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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Formats
Description
"When Papa doesn't return from a nocturnal honey-gathering expedition, Cress holds out hope, but her mother assumes the worst. It's a dangerous world for rabbits, after all. Mama moves what's left of the Watercress family to the basement unit of the Broken Arms, a run-down apartment oak with a suspect owl landlord, a nosy mouse super, a rowdy family of squirrels, and a pair of songbirds who broadcast everyone's business. Can a dead tree full of annoying...
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
How can Cal find out more about Piers Ormond's will if he is stuck on a fishing boat after becoming indebted to the captain. If he can find his great-aunt Millicent he may have a better chance of finding the will. But should he expose another relative to danger?
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Cal's old life ended as soon as the deadly 365-day countdown began. He's a hunted fugitive who'll do anything to survive. But is Cal desperate enough to befriend a traitor with killer connections? Or risk returning to the scene of his attempted murder? Should he meet with a mysterious informant, when it could be a setup? The clock is ticking. Any second could be his last.
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Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
A gun shot rings out as Cal hides from his stalkers - two old bounty hunters and their savage dog, Sniffer. The hostile desert seems determined to become Cal's final resting place. Had Kelvin spared his life for nothing? Back in the city, an impossible job looms. To break into Orlana's safe at Zurich Bank, Cal needs Boges to make a perfect copy of her fingerprint ... and they need her PIN. But will stealing from Orlana force her into a lethal alliance...
Author
Series
Isaiah Dunn volume 1
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 6
Description
"Isaiah is now the big man of the house. But it's a lot harder than his dad made it look. His little sister, Charlie, asks too many questions, and Mama's gone totally silent. Good thing Isaiah can count on his best friend, Sneaky, who always has a scheme for getting around the rules. Plus, his classmate Angel has a few good ideas of her own--once she stops hassling Isaiah. And when things get really tough, there's Daddy's journal, filled with stories...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 10
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The first English translation of the classic Japanese novel that has sold over 2 million copies-a childhood favorite of anime master Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, My Neighbor Totoro, Howl's Moving Castle), with an introduction by Neil Gaiman.
First published in 1937, Genzaburō Yoshino's How Do You Live? has long been acknowledged in Japan as a crossover classic for young readers. Academy Award–winning animator Hayao Miyazaki has called...
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Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Description
Cal Ormond travels to Ireland in search of the final clues to his father's death. He must reach the Ormond Singularity before the stroke of midnight. In the final days of this deadly 365-day countdown, it is clear that any second could be his last.
11) Revolver
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
Finland, 1910: Fifteen-year-old Sig is shocked to see a hole in the frozen lake outside his family's cabin and to find his father's corpse nearby. Why did Einar steer his dog sled across the lake instead of taking the safer land route? Sig's sister and stepmother go for help, leaving Sig alone with Einar's body in the cabin. Soon after, an armed stranger barges in, demanding a share of Einar's stolen gold from when the two men knew each other during...
12) Blackbird fly
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
Bullied at school, eighth-grader Apple, a Filipino American who loves the music of the Beatles, decides to change her life by learning how to play the guitar.
13) Rise to the sun
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
Description
Three days. Two girls. One life-changing music festival. Toni is reeling in the wake of the loss of her roadie father and desperate to figure out where her life will go from here -- so she's heading back to the festival that taught her to love music in a last ditch effort to rediscover her passion. Olivia is a hopeless romantic whose heart has just taken a beating (again), and is beginning to believe that someone like her may never find "the one"...
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Description
On New Year's Eve, 15-year-old Callum Ormond is chased down the street by a staggering, sick man with a deadly warning, "They killed your father. They'll kill you. You must survive the next 365 days". Hurled into a life on the run, with a price on his head, the fugitive is isolated and alone. Hunted by the law and ruthless criminals, Cal must somehow uncover the truth about his father's mysterious death and a history-changing secret. 12 books, 12...
16) Hothouse
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Teens D.J. and Russell, life-long friends and neighbors, had drifted apart but when their firefighter fathers are both killed, they try to help one another come to terms with the tragedy and its aftermath.
17) The pond
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A touching picture book for children about a young boy and his family overcoming the loss of his father. This colorful, emotional book is filled with natural imagery, centering on a small pond in the garden, and will teach children not only about death and loss, but the importance of the natural world.
18) Oddity
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Description
"The daughter of a murdered physician vows to protect the magical Oddity he left behind in an alternate nineteenth century where a failed Louisiana Purchase has locked a young Unified States into conflict with France"--Publisher marketing
19) The final step
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Description
Moira Moriarty, sister of James, works with Sherlock Holmes to solve the mystery of a string of family deaths, but they must deal with a mysterious photograph and secret safe houses to discover the truth behind James' secrets and betrayals.
Author
Series
Lock and key (Ridley Pearson) volume 2
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Moira Moriarty calls upon the clever Sherlock Holmes, her brother James's roommate at school, to help solve the mystery of her father's death, leading them to a secret sect, a rare jewel, and a friendship torn asunder.