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1) Crazy house
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Series
Crazy House volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
In a future world where teenagers are taken, imprisoned, and forced to fight for their survival, well-behaved Cassie will do whatever it takes to save her rebellious twin sister from Death Row.
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Series
Age of legends volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Desperate to outmaneuver the evil Alvar Kitsune, Moria allies with Gavril, while Ashyn discovers that she is the key to a ritual that could reawaken an ancient dragon and turn the tide of the coming battle in their favor.
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Series
Crossover (Kwame Alexander) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
In this game of life your family is the court and the ball is your heart. JB and I are almost thirteen. Twins. Tow basketball goals at opposite ends of the court. Identical. Its easy to tell us apart though. Im an inch taller, with dreads to my neck. He gets his head shaved once a month. I want to go to Duke. He flaunts Carolina blue. If we didnt love each other, wed hate each other.
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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...
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English
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"As children, Sam and Elli were two halves of a perfect whole: Gorgeous identical twins whose parents sometimes couldn't even tell them apart. They fell asleep to the sound of each other's breath at night, holding hands in the dark. And once Hollywood discovered them, they became B-list child TV stars, often inhabiting the same role. But as adults their lives have splintered. After leaving acting, Elli reinvented herself as the perfect suburban wife:...
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English
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An unforgettable romantic comedy about a twin sister and brother struggling over an inheritance and the sexy best friend who comes between them. This hilarious romance includes a special PS section with two Happily Ever Afters, one for this novel featuring Darcy and Tom and the other, an epilogue featuring fan favorites Lucy Hutton and Josh Templeman from The Hating Game!
7) East of Eden
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 34
Language
English
Description
A masterpiece of Biblical scope, and the magnum opus of one of America’s most enduring authors, in a commemorative hardcover edition
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two...
In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden "the first book," and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California's Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two...
Author
Series
Land of stories (Chapter books) volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Against the will of their grandmother, twins Alex and Conner must find their own way into the Land of Stories to rescue their mother and save the fairy tale world from the greatest threat it has ever faced--the return of the Enchantress who cursed Sleeping Beauty.
Author
Series
Age of legends volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
"Twin sisters Ashyn and Moria must embark on a a dangerous journey when the spirits they're charged with protecting turn vengeful"--
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Series
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English
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The wedding of Alix Madsen and Jared Montgomery is a glorious affair at an elegant little chapel in the woods, followed by dinner and dancing, all while moonlight blankets the festivities in a romantic glow. While most guests are fixed on the happy couple, Jared{u2019}s cousin Graydon can{u2019}t look away from a bridesmaid, Toby Wyndam. It{u2019}s not just her quiet beauty that enthralls him or the way she makes him laugh. Toby possesses the truly...
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Series
Genius Files volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"The wackiest road trip in history continues as the McDonald twins travel the Southwest dodging nefarious villains and visiting weird but true American landmarks"--
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Series
Genius Files volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
"Tween twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald have finally reached the last leg of their wacky and dangerous cross-country road trip, but they must fend off a host of strange assassins before they reach their home in California"--
13) Empire of night
Author
Series
Age of legends volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Separated while trying to save the children of their village, twin sisters Ashyn and Moria must draw on all their power and influence to defeat enemies of legend and avert war in the empire -- Publisher.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Olivia Morrow, a Manhattan psychologist, begins to suspect that her husband Jonathan, a brilliant obstetrician and medical researcher, may have been murdered instead of his twin brother, Charles. Her search for the truth plunges her into life-threatening danger which is only increased when she crosses the path of Henry Patton, a criminologist, who is on a search of his own, the truth behind a long-ago scandal involving his grandmother that must now...
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English
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On a warm June evening, the students of Nantucket High gather for the traditional graduation bonfire on the beach. But the celebration ends in tragedy after a horrible car accident leaves the driver, Penny Alistair, dead, and her twin brother, Hobby, in a coma. Penny's boyfriend, Jake, and her friend Demeter are unhurt but haunted by the events of that night, and by the questions that linger about what happened in the car -- and what happened in the...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When Stephen moves to the small, midwestern town where his father grew up, he quickly falls in with punk girl Cara and her charismatic twin brother, Devon. But the town has a dark secret, and the twins are caught in the middle of it.
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Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Moving to a tiny Scottish island a year after one of their identical twin daughters, Lydia, dies in an accident, Angus and Sarah are shattered when their surviving daughter claims they have mistaken her identity and that she is actually the twin they believed dead.
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Series
Genius Files volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Genius twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald embark on a trip to Graceland and are horrified by the reappearance of their supposedly deceased arch nemesis Dr. Herman Warsaw, who marries their aunt Judy.
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Series
Confessions (James Patterson) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Tandy Angel is, along with her brothers, a suspect in their parents' murder but having grown up under Malcolm and Maud Angel's perfectionist demands, Tandy decides she must clear the family name no matter what.
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