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Curse workers volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Description
The only person in a family of curse workers who can't use magic, Cassel has attempted to forge a normal life for himself amongst the general public. When a series of strange occurrences lead him to believe that something is going on, Cassel is forced to look into his own past to find the secrets his family has been keeping from him -- until now.
3) Unplugged
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 10
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Description
Relates, in multiple voices, the adventures of a group of youngsters at an electronics-free wellness camp where wealthy, spoiled Jett, leads other campers in trying to stop a criminal.
4) Red glove
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Series
Curse workers volume 2
Pub. Date
[2011]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 12
Description
When federal agents learn that seventeen-year-old Cassel Sharpe, a powerful transformation worker, may be of use to them, they offer him a deal to join them rather than the mobsters for whom his brothers work.
5) Swindle
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Series
Swindle mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 5
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Description
After unscrupulous collector S. Wendell Palamino cons him out of a valuable baseball card, sixth-grader Griffin Bing puts together a band of misfits to break into Palomino's heavily guarded store and steal the card back.
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Series
Heist society novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
Fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop and her fellow talented teenagers work together to find and steal the "Cleopatra Emerald" from an unscrupulous dealer and return it to its rightful owner, while a former love of her Uncle Eddie tries to get the gem for herself.
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Series
Starbound trilogy volume 3
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 21
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Description
When a foiled attempt to infiltrate the corrupt LaRoux Industries forces hacker Gideon Marchant and revenge-seeking Sofia Quinn into a fragile alliance, they join forces with Icarus survivors Tarver and Lilac and Avon's protectors Flynn and Jubilee, to take down the most powerful corporation in the galaxy---before LRI's secrets destroy them all.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
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Description
In New York City in 1872, fourteen-year-old Horace, a photographer's apprentice, becomes entangled in a plot to create fraudulent spirit photographs, but when Horace accidentally frees the real ghost of a dead girl bent on revenge, his life takes a frightening turn.
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Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Fourteen-year-old Stella, orphaned just after the Civil War, fights to keep her family's plantation and fulfill her father's desire to turn land over to the people who have worked on it for generations, but first she must find her father's hidden deed and will.
11) Heist society
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 9
Description
A group of teenagers uses their combined talents to re-steal several priceless paintings and save fifteen-year-old Kat Bishop's father, himself an international art thief, from a vengeful collector.
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Series
Discworld (Young adult) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
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Description
A talking cat, intelligent rats, and a strange boy cooperate in a Pied Piper scam until they try to con the wrong town and are confronted by a deadly evil rat king.
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Vengekeep prophecies volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
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Description
Jaxter Grimjinks is the youngest of the Grimjinx clan, the swiftest and smartest thieves in Vengekeep. However, Jaxter is neither of those things, and in his first heist he gets his whole family into the gaol. Then in Vengekeep there arises a prophecy foretelling the Grimjinx family will be the heroes of the land. The townspeople let the Grimjinx out of the gaol, but into a frying pan of fire, flood, skeletons, and prophetic danger.
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Series
Little blue envelopes volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Description
Ginny Blackstone spent last summer traveling around Europe, following the tasks her aunt laid out in a series of letters before she died. When someone stole Ginnys backpack, and the last little blue envelope inside, she resigned herself to never knowing how the adventure was supposed to end. Now a mysterious boy has contacted Ginny from London, saying he has found her bag. Finally Ginny can finish what she started. But instead of ending her journey,...
16) Fly by Night
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Series
Fly by night volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 19
Description
Mosca Mye and her homicidal goose, Saracen, travel to the city of Mandelion on the heels of smooth-talking con-man, Eponymous Clent.
Everybody knew that books were dangerous. Read the wrong book, it was said, and the words crawled around your brain on black legs and drove you mad, wicked mad. Mosca Mye's father insisted on teaching her to read - even in a world where books are dangerous, regulated things. Eight years later, Quillam Mye has died,...
17) New in town
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Pub. Date
[2021]
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Description
The people of Puddletrunk are accustomed to their bridge collapsing and being rebuilt by Mortimer Gulch--when they provide funds and labor--but a newcomer to town may have a better idea.
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Series
Great pet heist volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 6
Description
Butterbean is bored. She and the other pets pulled off a heist once, but that was like a million years ago. Nothing exciting has happened since then. That is, until Mrs. Third Floor shows up at their apartment, convinced there's a ghost in the building. Mrs. Third Floor's rental unit is showing signs of paranormal activity--eerie noises, objects moving when no one is there, fish disappearing from the tank overnight. The pets decide to investigate....
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Al Capone at Alcatraz volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 7
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Description
"Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, faces new challenges when his father is promoted to Associate Warden"--