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Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
"One of the most important books I've ever read—an indispensable guide to thinking clearly about the world." – Bill Gates
"Hans Rosling tells the story of 'the secret silent miracle of human progress' as only he can. But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly." —Melinda
Author
Series
Jack Reacher novels volume 22
Language
English
Description
"#1 New York Times bestselling author Lee Child returns with a gripping new powerhouse thriller featuring Jack Reacher, "one of this century's most original, tantalizing pop-fiction heroes" (The Washington Post). Reacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005.A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan.The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside.Reacher...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
Minutes after the principal of Opportunity High School in Alabama finishes her speech welcoming the student body to a new semester, they discover that the auditorium doors will not open and someone starts shooting as four teens, each with a personal reason to fear the shooter, tell the tale from separate perspectives.
Author
Series
Wicked lovely volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ani, a half-mortal driven by her hungers, and Devlin, faery assassin and brother to the High Queen, have reason to fear one another even as they are drawn together to save all of Faerie.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
When her long-estranged father invites sixteen-year-old Liv Varanakis to help him film a documentary about his theories on Atlantis, she looks forward to reconnecting but discovers he may have invited her to Greece for a very different reason.
Author
Series
Dumb Bunnies books volume 1
Publisher
Blue Sky Press
Pub. Date
c1994
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Follows the adventures of the Dumb Bunnies, a rabbit family that does everything without any rhyme or reason.
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
On her eighteenth birthday, spoiled party girl Lexington Larrabee learns that her days of making tabloid headlines may be at an end when her ever-absent father decides she must learn some values by working a different, low-wage job every week for a year or forfeit her multimillion-dollar trust fund.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Twelve-year-old Elodie journeys to Two Castles in hopes of studying acting but instead becomes apprentice to a dragon, who teaches her to be observant and use reasoning, thus helping her to uncover who is poisoning the king.
11) Crave
Author
Series
Crave (Wolff) volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 26
Language
English
Description
My whole world changed when I stepped inside the academy. Nothing is right about this place or the other students in it. Here I am, a mere mortal among gods or monsters. I still can't decide which of these warring factions I belong to, if I belong at all. I only know the one thing that unites them is their hatred of me. Then there's Jaxon Vega. A vampire with deadly secrets who hasn't felt anything for a hundred years. But there's something about...
13) If I fix you
Author
Language
English
Description
When Jill's mother unceremoniously leaves her family for reasons only Jill knows, Jill tries to piece her life together with the help of new guy Daniel, who has scars on the inside and out.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixty-eight-year-old David has a brain tumor that he attributes to Agent Orange exposure. He wakes up from surgery repeating the name of a Native American soldier whom he was once ordered to discipline, and decides to return something precious he long ago stole from that man.
15) Magic lessons
Author
Series
Magic or madness trilogy volume 2
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
When fifteen-year-old Reason is pulled through the magical door connecting New York City with the Sydney, Australia, home of her grandmother, she encounters an impossibly ancient man who seems to have some purpose in mind for her.
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Description
A startling analysis of the clash of faith and reason in today's world, this historical tour of mankind's willingness to suspend reason in favor of religious beliefs, even when those beliefs are used to justify atrocities, asserts that in the shadow of weapons of mass destruction, we can not expect to survive our religious differences indefinitely. Most controversially, argues that moderate lip service to religion only blinds us to the real perils...
17) Calypso
Author
Language
English
Description
Personal essays share the author's adventures after buying a vacation house on the Carolina coast and his reflections on middle age and mortality.
18) Magic's child
Author
Series
Magic or madness trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Reason Cansino must uncover the secret of the magic in her family's background to save the lives of her friends Tom and Jay-tee.
Author
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
A chain of fantastical mishaps in schoolboy Bert's dull life spiral out of control, but then he's rescued by Finch, a plucky girl-adventurer with metal legs. Soon they're sailing through the clouds on a pirate airship bound for the forgotten land of Mirinor. Magic is their destination, for reasons Bert will soon discover.
Author
Series
Cinderella Smith books volume 2
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2012
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
A sequel to "Cinderella Smith" finds Cinderella resolving to win an upcoming spelling bee when she learns that the champion will get to pick the class party theme, an effort that is challenged when her onetime friend starts bullying her for no apparent reason.
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