Scott Brick
1) The firm
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
A young lawyer joins a firm which promises big money and benefits, but when the FBI begins to investigate the firm, he must fight its terrible secrets in order to stay alive.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
From the author of Mayflower, Valiant Ambition, and In the Hurricane's Eye—the riveting bestseller tells the story of the true events that inspired Melville's Moby-Dick.
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.
In 1820,...
Winner of the National Book Award, Nathaniel Philbrick's book is a fantastic saga of survival and adventure, steeped in the lore of whaling, with deep resonance in American literature and history.
In 1820,...
3) Acceleration
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Stuck working in the Lost and Found of the Toronto Transit Authority for the summer, seventeen-year-old Duncan finds the diary of a serial killer and sets out to stop him.
4) Hold tight
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Worrying about their sixteen-year-old son Adam in the wake of a friend's suicide, Tia and Mike Baye install an activity monitor on their son's computer and are alarmed to learn that the suicide victim's mother believes Adam may have been involved.
5) Red rabbit
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Series
Jack Ryan volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 36
Language
English
Description
In the early days of his career, Jack Ryan accepts a first assignment as freelance analyst under James Greer of the CIA and faces a mission involving a high-level Soviet defector who has reported a plot to assassinate Pope John Paul II.
6) The spy
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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1908, a brilliant American battleship gun designer dies in a sensational apparent suicide. The man's grief-stricken daughter turns to the legendary Van Dorn Detective Agency to clear her father's name. Van Dorn puts his chief investigator on the case, and Isaac Bell soon realizes that the clues point not to suicide but to murder.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In December 7, 1941, five brothers exploring a shaft on an island off the coast of Washington State make an extraordinary discovery, but a tragic accident suspends further investigation. In the present, Juan Cabrillo and his Oregon team, chasing the remanants of a crashed satellite in the Argentine jungle, stumble upon a shocking revelation. His efforts to untangle the mystery lead first to that island, and then much farther back, to an ancient Chinese...
8) The race
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
t is 1910 and newspaper publisher Preston Whiteway is offering $50,000 for the first daring aviator to cross America in less than fifty days. He is even sponsoring Josephine Frost. Frost's violent-tempered husband has just killed her lover and tried to kill her, and he is bound to make another attempt. Bell has tangled with Harry Frost before; he also knows that Frost won't be only after his wife, but after Whiteway as well.
9) The wrecker
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Series
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Investigating a series of attacks on the Southern Pacific Railroad's Cascades express lines, Detective Bell learns of the existence of an elusive saboteur who recruits and murders his own accomplices while engineering schemes of maximum havoc.
10) Arctic drift
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
As with all Clive Cussler’s dazzling Dirk Pitt novels, critics said Treasure of Khan “amazes, informs and entertains” (Publishers Weekly), “the action zipping along until a final powerhouse showdown” (Entertainment Weekly). “What’s not to like?” proclaimed the Los Angeles Times—and hundreds of thousands of readers agreed.
In his new novel, however—the twentieth...
In his new novel, however—the twentieth...
12) The storm
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Series
NUMA files volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Kurt Austin and Joe Zavala investigate the smoldering hulk of a NUMA research vessel in the Indian Ocean and soon uncover an audacious scheme to permanently alter the weather on a global scale, killing millions.
13) Medusa
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Series
NUMA files volume 8
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
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Description
After an undersea lab conducting research on a rare jellyfish known as the blue medusa mysteriously disappears and a bathysphere harboring Joe Zavala is attacked by an underwater vehicle and left helpless on the sea floor, Kurt Austin puts the NUMA team on the case.
14) Fire ice
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Series
NUMA files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 21
Language
English
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Description
Kurt Austin, leader of NUMA's (National Underwater and Marine Agency's) Assignments Team and the protagonist-hero of Serpent (1999) and Blue Gold (2000), returns to take on a mining tycoon who has proclaimed himself the czar of Russia. The U.S. opposes this move, fearing that, with the country's economy at an all-time low and the power of organized crime at an all-time high, Russia's legally elected president will be ousted from office.
15) Plague ship
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Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 25
Language
English
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16) Ender's shadow
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Series
Shadow saga volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
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Description
An urchin is picked off the street by a nun and sent to war school to become a brilliant space-war strategist. He is Bean, so called because of his diminutive stature, the result of an illegal genetic experiment.
17) Devil's gate
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Series
NUMA files volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
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Description
A Japanese cargo ship cruises the eastern Atlantic near the Azores- when it bursts into flames. A gang of pirates speeds to take advantage of the disaster-when their boat explodes. What is happening in this part of the world? As Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA Special Assignments Team rush to investigate, they find themselves drawn into the extraordinary ambitions of an African dictator, the creation of a weapon of almost mythical...
18) Skeleton Coast
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Series
Oregon Files volume 4
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
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Description
Narrowly escaping following a mission on the Congo River, Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon rescue beautiful Sloane Macintyre--who is looking for a lost ship that may be carrying a fortune in diamonds--when her boat is attacked off the African coast and find themselves up against a deranged militant who plans to launch a devastating force of nature against those who oppose him.
19) Jurassic Park
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Series
Jurassic Park volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
An astonishing technique for recovering and cloning dinosaur DNA has been discovered. Creatures once extinct now roam Jurassic Park, soon to be opened as a theme park. But something goes wrong, and science proves a dangerous toy.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
The #1 New York Times best-selling author of In the Garden of Beasts presents a 100th-anniversary chronicle of the sinking of the Lusitania that discusses the factors that led to the tragedy and the contributions of such figures as President Wilson, bookseller Charles Lauriat and architect Theodate Pope Riddle.