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21) Cold
Author
Pub. Date
2022
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
Description
Told in alternating perspectives, Todd replays the events that lead to his death in the local park, watching as detectives investigate his murder and talk to the students responsible for it, and meanwhile Georgia, who does not know Todd, cannot stop thinking about him.
Author
Series
Charlotte Holmes novel volume 1
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First paperback edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
321, 15 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson descendants, Charlotte and Jamie, students at a Connecticut boarding school, team up to solve a murder mystery.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A childhood spent in a dangerous cult left Sunday Night never with a bone-deep instinct for survival that's kept her alive into adulthood but left her mostly friendless. Forced into early retirement from the police force due to an injury, Sunnie retreats from an outside world she doesn't trust and sees little use for, until a wealthy woman contacts her with a plea: her teenage granddaughter has been missing since the day of a bombing near a Jewish...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1979, four teenage boys from an elite private school sexually assault a fourteen-year-old classmate -- and film the attack. Not long after, the tape goes missing and the suspected thief, a fellow classmate, is murdered. In the investigation that follows, one boy turns state's evidence and two of his peers are convicted. But the ringleader escapes without a trace. Now it's 1989 and one of the perpetrators, Fritz McCabe, has been released from prison....
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
Frankie Elkin is an average middle-aged woman, a recovering alcoholic with more regrets than belongings. But she spends her life doing what no one else will--searching for missing people the world has stopped looking for. When the police have given up, when the public no longer remembers, when the media has never paid attention, Frankie starts looking.
A new case brings her to Mattapan, a Boston neighborhood with a rough reputation. She is searching...
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon volume 19
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
At an exclusive private school in Switzerland, mystery surrounds the identity of the beautiful raven-haired girl who arrives each morning in a motorcade fit for a head of state. She is said to be the daughter of a wealthy international businessman. In truth, her father is Khalid bin Mohammed, the much-maligned crown prince of Saudi Arabia. Once celebrated for his daring social and religious reforms, he is now reviled for his role in the murder of...
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 3
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st Aladdin hardcover ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
When scholarship student Nikki Maxwell, whose father is the school exterminator, decides to enter the talent show at her expensive private school, her nemesis MacKenzie threatens to reveal Nikki's status to the rest of the school.
Author
Series
In Death volume 24
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Language
English
Description
Investigating the baffling murder case of an ordinary and much-loved private school teacher, New York City lieutenant Eve Dallas struggles to identify who may have wanted the death of an innocent man.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the new novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of First Comes Love and Something Borrowed, a woman is forced to choose between her family and her most deeply held values. Nina Browning is living the good life after marrying into Nashville's elite. Her husband's tech business is booming, and her adored son, Finch, is bound for Princeton. Tom Volpe is a single dad working multiple jobs. His adored daughter, Lyla, attends Nashville's...
Author
Series
Dork diaries volume 1
Publisher
Aladdin
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
282 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Nikki Maxwell writes and sketches in her diary about her struggle to be popular at her exclusive new private school, and about giving up on being part of the elite group, before figuring out a way to simply be herself.
31) New kid
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his parents send him to a prestigious private school known for its academics, Jordan Banks finds himself torn between two worlds.
32) Wonder
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Ten-year-old Auggie Pullman, who was born with extreme facial abnormalities and was not expected to survive, goes from being home-schooled to entering fifth grade at a private middle school in Manhattan, which entails enduring the taunting and fear of his classmates as he struggles to be seen as just another student.
33) The secret place
Author
Series
Dublin volume 5
Publisher
Viking
Language
English
Description
"The photo on the card shows a boy who was found murdered, a year ago, on the grounds of a girls' boarding school in the leafy suburbs of Dublin. The caption says I KNOW WHO KILLED HIM. Detective Stephen Moran has been waiting for his chance to get a foot in the door of Dublin's Murder Squad--and one morning, sixteen-year-old Holly Mackey brings him this photo. "The Secret Place," a board where the girls at St. Kilda's School can pin up their secrets...
34) Private label
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her successful fashion designer mother is diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, seventeen-year-old Serene must take over her mother's business while also trying to find her father with the help of a new boy in town in whom she finds refuge and love.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Fire
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
390 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
While summering in her grandparents' small Oregon town, where a serial murderer lurks, eighteen-year-old Magdalena faces recovery from a scandal at her Manhattan private school, schizophrenia, and falling in love with "Wildboy." Told partly through journal entries.
36) The patch
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
At first upset about having to wear glasses and an eye patch to correct her lazy eye, five-year-old Becca soon discovers that her new accessories allow her to take on such roles as a ballerina-pirate and a private eye.
37) Surprise Island
Author
Series
Boxcar children mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The adventures of the four Alden children as they spend a summer vacation on their very own island, purchased by Grandfather's father years ago.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Bertie and Kate have been best friends since high school...[Bertie's] job depresses her, but not as much as the fact that Kate has recently decided to move...When Bertie's attempts to make Kate stay fail, she suggests the next-best thing: a trip to Paris...One night in Paris, they meet a strange man in a bar who offers them a private tour of the Louvre. The women find themselves alone in the museum, where nothing is quite as it seems. Caught up in...
39) Rodham: a novel
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
420 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1971, Hillary Rodham is a young woman full of promise. Life magazine covered her Wellesley commencement speech, she's attending Yale Law School, and she's on the forefront of student activism and the women's rights movement. Then she meets a fellow law student named Bill Clinton. A charismatic Southerner, Bill is already laying the groundwork for his political career. In each other, Hillary and Bill find a profound intellectual, emotional, and...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A literary novel set on the coast of Maine during the 1960s, tracing the life of a family and its matriarch as they negotiate sharing a home. Eleanor Morse's Margreete's Harbor begins with a fire: a fiercely-independent, thrice-widowed woman living on her own in a rambling house near the Maine coast forgets a hot pan on the stovetop, and nearly burns her place down. When Margreete Bright calls her daughter Liddie to confess, Liddie realizes that...