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1) Dune
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 28
Language
English
Description
"Science fiction's supreme masterpiece, Dune will be forever considered a triumph of the imagination. Set on the desert planet Arrakis, it is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, who will become the mysterious man known as Muad'Dib. Paul's noble family is named stewards of Arrakis, whose sands are the only source of a powerful drug called "the spice." After his family is brought down in a traitorous plot, Paul must go undercover to seek revenge, and...
2) Iceberg
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Hazel Rothbury stows away aboard the Titanic and, with the help of a porter named Charlie and a first-class passenger named Sylvia, she sets out to explore the great ship, uncovering a haunting mystery -- until the ship hits an iceberg and she must fight to save herself and her friends.
3) Snakehead
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventures volume 7
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
While working with the Australian Secret Service on a dangerous mission, teenaged spy Alex Rider uncovers information about his parents.
Author
Series
Cam Jansen adventure volume 4
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2004, c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Fifth-grader Cam uses her photographic memory, with help from her friend Eric and his twin sisters, to solve the mystery of Poochie, a famous canine television star.
Author
Publisher
Taylor Trade Publishing
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
The star of Laverne & Shirley tells stories of her struggles as a child growing up with meager means and dreaming of becoming an actress. She also shares many misadventures and amusing anecdotes about some of the most famous actors in Hollywood.
Author
Series
Publisher
VIZ Media
Pub. Date
©2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Pokemon trainers Pearl and Diamond are starstruck! Their lifelong dream is to floor an audience with their Pokemon comedy act. So how do they wind up as bodyguards to a pampered little rich girl on a quest to reach the peak of Mt. Coronet ...?!"--Page 4 of cover.
Author
Series
Theodosia Throckmorton books volume 4
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt/Childrens
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
When eleven-year-old Theodosia and her cat, Isis, travel to Egypt to return the Orb of Ra and the Emerald Tablet, she hopes to learn more about her origins but finds, instead, the Serpents of Chaos and a precious treasure that suddenly appears and disappears.
11) Okay for now
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
As a fourteen-year-old who just moved to a new town, with no friends, an abusive father, and a louse for an older brother, Doug Swieteck has all the stats stacked against him until he finds an ally in Lil Spicer--a fiery young lady. Together, they find a safe haven in the local library, inspiration in learning about the plates of John James Audubon's birds, and a hilarious adventure on a Broadway stage.
Author
Series
STEAM tales volume 1
Publisher
Welbeck Children's Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Fire up young readers' imagination and creativity with this classic story featuring added STEAM activities. This beloved children's adventure is retold with vivid and engaging new illustrations - and at the end of every chapter, there are exciting new science, technology, engineering, art and mathematics activities, themed around the events in the book. The activities range from simple puzzles to fun, dynamic experiments, so there's something for...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"Describes the life and times of the era known as Ancient Egypt. The readers' choices reveal the historical details of life as a pyramid builder in the Old Kingdom, life as an artist in the New Kingdom, and life as a soldier or royal servant in the Ptolemaic Period"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Peter Nimble adventures volume 1
Publisher
Amulet Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Raised to be a thief, blind orphan Peter Nimble, age ten, steals from a mysterious stranger three pairs of magical eyes, that lead him to a hidden island where he must decide to become a hero or resume his life of crime.
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In July, 1916, Chet Roscow is fascinated by news accounts of the great white shark said to be attacking people along the New Jersey shore not far from his home, but when he goes swimming in Matawan Creek he discovers the truth of the stories.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From the New York Times bestselling author of The Middlesteins comes a stunning novel about a Prohibition-era bad girl turned good: Saint Mazie, Queen of the Bowery"--
"Meet Mazie Phillips: big-hearted and bawdy, she's the truth-telling proprietress of The Venice, the famed New York City movie theater. It's the Jazz Age, with romance and booze aplenty--even when Prohibition kicks in--and Mazie never turns down a night on the town. But her high spirits...
Author
Series
I survived volume 15
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
The battlefield was soaked in blood. Screams of injured soldiers rang through the air. Eleven-year-old Nathaniel Knox knelt behind a rock, his gun clutched in his shaking hands. Nate had been heading to New York City to find his father. But now he was trapped in a terrible gunfight between American and British troops. -- But King George was like a snake with America gripped in his fangs - and he didn't want to let go. So now it was war - brutal, bloody...
Author
Publisher
Disney Hyperion
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
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Description
In this story inspired by Jules Verne's "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Pulitzer Prize-winning author Wallace Stegner's boyhood was spent on the beautiful and remote frontier of the Cypress Hills in southern Saskatchewan, where his family homesteaded from 1914 to 1920. In a recollection of his years there, Stegner applied childhood remembrances and adult reflection to the history of the region to create this wise and enduring portrait of a pioneer community existing on the verge of a modern world."--Jacket.
Author
Series
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Vivid storytelling and authentic dialogue bring American history to life and place readers in the shoes of real people who experienced some of the most pivotal moments of the end of the American Revolution and the early years of the United States. With the signing of the Treaty of Paris and the conclusion of the Revolutionary War, the Founding Fathers of the United States needed to lay the groundwork for the new nation. Early years of government...
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