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The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others)....
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others)....
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Michael Vey volume 1
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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The start of an action-packed teen series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Richard Paul Evans.
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette's syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special—he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers. With the help of...
To everyone at Meridian High School, fourteen-year-old Michael Vey is nothing special, just the kid who has Tourette's syndrome. But in truth, Michael is extremely special—he has electric powers. Michael thinks he is unique until he discovers that a cheerleader named Taylor has the same mysterious powers. With the help of...
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Mistborn novels volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 38
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English
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Charged with the task of rebuilding the world after the defeat of the brutal Lord Ruler, former street urchin Vin finds herself worshipped for her Mistborn powers and worries about the strange behavior of the mists since the death of the Lord Ruler.
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Covenant Communications
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On the day Bethany Carlisle receives her doctorate, she learns from an unidentified e-mail that her grandmother has suddenly died. However, Bethany's dismay immediately turns to anger when she learns the contents of her grandmother's will. It's apparent that the wealthy, eccentric, and distant woman who raided Bethany has taken pains to torment her grand-daughter even from the grave. Now, in order to claim her substantial inheritance, Bethany must...
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Tucker Mills trilogy volume 3
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English
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Lori Wick's bestselling Tucker Mills trilogy concludes with Leave a Candle Burning about a widowed physician, Dannan MacKay, who creates a new life for his daughter but longs for the faith to love again.
Lori Wick's bestselling Tucker Mills trilogy concludes with Leave a Candle Burning about a widowed physician, Dannan MacKay, who creates a new life for his daughter but longs for the faith to love again.
Lori Wick is a multifaceted author of Christian...
26) Red Rising
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 18
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.
“Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.”—USA Today
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness
“I...
“Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.”—USA Today
ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness
“I...
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Michael Vey volume 3
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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To stop Hatch from using the Elgen fleet to gain world power, Michael and the rest of the Electroclan must destroy the lead ship, but divisions within the Electroclan threaten the success of their operation.
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Leven Thumps volume 2
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
c2006.
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English
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Join Leven Thumps, Clover Ernest, and Winter Frore as they journey across Foo to free Geth from his existence as a toothpick and restore him as the rightful heir to the throne. It won't be easy. Foo is in chaos, and Leven must overcome several adversaries and survive the Swollen Forest to save his friends and keep hope alive.
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"The Light Princess" is George MacDonald's 1864 fairy tale inspired by "Sleeping Beauty". It is the story of a young girl, the daughter of the King and Queen, who at her christening is cursed to have no gravity by the uninvited Princess Makemnoit, sister to the King, and a spiteful bitter woman. As a result of the curse, the princess is in constant danger of being carried away by the wind and grows up never taking anything seriously. The only time...
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Skulduggery Pleasant volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 10
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English
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When twelve-year-old Stephanie inherits her weird uncle's estate, she must join forces with Skulduggery Pleasant, a skeleton mage, to save the world from the Faceless Ones.
33) True blue
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 18
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A former Washington D.C. police cop out to prove herself and a young lawyer from a prestigious law firm meet after he discovers the dead body of a female partner at the firm. As they investigate the death, they start uncovering surprising secrets from both the private and public world of the nation's capital--and what began as a fairly routine homicide takes a terrifying and unexpected turn into something complex, diabolical, and possibly lethal.
35) Travel team
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Danny Walker volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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After he is cut from his travel basketball team--the very same team that his father once led to national prominence--twelve-year-old Danny Walker forms his own team of cast-offs that might have a shot at victory.
38) Firefight
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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"David and the Reckoners continue their fight against the Epics, humans with superhuman powers, except they may have met their match in Regalia, a High Epic who resides in Babylon Restored, the city formerly known as the borough of Manhattan"--
39) The snow spider
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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 4
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Gifts from Gwyn's grandmother on his ninth birthday open up a whole new world to him, as he discovers he has magical powers that help him heal the breach with his father that has existed ever since his sister's mysterious disappearance four years before.
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Covenant Communications
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Consumed with unbearable guilt, Kam Daniels, an ex-Seattle policeman, is unable to forget the horrific accident he is certain he could have prevented. Desperate to escape his anguish, he takes a job halfway across the world and leaves everything behind: his home, his career, and his beautiful, bewildered wife--CIA agent Rhiana Daniels. When an undercover operative is kidnapped by a fanatical Arab faction in Yemen, Kam's knowledge of the language and...
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