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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
Immersing himself in a mid-twenty-first-century technological virtual utopia to escape an ugly real world of famine, poverty, and disease, Wade Watts joins an increasingly violent effort to solve a series of puzzles by the virtual world's creator.
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A 1980s cultural assessment of the fantastical future of online behavior continues the story that began in the internationally best-selling futuristic novel, Ready Player One, that inspired a blockbuster Steven Spielberg film"--
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
While playing an old fantasy videogame, Ash encounters Ruby, who seems far more than a pre-programmed side character, and together they discover she's a sentient AI originally designed as a weapon, trapping them both in deadly game that blurs the lines between real and virtual.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Delaney family love one another dearly—it’s just that sometimes they want to murder each other . . .
If your mother was missing, would you tell the police? Even if the most obvious suspect was your father?
This is the dilemma facing the four grown Delaney siblings.
The Delaneys are fixtures in their community. The parents, Stan and Joy, are the envy of all of their friends. They’re killers on the tennis court, and off it their chemistry...
5) Every breath
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Hope Anderson is at a crossroads. At thirty-six, she's been dating her boyfriend, an orthopedic surgeon, for six years. With no wedding plans in sight, and her father recently diagnosed with ALS, she decides to use a week at her family's cottage in Sunset Beach, North Carolina, to ready the house for sale and mull over some difficult decisions about her future. Tru Walls has never visited North Carolina but is summoned to Sunset Beach by a letter...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Newlyweds Celestial and Roy, the living embodiment of the New South, are settling into the routine of their life together when Roy is sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit. An insightful look into the lives of people who are bound and separated by forces beyond their control"--
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In a single, engaging volume, The Great Gatsby presents a helpful literary guide to one of America's most prized classic novels. First published in 1925, F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby captured the spirit of the Jazz Age and examined the American obsession with love, wealth, material objects, and class. Considered one of the great novels of the 20th century, Fitzgerald s famous work remains relevant for its observations on the pursuit of...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
While Loki prepares his ship, Naglfar, to begin the final battle of Ragnarok, Magnus and his friends set sail to reach the vessel before it's ready, but angry sea gods and a fire-breathing dragon may prevent them from arriving in time.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 9
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Their magic tree house takes Jack and Annie deep into the sea, where they meet up with dolphins, sharks, and octopi as they search for the answer to an ancient riddle.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
With perfect comic pacing, Greg Pizzoli introduces us to one funny crocodile who has one big fear: swallowing a watermelon seed. What will he do when his greatest fear is realized? Will vines sprout out his ears? Will his skin turn pink? This crocodile has a wild imagination that kids will love.
Author
Series
Little house volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
A year in the life of two young girls growing up on the Wisconsin frontier, as they help their mother with the daily chores, enjoy their father's stories and singing, and share special occasions when they get together with relatives or neighbors.
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Formats
Description
When rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira and their two kids, son David and socialite daughter Alexis suddenly find themselves broke, they are forced to leave their pampered lives to regroup in Schitt's Creek.
The Rose family's dreams of escaping their town are suddenly thwarted when the town's potential buyer succumbs to a diabetic coma. It's now clear that their stay in this simple setting will be much longer than they...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Sometimes treasure can be found where you least expect it. In the decade since high school graduation, Christine Sawyer has realized her dream of opening Treasure Hunting Antique Mall, the place where shoppers find gems that are new to them. Between her store, her house, and her role as a doting aunt, she's happy with her life--if a bit lonely. But she's used to being less lucky in love than her fraternal twin sister. Britney was always the popular...