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21) Rinkitink in Oz
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 10
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 9
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When all the inhabitants of Pingaree are kidnapped by the mongrel hordes of twin island kingdoms, Prince Inga and his friend King Rinkitink decide to go to the rescue.
23) The great alone
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Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 20
Description
"In 1974, a former Vietnam POW, suffering from flashbacks and nightmares, moves his family to Alaska to live off the grid in an attempt to find peace, restoration, and freedom. They will also face dangers, both internally and externally, as they face the ultimate test of the human spirit"--
24) The Lost World
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Originally published serially in 1912, "The Lost World" is Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic tale of discovery and adventure. The story begins with the narrator, the curious and intrepid reporter Edward Malone, meeting Professor Challenger, a strange and brilliant paleontologist who insists that he has found dinosaurs still alive deep in the Amazon. Malone agrees to accompany Challenger, as well as Challenger's unconvinced colleague Professor Summerlee,...
25) Crystal & gem
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 1
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"Discover the beauty of emeralds, rubies, lapis lazuli, jade, silver, and gold in this gliterring collection of precious stones and metals. Learn where crystals can be found, how they form, and what they are used for - from dazzling jewelry to diamond-cutting tools and the silicon chip in your phone!"
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The Wizard of Oz series volume 9
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The adventures of Trot and Cap'n Bill take them to Oz where they help solve the problem of Pom, whose truelove's heart has been turned to ice by witches.
28) The Martian
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 16
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"Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive--and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. Chances are, though, he...
29) The target
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Will Robie novels volume 3
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The President knows it's a perilous, high-risk assignment. If he gives the order, he has the opportunity to take down a global menace, once and for all. If the mission fails, he would face certain impeachment, and the threats against the nation would multiply. So the president turns to the one team that can pull off the impossible: Will Robie and his partner, Jessica Reel. Together, Robie and Reel's talents as assassins are unmatched. But there are...
30) The Arizona clan
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Dodge Mercer has lead the life of a gunslinger. Hungry for the quiet life, he drifts west looking for a chance to build a spread of his own. He decides on the rugged, dangerous Tonto Basin country of Arizona, and is welcomed to stay and work with the Lilley clan. Nan Lilley is the most beautiful woman Dodge has ever seen. In his quest for her love, he runs up against tough, two-fisted Buck Hathaway, who claims Nan for his own. When Nan chooses
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 21
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The story of Robin of Locksley, outlaw of Sherwood Forest, telling how he gathered such loyal followers as Little John, Friar Tuck, Will Scarlet, and Allan a Dale, and relating their adventures in the service of Richard the Lion-Hearted.
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A "Positively Diabolical" Correspondence "My dear Wormwood,..." So begins this product of C.S. Lewis's wickedly funny imagination, a correspondence between two devils, Screwtape and his young nephew, Wormwood. As the senior fiend advises his young apprentice in leading humanity astray, Lewis delves into questions about good and evil, temptation, repentance, and grace, offering knowledge and guidance to all who are trying to live good Christian lives....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned - from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren - an enigmatic artist and single mother - who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
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Every time Mr Fox steals a chicken from the farm, Farmers Boggis, Bunce and Bean grow wild with rage! They're the nastiest crooks in the valley, and they've concocted a cunning plan to dig him out of his hole once and for all. But it never occurs to them that Mr Fox has a fantastic plan of his own.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
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A reluctant voyager crossing the Pacific Ocean in 1850; a disinherited composer blagging a precarious livelihood in Belgium between the First and Second World Wars; a high-minded journalist in Governor Reagan's California; a vanity publisher fleeing his gangland creditors; the testament of a genetically modified 'dinery server' on death row; and Zachry, a young Pacific Islander witnessing the nightfall of science and civilisation -- the narrators...
36) Cell: a novel
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 19
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Civilization doesn't end with a bang or a whimper. It ends with a call on your cell phone. What happens on the afternoon of October 1 came to be known as the Pulse, a signal sent though every operating cell phone that turns its user into something...well, something less than human. Savage, murderous, unthinking-and on a wanton rampage. Terrorist act? Cyber prank gone haywire? It really doesn't matter, not to the people who avoided the technological...
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This book demonstrates how introverted people are misunderstood and undervalued in modern culture, charting the rise of extrovert ideology while sharing anecdotal examples of how to use introvert talents to adapt to various situations. At least one-third of the people we know are introverts. They are the ones who prefer listening to speaking, reading to partying; who innovate and create but dislike self-promotion; who favor working on their own over...
38) Blue fairy book
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Fairy tales from the folklore of France, Germany, Scotland, England, and Scandinavia from such collections as those of Perrault, the Grimm brothers, or Asbjornsen and Moe.