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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
750L
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English
Description
"For over forty years, Ellen Raskin's Newbery Medal-winning The Westing Game has been an enduring favorite. This highly inventive mystery involves sixteen people (including a dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a doctor, a judge, a bookie, a burglar, and a bomber) who are invited to the reading of the very strange will of the very rich Samuel W. Westing. They could become millionaires, depending on how they play the game. All they have to do is...
2) Rebecca
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 26
Lexile measure
880L
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English
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"The only hardcover edition of the beloved, internationally best-selling gothic mystery. EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY CONTEMPORARY CLASSICS. The unassuming young heroine of Rebecca finds her life changed overnight when she meets Maxim de Winter, a handsome and wealthy widower whose sudden proposal of marriage takes her by surprise. Rescuing her from an overbearing employer, de Winter whisks her off to Manderley, his isolated estate on the windswept Cornish...
3) Gone girl
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 23
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English
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On a warm summer morning in North Carthage, Missouri, it is Nick and Amy's fifth wedding anniversary. Presents are being wrapped and reservations made when Nick's clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Husband-of-the-year Nick isn't doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife's head, but passages from Amy's diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
Nancy Drew's keen mind is tested when she searchs for a missing will.
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Kinsey Millhone mysteries volume 16
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 18
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English
Description
When Dowan Purcell, a respected physician who operates a nursing home, disappears, his ex-wife hires PI Kinsey Millhone to look into it. Though Fiona Purcell is still seething over Dow's marriage to Crystal, a former stripper, the two have remained friends. While discovering that Dow is being investigated for Medicare fraud, Kinsey finds a new office to rent and becomes romantically involved with one of her landlords. Unfortunately, Mr. Right and...
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Nancy Drew mystery stories volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
780L
Language
English
Description
Teenage detective Nancy Drew uses her courage and powers of deduction to solve the mysterious happenings in an old stone mansion.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
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English
Description
James Patterson, brings us a magical story about a love that transcends boundaries . . . AN IMAGINARY FRIEND: Jane Marga' s a lonely little girl. Her mother, a powerful Broadway producer, makes time for her only once a week, for their Sunday trip to admire jewelry at Tiffany's. Jane has only one friend: a handsome, comforting, funny man named Michael. He's perfect. But only she can see him. Michael can't stay forever, though. On Jane's ninth birthday...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
Hired by a preppy college dropout to discern the fate of a four-year-old girl who disappeared more than twenty years earlier, Kinsey Millhone investigates the young man's sketchy memories about a burial scene he believes he discovered at the age of six.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
570L
Language
English
Description
Ten houseguests, trapped on an isolated island, are the prey of a diabolical killer. A famous nursery rhyme is framed and hung in every room of the mansion: Ten little Indian boys went out to dine; One choked his little self and then there were nine ... When they realize that murders are occurring as described in the rhyme, terror mounts. Who has choreographed this dastardly scheme? And who will be left to tell the tale?
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Flavia de Luce Mystery volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 15
Lexile measure
920L
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English
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Flavia's discovery of an old Gypsy woman who's been attacked in her wagon sends the girl off on an investigation that will reveal more of Buckshaw's secrets as well as new information about Harriet, the mother Flavia never knew.
12) Dark of the moon
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Virgil Flowers novels volume 1
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English
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Virgil Flowers was brought into the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension by a promise from Lucas Davenport: "We'll only give you the hard stuff." He's been doing the hard stuff for three years, but he's never seen anything like this. In the small rural town of Bluestem, an old man is bound in his basement, doused with gasoline, and set on fire. This is the third murder in just as many weeks, and it's becoming clear that Flowers has stepped into a killer's...
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"The Man Who Smiled begins with Wallander deep in a personal and professional crisis after killing a man in the line of duty; eventually, he vows to quit the Ystad police force for good. Just then, however, a friend who had asked Wallander to look into the death of his father winds up dead himself, shot three times. Ann-Britt H?glund, the department?s first female detective, proves to be his best ally as he tries to pierce the smiling fa?ade of his...
14) Off the grid
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Joe Pickett novel volume 16
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English
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Joe Pickett's old friend Nate Romanowski is off the grid, recuperating from wounds and lying low while the FBI search for him. But they are not the only ones looking for him and Nate finds himself confronting an elite team of special forces soldiers. They're not there to take him in - they say - but to make a deal. They need his help destroying a domestic terror cell in Wyoming's Red Desert, and in return they'll make Nate's criminal record disappear....
15) Sea change
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Jesse Stone volume 5
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English
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After the body of a divorced Florida heiress washes ashore in Paradise, Jesse Stone discovers her kinky secrets--and a sordid past that case suspicion on everyone she knew, from friends to family. Unfortunately no one is talking, so it's up to Stone to speak for the dead.
16) Trophy hunt
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 15
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English
Description
Local authorities are quick to label a rash of animal mutilations as the work of a grizzly bear, but Joe Pickett suspects that something far more sinister is afoot. When the bodies of two men are found disfigured in the same way, his worst fears are confirmed - a modern-day Jack the Ripper is on the loose.
17) Still midnight
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The first book in the acclaimed Alex Morrow series of crime novels set in Glasgow, Scotland, from the author of national bestseller Conviction.
Alex Morrow is not new to the police force — or to crime — but there is nothing familiar about the call she has just received. On a still night in a quiet suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, three armed men have slipped from a van into a house, demanding a man who is not, and has...
Alex Morrow is not new to the police force — or to crime — but there is nothing familiar about the call she has just received. On a still night in a quiet suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, three armed men have slipped from a van into a house, demanding a man who is not, and has...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.9 - AR Pts: 12
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
Description
Linnet Doyle is young, beautiful, and rich. She's the girl who has everything-including the man her best friend loves. Linnet and her new husband take a cruise on the Nile, where they meet the brilliant detective Hercule Poirot. It should be an idyllic trip, yet Poirot has a vague, uneasy feeling that something is dangerously amiss ...
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"Three Pines is a village just above the U.S. border where everybody knows everything about each other--until now. Everybody in Three Pines is shocked when their favorite local bistro becomes the scene of a devastating crime. A stranger's corpse has turned up there, and Chief Inspector Gamache is called to investigate. But no one can believe it when Olivier, the owner of the bistro, becomes a suspect: Why does every lead in the investigation find...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 9
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped dead in its tracks by a snowdrift. Passengers awake to find the train still stranded and to discover that a wealthy American has been brutally stabbed to death in his private compartment. Incredibly, that compartment is locked from the inside. With no escape into the wintery landscape the killer must still be on board. Fortunately, the brilliant...
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