Julia Whelan
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The “mercilessly entertaining” (Vanity Fair) instant classic “about the nature of identity and the terrible secrets that can survive and thrive in even the most intimate relationships” (Lev Grossman, Time “One of the Best Books of the Decade”)—now featuring never-before-published deleted scenes
ONE OF TIME'S 100...
ONE OF TIME'S 100...
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Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth about her glamorous and scandalous life. But when she chooses unknown magazine reporter Monique Grant for the job, no one in the journalism community is more astounded than Monique herself... Regardless of why Evelyn has chosen her to write her biography, Monique is determined to use this opportunity to jumpstart her career. Summoned to Evelyn's Upper East Side...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Lenora Allbright is 13 when her father convinces her mother, Cora, to forgo their inauspicious existence in Seattle and move to Kaneq, AK. It's 1974, and the former Vietnam POW sees a better future away from the noise and nightmares that plague him. Having been left a homestead by a buddy who died in the war, Ernt is secure in his beliefs, but never was a family less prepared for the reality of Alaska, the long, cold winters and isolation. Locals...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
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Elloren hopes to free herself from the shadow of her grandmother's legacy as the last prophesied Black Witch by pursuing her dream of becoming an apothecary at Verpax University only to discover that the university is a treacherous place for her.
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Series
Black Witch chronicles volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
After being drawn into the resistance movement against the Mage Council, Elloren Gardner tries to remain distant from Lukas Grey, a military commander who is convinced that she has access to the power of the Black Witch, a magical force that will decide the future of Erthia.
7) In the end
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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It's been three months since Amy escaped New Hope, and she's been surviving on her own. Then one day Amy gets a call from Kay and hears the four words she had hoped she would never hear: Dr. Reynolds has Baby. Now it's a race against time, for Baby is in imminent danger, her life threatened by the malevolent doctor who had helped start the end of the world.
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Series
Lost voices trilogy volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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As a mermaid versus human war looms on the horizon, Luce falls in love with her sworn enemy Dorian and assumes her rightful role as queen of the mermaids.
9) Tease
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl faces criminal charges for bullying after a classmate commits suicide--
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
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Sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple returns home after the alleged 'Rapture' to find her devout parents gone and two mysterious holes in the roof. Vivian never believed in the Rapture, or the uber powerful Church of America. Now that she has been left behind, Vivan's quest for the truth begins--
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
The predicted Rapture was faked by Pastor Frick's Church of America and 3,000 Believers are now missing or dead. Seventeen-year-old Vivian Apple and her best friend Harpreet are revolutionaries, determined to expose the Church's diabolical power grab...and to locate Viv's missing heartthrob Peter Ivey--
12) Partials
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 20
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English
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In a post-apocalyptic eastern seaboard ravaged by disease and war with a manmade race of people called Partials, the chance at a future rests in the hands of Kira Walker, a sixteen-year-old medic in training--
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Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Kirkus Reviews: The Best Fiction Books of 2020
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The Best of 2020
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Making a Faustian bargain to live forever but never be remembered, a woman from early eighteenth-century France endures unacknowledged centuries before meeting a man who remembers her name. France, 1714. In a moment of desperation, a young woman makes a Faustian bargain to live forever-- and cursed to be forgotten by everyone she meets. Addie LaRue's life will play out across centuries and continents, across history and art. After nearly 300 years,...
14) Ruins
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
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As a war between the humans and the Partials looms, Samm finds himself trapped beyond a toxic wasteland, and Kira finds herself under the control of Dr. Morgan who is desperate to save the Partials.
15) Fragments
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Series
Partials sequence volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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With the help of Samm and Heron, Kira sets out on a desperate search for clues as to who she is, while Marcus and the remaining human population gear up for war with the Partials.
16) Die for me
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
After their parents are killed in a car accident, sixteen-year-old Kate Mercier and her older sister Georgia, each grieving in her own way, move to Paris to live with their grandparents and Kate finds herself powerfully drawn to the handsome but elusive Vincent, who seems to harbor a mysterious and dangerous secret.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Grace, adopted at birth, is raised as an only child. At sixteen she's just put her own baby up for adoption, and now is looking for her biological family. She discovers Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio twin sister who was also adopted ; and Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother after seventeen years in the foster care system. Grace struggles between cautious joy at having found...
18) Daddy-Long-Legs
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
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First published in 1912, this classic epistolary novel is a delightful modern fairy tale about a plucky young orphan in search of her destiny.
For Jerusha Abbott, life has been anything but easy. Left to be raised in the bleak John Grier Home orphanage by unknown parents, she has no idea what her future holds, but her spirit and cheerful outlook have always kept her going. This resolute hopefulness captures the attention...
For Jerusha Abbott, life has been anything but easy. Left to be raised in the bleak John Grier Home orphanage by unknown parents, she has no idea what her future holds, but her spirit and cheerful outlook have always kept her going. This resolute hopefulness captures the attention...
19) In the After
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Series
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
In a post-apocalyptic world where nothing is as it seems, seventeen-year-old Amy and Baby, a child she found while scavenging, struggle to survive while vicious, predatory creatures from another planet roam the Earth.
20) The twice lost
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
Description
When humans declare war on mermaids, Luce swims to San Francisco Bay where she finds a group of twice lost girls, lost once when trauma turned them into mermaids and again when they defied mermaid law, and unites them into an army under her leadership.