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Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 14
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
When an unexpected inheritance gives Greg Heffley's family a chance to make big changes to their house, they soon discover that renovations may not be worth the effort.
Author
Series
Code name Verity volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
When young American pilot Rose Justice is captured by Nazis and sent to Ravensbrück, the notorious women's concentration camp, she finds hope in the impossible through the loyalty, bravery, and friendship of her fellow prisoners.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
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Description
Still moping months after being dumped by her Arizona boyfriend Leo, fifteen-year-old Stargirl, a home-schooled free spirit, writes "the world's longest letter" to Leo, describing her new life in Pennsylvania.
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Margaret "Cuckoo" Clark keeps a journal detailing the trials and tribulations of high school life as she and her close-knit group of outcast friends try to break down the barriers between their school's "warring nations.".
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
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Description
Having a Bloomtastic Festival at school to celebrate spring is a great idea--but Eva Wingdale, a young owl, discovers that it is also a lot of work, and there is nothing wrong with asking her friends for help.
11) Fatality
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been four years since Rose spent the weekend at Angelica's summer home and things went terribly wrong, but now that the police have reopened the murder case, Rose must relive that weekend all over again.
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
American heiress Lady Bridget Cavendish keeps a diary that documents her disastrous attempts to assimilate in London high society, her adoration of the dashing rogue next door, her hatred for the Dreadful Lord Darcy and some scandalous secrets that could ruin them all.
Author
Series
Harbinder Kaur novels volume 1
Language
English
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Description
Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R.M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare's colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R.M. Holland's most famous story, "The Stranger," left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the storylines of her favorite literature. To make matters worse, the police suspect the killer...
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
In St. Louis, Alan Christoffersen faces another life-changing crisis, putting his journey to grace in jeopardy.
Author
Publisher
CamCat Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In a future ravaged by fire and drought, two climate refugees ride their motorcycles across the wasteland of the western US, and stumble upon an old silver mine. Descending into the cool darkness of the caved-in tunnels in desperate search of water, the two women find Lavinia Cain's diary, a settler in search of prosperity who brought her family to Nevada in the late 1860s. But Lavinia and the settlers who had come in search of prosperity discovered...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Longtime personal assistant Georgie Mulcahy has made a career out of putting others before herself. When an unexpected upheaval sends her away from her hectic job in L.A. and back to her hometown, Georgie must confront an uncomfortable truth: her own wants and needs have always been a disconcertingly blank page. But then Georgie comes across a forgotten artifact--a "friendfic" diary she wrote as a teenager, filled with possibilities she once imagined....
17) Double down
Author
Series
Diary of a wimpy kid volume 11
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
The pressure's really piling up on Greg Heffley. His mom thinks video games are turning his brain to mush so she wants her son to put down the controller and explore his creative side. As if that s not scary enough, Halloween's just around the corner and the frights are coming at Greg from every angle. When Greg discovers a bag of gummy worms, it sparks an idea. Can he get his mom off his back by making a movie . . . and will he become rich and famous...
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 10
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Description
Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their origins before being reunited for a final, ineveitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts to control Halla are destroying its very foundations.
19) Love & gelato
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
"After her mother dies, Lina travels to Italy where she discovers her mothers's journal and sets off on an adventure to unearth her mother's secrets"--
Author
Series
Walk novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
Evans presents the second installment in an inspiring new series about an executive who loses everything and embarks on a walk that takes him across America.
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