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A master of absorbing, sophisticated fiction returns with a stylish and propulsive novel set in 1950s America. In June 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother,...
2) Hollow city
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Novel of Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children volume 2nd
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
850L
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English
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Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island by the skin of their teeth, Jacob and his new friends must journey to London (circa 1940), the "peculiar" capital of the world.
3) Room
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
HL 730L
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English
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Narrator Jack and his mother, who was kidnapped seven years earlier when she was a 19-year-old college student, celebrate his fifth birthday. They live in a tiny, 11-foot-square soundproofed cell in a converted shed in the kidnapper's yard. The sociopath, whom Jack has dubbed Old Nick, visits at night, grudgingly doling out food and supplies. But Ma, as Jack calls her, proves to be resilient and resourceful--and attempts a nail-biting escape.
4) Escape
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"New York Times bestselling detective Billy Harney of The Black Book is chasing down a billionaire crime boss and a prison escape artist while a young girl's life hangs in the balance. As Chicago PD's special-ops leader, Detective Billy Harney knows well that money is not the only valuable currency. The filthy rich man he's investigating is down to his last twenty million. He's also being held in jail. For now. Billy's unit is called in when an escape...
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Vega Jane volume 3
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
670L
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English
Description
Vega Jane and her friends have made it through the treacherous Quag, though not without scars--but now they find themselves in a city ruled by the old enemy, the Maladons, who use magic to keep the citizens under control, and it will take all the power that Vega, Delph, and Petra can summon to keep themselves alive and free.
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Imprisoned and drugged in a retricted island psychiatric facility for intelligence employees whose mental state poses a security risk to the government, former Consular Operations agent Hal Ambler manages a daring escape and sets out to discover who he is, and why he was placed here.
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Hundred-Year-Old Man volume 1
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English
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After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he's still in good health, and in one day, he turns 100. A big celebration is in the works, but Allan really isn't interested (and he'd like a bit more control over his vodka consumption). So he decides to escape. He climbs out the window in his slippers and embarks on a hilarious and entirely unexpected journey, involving,...
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Special agent Kathryn Dance and her partners at the California Bureau of Investigation hunt down escaped killer Daniel Pell, a self-styled Charles Manson. Pell is a master of control, who mesmerizes, seduces, and exploits people for his own murderous ends. Pell embarks on a mysterious and deadly quest once he's free.
9) Echoes
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Beata and her daughter, Amadea, try to survive during the two world wars in Europe. Amadea who is half-Jewish decides to take on the vows of a Carmelite nun, and she eventually joins the French resistance. Both woman find love as Beata marries a French officer while Amadea meets British secret agent Rupert Montgomery.
10) Kid Rodelo
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An odd assortment of people face fifty miles of desert on the American Western frontier. Behind them is a band of savage, bounty-hunting Yaquis. Only Rodelo could save them, but would he?
11) The maze runner
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Maze runner volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
HL 770L
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Thomas wakes up with no memory in the middle of a maze and realizes he must work with the community in which he finds himself if he is to escape.
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Good luck girls volume 1
Lexile measure
HL 740L
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English
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In an alternate wild West, five girls escape from the welcome house that owns them and embark on a dangerous journey to find freedom, justice, and revenge.
Paperback edition has 352 pages.
14) Magisterium
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
770L
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English
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In the twenty-second century, Glennora Morgan's father has been working on a project that will allow him to penetrate the Rift border and retrieve Glennora's mother; but now that he has succeeded the Authority is suddenly trying to kill them both, and Glennora and her friend Kevin must flee into the Magisterium to escape them.
15) The keeper
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Vega Jane volume 2
Pub. Date
2015.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Vega Jane and her friend Delph have taken the map that Quentin Harris left them and set out from the town of Wormwood, determined to brave the Quag and find freedom on the other side--but the Quag was designed to keep the town people in, and it is filled with bloodthirsty creatures and sinister magic, and it is not going to let them escape unscathed.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 11
Lexile measure
NC 1140L
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English
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Experience the timeless story of Toad, Rat, Mole, and Badger in a beautiful new unabridged, hardcover designed and illustrated by New York Times Bestselling author and Eisner Award winning creator David Petersen (Mouse Guard). Painstakingly illustrated over three years, this exquisite and lavish edition features both color and pen and ink illustrations throughout. Begun as a series of letters from Kenneth Grahame to his son, The Wind in the Willows...
18) Full scoop
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Beaumont, South Carolina, pediatrician Maggie Davenport's ex-boyfriend, who is also the father of her thirteen-year-old daughter, escapes from prison and tracks her down in search of money he hid before being sentenced for murder, and fortunately for her she has attractive FBI agent Zack Madden to protect her as she tries to hide the past from her neighbors.
19) The escape
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John Puller novel volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
Description
It's a prison unlike any other. Military discipline rules. Its security systems are unmatched. None of its prisoners dream of escaping. They know it's impossible. Until now ... John Puller's older brother, Robert, was convicted of treason and national security crimes. His inexplicable escape from prison makes him the most wanted criminal in the country. Some in the government believe that John Puller represents their best chance at capturing Robert...
20) I will find you
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"An innocent father serving life for the murder of his own son receives evidence that his child may still be alive, and must break out of prison to find out the truth"--
David and Cheryl Burroughs were living the dream life when tragedy struck. Now, five years after that terrible night, Cheryl is remarried. And David is serving a life sentence in a maximum-security prison for the brutal murder of their son. Then Cheryl's sister, Rachel, arrives unexpectedly...
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