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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 27
Language
English
Description
By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks | Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The...
A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen eye for character, and a taste for mind-bending, philosophical and scientific speculation in the tradition of Umberto Eco, Haruki Murakami, and Philip K. Dick. The...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
While the Olympians struggle to contain the rampaging monster Typhon, Kronos begins his advance on New York City, where Mount Olympus stands virtually unguarded. Now it's up to Percy Jackson and an army of young demigods to stop the Lord of Time.
Author
Series
Saga of Darren Shan volume 12
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Darren faces the final showdown with his archenemy, Steve Leopard, he seeks a way to trick destiny and avoid the requirement that one of them die and the other become Lord of the Shadows, fated to destroy the world.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
Natasha is a girl who believes in science and facts. Daniel has always been a good son and good student. But when he sees Natasha he forgets all that and believes there is something extraordinary in store for both of them.
5) The gift
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
It is the 1950s in a small town in the midwest and a boy falls in love with a girl who is already pregnant by another. The novel describes the way they handle the situation and the reaction of both families. By the author of Accident.
6) Parallel
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen
Pub. Date
c2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
"A collision of parallel universes leaves 18-year-old Abby Barnes living in a new version of her life every day, and she must race to control her destiny without losing the future she planned and the boy she loves"--Provided by publisher.
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Language
English
Description
France, 1914. Aurelie becomes trapped on the wrong side of the front with her father, Comte Sigismund de Courcelles. When the Germans move into their family's ancestral estate, Aurelie discovers she knows the German Major's aide de camp, Maximilian Von Sternburg. Betrayal will shatter them both. France, 1942. Raised by her American grandmother in the Hotel Ritz, Marguerite 'Daisy' Villon remains in Paris with her daughter and husband, a Nazi collaborator,...
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Fabienne is dead. Her childhood best friend, Agnès, receives the news in America, far from the French countryside where the two girls were raised--the place that Fabienne helped Agnès escape ten years ago. Now, Agnès is free to tell her story. As children in a war-ravaged, backwater town, they'd built a private world, invisible to everyone but themselves--until Fabienne hatched the plan that would change everything, launching Agnès on an epic...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
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Told in two voices, when Arthur, a summer intern from Georgia, and Ben, a native New Yorker, meet it seems like fate, but after three attempts at dating fail they wonder if the universe is pushing them together or apart.
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Language
English
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Description
When every person, all over the globe, receives a small wooden box bearing the same inscription and a single piece of string inside, the world is thrown into a collective frenzy, in this novel told through multiple perspectives that introduces an unforgettable cast of characters.
It seems like any other day: You wake up, pour a cup of coffee, and head out. But today when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. This box holds...
13) Just in case
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Convinced that fate is out to get him, fifteen-year-old David Case assumes a new identity in the hope of avoiding what he believes is certain doom.
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"Lucy is faced with a life-altering choice. But before she can make her decision, she must start her story--their story--at the very beginning. Lucy and Gabe meet as seniors at Columbia University on a day that changes both of their lives forever. Together, they decide they want their lives to mean something, to matter. When they meet again a year later, it seems fated--perhaps they'll find life's meaning in each other. But then Gabe becomes a photojournalist...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 4.4 - AR Pts: 24
Language
English
Formats
Description
Each of the Travelers returns home to learn the truth about their origins before being reunited for a final, ineveitable confrontation with Saint Dane, whose efforts to control Halla are destroying its very foundations.
16) The castaways
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
2007
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Bad luck continues to follow Tom Tin and his mates as they find themselves aboard a formerly abandoned ship, are taught to be sailors by two black-hearted castaways they rescue, and sail to a Caribbean island where they make important new friends and enemies.
17) Temping fate
Author
Publisher
Dutton Children's Books
Pub. Date
c2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After landing a summer job with the Divine Relief Temp Agency, teenaged Ilana finds herself substituting for the Greek mythological goddesses, the Fates, who spin, measure, and cut the life-threads of every human being.
19) Dragon moon
Author
Publisher
Hyperion Books for Children
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
In China during the Han Dynasty, young Ping must take Kai, the dragon she rescued, on a long and perilous journey to the ancient haven of the dragons following cryptic clues left by the wise dragon, Danzi, and aided by old friends.
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Motivated by jealousy and the desire to receive acclaim as a great poet, Walid ibn Huyr, a prince of ancient Arabia, commits acts which completely change the course of his life.
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