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Pub. Date
2019.
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"In his essential writing guide, This Year You Write Your Novel, Walter Mosley supplied aspiring writers with the basic tools and practical advice needed to write a novel in a single year. In this complementary follow up, Mosley guides the reader through the fundamental building blocks of fiction to deliver a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of conversational and instructive chapters, Mosley breaks down the art of fiction to its most...
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Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
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After learning that he is the son of a mortal woman and Poseidon, god of the sea, twelve-year-old Percy is sent to a summer camp for demigods like himself, and joins his new friends on a quest to prevent a war between the gods.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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When Cammie Morgan arrives at her friend Macey's five-star hotel for the Democratic National Convention, where Macey's father is about to receive the vice presidential nomination, she thinks she's in for an exciting end to her summer break. But if you're a Gallagher Girl, 'exciting' and 'deadly' are never far apart.
5) The plot
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"Jean Hanff Korelitz's The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it. Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he's teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what's left of his self-respect; he hasn't written-let alone published-anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student,...
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Magic tree house graphic novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2021
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2 - AR Pts: 1
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Retells, in graphic novel form, the tale of eight-year-old Jack and his younger sister Annie, who find a magic treehouse which whisks them back to an ancient time zone where they see live dinosaurs.
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"One winter night, Peter Lake--master mechanic and second-story man--attempts to rob a fortress-like mansion on the Upper West Side. Though he thinks it is empty , the daughter of the house is home. Thus begins the affair between a middle-aged Irish burglar and Beverly Penn, a young girl dying of consumption. It is a love so powerful that Peter Lake, a simple and uneducated man, will be driven to stop time and bring back the dead."--
Pub. Date
2010
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deals with the in and outs of a very unconventional girl who learns to make audacious decisions in order to obtain love, security and comfort at the moment to meet an ambitious and ruthless General. But, as the time goes by she is aware she was wrong and that besides he wrongly played the pieces of her emotional universe.
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Baby-sitters Club (revised editions) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.2 - AR Pts: 1
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When Kristy Thomas has the great idea to form a baby-sitters club--a chance to earn money and spend time with her friends, all while doing something they each love to do--she has no idea how much the club will change everything. Crank calls, uncontrollable toddlers, wild pets, untruthful clients . . . running a business is hard work! Kristy and her co-founders, Mary Anne, Claudia, and Stacey, are sure they can handle anything. But only if they stick...
11) The hedge knight
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The Hedge Knight chronicles a young squire as he travels the cruel and complex path to knighthood in the Seven Kingdoms. Shouldering his fallen masterś sword and shield, Duncan (or "Dunk") is determined to reinvent himself as a knight in a nearby tournament. But first Dunk needs a sponsor, and that requirement sends him down a road studded with friends, foes, adventure, and hidden agendas. One such friend is Egg, who becomes Dunkś squire, yet even...
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In Charles Dickens' "The Wreck of the Golden Mary" a ship makes a thrilling voyage around Cape Horn, then heads north to the coast of California. When the ship strikes an iceberg, the Captain exhorts his passengers and crew not to give up hope. This short story was first published in the Christmas issue of "All The Year Round" in 1856.
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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery, a courtroom drama, and an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving the "wicked and sentimental" Fyodor Pavlovich Karamazov and his three sonsthe impulsive and sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; and the healthy, red-cheeked young novice Alyosha. Through the gripping events of their story, Dostoevsky portrays the whole of Russian life, its social and spiritual...
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"The New York Times bestselling author of The Girl Who Knew Too Much sweeps readers back to 1930s California--where the most dazzling of illusions can't hide the darkest secrets... After escaping from a private sanitarium, Adelaide Blake arrives in Burning Cove, California, desperate to start over. Working at an herbal tea shop puts her on the radar of those who frequent the seaside resort town: Hollywood movers and shakers always in need of hangover...
15) The Iliad
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Due to a lack of biographical evidence regarding the identity of Homer it has been suggested that the two great works attributed to him, the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" may in fact be the work of multiple authors passed down through a long oral tradition. While scholarship on the subject will likely never definitely prove one way or the other, it is now generally accepted that these two great epic poems are the work of a single Greek author, Homer,...
16) Redeeming love
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 22
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California's gold country, 1850. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. Then she meets Michael Hosea, a man who seeks his Father's heart in everything. He obeys God;s call to marry Angel and to love her unconditionally. Defying Angel's every bitter expectations, despite her resistance her frozen heart begins to thaw. But overcome by feelings of unworthiness and fear,...
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Stranger things volume 3
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
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"The Upside Down, a place only seen before in psychic visions and nightmares. Will Byers doesn't know what to call the shadowy realm he finds himself in, but he is certain that he is alone and far away from anything close to safe. A strange shrieking monster lurks around every corner and familiar voices drift through the air from the other side. To survive, Will holds onto the lessons he's learned in the camaraderie of his friends, and the hope...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
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When Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy for the first time at a ball, she writes him off as an arrogant and obnoxious man. He not only acts like an insufferable snob, but she also overhears him rejecting the very idea of asking her for a dance! As life pits them against each other again and again, Darcy begins to fall for Elizabeth's wit and intelligence and Elizabeth begins to question her feelings about Darcy. But when Darcy saves her youngest...
20) The Time Machine
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 1
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"An intrepid adventurer, known simply as the Time Traveler, meets his friends for dinner one night. During the conversation, he baffles them with his wild ideas about moving forward or backward in time. His claims are met with disbelief. Even when he proves his theory with a real-life experiment, his associates simply claim that he is a trickster--a magician. A week later, he enthralls his acquaintances yet again. He tells a story so unbelievable...