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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.2 - AR Pts: 16
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"Which is more dangerous, a gun or a swimming pool? What do schoolteachers and sumo wrestlers have in common? Why do drug dealers still live with their moms? How much do parents really matter? How did the legalization of abortion affect the rate of violent crime? These may not sound like typical questions for an economist to ask. But Steven D. Levitt is not a typical economist. He is a much-heralded scholar who studies the riddles of everyday life--from...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Instead of being rescued from a plane crash, as in the author's book Hatchet, this story portrays what would have happened to Brian had he been forced to survive a winter in the wilderness with only his survival pack and hatchet.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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Small but fast twelve-year-old Will Tyler, an avid football player in the down-and-out town of Forbes, Pennsylvania, takes matters into his own hands to try and finance the city's football team, giving the whole community hope in the process.
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Robopocalypse novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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Two decades into the future humans are battling for their very survival when a powerful AI computer goes rogue, and all the machines on earth rebel against their human controllers.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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Writing at the height of her powers, Alice Hoffman conjures three generations of a family haunted by love.
Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticutcountryside, to the avenues ofManhattan, and to the blue...
Cool, practical, and deliberate, John is dreamy Arlyn's polar opposite. Yet the two are drawn powerfully together even when it is clear they are bound to bring each other grief. Their difficult marriage leads them and their children to a house made of glass in the Connecticutcountryside, to the avenues ofManhattan, and to the blue...
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Daughters of Lancaster County volume 3
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English
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Leona is Bishop Jacob Weaver's daughter and a dedicated teacher in a one-room Amish schoolhouse. After her father's tragic accident, Leona's faith wavers. How could God allow something like this to happen to one of His servants? Outlander Jimmy Scott comes to Pennsylvania in search of his real family. When he is hired to paint an Amish schoolhouse, Jimmy and Leona find themselves irresistibly drawn to each other. Can anything good come from the love...
8) No talking
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 4
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English
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The noisy fifth grade boys of Laketon Elementary School challenge the equally loud fifth grade girls to a "no talking" contest.
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Daughters of Lancaster County volume 2
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English
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Abby Miller leaves her successful quilt shop and patient fiance? in Ohio to help her newly remarried and now pregnant mother in Lancaster County. While she's away, Abby's world is shattered in one fell swoop. How can God make anything good come out of this tragedy? With shaken faith, Abby is forced to look for answers away from friends and family. Will she find them in the ashes of the past, in her love of quilting, or in the heart of an overlooked...
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Whether you listen to Bach or Bono, music has a significant role in your life--even if you never realized it. Why does music evoke such powerful moods? The answers are at last becoming clear, thanks to revolutionary neuroscience and the emerging field of evolutionary psychology. Both a cutting-edge study and a tribute to the beauty of music itself, this book unravels a host of mysteries that affect everything from pop culture to our understanding...
11) Leota's garden
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 24
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At eighty-four, Leota Reinhardt is alone, all of her efforts to reconcile with her adult children hadn't worked in the past, until she meets her estranged grandaughter, Annie, and confides to her the silent sacrifice she had made as a young mother of two, while her husband was gone during World War II.
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Evelyn, a Sanctified Brethern woman and a devoted mother, dies on a Saturday morning with a final wish that her ashes be scattered over Lake Wobegon from a pontoon boat. After her death, her family finds out that she has been in love with Raoul, a Las Vegas man who showed her the joys of life.
13) Take three
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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For the sake of a dream . . . or the love of fame?
Chase Ryan and Keith Ellison set out to change the world with their films—and they are finally seeing their dreams come true. The dedicated producers are deep in negotiations with America's top young movie star to play the lead in their next inspirational movie. But life takes a sudden turn for Chase, removing him from Jeremiah Productions permanently. In the process,
...15) The last alibi
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James Drinker is a bit of an oddball. A funny looking geeky loner he walks into Jason Kolarichs office one day with a preemptive concern two women have recently been murdered seemingly by the same killer and Drinker thinks he will be the polices main suspect. One woman was his ex girlfriend he says and the other was a friend. Hes the only link between the victims and he has no alibi for the night of either murder surely the police will realize it...
18) Sunrise
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Book 1 in the bestselling 4-book Christian fiction series that has sold over 1.3 million copies!
A story about God's unending faithfulness and the promise of new beginnings, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.
A Long-Awaited Celebration
In preparation for their long-awaited wedding day, Dayne and Katy are...
A story about God's unending faithfulness and the promise of new beginnings, from Karen Kingsbury, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of "heart-tugging and emotional" (Romantic Times) life-changing fiction.
A Long-Awaited Celebration
In preparation for their long-awaited wedding day, Dayne and Katy are...
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A history of Western civilization's rise to global dominance offers insight into the development of such concepts as competition, modern medicine, and the work ethic, arguing that Western dominance is being lost to cultures who are more productively utilizing Western techniques.
"The rise to global predominance of Western civilization is the single most important historical phenomenon of the past five hundred years. All over the world, an astonishing...
20) The last child
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 16
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After his twin sister Alyssa disappears, thirteen year-old Johnny Merrimon is determined to find her. When a second girl disappears from his rural North Carolina town, Johnny makes a discovery that sends shock waves through the community in this multi-layered tale of broken families and deadly secrets.