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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.8 - AR Pts: 60
Language
English
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In the picaresque series of sketches in Pickwick Papers, Charles Dickens wrote one of the masterpieces of comic fiction, and presented readers with some of the most colorful and beloved characters of all time. In Dickens' first novel, initially based on a series of illustrations, members of the eponymous club recount their various experiences and encounters as they travel around England. Without the dark themes that dominated so many of his novels,...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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In 1946, as London emerges from the shadow of World War II, author Juliet Ashton is having a terrible time finding inspiration for her next book. Then she receives a letter from Guernsey Island, and learns of a unique book club formed on the spur of the moment as an alibi to protect its members from arrest by the occupying Germans during the war. Captivated, she sets sail for Guernsey, and what she finds there will change her life forever.
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Language
English
Description
Banned from selling anything written this century, bookstore manager Maggie Banks, to keep the business afloat, starts an underground book club that unexpectedly unearths a town secret that could upend everything, forcing her to choose between the books that formed a small town's history or the stories poised to change it all.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Alec, a sixth-grade bookworm always in trouble for reading instead of listening and participating in class, starts a book club, solely to have a place to read, and discovers that real life, although messy, can be as exciting as the stories in his favoritebooks.
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Series
Vampire kisses volume 5
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
When goth-girl Raven follows her vampire boyfriend to Hipsterville, she discovers a dangerous secret club inhabited by vampires who are feuding over its leadership.
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Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"Sloane Parker lives a small, contained life as a librarian in her small, contained town. She never thinks of herself as lonely...but still she looks forward to that time every day when old curmudgeon Arthur McLachlan comes to browse the shelves and cheerfully insult her. Their sparring is such a highlight of Sloane's day that when Arthur doesn't show up one morning, she's instantly concerned. And then another day passes, and another. Anxious, Sloane...
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Series
Main Street (Ann M. Martin) volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Flor, Ruby, Olivia, and Niki each find a special book on their doorstop, so they begin a book club in which they discover the title they are discussing relates to their summer experiences.
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Series
Thursday Murder Club novels volume 2
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim--the Thursday Murder Club--are still riding high off their recent real-life murder case and are looking forward to a bit of peace and quiet at Cooper's Chase, their posh retirement village. But they are out of luck. An unexpected visitor--an old pal of Elizabeth's (or perhaps more than just a pal?)--arrives, desperate for her help. He has been accused of stealing diamonds worth millions from the wrong men and he's...
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Series
MaddAddam trilogy volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
With the same stunning blend of prophecy and social satire she brought to her classic The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood gives us a keenly prescient novel about the future of humanity-and its present. Humanity here equals Snowman, and in Snowman's recollections Atwood re-creates a time much like our own, when a boy named Jimmy loved an elusive, damaged girl called Oryx and a sardonic genius called Crake. But now Snowman is alone, and as we learn...
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Series
Best babysitters ever volume 2
Pub. Date
2019
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
When other commitments threaten the success of the Best Babysitters Ever, Malia is frustrated until she comes up with a plan to hire new babysitters and take a cut of their wages.
12) Cryptic cravings
Author
Series
Vampire kisses volume 8
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
When Jagger plan to open a new club, goth-girl Raven and her vampire boyfriend, Alexander, must figure out what the nefarious vampire has in store for the Dullsville's vampire population.
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Series
Qwikpick papers volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This hilarious, highly original series, which so astutely captures the odd preoccupations of middle schoolers, will appeal to the many fans of the Origami Yoda series and such gross-out classics as How to Eat Fried Worms and Freckle Juice. Lyle Hertzog and his friends Marilla and Dave are the Qwikpick Adventure Society, three kids who seek out adventure in their seemingly quiet hometown of Crickenburg. On the hunt for their next big mission-something...
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Series
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
Hazel Rose never dreamed that the murder mystery book group she and her friend Carlene started would stage a real murder. Nevertheless, the normally composed Carlene is unusually angry and rattled one night during a book group discussion and dies after drinking cyanide-spiked tea. Despite a suicide note, Hazel is skeptical; Carlene never seemed suicidal. Incidentally, Carlene was married to Hazel's ex-husband, and Hazel has always suspected there...
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Series
Henry Huggins volume 5
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Fiery Ramona Quimby and the well-meaning Henry Huggins may clash, but in this delightful and hilariously told novel by Newbery Medal-winning author Beverly Cleary, an unlikely compromise wins the day. Henry and his friends are building a no-girls-allowed clubhouse. With a private space of their own away from everyone else and even a top-secret entry password they're all thrilled with their boy fort. But Henry's about to find out that nothing, not...
18) Nowhere but here
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Series
Thunder road novels (Katie McGarry) volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
While reluctantly staying with her biological father, a member of a motorcycle club, sheltered seventeen-year-old Emily falls for the youth her father asked to protect her from a rival club with a score to settle.
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Language
English
Description
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A book club discuss the works of Jane Austen and experience their own affairs of the heart in this charming “tribute to Austen that manages to capture her spirit” (The Boston Globe).
In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...
A book club discuss the works of Jane Austen and experience their own affairs of the heart in this charming “tribute to Austen that manages to capture her spirit” (The Boston Globe).
In California’s central valley, five women and one man join to discuss Jane Austen’s novels. Over the six months they get together, marriages are tested, affairs begin, unsuitable arrangements...
20) Olivia: a novel
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Series
Publisher
Covenant Communications
Language
English
Description
Struggling as a busy mother, wife, and neighbor, Olivia Robbins has forgotten how to be a unique and vibrant individual. Determined to make a change, she joins a local book club, where she nurtures new friendships and explores new ideas. But her growing confidence falters when her husband Nick declares his independence--and while her new friends lovingly encircle her with support, only Olivia can reach into the depths of her fledgling self to find...
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