging inventor who visits his gay son to an orphaned boy who finds solace in a classmate's violence.
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Aurora cycle volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES • Our heroes are back . . . kind of. From the bestselling co-authors of the Illuminae Files comes the second book in the epic Aurora Cycle series about a squad of misfits, losers, and discipline cases who just might be the galaxy's best hope for survival.
First, the bad news: an ancient evil—you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal—is about to be unleashed. The good...
First, the bad news: an ancient evil—you know, your standard consume-all-life-in-the-galaxy deal—is about to be unleashed. The good...
9) Aurora's end
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Series
Aurora cycle volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"When we last saw Squad 312, they working together seamlessly (aka, freaking out) as an intergalactic battle raged and an ancient superweapon threatened to obliterate Earth. Everything went horribly wrong, naturally. But as it turns out, not all endings are endings, and the team has one last chance to rewrite theirs. Maybe two. It's complicated. Cue Zila, Fin, and Scarlett (and MAGELLAN!): making friends, making enemies, and making history? Sure,...
10) Aurora rising
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Aurora cycle volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
After rescuing a girl who was trapped in cryo-sleep for two centuries from interdimensional space, eighteen-year-old Aurora Academy graduate Tyler Jones is swept up in an interstellar war millions of years in the making.