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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
As Bridge makes her way through seventh grade on Manhattan's Upper West Side with her best friends, curvacious Em, crusader Tab, and a curious new friend--or more than friend--Sherm, she finds the answer she has been seeking since she barely survived an accident at age eight: "What is my purpose?"
3) Dough boys
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Told in two voices, thirteen-year-old best friends Simp and Rollie play on a basketball team in their housing project, but Rollie dreams of being a drummer and Simp, to impress the gang leader, Coach Tez.
4) Out of place
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Cove Bernstein yearns for her best friend, Nina, who moved to New York City, but with unlikely new friends, discovers that life on Martha's Vineyard can be pretty good.
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English
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When your eyes land on a complete stranger on the train, and the world around you stops. When the stranger says hello, and your heart stops, too.
When the universe answers your prayers and he's there, next day, on the train. A man so powerful - brooding with darkness and secrets.
I knew there was going to be more. I wanted more.
When the stranger is reading one of your favorite novels, and you're reading one of his. When you're in such a flutter...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When Georgia finds a secret sketch her late father--a famed artist--left behind, the discovery leads her down a path that may reshape everything holding her family and friends together. Caroline Gertler's debut is a story about friendship, family, grief, and creativity.
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Series
Edilean series volume 7
Language
English
Description
In an idyllic Virginia town, three best girlfriends joyfully reunite as they each seek out their heartfelt dreams and desires. Kim Aldredge is delighted that her dear college "sister" Jecca has found lasting love with Kim's cousin Tristan. But despite her flourishing jewelry making career, Kim's own happiness seems as distant as the childhood summer when she played the hours away with young Travis Merritt, who came to Edilean with his mother under...
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English
Description
"A chance encounter during the holiday season brings two people together as quickly as it tears them apart--until fate intervenes again (and again) in this romantic debut novel in the tradition of One Day in December. Every December, Josie posts a letterfrom her home in London to the parents she lost on Christmas night many years ago. Each year, she writes the same three words: Missing you, always. But this year, her annual trip to the postbox is...
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English
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One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen. Meanwhile, in Sydney, Australia, Tom Stranger nervously embarks on an equally life-changing journey to meet Thordis, wondering whether he is worthy of this milestone. After exchanging hundreds of searingly...
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Series
Sunrise Cove volume 1
Language
English
Description
Beloved New York Times bestselling author Jill Shalvis begins a new series--Sunrise Cove--set near beautiful Lake Tahoe, with a heartwarming story of found family and love. During the snowstorm of the century Levi Cutler is stranded on a ski lift with a beautiful stranger named Jane. After strong winds hurl the gondola in front of them into the ground, Levi calls his parents to prepare them for the worst...but can't bring himself to say goodbye. Instead,...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"In this prequel to #1 New York Times bestselling phenomenon They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast first makes their fateful calls. It's the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there's one question on everyone's mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he's going to die. He has...
12) Scout's honor
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
Prudence Perry is a third-generation Ladybird Scout who must battle literal (and figurative) monsters and the weight of her legacy in Scout's Honor by Lily Anderson, a YA paranormal perfect for fans of Stranger Things and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Sixteen-year-old Prudence Perry is a legacy Ladybird Scout, born to a family of hunters sworn to protect humans from mulligrubs--interdimensional parasites who feast on human emotions like sadness and anger....
13) Sorry not sorry
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English
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Charlotte has always been a good girl. But being good is getting boring... She's not just stuck in a rut - she's buried in it up to her chin. The only company she has in bed is the back catalogue of Netflix and falling in love feels like the stuff of fairy tales. So when she stumbles across a popular podcast, 'Sorry Not Sorry', which challenges women to embrace their inner bad girl, she jumps at the chance to shake things up. Old Charlotte would...
14) No place to hide
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English
Description
"Adam appears to have everything: a happy marriage, two young children, and a flourishing career as a pediatrician. But Adam also has a secret: hospital CCTV, strangers' mobile phones, city traffic cameras - he is convinced that they are all filming him because of something terrible that happened at a drunken party when he was a student. Only one other person knew what occurred, a young filmmaker, Louis, who captured the very act on camera. With no...
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English
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"Once inseparable as children and romantically entwined as young adults, Caroline Buchanan and Maximillian Abbot are now virtual strangers. It might be Caro's fault--considering she abruptly ended their engagement--but she had good reasons. After their devastating breakup, she stayed in North Carolina, building a quiet, cozy life, while Max went to New York City. In the fourteen years since, Caro has experienced more than her share of heartache and...
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English
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From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Clique series comes a novel about the importance of friendship, and, of course, the pleasure of a dirty book. M.J. Stark's life is picture-perfect--she has her dream job as a magazine editor, a sexy doctor boyfriend, and a glamorous life in New York City. But behind her success, there is a debilitating sense of loneliness. So when her boss betrays her and her boyfriend offers her a completely new...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
January 1988. Martin Pistorius, aged twelve, fell inexplicably sick. First he lost his voice and stopped eating. Then he slept constantly and shunned human contact. Doctors were mystified. Within eighteen months he was mute and wheelchair-bound. Martin's parents were told an unknown degenerative disease left him with the mind of a baby and less than two years to live. Martin was moved to care centers for severely disabled children. The stress and...
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English
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"In the sizzling new novel from New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards, Dr. Charlie Stone must prove the innocence of a dangerously sexy condemned man, or lose her one chance at true love. THE LAST TIME I SAW HER In this world, Dr. Charlotte "Charlie" Stone skillfully probes the twisted minds of incarcerated serial killers to better understand what makes them tick, and to help nab those who remain at large. But in the next world, Charlotte's...
19) Gone fishing
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Series
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Kissing his wife and daughter goodbye, Alex Mollan sets off to a secluded area in upstate New York for his montly fishing trip. His excitement is tempered, however, after hearing reports about a psychopathic killer stalking the shores he frequents. And when Alex takes a fall while hiking, he wonders about the intentions of the mysterious stranger who comes to his aid.