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"The Vignes twin sisters will always be identical. But after growing up together in a small, southern black community and running away at age sixteen, it's not just the shape of their daily lives that is different as adults, it's everything: their families, their communities, their racial identities. Ten years later, one sister lives with her black daughter in the same southern town she once tried to escape. The other secretly passes for white, and...
2) Heir of Fire
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Series
Throne of Glass volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 27
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English
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Royal assassin Celaena must travel to a new land to confront a truth about her heritage, while brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world.
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English
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A novel spanning four decades, from pre-World War II Transylvania to contemporary New York, looks at the cause and effect of both belief and non-belief within the Jewish religion, in a tale that focuses on the relationship of two sisters within a Hasidic sect.
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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A collection of four pre-Divergent stories plus three additional scenes from Divergent, all told from Tobias's point of view, that follow Tobias's transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless, his Dauntless initiation, the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions, and the weeks after he meets Tris Prior.
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Sourcebooks Jabberwocky
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Through his imaginative journey, Alexander discovers how great men become heroes: a tough president has a soft spot for nature, a proud warrior is also the most peaceful, and sometimes, being brave about what makes you different will not only help you break records, but inspire others.
Author
Series
A Throne of glass novel volume 4
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 29
Language
English
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"Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. Embracing her identity as Aelin Galathynius, Queen of Terrasen, Celaena returns to the empire--for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past"--
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Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Born deep in the ocean, Kelp is not like the other narwhals and one day, when he spies a creature on land that looks like him, he learns why.
8) Seraphina
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Series
Seraphina volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
In a world where dragons and humans coexist in an uneasy truce and dragons can assume human form, Seraphina, whose mother died giving birth to her, grapples with her own identity amid magical secrets and royal scandals, while she struggles to accept and develop her extraordinary musical talents.
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Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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Percy, expelled from six schools for being unable to control his temper, learns the truth from his mother that his father is the Greek god Poseidon, and is sent to Camp Half Blood where he is befriended by a satyr and the demigod daughter of Athena who join him in a journey to the Underworld to retrieve Zeus's lightning bolt and prevent a catastrophic war.
10) The lost girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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Anne Ursu, author of the National Book Award nominee The Real Boy, returns with a story of the power of fantasy, the limits of love, and the struggles inherent in growing up. When you're an identical twin, your story always starts with someone else. For Iris, that means her story starts with Lark. Iris has always been the grounded, capable, and rational one; Lark has been inventive, dreamy, and brilliant--and from their first moments in the world...
11) Moonflower
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Moon is convinced that they do not belong to this world: that most of the time they are invisible (unless they stay still too long), that they belong to the stars, and want to go back to them--they live entirely in their imagination with an imaginary spirit guide who can appear in any shape and refuses to speak to anyone, lest their words tie them to a world they reject.
12) Moonwalking
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
In 1980s Brooklyn, new student JJ Pankowski, an autistic, punk-rock-lover, befriends Pie Velez, an Afro-Latinx math geek and graffiti artist.
Author
Series
Percy Jackson and the Olympians volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Seventh-grader Percy Jackson has recently discovered that he is the son of Poseidon, making him half human and half god, and along with a demigod and a satyr friend, must save his beloved Camp Half-Blood from evil forces determined to destroy it.
14) Things hoped for
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Series
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
�2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
167 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Gwen, who has been living with her grandfather in Manhattan while she attends music school, joins up with another music student to solve the mystery of her grandfather's sudden disappearance.
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
435 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"It's 1941, and tensions are rising in the United States as the Second World War rages in Europe. Eleven-year-old Gusta's life, like the world around her, is about to change. Her father, a foreign-born labor organizer, has had to flee the country, and Gusta has been sent to live in an orphanage run by her grandmother. Nearsighted, snaggletoothed Gusta arrives in Springdale, Maine, lugging her one precious possession: a beloved old French horn, her...