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1) Ice-out
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s Minnesota, life is hard for nineteen-year-old Owen Jensen and his family after their father dies but gets considerably worse when Owen becomes involved in the deaths of a sheriff and deputy.
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Edward Dickens, the tenth child of England's most famous author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself--or at least fail out of the public eye. He soon finds himself in the remote Outback, surrounded by Aboriginals, colonials, ex-convicts, ex-soldiers, and very few women. Even on the other...
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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 17
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Tagging along with his brother Rodrick's band, Löded Diper, Greg gets more than he bargained for when he gets a backstage pass to the rock 'n' roll lifestyle and wonders if he can help them become the legends they think they are.
4) The deep end
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
On their a cross-country camping trip, Greg Heffley and his family find themselves stranded at an RV park that's not exactly a summertime paradise and when the skies open up and the water starts to rise, the Heffleys wonder if they can save their vacation--or if they're already in too deep.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Rosalie Iron Wing has grown up in the woods with her father, Ray, a former science teacher who tells her stories of plants, of the stars, of the origins of the Dakhóta people. Until, one morning, Ray doesn't return from checking his traps. Told she has no family, Rosalie is sent to live with a foster family in nearby Mankato-where the reserved, bookish teenager meets rebellious Gaby Makespeace, in a friendship that transcends the damaged legacies...
6) Ghost shadow
Author
Series
Bone Island trilogy volume 1
Language
English
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"There are those who walk among us who are no longer alive, but not yet crossed over. They seek retribution, vengeance, to warn. Among the living, few intuit their presence. Katie O'Hara is one who can. As she's drawn deeper and deeper into a gruesome years-old murder, whispered warnings from a spectral friend become more and more insistent. But Katie must uncover the truth: could David Beckett really be guilty of his fianceé's murder? Worse--the...
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English
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Alexandra Collister came to her estranged cousins’ B and B in Lost Lake, Alaska, looking for a fresh start. The sprawling forest surrounding the lodge can be harsh and unforgiving, but when Alex meets rugged wilderness tracker Quinn Mantell, he offers to be her guide. Still recovering from a toxic previous relationship, Alex is wary of getting too close, but when savagely deep claw marks appear outside her bedroom window, keeping her distance from...
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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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Two weeks have passed since Iris Winnow returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over. Roman is missing, and the city of Oath continues to dwell in a state of disbelief and ignorance. When Iris and Attie are given another chance to report on Dacre's movements, they both take the opportunity and head westward once more despite the danger, knowing it's only a matter of time before the conflict reaches a city that's...
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(Rebecca J.)Letters of enchantment volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
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After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again... All eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow wants to do is hold her family together. With a brother on the frontline forced to fight on behalf of the Gods now missing from the frontline and a mother drowning her sorrows, Iris's best bet is winning the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette. But when Iris's letters to her brother fall into the wrong hands - that of the handsome but cold Roman Kitt, her...
10) Gone to dust
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Series
Nils Shapiro volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Investigating a murder, private detective Nils Shapiro finds the job complicated by the killer's strategic approaches to confounding all possible DNA evidence. Digging into the victim's cell phone records, Shapiro uncovers the potentially shattering identity of a mysterious woman, but the FBI demands he stop asking questions. Is it a case of domestic violence, or something with far-reaching implications?
11) Treasure Island
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English
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While going through the possessions of a deceased guest who owed them money, the mistress of the inn and her son find a treasure map that leads to a pirate fortune as well as great danger.
12) Virgil Wander
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Language
English
Description
Midwestern movie house owner Virgil Wander is "cruising along at medium altitude" when his car flies off the road into icy Lake Superior. Virgil survives but his language and memory are altered and he emerges into a world no longer familiar to him. Awakening in this new life, Virgil begins to piece together his personal history and the lore of his broken town, with the help of a cast of affable and curious locals-from Rune, a twinkling, pipe-smoking,...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 18
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English
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Tired of society’s rules, Huck longs to explore the wild, untamed beauty of the Mississippi River. But his life is about to change forever when he crosses paths with Jim, an escaped slave searching for his own freedom. Together, Huck and Jim brave the Mississippi's dangerous waters, meeting all kinds of characters along the way. From the cunning Duke and Dauphin to the kind-hearted Widow Douglas and her sister Miss Watson, each encounter proves...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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Includes two of George Orwell's novels about the dangers of tyranny, the corruption of the state, and the enslavement of the individual. 1984 is a political fiction and dystopian science fiction which is set in Airstrip One (formerly Great Britain), a province of the superstate Oceania in a world of perpetual war, omnipresent government surveillance, and public manipulation. Animal farm is an allegorical novel that reflects events leading up to the...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets? Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality....
18) Fahrenheit 451
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family." But when he meets an eccentric young neighbor, Clarisse, who introduces him to a past where people didn't live in fear and to a present...
19) Dracula
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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The quintessential horror tale of the powerful, centuries-old vampire follows his bloodthirsty trail from the mountains of Central Europe to England, until the savvy Dr. Van Helsing comes up with a way to end his reign of terror.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 25
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English
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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
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